prayer should be the supplication of all Kings difficilis est gubernatio mea ne me deseras domine senem The office of a King as it is glorious so it is laborious Caesar sleepes not all the night but makes a Tripartite diuision of it one part to rest the second part to studie the third part to military matters Agesilaus had no leisure to be sicke as hee said such was his regall imployments The regall Diademe is subiect to sundry cares which moued Tigranes King of Armenia to say that if the perils and perplexities which accompany it were duelie weighed Nemo coronaem humi iacentem tolleret None would lift vp the Crowne to the crowne of his head Indeed the Crowne brings content commaund pleasure profit Iuvenal Quicquid conspicuū est pulerumque ex aequore toto resfisciest vbicunque natat What delicates soeuer the world affords the Crowne commands but withall many perils and cares wait vpon the Crowne night and day troubled with publique affaires to preuent foes abroad and foes at home wee of the inferiour ranke take our rest when as they that sit at the sterne of State haue broken sleepes And therefore as the Apostle desires the Ephesians to pray alwaies with all manner of prayer and supplication in the spirit and watch thereunto with all perseuerance and supplication for all Saints and for himselfe that vtterance may bee giuen vnto him to open his mouth boldly to publish the secret of the Gospell so ought all good subiects to pray alwaies with all manner of prayer and supplication in the spirit that God would enlarge with heauenly wisedome the heart of our Soueraigne and the Kings heart is in the hand of the Lord and furnish him with all blessed gifts sutable to performe his royall Taske making him as wise as Salomon as religious as Dauid and as zealous as the good King Iosias defending him from all forraine or domesticall conspiracies saying and praying God saue the King CHAP. IIII. AND truely there be fiue things to name no more which all good Subiects owe vnto their Soueraigne 1. is Prayer 2. Obedience 3. Honor. 4. Seruice 5. Tribute And if any subiect denie any one of these the King may take him by the throat and say Solue quod debes Pay that thou owest 1. First is Prayer to pray for the Kings preseruation on earth and saluation in Heauen The heathen Chaldeans may learne Christians this lesson who cryed to their King Nebuchadnezar O King liue for euer As King Salomon prayed for his people so ought his people pray for him saying of their Lord the King as King Dauid speaks of the Lord of Israel Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for euer and euer and let all the people say Amen saying to the King as Amasa and his company said to Dauid Thine are we O Dauid and with thee O son of Ishai peace peace be vnto thee and peace be vnto thy helpers for thy God helpeth thee That tongue that will not pray for the peace prosperity and preseruation of their annointed Soueraigne is such a tongue as the Apostle Iames speakes of fire a world of wickednesse and is set on fire of hell for Iustus nunquam desinit orare nisi desinit iustus esse saith Austin the iust man neuer ceases to pray vnles he cease to be iust much lesse should hee cease to poure forth feruent and faithfull supplications for the King that vnder him wee may leade a peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty Such vngodly and vndutifull subiects as will not vnloose the strings of their tongues to pray for the safety and felicity of the King wee wish that they were like the men at the riuer Ganges who if wee credit the report of Strabo haue no tongues better it is to enter into the kingdome of Heauen losing a member then hauing such an vngodly member to be cast into hel fire But herein many times the tongue is more officious then the heart with tongue they cry Hosanna but in heart like Iewes wish crucifige with a verball seruice many abound crying and cringing Aue Rex but withall Aue Maria and that will neuer make a good prayer A King had need call to his subiects as God to his seruants da mihi cor giue me thy heart the world is full of faire tongues but false hearts none but the great searcher of the heart hath a window in the heart to see who honour with lippes and their hearts farre from him So that Kings had need examine their Subiects as Christ did Peter thrice diligis me dost thou loue me The world hath bredde so many professors of the Popish doctrine of diuellish equiuocation and so many Parasites profound in the Art of dissimulation that many men are like Goodwin Sands in dubiopelagi terraue doubtfull whether belong to sea or land temporizers or neuters like the Church of Laodicea neyther hot nor cold eyther Prince or Pope please them they will heare a Masse next their heart for their morning sacrifice and our Churches Sermon or Seruice for their euening Incense like the Camelion tetigit quoscunque colores Assume any shape fashionable to the time to whom God will one day say Because thou art luke-warme neyther cold nor hot I shall spue thee out of my mouth I haue read how a certaine King of Tartaria writ to the Polonians then wanting a King that if they would choose him their King he would accept it vpon these termes Vester pontifex meus pontifex esto vester Lutherus meus Lutherus esto but the Polonians reiected the request of this Luke-warme King and yet in Poland arc sundry religions so that if a man haue lost his religion he may finde it there with this wise and worthy answere Ecce hominum paratum omnia sacra Deos deserere regnandi causa behold a man ready to forsake both God and Grace to get a Kingdome Such as these study Machiauell more then the Gospell temporis liberalitate fruendum esse fashion themselues to the fauourable fortune of the time and thinke themselues happy as he counts those Princes happie illum felicem principem existimo cuius in administrando consilia temporum conditioni respondent whose counsels are successiuely correspondent to the condition of the times The prayers of such temporizers whose tongues may flame but their hearts are as cold a a stone are abhominable in the sight of God Esto religiosus in Deum qui vis illum Imperatori esse propitium saith Tertullian The Lord is farre off from the wicked but he heareth the prayers of the righteous sayth Salomon God will not heare the prayers of these Church-neuters no more then the Idolatrous Iewes Though they cry in my eares with a loud voice yet will I not heare them And therefore that we may performe our first bounden duety vnto the
saith Dauid and commands his seruant to giue him legem talionis to kill this King-killer though by consent and intreaty Sic pereant qui moliri talia pergunt So let them perish who such deeds doe cherish What doe all these particulars summed vp together but inferre this Ecce Behold a true Israelite in whom is no guile Behold a good Subiect in whom is no treason Dauid was not sicke of the Kings euill Treason he was not like the Popish Iesuites who dispute against Kings altogether in Ferio labouring to verifie Iuuenals verse Ad generum Cereris sine caede sanguine pauci descendunt reges All their arguments and actions like Dracos lawes bloody but Dauid was not matriculated in the Schoole of Traytors euer obedient and loyall to his Soueraigne faithfull in his obedience aduenturing his body blood for the seruice of Saul in defence against his enemies and might truly say with Scaliger in his warfare for King Sauls welfare Pugnaui pedes eques adolescens iuuenis miles praefectus certamine singulari in obsidionibus in campo ciuili in excursionibus in exercitibus saepius vici aliquando victus sum corpore non animo non virtute sed facto c. As vertuous and valorous Scaliger writes of himselfe so Dauid oftentimes fought against Sauls professed enemies Goliah the Philistine the Amalekites c as from the seauenteenth Chapter of the first of Samuel almost to the end of that Booke is the very muster Booke of Dauids warres for Sauls welfare so that I may say with Toxaris who seeing his Countryman Anacbarses in Athens told him that he would shew him all the wonders of Greece at once viso Solone vidisti omnia so I may say viso Dauide vidisti satis The obedience of Dauid to King Saul is sufficient to instruct a Subiect Lucanus Quid satis est si Romaparum If this be not sufficient nothing will suffice but the enemies of Caesars will peraduenture reply and say God saue good Kings but for bad Kings say they we pray God or good men send them to their graues and this doctrine de depositione regis dispositione regni aut depriuatione vitae to depose a King or dispose of his Kingdome or depriue him of his life if he be not as they count Catholicke the resolute generation of martiall Ignatius Loyola their first Founder moderne Iesuites doe with all might and maine labour to maintaine quod nequeant calamis aut calumniis veneficijs parricidijs tentant Where their Pens faile their Pikes and Poysons follow we will but touch it now for we shall handle it more at large hereafter It is an easie taske to shew that loyall obedience is to be performed to wicked Kings as our former instances of the best note Christs obedience and Dauids obedience to Saul make it manifest it is due to them omni iure naturali ciuili morali municipali diuino by the law of nature ciuill morall municipall diuine we will onely proue it due by the last by diuine law if that proue it who dare denie it The Apostle Rom. 13. 1 makes the matter plaine Let euery soule be subiect to the higher Powers for there is no power but of God c from which place I argue thus All Powers that are ordained of God must be obeyed The higher Powers be they good or bad are ordained of God Ergo to be obeyed VVe may corroborate these two propositions by manifold places as Prouerbs 8. 15 By me Kings raigne c. Reges in solio collocat in perpeâ—… Iob 36. 7 he placeth them as Kings in their thrones for euer Sometimes God suffers the hypocrite to raigne Iob 34. 30. I gaue thee a King in my anger and tooke him away in my wrath saith the Lord to Israel Hosea 13. 1â— Thou couldest haue no power except it were giuen thee from aboue said Christ to Pilate Iohn 19. 11 Giue eare all you that rule the People all your power is giuen of the most High Wisd 6. 3. Touch not mine annointed 1 Chron. 16. 22 be they good be they bad touch them not vengeance is the Lords not mans Man must not meddle in Gods matters Who can lay his hands on the Lords Annointed and be guiltlesse Though they grow defectiue in their high office yet still remaine Kings because enthroned by God Cuius iussu nascuntur homines eius iussu constituuntur principes saith Iraeneus Inde illis potestas vnde spiritus saith Tertullian the Kings Commission is sealed by the hand of God and though it run Durante diuino beneplacito yet man cannot nay must not cancell it for that were Bellare cum dijs VVarre with God Princeps seu bonus seu malus a Ioue ornes si bonus sin malus est feras Saith the wise Heathen The power of good Kings is by the speciall ordinance of God of euill by his permission the first are insignia miserecordiae badges and pledges of his mercy the second are flagella vindicta the scourges of his fury So God called Ashur the rod of his wrath and Attyla called himselfe flagellum Dei the scourge of God and Tamberlayne in his time termed Ira dei terror orbis the reuenge of God and terror of the VVorld Saul was a tyrant King yet Dauid trembled to touch the skirts of his garments what greater tyrant then King Pharao yet Moses neither had nor gaue any commission to the Isralites to rebell he makes no law or Booke De iusta abdicatione either to dispose or depose him from his Kingdome Nabuchadnezar a wicked and idolatrous King yet God cals him his seruant and though he commands the three children to be put into the fiery Ouen they offer no violence or resistance Dant Deo animam corpus regi Commend their soules to God and committing their bodies to the King Horat Tollere tentat illustres animas impune vindice nullo Saint Peter who wrot his first Epistle in the time of the raigne of that wicked Emperour Claudius as Baronius coniectured exhorts all people to feare God and to honour the King 1 Pet. 2. 17 and that for the Lords sake v. 13. Yet this Claudius was a most wicked Emperour maintaining many Ethnicke superstitions and worship of Idols he was as Suetonius writes of him Natura saeuus sanguinarius libidinosus by nature cruell bloody and libidinous yet to this Emperour a Tyrant and an Infidell Saint Peter exhorts the faithfull Iewes to obedience Saint Paul who liued vnder the same Emperour as some doe thinke writes to the Romans the Emperors Subiects exhorts all to submit themselues not in any colourable or dissembled obedience but propter Conscientiam v. 4 for conscience sake Let vs heare a voyce or two of the ancient Fathers that liued in old time Tertullian who as Ierome saith flourished vnder the raigne of Seuerus the
non approbat Many things are by God which he doth not confirme falling in as it were by the way vpon the world by Gods permission yet God disposing so but not ordaining that is not approuing them For example Alexander the sixt obtained the Popedome by giuing himselfe to the Diuell Phocas by sedition got his Empire Richard the third came to the Crown of England as some write by killing his Nephewes and other of the royall bloud and so of many others that haue aspired to thrones viribus fraudibus by force and fraud such are Rulers rather Vsurpers yet not of God for God effects nothing but he effects it by good meanes so that there is a difference twixt Potens and Potentia twixt Rulers and Powers bad Rulers are by the permission of God not by the ordination of God as the Apostle saith Rom. 13. 1. And there is no power but of God if they be godly powers then I may say with Austin Quod iubent Imperatores iubet Christus quia cum bonum iubent per illos quis iubet nisi Christus What Emperors command Christ commaÌ„ds for wheÌ„ they command good Christ commands by them and the contempt offered to such good Rulers is a contempt of God as the Lord said â—o Samuel They haue not cast thee away but me ne regnem super illos 1 Sam. 8. 7. lest I should reigne ouer them Contemptus magistratuum redundat in contemptum Dei The contempt of Magistrates is a contempt of God saith Aretius and so the Apostle Whosoeuer resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God qui vnum laedit alterum laesit To conclude this second duty of Obedience and Allegiance to Kings is by all true subiects faithfully and loyally euer to be performed being a duty necessary for two respects 1. Necessitate praecepti 2. Necessitate finis First God by manifold precepts commanded obedience to be giuen to Rulers and Kings Secondly by the benefits gouernment affords without which all Common-wealths were mothers of common woes and would become the very shambles and slaughter-houses of Christian bloud if that obedience were not giuen to Rulers that beare the sword The kingdome of hell which is the kingdome of confusion could not stand being diuided wanting Belzebub their Prince but should presently as one day it shal most certainely come to desolation Seeing therefore obedience to Kings is a duety so necessary for all subiects acceptable vnto God profitable to our selues without which Kings nor Kingdomes cannot stand Church nor Common-weale cannot long continue Pura conscientia praestemus quae propter conscientiam praestanda sunt Let vs performe and practise this duty of obedience with a pure conscience which for conscience sake must be performed euermore honouring and obeying our dread Soueraigne the golden head of great Britaine beseeching God to prosper him in his glory and to pierce with sharpe arrowes the hearts of his enemies as the Psalmist of Salomon Psal 45. 5. euermore obeying and praying God saue the King CHAP. VI. THE third duty of Subiects to be performed to the King is Honor S. Peter commands all Subiects Feare God honour the King S. Paul exhorting all to submitte themselues to the higher powers concludeth Giue honour to whom ye owe honour so the Lord himselfe in the fifth Commandement chargeth all to honor Father and Mother in which precept as most old and new writers well obserue Kings and Magistrates are vnderstood beeing politicall Fathers Patres patriae Fathers of the Common-wealth Nutricij patres Nursing Fathers of Gods Church and people And this duety to honor the King obligeth all by a three-fold bond Ex Praecepto By Commandement Ex Maledicto By Punishment Ex Praxi By Practise First by Precept God in his Law hath commanded it Secondly by Punishment for God hath put a sword in their hands to cut off such as dishonour them Thirdly by Practise our Lord and Sauiour with his Disciples did preach and practise obedience honor and reuerence euermore to be giuen to Kings and Potentates And this word honor signifieth al that duty whereby the renowne dignity reuerence and high estimation of the King may be preserued and vnblemished and it reacheth vnto our thoughts wordes and workes 1 to honour him in our hearts and thoughts Curse not the King no not in thy thought for the foules of the heauen shall carry thy voyce and that which hath wings shall carry the matter saith Salomon 2 Honor him in thy wordes seeke not by bad and wicked speeches to disesteeme the dignitie of their sacred persons for they are Gods deputies and he that despiseth the deputy despiseth him that appointed the deputie wherefore God made an expresse precept Thou shalt not speake euill of the Ruler of thy people And St. Iude hath marked those for filthy dreamers Qui dominationem spernunt Maiestatem blasphemant Who despise gouernment and speake ill of them that be in authority Beware of vnseemely vnreuerent or contemptible speech which might diminish or distaine the excellency of Gods Lieutenants much lesse reuile mocke scoffe or curse them abuses most disloyall dishonourable and worthie of death It was a wise and worthy answere of Count Charles to one at dinner disparaging our late Queene of famous memory saying his Table neuer gaue priuiledge to any to speake vnreuerently of Princes Male de me loquuntur homines quia bene loqui nesciunt faciunt non quod mereor sed quod solent saith Seneca Epist 77. 3. Honor the King in all thy actions to be ready to defend the honour and renowne of our gracious Soueraigne both by word and sword In his presence vse all lowly reuerence bowing thy selfe as Abraham to the three Angels downe to the ground It was a rare act and royall speech of Don Iohn King of Arragon Father vnto Don Ferdinando King of Castile both meeting at an assembly in Victoria the Father King would not suffer his sonne to giue him the vpper hand saying Sonne you are the chiefe and Lord of Castile whereof we are descended so that our duetie towards you as our King and superiour is farre aboue that duety of the Sonne vnto the Father Regem semper honorandum sic dij voluistis habere And indeed all good people did euer honor their anointed Soueraignes Dauid Salomon with the rest of the Kings of Israel how honourable and glorious euer accounted in the eyes of their Subiects Vbi honor non est ibi contemptus est saith Ierome where honor is absent there contempt is present and to contemne these regall children of the most High is to contemne the most High himselfe And truely the most dishonourable contemners of Regall Diadems are the flattering Pseudoli the parasiticall magnificoes of the Papall Miter for to extoll the one they extenuate the other they honor yea rather dishonor their Pope with blasphemous titles Dominus
of the Land who are the eyes and eares of this politicke Body who well know Scita patrum leges iura fidemque deosque To you I may dedicate and appropriate these our labours whose places and paines serue to this purpose to serue the King and Countrey and to helpe to preserue the welfare of the King and Kingdome Your publike paines and priuate prayers speake to the World these words God saue the King You are sworne to this seruice and sweat in it neuer more Malefactors in this kind and as Paul tels Timothy In the last dayes shall come perillous times for men shall be Traytors heady high-minded c. You know the Nilus where these Crocodils are bred and fed vse all good diligence to catch them spread your nets not Vulpina retia Foxes nets but Regni retia The Lawes of the Land if you can take them you shall doe God and the King good seruices Spare none of this kind who dare lift vp their hand against the Lords Annointed for they are worthy to die Bonis nocet qui malis parcit He hurts the good which spares the bad yea in all your loyall and legall seruice let neither feare or fauour flattery or bribery blind your eyes or deafe your eares remembring that you exercise not the iudgement of man but of God and thinke vpon this verse in your Iudgement seate Hic locus odit amat punit conseruat honorat Nequitiam pacem crimina iura bonos Farre bee that leprosie from the Iudges of our Land which so corrupted them in Ciceros dayes that he could say His iudicijs quae nunc sunt pecuniosum hominem non posse damnari In these iudgements which are now a monied man cannot be condemned But bribery foules not your hands who to corrupting Simons say with Symon Peter Thy money perish with thee Neither let any of Agesilaus letters moue you who writ to a Iudge for his fauourite in this stile Si causa bona pro iustitia sin mala pro amicitia absolue If his cause be good dismisse him for Iustice sake if bad for friendship sake Let Iustice be vnpartially executed yet tempered with lawfull pitty thinke vpon that Christian caueat Duo sunt nomina peccator homo quod peccator corripe quod homo miserere These are two names an offender a man as an offender punish him as a man pitty him be not too seuere with Draco Ne superet medicina modum Least the medicine exceed the malady nor too remisse with lenity for that is a kind of cruelty Tam omnibus ignoscere crudelitas quam nulli saith Seneca To pardon all is cruelty as well as to pardon none But Sus mineruam You know best to keepe the meane and Medium tenuere beati So shall you performe laudable seruice to God King and Countrey if you execute Iustice punish disobedience which is the falling sicknesse of a corrupt Common-wealth Command all to giue * Caesar his due represse all his enemies by force of lawes and cut them off with the sword of Iustice that their exemplary punishments may terrifie all others from such attempts and bee like monitors and remembrancers to all people crying Discite iustitiam moniti non temnere diuos Virg. Let others harmes admonish thee and learn not to despise these supreame powers for which offence so many Traytors dies Seauenthly to the Common-wealth Last of all to you the inferior yet sound members of the supreame Head the natiue and nationall children of our common Mother whom I may fitly compare to the hands and legges of this politicke body to fight and stand strongly for the defence and welfare of our King and Kingdome To you I hope this little Booke will be welcome and therefore say to you as the Angell said to Iohn Take this little Booke and eate it and if you be good Subiects it will be sweet in your mouthes and not bitter in your bellies for you cannot be true Christians vnlesse you be true Caesarians there is no true Religion in that heart which entertaines a motion to rebellion it is a rotten member that will not be obedient to the regall Maiestie And consider with your selues the happy blessings you enioy by the mercifull prouidence of God in giuing to this Realme so godly and gracious a Soueraigne to reigne ouer you and it will make you cry forth with the Psalmist Saluation belongeth vnto the Lord and his blessing is vpon the people O Lord how fauourable hast thou beene vnto our Land in placing ouer vs so religious and renowned a King so absolute and compleate a Prince in wisdome learning and religion and it will stirre vp all thankefull hearts to say with the Psalmist Let the people praise thee O God yea let all the people praise thee Sing prayses to God sing prayses sing prayses vnto our King for hee hath chosen our inheritance for vs euen the glory of Iacob whom he loued If we be not truly thankefull for so great benefits it may be truly verified of vs which was said of Canaan Bona terra sed gens mala A good Land but in it there be bad people O vnthankefull and vngratefull Britaines if euer you forget so great blessings Vae vobis propter ingratitudinem Woe be vnto you for your ingratitude Ingrata patria Vngratefull Countrey it is an infamous name odious to nature and Nations Gratiarum actio est ad plus dandum inuitatio Giuing of God thankes for fauours receiued is a kind of supplication and inuitation to obtaine more The Anatomists tell vs that euery creature hath foure muscles about the eyes but a man fiue foure serue to turne about the eyes the fifth serues to lift vp the eye and looke vpward to Heauen Man should not with other brutish creatures looke altogether vpon the earth but lift vp his eyes hands and heart to Heauen to giue God due and true thankes for his daily and fatherly fauours and mercies bestowed vpon him The Oxe knowes his Owner and the Asse his Masters Crib yea the Riuers are tributary to the Sea from whence some say they first come and againe returne All Creatures seeme in their kind to be gratefull debtors to their curteous Benefactors except the Swine whose mast makes him forget the tree from whence the Acornes fall or the Moon which being at the full by interposition of the earth darkens the Sunne from whence yet shee borrowes all her light It was Israels sinne vnthankefulnesse I pray God it be not Englands sicknesse vngratefulnesse to God Woe vnto vs if we scant God of our fruits who hath not scanted vs of his fauours Bring presents to the King of glory giue vnto the Lord glory due vnto his Name worship the Lord in his glorious sanctuary Not vnto vs O Lord not vnto vs but vnto thy Name giue the glory for thy louing mercy and for
thy truths sake Be euer thankefull to God and then he will euer be mindfull of you to blesse you the Lord will increase his graces towards you euen toward you and your children therefore praise the Lord from henceforth and for euermore for he hath not dealt so with euery Nation and if our deseruing were put into the lottery of other people wee should bee rewarded with a blanke Gods loue and gracious fauour to vs is ignis accendens fire to set vs on fire Let our thankefulnesse to God be ignis accensus a fire flaming to God in all zeale loue duety thankes seruice and deuotion God hath set England as it were vpon an hill a spectacle to all Nations strengthened by sea and land ad miraculum vsque to the admiration of all people blessed it with an extraordinarie peace prosperity of long continuance we are the worlds enuie let vs not become their declamation Nothing but our vnthankefulnesse to God our licentiousnesse in life our disobedience to his Word our securitie in sin our contempt of good meanes and mercies offered can worke our ouerthrow and these if we doe not drowne them quickly in the riuers of repentance so one may breed and bring our wofull downefall The Lord hath blessed this land with great and gracious blessings in it the golden bels of Aaron are powerfully rung the word by faithfull teachers mouingly deliuered Oh let our perpetuall prayers praises and thanks ascend to heauen because Gods graces and mercies plentifully descend to earth Et si desint gratiae quia nos ingrati If any grace be wanting it is because we want grace to be thankefull for this our happy gouernment hauing a prosperous peace and that which is the procurer of peace with God and men that blessed passage of the Gospell Si totum me debeo pro me facto quid debeo pro me refecto saith a Father If wee owe God our selues for our creation what doe we owe vnto him for our regeneration preseruation and saluation We therefore that haue tasted of the great cup of Gods mercy let vs with Dauid take the cup of saluation giue thanks and praise the name of the Lord let vs praise God for these aboundant mercies and euer pray vnto him to preserue the happy instrument of manifold benefits and blessings to vs our most dread and deare Soueraigne duty bindeth vs to this taske our owne welfare mooues vs to this duety for his prosperity is our tranquillity his safety is our felicity the blessing redounds to vs and if he should miscarry which God forbid we should be partakers of his misfortunes Therefore be alwaies obedient and diligent to serue our royall Head golden in all vertues and princely perfections in all loyall and Christian dueties louing his Highnesse in our hearts which is the best earthly defence for a King Inexpugnabile munimentum est amor ciuium saith Seneca The loue of the people is an inuincible munition and as that great Rabbi of pollicie Machiauel hath set it downe for a sure rule Contra regem quem omnes magnifaciunt difficilis coniuratio oppugnatio irruptio Against that King whom all highly esteem and reuerence conspiracy or treachery is very difficult or if attempted seldome succeedes Let vs bee in pace Lepores but in praelio Leones in peace like Hares timerous to offend his Grace in any way of disobedience but like Lions fight for him against all his enemies with an vnwearied courage vndanted magnanimity ioyning with our fighting hands our feruent prayers to God like faithfull Israelites against all rebelling Amalekites Oratio coelos penetrat hostes in terravincit saith Origen Prayers pierce heauen and ouercome enemies on earth plus precando quam praeliando more by praying then by fighting Dauids encountring with Goliah in the name of the Lord was more powerfull then his fling and fiue stones Let vs make it one part of our daily praiers to God to keepe our King as the apple of his eye and hide him vnder the shadow of his wings to saue him from all enemies bodily or ghostly to consume them in his wrath consume them that they bee no more let them know that God ruleth in Iacob euen vnto the ends of the world beseeching God of his great mercie euer to prosper this most peaceable and puissant Monarchie of great Brittaine Arise vnto it as vnto thy resting place Turne not away thy face from thine Anointed who hath now happily to our immeasurable ioy worne the imperiall Diadem of great Brittaine these 15. * yeares Many more happie and prosperous yeares wee pray to be continued prolong his daies O Lord as the daies of heauen and grant that his Highnesse and his Princely posterity may in these kingdomes reigne so long as the world endureth Enlarge and enrich his royall heart with all Regall gifts and Diuine graces sutable for his high calling Saue and defend him from the tyranny or treachery of all forraine and Antichristian power and from the plots and proiects of domestical aduersaries Let them couer themselues with their confusion as with a cloake Blesse his most gracious spouse and bedfellow Queene Anne let thy Angels O Lord encampe about her to guide guard her in a safe protection and euer continue thy most heauenly hand of benediction vpon the high mighty Prince Charles the famous Prince of Wales the second ioy of great Britaine Lord looke vpon him from heauen Giue thy iudgements vnto the King and thy righteousnesse vnto the Kings Sonne Teach him O Lord in his tender yeares like a good Iosias to learne and loue thy true religion the way to winne the eternall Crowne of life Be gracious O Lord to the County Palatine of Rhene Fredericke Prince Elector and to his most vertuous and gracious wife Princesse Elizabeth with their Princely progenie O Lord preserue them with thy mightie and out-stretched arme giue them a most happy peace and prosperity in a Princely honor felicity all the daies of their liues O Lord scatter the deuices of the crafty that their hands may not accomplish any wicked thing they do enterprise Confound all them that haue ill will at Sion that repine at the peace of the Church the welfare of great Britaine the prosperity of his Maiesty his royall progenie that howsoeuer they haue shift of faces and maske vnknowne yet let vs pray that that stone which is cut without hands may breake the Images of such Traitors in peeces giuing him victory ouer all his enemies Cloath them all with shame but vpon him let his Crowne flourish and grant him an happy multiplication of many prosperous yeares to renew with many returnes these our cordiall and annuall Ioyes long to sit vpon his Throne and make his foes his footstoole And let high and low rich and poore young and old yea let Heauen and earth
and protection against the wicked by our obedience ad laudem recte agentium v. 14. to the praise of them that do well So the Apostle Paul in that excellent Lecture of obedience foreseeing that Citie would be the mother of rebellion and that her Gouernour like the Prince of the Ayre should beare rule in the children of disobedience layes downe a generall and substantiall foundation for obedience Let euery soule c. No exception or exemption of Pope or Priest omnis anima c. etiamsi Apostolus Euangelista Propheta saith Saint Chrysostome vpon that place though an Apostle an Euangelist or a Prophet yet let him be subiect to the higher powers which Augustine Chrysostome and the best Ancients confesse and affirme to be potestates saeculares the secular powers and so acknowledged by the Iesuite Pererius to be temporall powers and the Apostle enforceth all to this obedience by three reasons 1. Drawne à causa procreante the efficient or procreant cause of gouernment For there is no power but of God and the powers that bee are ordained of God vers 1. 2. Drawne ab effectu pernicioso from the pernicious effect of disobedience Whosoeuer resisteth power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receiue to themselues condemnation or iudgement v. 2. 3. Taken A beneficio or ab effectu vtili from the benefit or profitable effect of obedience For hee is the Minister of God for thy wealth v. 4. Concluding that obedience is necessary Non solum propter timorem sed propter conscientiam v. 5. Not onely for feare but for Conscience sake So againe the Apostle Paul layes downe his Apostolicall lesson to his sonne Titus Put them in remembrance or admonish them that they be subiect to Princes or Principalities and powers and that they be obedient c. Nay indeed it is naturae thesis natures theame to obey Princes and of this theame Grace is the Hypothesis Looke vpon the silly Bees the best emblemes of obedient Creatures painefull in their labour dutifull in their life their king being safe they are all at vnity Rege incolumi mens omnibus vna Amisso rupere fidem constructaque mella destruere So long as their King is well they follow their worke but being lost they leaue and loath their Hony-combes and when their king waxes olde and cannot flie fert ipsum turba apum they carry him on their wings Et si moritur moriuntur ipsae And if hee die they die with him as some write Behold how nature hath stamped obedience by instinct to Bees to bee subiect to a superiour in their kinde how much more should nature reason and grace stampe obedience in the hearts of Christians knowing that without a kingly gouernment Kingdomes are thraldomes remota iustitia quid sunt regna nisi magna latrocinia saith Austen Take away Iustice and what are kingdomes but dens of theeues Take away obedience to gouernment and that were miscere terris Tartara make earth and hell all one but only in name There is not wanting diuine precepts or diuine patternes to allure loyall obedience take two in stead of many the first and best of all our Sauiour Christ in whom God is well pleased and the second Dauid a man after Gods owne heart Our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ yet God and man in the daies of his flesh disdained not to obey such as were in authority commanding to giue vnto Caesar that which is Caesars and paying tribute to Caesar for himselfe and Peter by the hands of Peter though Peters supposed successors will pay none And though our Sauiour Christ receiued manifold iniuries and indignities from vniust and faithlesse Gouernours yet he neuer moued rebellion or resistance but digested all with patience and obedience knowing that the powers that be are ordained of God telling Pilate that vniust Iudge that his power was Datadesuper giuen him from aboue for the rule is giuen of the Lord and power of the most high Deo obediendum est propter se tanquam summo domino magistratui propter deum tanquam illius ministro saith one God is to bee obeyed for himselfe being chiefe Lord the Magistrate is to bee obeyed for God as being Gods Minister or deputie So that the patterne of Christs obedience to temporall powers must be our platforme of instruction in the duty of obedience 2. Dauids obedience to King Saul is very commendable and remarkeable Saul was a Tyrant sought without cause or colour to kill Dauid yet Dauid often hazarded his life and limmes against Sauls enemies the Philistines euermore testifying his prompt obedience and seruice to his Soueraigne and when this King Saul like that other Saul breathing out threatnings and slaughter against Dauid following him to the wildernesse of Engedi where Dauid vsed pia fallacia hid himselfe in a Caue and had opportunity to cut off Sauls head as well as the lappe of his garment or if hee were timorous to dip his hand in bloud as once a Gregory willed Sabinian to tell the Emperor exciting him against the Lombards Timeo Deum metuo habere manum in sanguine alicuius I feare God and am afraid to haue any hand in bloud oh that Popes had now hearts like Gregory fearefull to shedde bloud if I say Dauid had such a qualme of feare come ouer his heart lo the hands of his seruants ready to haue done it and scarce could be kept from it onely Dauid doth terrifie them from doing it The Lord keepe mee from doing that thing vnto my Master the Lords Anointed to lay my hands vpon him for he is the Lords Annointed Dum timuit oleum seruauit inimicum as excellently Optatus in fearing the annointing he preserued his enemie But after this obedient fidelity performed by Dauid to King Saul behold the sicknesse of that Tyrant suspition moues Saul still to persecute Dauid the Ziphims tell Saul Dauid hides himselfe in the hill of Hachilah In a worde Dauid might haue killed Saul sleeping or if hee would not himselfe do it Abishai offred his seruice I pray thee let me smite him once with a speare to the earth and I will smite him no more but stil see how obedience holds his hands and moues his tongue Destroy him not for who can lay his hand on the Lords Annointed and be guilt lesse And afterward Saul being slaine and a certaine Amalckite hoping to haue beene a happy Post in telling Dauid Saul is dead and shewing Dauid that hee hasted Sauls death though Saul himselfe had acted the Prologue of his owne death this made the Epilogue of his life and brought the Crowne in his hand a tempting bait to gette praise or pardon yet all in vaine how wast thou not afraid to put forth thy hand to destroy the anointed of the Lord
non vult cogitur sed cum intrauerit iam volons pascitur He that is compelled is compelled against his will to enter but when he is entred he is fed willingly The Lord for his mercy sake by the power of his word draw all Christs flocke to vnity in Religion and giue to all Kings faithfull hearts to fauour and follow the same and specially O Lord blesse from Heauen thy deare seruant our dread Soueraigne giue him all graces and gifts sutable for his Princely calling knit his heart vnto thee that he may euer feare thy name and let all them that loue the Gospell of Iesus Christ night and day pray God saue the King Spiritually CHAP. XI Thirdly God saue the King Politically AND to induce all loyall subiects to this acceptable and dutifull seruice many causes concurre both diuine and ciuill whersoeuer we turne our thoughts which may englad our hearts and moue them to burne in affectionate flames in the oblation of this deuotion For vnder him we leade a peaceable and a quiet life free from forraine feares or domesticall troubles that we may say by his gracious gouernement in our Lard Mercy and Truth haue met together Righteousnesse and Peace haue kissed each other And againe with the Psalmist The Scepter of thy Kingdome is a Scepter of righteousnesse thou louest righteousnesse and hatest iniquitie wherefore God euen thy God hath annointed thee with the oyle of gladnesse aboue thy fellowes We haue and heare peaceably and plentifully the welcome tidings of the Gospell the voyce of the Turtle is heard in our Land enioying a setled peace among our selues and with other Nations hauing trafficke and commerce with them a soueraigne benefit to inrich these Realms The admirable peace plenty and prosperity by a Christian and politicall gouernement his Highnesse People doe enioy hath made other Nations enuie our felicity The French haue sworn that this Land in respect of peace and plenty long continued was the Land of Promise and their Kings hitherto haue had Moses punishment to stand vpon their Towers as he vpon Mount Nebo to see the clifts of this Canaan but not permitted to enter that we see that verified which Salomon long agoe deliuered A King by iudgement maintaines the Country or with wisdome her selfe A wise King is the stay of the People or to speake of our Soueraigne in the words of the Princely Prophet The Lord chose Dauid his seruant c to feed his People in Iacob and his inheritance in Israel so hee fed them according to the simplicity of his heart and guided them by the discretion of his hands So that wee find the saying of Cominaeus true Foelix resp in qua qui imperat timet Deum That is an happy Common-wealth in the which the King feares God or with Salomon Blessed art thou O Land when thy King is the sonne of Nobles and much more of noble vertues How happy was the Throne of Gouernement how successefully Religion propagated when vertue honouring Constantine was inthroned The like in other Christian Emperours then Iustice was exalted vertue rewarded piety inlarged vice punished superstition discouraged Of all temporall blessings none more incomparable then to be blest with a good and godly King Woe to thee O Land when thy King is a Child saith Salomon vnable and vnapt for that high function the Art of Arts and Office of God farre more intricate and difficult then any other kind of ministration on Earth But thankes be giuen vnto God who hath giuen vnto vs a pious prudent and peaceable King experienced in the regall Art yea learned in all good Arts indowed with iudgement prowesse wisdome bounty iustice temperance clemency and compassion who may truly say with the Orator Natura me clementem fecit resp seuerum postulat sed nec natura nec resp crudelem efficiet Nature frames him merciful the Common-wealth requires seuere yet neither nature or Common-wealth can make him cruell that I may apply that to his praise which the Poet appropriated to Caesar Ouid de pont Eleg. 3. Est piger ad poenas Princeps ad praemia velox Quique dolet quoties cogitur esse ferox A Prince to punish slow yet swift to giue And when he must be cruell much doth grieue Yet he keepes a golden meane in the mixture of Mercy and Iustice that his Tribunall is not like to Cassius Tribunall Reorum Scopulus Neither a Rocke or refuge to the guilty Malefactors but spares some in mercy and for example cuts off others in Iustice Truncatur artus vt liceat reliquis securé viuere membris And which is great praise in a Prince and powerfull to doe much good in the politicke body is the edification of his Maiesties examplar life acknowledged by his owne enemies the Papists and forcible to moue his subiects to imitation for the people like Labans sheepe conceiue by the eye and are obseruant of Princes vertues or vices and as Claudian to the Emperour Honorius Vt te totius medio telluris in orbe Viuere cognoscas cunctis tua gentibus esse fact a palam They act their Princely part vpon the open Theater of the world and oftentimes taxed by the secret censures of malapert and malignant spirits when they are free from any faulty reprehension as Cymon at Athens taxed that he dranke wine Romans find fault with Scipio for his sleepe with Pompey for scratching of his head And indeed deminitiue faults in Princes are counted superlatiue because of the publike example for sinne is made worse three wayes 1. Ratione loci 2. Ratione Temporis 3. Ratione personae In respect of place time and person which commits it In sayling saith Agapetus the error of an old ordinary shipman causeth little detriment but the error of the Steers-man or Pylot hazards the whole voyage So the euill examples of great persons draw multitudes and their errours cause terrours and troubles to the Common-wealth Quic quid delirant reges plectuntur Achiui Yet euer was there such a flattery of the Regall Scepter that sometimes vices passed for vertues and few there be that dare with that bold Pirate tell Alexander because I doe it in a Fly-boate I am called a Pirate thou doest the like in a great Nauy and called an Emperour But herein let our enemies be iudges that our Soueraigne may truly say with Leonidas Nisi te fuissem melior non essem Rex As farre aboue all in vertue as he is aboue them in place for though Popes vsually are praised for their goodnes when they surpasse not the wickednesse of other men as the Historian tels vs yet our gracious King may in the integrity of his vpright life boldly and truly say with good and iust Samuel Behold here I am beare record of me before the Lord and before his Annointed whose Oxe haue I taken or whose Asse haue I taken or whom haue I
against them Purim by the name of Pur i. Lot or lots in casting lots for their destruction So Samuel pitched a stone the Philistines being ouercome and called it Eben-ezer Lapis adiutorij Hitherto hath the Lord holpen vs. These and many other examples whereof the Scripture is plentifull are sufficient to stirre vp Gods people to remember with humble thankefulnesse the great workes of Gods most mercifull deliuerance And herein as becommeth faithfull seruants to God and loyall Subiects to his Annointed let the People of Great Britanny holily celebrate with deuout prayers and prayses to Almighty God that solemne Anniuersary day The fift of August the day of our gracious and religious Kings preseruation from that bloody intended destruction of the wicked and wretched Traytors Gouries of Scotland In which deliuerance Gods might and mercy did so wonderfully appeare that we may cry with Moses Stand still and behold the saluation of the Lord which he shewed this day Saying with the Psalmist It is hee which giueth deliuerance vnto Kings and rescueth Dauid from the hurtfull Sword and moues our High Soueraigne to say with that Kingly Prophet If the Lord had not holpen me my soule had beene put to silence and therefore his Maiesty in a thankefull acknowledgement of Gods mercy doth religiously obserue in hearing prayers and preaching of Gods word euery Tuesday in the yeere it was Dies Martis almost Mortis Two most admirable deliueries vpon that day from two abhorred Treasons in both which I may cry with Iererie It was the Lords mercies that we were not consumed and may say with Augustine Hee that seeth not Gods mercy in this is blind he that seeth it and prayses it not is thankelesse he that hindreth him that praises it is mad And therefore to adde a little fewell to the fire of our generall deuotion to God for this his mercifull and maruellous preseruation of our dread Soueraigne worthy to be written with eternall Characters in the hearts of all good People perpetually to praise God for the same I haue enterprized to write this little Treatise hoping that others who haue greater Talents will labour to eternize the memory of this renowned worke of God to all posterities In handling of which Subiect I shall not write the History of it it is already published to the World I shal only discourse of Traytors in generall with some application in particular declaring the wofull Tragicall ends of Traytors with such occurrences Vt quorum exitus per horrescunt eorum facta non imitentur That as their wofull deaths so their wicked deeds all men should abhorre and as St Ambrose closes vp the Story of Achabs and Iezabels fearfull end thus Fugies huiusmodi exitum si fugies huiusmodi flagitium Escape their sinne and thou shalt escape their end So hate Treason and neuer feare a Traytors end whose wayes is the gallowes death or hell In the description of the punishment of Traytors and their ends their infamy in the World the greatnesse of their sinne being hatefull to God and Man dangerous to Kingdomes dreadfull to Kings and damnable to themselues the diuel and his adherents the onely Agents in such enterprizes if the Tragedy of them past may worke so well vpon the hearts of all present or future as to detest Treason both in action and affection because it brings wounds to their consciences ruine to their Families plagues to their Countries and punishments to their carkases how happily shall this little labour be bestowed if hereafter in great Britanny no Traytor may be found to his King or Countrey Then shall the Lord blesse the workes of our hands O Lord blesse thou our handy worke CHAP. II. AS the highest mountaines are most subiect to thunder and tempests so the greatest Potentates exposed to dangers Enuie and Treason neuer aime at misery but flies an higher pitch and like vnto the Spider liues in Kings Palaces and lookes with blood-fallen eyes vpon the royall hands of him that holds the Scepter to bring him downe to his Sepulcher This hath befallen to many Kings both good and bad Christian and Heathen in all ages Not to recite a long catalogue of this cursed crew of Trayterous miscreants whose memorial is perished with them who haue attempted Treason against the Lords Annointed Dauid a man after Gods owne heart yet loc Sheba the sonne of Bichri blowes his Trumpet saying We haue no part in Dauid neither haue we any inheritance in the sonne of Ishai nay not onely strangers but his owne sonne Absolom proues a Traytor and seekes his Kingdome So many others of the Kings of Israel found Traytors to indanger them yea our Sauiour himselfe had a Iudas to betray him King Assuerus had his Bigthan and Teresh Traytors Ester 2. Ezechâ—as had his Shebna Esay 22. 15. Looke vpon the reignes of Heathen Kings and you shall find Histories full fraught with many examples Augustus a famous Emperour ten times assaulted by treacherous villains Iulius Caesar found a Brutus and Cassius to kill him Vespasian made totus ex clementia All of mercy as the Historian tels vs yet for all that Machinationes nefariorum assiduas expertus est Hee found daily Treacheries attempted against him and his Princely sonne Titus graced in those dayes with Amor deliciae generis humani the loue and delight of all mankind yet had a Trayterous Cecinna to assault him Antoninus had Traytors to trouble him Cassius Titianus and Priscianus Berengarius the Emperour found Flambertus a Traytor whom yet he highly aduanced and vsed in the secrecies of State and familiarity Sed eô magis aestuaret innocenteÌ„ tollere regem So much the more he was set on fire to destroy the innocent King saith Cuspinian What should I rehearse the troope of Traytors which in former Ages haue lift vp their hands and hearts against their royall Masters This last Age prophesied by Saint Paul to be perillous times wherein men shall be Traytors hath fulfilled that prediction These last dayes haue swarmed with such desperate and diuellish wretches who by all meanes of mischiefe haue laboured in these attempts not to play the part of a Notary or Recorder in forraign Nations in publishing the names of Traytors who haue infested their Kings or Countries wee haue had too many in our natiue Countrey whose names are registred in the Popes Kalender of Martyrs or the Hangmans Booke who haue assaulted in late times our late dread Soueraigne Queene Elizabeth of blessed memory and our most gracious and vertuous King two as famous Princes as euer here reigned and both admired of all the Monarkes vnder the Sunne How many Traytors swarmed in Queen Elizabeths daies how frequent were conspiracies of vngodly persons Parries Lopusses Babingtons Campians c and the roaring Buls came from Rome with thunderbolts of excommunication depriuation and all this was but Sonitus spinarum ardentium sub
the olde law who as they say by vertue of their Priesthood haue deposed and depriued Kings from their seates which power they labour to deriue and appropriate to the Popes office I will name but two of them in two examples 1 Cardinall Allen alleadgeth Azarias the high Priest who with â—o other Priests put downe Ozias smitten with leprosie by force out of the Temple and depriued him of his regall authority Ergo say they it is lawfull for the high Priest that is the Pope to driue hereticall Kings that is spirituall Leapers out of the Temple of Gods Church and Territories of their kingdome by excommunication which is a separation and then by deposition which is a finall depriuation of them and deputation of some other Regent as Azarias committed the kingdome to be then gouerned by Iotham his sonne Wee answere as some of our Church haue answered That Azarias did not depriue Ozias of his regall power for he held it to his dying day onely his sonne Iotham as a kinde of Viceroye was surrogated because the immediate hand of God had smitten him with leprosie for his leprosie he was punished to liue apart a priuate life not to be depriued of his inheritance Ambition couetousnesse yea all sinne is a leprosie hath not the Pope such a contagion why then he may as well be depriued of his Miter being a grand sinner and so a great leaper as any other Indeed Ozias or Vzziah greatly sinned in presuming to vsurpe the Priests office transgressing against the Lord in going into the Temple to burne incense vpon the Altar of incense and Azariah with the other Priests withstood Vzziah the King telling him it pertained not to him to burne incense but to the Priests the sonnes of Aaron consecrated to offer it and was smitten of the Lord for it with leprosie and so liued apart according to the Law yet still was King in esse though not in execution 2 Cardinall Bellarmine alleadgeth Iehoiada the High Priest who commanded Athalia the Queene to bee slaine and Ioash to succeed implying an inference that so it is lawfull for Popes to doe the like We answer that Athalia an vsurper and murderer killing all the royall seed excepting only the secretly preserued Ioash the vndoubted heyre of the Crowne beeing proclaimed and annointed King with a generall consent of all Iehoiada by the authority of the King and not as High Priest but rather tanquam regis patruus Protector as his Kinsman and Protector the King being in his minority seauen yeares olde and Iehoiada being his Allye hauing married the Kings Anâ— and so bound by the Law of Nature and Nations to defend the Kings right and to reuenge the tyranny of a bloudy Queen against the Kings killed progeny and Iehoiadaes commandement was confirmed by the Kings authority and with the common consent and Counsell of the land not as being High Priest but as chiefe of his Tribe to reuenge the crying bloud of the royall offspring murthered by vsurping Athalia to depriue her of her vsurped regiment and life what is this to depose a lawfull King by the authority of the Pope Kings shall anguste sedere as Tully said to Caesar haue quaking Scepters vnquiet seates and narrow limits if the Pope haue power to depriue them of their power state But to passe ouer other the like examples alleadged by Romanists in this kinde I will touch those foure things which they obiect and say doe dissolue regall right and make Kings who are culpable of such faults to forfeit their Crownes 1. Tyranny 2. Infidelity 3. Heresie 4. Apostacy The Popish assertions heerein runne in the affirmatiue that all or any one is sufficient to depriue a King of his Crown The opinions of Protestants run in the negatiue that none of these are sufficient to make a King forfeit his dignity and Diademe To begin with the first Tyranny doth not cut off a King from his soueraignty Who a greater Tyrant then King Saul who hunted after Dauids soule to take it yet who was so faithfull among all his seruants as Dauid confessed by Sauls owne mouth To be more righteous then he for thou hast rendred mee good and I haue rendred thee euill yea this Saul such a tyrant that he commanded Doeg to fall vpon the Lords Priests and Doeg at his commandement flew sounescore and fiue persons that did weare a linnen Ephod and did smite Nob the Priests City with the edge of the sword both man and woman childe and suckling oxe and asse and sheepe with the sword Yet Dauid no priuate or plebeâ—an subiect but a man by Gods commandement designed for the Kingdome cheefe Captaine and Coronel of Sauls Army and heire apparent to the Crowne and hauing opportunity to depriue Saul of his life and importunity of his followers to doe the deed yet heare his voice The Lord keepe me from doing that thing vnto my Master the Lords Annointed to lay my hand vpon him for he is the Lords Annointed and the same Dauid to Abishai Destroy him not for who can lay his hand vpon the Lords Annointed and be guiltlesse O heauenly voice of holy Dauid how different are Popelings from Dauids resolution Occasionem victoria Dauid habebat in manibus incantum securum aduersarium sine labore poterat iugulare advictoriam opportunitas hortabatur sed obstabat Diuinorum memoria mandatorum non mittam manum in vnctum Domini repressit cum gladio manum dum timuit oleum seruauit inimicum As most elegantly and excellently writes Optatus Dauid had a present occasion of security of victory and might without any difficulty or danger haue killed his vnkind and vnconsiderate enemy opportunity might haue pressed him to it but the remembrance of Gods commandements stay his hand Touch not my Annointed This keepes backe the hand and sword and fearing the regall oyle fauours a dismall enemy Now Tyranny may be of two kinds either of vsurped regiment and dominion without any ciuill title and interest hauing no titular foundation but violent vsurpation and herein subiection is not necessary Quoad obedientiam if Quoad Sustâ—…ntiam Herein patience more requisite then obedience 2 Kind is when ordinary and lawfull power degenerates into tyranny and cruelty by abuse and herein Papists giue liberty Tyrannum occidere licet It is lawfull to kill a Tyrant contrary to Dauid God forbid that I should lay mine hand vpon the Lords Annointed 1 Sam. 26. 11. Meaning Saul a Tyrant by abuse but not by vsurpation but we haue handled this before and therefore leaue it 2. Infidelity doth not depriue a King of his regiment Oh but replies the Papist All title to Dominion hath foundation in the grace of Iustice Charity and Piety so that by impiety or infldelity they make forfeiture of their authority Answer It is prouidence not grace that disposeth ciuill titles grace not prouidence that makes them
temporalties which he writes as his Preface speakes against the Politicians and heretickes of the Time and indeed specially against a greater Clerke then himselfe Bellarmine both temporizers to flatter Popes with power in temporalties To omit all the rest of this ranke who inclineto this opinion That the Pope hath a direct ordinary and inherent power in Temporalties let vs on the other side behold these Madianites or Cadmeyes Brethren warring and wrangling with an opinionate opposition and contradiction The principall and Coriphaeus of all the rest is the Cardinall Bellarmine who ouerthrowes that ordinary direct and inherent gouernement of the Pope in temporalties as left by Christ with scripturall arguments very soundly and sufficiently yet to gratifie the Pope like a good seruant he restraines it to limitations and distinctions Although saith he the Pope be not Lord of all Temporalties directly neither hath inherent and ordinary authority as he is Pope to disthronize temporall Princes yet he is Lord of the Temporalties indirectly in order to the Spirituals Bellarmines vsuall phrase and hath an extraordinary and a borrowed authority as he is cheefe spirituall Prince to alter Kingdomes to take them from one and to giue them to another if it bee necessary to the saluation of soules i. in order to the Spiritualties Wherein obserue how politicke these papall Parasites be disputing about a power of Popes in disposing Temporals or Regals one fort deriuing this power directly and ordinarily from Christ and Saint Peter the other side indirectly and onely in order to the Spirituals when as their Pope neuer had any direct or indirect power in that kind from God and from Saint Peter But marke how the sonnes ' of this Kingdome be diuided The Pope hath either ordinary and direct power to depose Kings as he is Pope or he hath no authority at all faith Carerius But he hath no direct and ordinary as he is Pope by Bellarmines opinion Ergo He hath none at all Thus their diuision hath made a true conclusion that their Pope hath neither ordinary or indirect power in disposition of Temporals but least Bellarmine should proue an Hereticke in this point and be vngratefull to his great Master the Pope of whom he is graced with the purple hat hee comes with his qualification and modification That the Pope is Lord of the Temporalties indirectly in order to the Spirituals which strange distinction hath no foundation for Peter could transferre no power but ordinary and the Pope is no otherwise cheefe spiritual Prince but as he is Pope so that if he cannot depose Princes ordinarily from their Temporalties as Pope he cannot depose them extraordinarily and indirectly as cheefe spirituall Prince which Carerius enforces Either saith he hee is not the vicar of Christ or else he deposeth inferior powers as Pope but he deposeth them not as Pope saith Bellarmine he is not therefore the vicar of Christ by Carerius conclusion Thus Bellarmine hath depriued his Pope of the Temporalties and his opposite Carerius hath not left him Lord of the Spiritualties The one denies him a deposing Pope the other inferres vpon it no Deputy or vicar of Christ both assertions very true though they deliuer them by way of altercation Thus these wrangling spirits haue brought their Popes imaginary power in great hazard to be lost The one making their Pope Sathans Asse loading him with a boundlesse burthen of power too heauy for any to beare to haue the direct dominion of all the Temporalties in the world absolutely and ordinarily Onus Aetna granius A burthen heauier then the weight of the Mountain Aetna Iethro said that Moses his task was too heauy for him and Iob Curuantur qui portant orbem They that support the world are crooked yet these Ingrossers of greatnesse would lay vpon their Popes shoulders the vnsupportable weight of the dominion of the world to be Lord of all the Temporalties directly and ordinarily The other giues him not so much weight of authority yet giues him too much To depose Kings if need require taking a middle course denying the infinite power of Inherent and ordinary gouernement yet reseruing an indirect and borrowed authority belonging to the Pope yet not as Pope but as the cheefe spirituall Prince conditionally if Kings become tyrannicall hereticall or apostaticall then the Pope is to coniure them into the circle of religion by counsell and admonition and after if they proue refractary to confine them out of their dominionby depriuation and deposition and all this is pretended to be done by power of a spirituall right indirectly to the temporalties yet to a spirituall end and in order to the spiritualties The first to all mens eyes appeare most grosse and egregious parasites besotted with palpable folly and flattery but Bellarmine more smooth and cunning long acquainted with dissimulation the very Genius of Romes Court-Cardinals bedawbes his workes with oyly morter with holy hony if it bee for the saluation of soules in order to the spirituals tending to spirituall good then Si meruere Pater tunc dira tonitruamitte Percutient summos reges nec fulmina cessent If they deserue let Papall thunder cleaue These Regall Cedars and of Crownes bereaue These are Boanerges sonnes of thunder yet would seeme Barnabasses sonnes of comfort tempering and qualifying their fiery thunderbolts of depriuation with a pretence of spirituall good tending to soules saluation But there is a third sort of Papists on the other side men of more humble mindes disliking this statizing Iesuitisme and papall intrusion into Caesars chaire confessing that the Pope hath no temporall power ouer Kings directly as Gul. Barclayus de authoritate Papae against whose opinion herein Bellarmine writes a Treatise De potestate summi pontificis contra Gul. Barclayum Watson in his Quodlibeticall Booke Sheldon in his generall reasons Roger Widdringtons humble supplication to Paul the fift Pope which worke a late Decree of Romes Cardinalls prohibited repining to see Popes temporall incroachments by Romanists contradicted good reason therefore to clap their hand vpon his mouth and to commit him to the dungeon of suppression Stephen Gardiners booke Bishop of VVinchester De vera obedientia with a preface of Bishop Bonners adioyned to it De summo absoluto Regis imperio published by M. Bekinsaw Devera differentia regiae potestatis Ecclesiae Bishop Tonstals Sermon Bishop Longlands Sermon Tonstals letter to Cardinall Poole and many others in Latine and English in this kinde of Romane Catholickes all ouerthrowing this point of moderne Popery Thus as many Papists openly deny and I presume many of the other doe inwardly beleeue being acquainted with their equiuocations and mentall reseruations so it may make all men maruell who are not prepossessed with preiudicate opinions or preposterous affections vpon what sufficient yea probable inducements and motiues they might build this Pontifician power eyther of spirituall much lesse of temporall authority ouer Kings
great peeces whereupon he brought the fellow backe and priuately without the knowledge of any man bound him in a priuy house and locked many doores vpon him and his pot with him and so hasted by foure of the clocke in the morning to aduertise his Maiesty according to his duty and desirous that the King in his person priuately would bee pleased to behold this spectacle To this perfidious Sinon the King giues a Princely audience Ignarus scelerum tantorum artisque Pelasga Virg. Returning to him at first this answere That hee would send backe with the said Alexander a seruant of his owne with a warrant to the Prouost and Bayliffes of Saint Iohnstoun to receiue the alledged fellow a man in the Moone and the money supposed till his further pleasure was knowne To be briefe his Highnesse importuned by the in sinuations of this faire-spoken yet false Iudas resolues the chace being ended and not dreaming that his Princely person should haue beene hunted by such a fawning yet bloody hound to goe to Saint Iohnstoun to see with his Princely eyes the newes which this meale-mouthed Traytor had related to his Graces eares and so rides thither with a very little Trayne and they followed after among which was the Duke of Lennox and the Earle of Marre The King comming to Saint Iohnstoun he was met by the late Earle of Gowry a Iudas with an Aue Rex and some three or fourescore men accompanying him the Kings Trayne not aboue fifteene persons and all vnarmed yet his Maiesty by the way vpon occurrences of discourse and stupide behauiour of Alexander requesting the King to stay the Duke and Earle from following him beganne to suspect some treasonable deuice Well the King hauing beene there partaker of a bad dinner and the said Earle standing pensiue and with a deiected countenance Oh quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu And not welcomming his Maiesty or shewing any harty forme of entertainement and the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Court being now set at dinner Alexander rounding in his Maiesties eares and said Now is the time to goe This is your very houre and the power of darkenesse The King accompanied onely with the said Alexander goes vp a Turne-pecke through three or foure chambers Alexander locked behind him euery doore he passed a brother to Alexander the Coppersmith which had done Paul much euill vntill at last his Maiesty passing through three or foure sundry houses and all doores locked behind him by this Cerberus his Maiesty entred into a little study where hee saw standing with a very abased countenance not a bond man but a free man with a dagger at his girdle Now mee thinkes I here that desperate voice Virg Heu quae nunc tellus inquit quae me aequora possunt Accipere aut quid iam misero mihi denique restat Or as Dauid said to God I am in a wonderfull straite fallen into the hands of bloody men O God hast thee to deliuer me make hast to helpe me O Lord O my God deliuer me from mine enemies defend mee from them that rise vp against me deliuer mee from the wicked doers and saue mee from the bloody men for loe they haue laid waite for my soule c. Thus this vile Alexander hauing brought the King into this close Closet of his intended death Rectè collâ—cat aretia expectant praedam Now this Traytor changes his countenance puts his hat on his head and drawes the dagger from the girdle of the other fellow holds the point to the Kings breast Horresco referens Whither bendest thou thy sword thou monster of mankind as Clytemuestra said to her wicked sonne Orestes A Monster and no Man to desire to murder a Monarke of Men. Viscera sunt vobis crudelia pectora ferro Durantur silicesque rigent praecordia circum Qui tantum sceleris potuistis velle patrare Nam patrasse supergreditur genus omne loquendi Behold this cursed and Copper-Alexander facing the King with a brazen impudence saith Now it did behoue the King to be in his will and vses him as he list swearing bloody oathes That if the King cried out or did open a window to looke out that dagger should presently goe to his heart Surely some Nero with heeles forward borne Sire to this slaue so bloody and forlorne The Kings heart is in the hand of the Lord and he will preserue it against the hands of such diuellish Traytors This bloody villaine opens his blacke mouth and tels the King That now he knew his conscience was troubled for murthering his Father Loe this Caine talkes of conscience yet makes no conscience to attempt to kill a most innocent King His Highnesse wondring at so sudden an alteration and standing naked as an innocent Lambe before a rauenous wolfe like the woman standing before the red Dragon beginnes pathetically and powerfully to dilate to Alexander telling him how horrible a thing it was to meddle with his Maiesties innocent blood a drop whereof could not bee shed without reuenge from Heauen and Earth for the voice of blood cries for vengeance to Heapen and God had on Earth giuen his Highnesse children and good Subiects which would reuenge it yea God would raise vp stockes and stones to punish so vile a deed protesting before God that his conscience was not troubled for the execution of his Father he being then a Minor of age and then guided by a Faction which ouerruled his Maiesty the rest of the Country and what was done to his Father was done by the common course of Law Iustice Appealing to the said Alexanders owne conscience a sinfull and seared conscience how well his Grace had at all times since deserued at the hands of all his race restoring them to their lands and dignities freely and voluntarily of his regall clemency bringing vp two or three ofhis sisters as it were in his owne bosome by a continuall attendance vpon his dearest bedfellow in her priuy Chamber and if all these had beene too little he would haue giuen him as it was said to Dauid such and such things but here in them verified which Seneca deliuered Quidam quô plus debent magis oderunt c. Certaine men being bound to loue for some benefits rather the more beginne to hate Quid autem miserius saith the same wise man cui beneficia dantur gratias agere iniurijs What more wretched thing then hauing receiued benefits to reward the giuer with iniuries These are Esops Snakes His Maiesty promised him on the word of a Prince that if he would spare his life a Soueraigne a suppliant to a subiect an abiect begges mercy of this miscreant to spare his life hee would neuer reucale it to any flesh liuing what was betwixt them at that time nor neuer suffer him to incurre any harme or punishment for the same A speech able to make a Cannibals heart to relent being vttered
with such feeling as accompanies such feares This his Maiesties perswasiue language some what amazed and calmed this terrible and truculent Traytor so that hee swore the Kings life should bee safe if hee would behaue himselfe quietly without noyse or crying and that hee would goe downe and bring in his brother the Earle to speake with his Maiesty And so goes downe and lockes the doore after him leauing his Maiesty with that man was there before whom this Alexander appointed the Kings Keeper till his returne Then his Maiestie demanded of that man who was a seruant to the late Earle of Gowrie his name Andrew Henderson whether he was appointed to be the murderer of him and how far he was vpon the counsell of that conspiracy who with a trembling and astonished voice and behauiour answered with solemne and deepe protestations that he was neuer acquainted with that purpose being put in there perforce and the doore locked vpon him and indeede all the time of Alexanders menacing the King this Henderson trembled and requested him for Gods sake not to doe the King any harme The King commands him to open the window on his right hand which hee did for Alexander had made the King sweare not to cry out nor open any window Wherein behold the miraculous prouidence of almighty God that he who was put in there to vse violence on the King should be an Instrument for the Kings safety vppon the sight of the King as Belshazzar did when he saw the hand writing on the wall trembling and quaking rather like one condemned then an executioner of such an enterprize VVhile the King was all this while like Daniel in a Lyons den and by the Lord so assisted strengthened that afterward hee was deliuered like Paul out of the mouth of the Lyon his Maiesties Trayne rising from dinner the Earle of Gowry with them one of the Earle of Gowries seruants comes hastily saying His Maiesty is horsed and away through the Inshe which the Earle reporting to the Noblemen and the rest all rush forth in great haste and enquiring of the Porter which way his Maiesty went the Porter affirmed the King was not yet gone whereupon this Gowry reuiles the Porter and turning to the Duke and Earle of Marre said He would presently get certaine word whether the King was gone or no and so ranne through a close and vp the staires hauing a purpose to speake with his Brother Presently the Earle returnes and runnes to the Noblemen telling them the King was gone out at the backe gate to which place all of them repaired This inhumane wretch Alexander hauing had a little pawse and parly with his bloudy brother comes backe againe to the King Ingrediturque domum luctus comitatur euntem Et pauor terror trepidoque insania vultu Casting his hands abroad in a desperate manner said he could not mend it his Maiesty behoued to die Traytors haue bloudy hearts and hands they will not abstaine a sanguine suffocate from bloud and strangled not one word falls from his foule mouth but dismall hee had promised before to preserue the King safe but they who haue made a league with hell will neuer keepe league or promise with any on earth neyther great gifts or good turnes can turne their mindes to mercy oportet mori is the foote of the fatall song the death of Patroclus saith Achilles the death of my Father saith Alexander will not suffer me to thinke of mercy Therefore this treacherous Philistine comes with a garter to binde our Soueraigne as the Philistines bound Sampson swearing hee behoued to be bound Accursed caitife to threaten the King descended from as royal predecessors as any Prince liuing with an inglorious death he must not dye by the hand of a woman which Abimelech held dishonourable and therefore willed his Page to runne him through with his sword he must not die fighting cominus eminus hand to hand but hee would haue him die as a condemned Malefactor or as a foole goeth to the stockes bound hand and foote though hee ruled with glory yet goe to his graue with ignominy It behoueth you to be bound saith this abhorred wretch but died Abner as a foole dieth Thy hands were not bound nor thy feet tied in fetters of brasse but as a man falleth before wicked men so didst thou fall His Maiesty hearing this villaine talke of binding said he was borne a free King and should die a free King Beholde the worke of the Lord animating our King Iames as the Lord did Ioshua Be strong and of good courage feare not nor be discouraged for I the Lord thy God will be with thee c. He can make fiue to chase an hundred and an hundred to put ten thousand to flight little Dauid to kill Goliah our Salomon void of weapon to ouercome anned Gowrie and indeed how can he fall in fight whom heauen earth assists God and his Angels beheld this fray and heard the secret petition of our Soueraignes soule Saue mee from him that persecutes me and deliuer mee lest hee deuoure my soule like a Lion and teare it in peeces while there is none to helpe The Lord did heare him in the day of his trouble the name of the God of Iacob did defend him deliuering his soule from the sword his desolate soule from the power of the dogge This Alexander degenerating in nature from the signification of his name which signifies as Ierome auxiliator virilis an helper of men he rather to be tearmed with his Masters Title Abaddon or Apollyon destroying and comes to his Maiesty griping him by the wrist of the hand to haue bound him his Maiesty relieued himselfe suddenly of his gripes whereupon as he put his right hand to his sword his Maiesty with his right hand seazed vpon both hand and sword and with his left hand clasped him by the throat like as he with his left hand claspt the King by the throat with two or three of his fingers in his Maiesties mouth to haue stayed him from crying out In this strugling the King perforce drew him to the window which Henderson before opened and vnder the which passed O rare most singular prouidence of God the Kings traine and the Earle of Gowrie with them The King holding out the right side of his head and right elbowe cryed They were murdering him Virg Aeucid lib. 2. Quaevâ—n vt voâ—it adâ—â—reâ— Obstupuere animi gelidusâ— perima 〈◊〉 Ossa Tremâ—â— The Kings voyce instantly heard and knoweâ— to the Duke of Leâ—noâ— Earle of Marre and the other Court-traine no winged Pegasus could poast more speedily to doe their best seruice for their Soueraignes safety all of them then like Asahel as light on foote as wilde Roes but Gowrie the vnworthy and wretched Earle euer asking what it meant taking no notice of any voyce heard The Duke of Lennox and Earle of
confessed his intimate conference with Iesuites men dangerous to Kings and States his plausibility with the people an harbinger of ambitious thoughts These with other practises hee vsed as being addicted to Magiche are like the bleating of sheepe in Samuels eares and may all say What meane these things wee may coniecture something yet determine nothing for this Traytor was a Politician who held this Maxime That he was not a wiseman who hauing intended the execution of an high and dangerous purpose did communicate the same to any but himselfe Thus we see how the Lord verifies Dauids words Hee forsaketh not his Saints they shall be preserued for euermore but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off Great deliuer ances giueth he vnto his King and sheweth mercy vnto his Annointed And if all antiquity should awake it could not relate a more Diuine deliuery in so dangerous and deadly extremity And it doth minister immortall and immatchable motiues of perpetuall praises and thankes giuing to God to sing with Dauid Great is the Lord and most worthy to be praised and his greatnesse is incomprehensible Generation shall praise thy workes vnto generation and declare thy power The Lord preserueth all them that loue him but he will destroy the wicked This day the fift of August the commemoration day of this Conspiracy and Deliuery commanded by regall authority to be religiously obserued wherein wee should doe that which the Lord spake to Moses after Israels victory ouer Amalek Write this for a remembrance in the booke and rehearse it to Ioshua for I will vtterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from vnder Heauen And Moses built an Altar and called the name of it Iehoua-Nissi that is the Lord my Bauner So the great King of Kings hauing giuen the King of our English Israel an happy victory ouer Amalâ—k put out the remembrance of them from vnder heauen All from the King in his Throne to the poorest member and Subiect of great Britanny should write in the tables of thankefull hearts the best booke of remembrance this most happy and heauenly deliuerance and goe to the publike Altar the house of prayer and offer vp a seruice and sacrifice of humble and hearty prayers and praises as sweet Incense vnto the Lord singing and saying Iehoua-Nissi the Lord is my Banner The Lord is our strength and praise and is become our saluation Thy right hand O Lord hath bruised the enemie Therefore will I praise thee O Lord among the Nations and will sing vnto thy name Hee is the Tower of saluation for his King and sheweth mercy to his Appointed euen to Dauid and to his seed for euer All glory honour thankes and praise bee giuen to God alone The Father Sonne and Holy ghost three seuerally in one Laus Deo Amphitheatrum Scelerum OR THE TRANSCENDENT OF TREASON For the fift of Nouember THE DAY OF A MOST Admirable Deliuerance of our King Queene Prince Royall Progeny the Spirituall and Temporall Peeres and Pillars of the Church and State together with the Honourable Assembly of the representatiue Body of the Kingdom in generall from that most horrible and hellish proiect of the Gun-powder Treason PSAL. 11. 22. Forloe the wicked bend their bowe and make ready their arrowes vpon the string that they may secretly shoote at them which are vpright in heart For the foundations shall be cast downe and what hath the righteous done By SAMVEL GAREY Preacher of Gods Word LONDON Printed by IOHN BEALE for HENRY FETHERSTONE and IOHN PARKER 1618. TO THE ILLVSTRIOVS and Right Honourable Lords Spirituall and Temporall the renowned Peeres Prelates and Counsellors to the High and famous Court of Parliament SAMVEL GAREY an vnworthy Minister of IESVS CHRIST with his most deuoted obseruance humbly offereth this short Treatise in a perpetuall remembrance of all dutifull thankfulnesse to Almighty God for your Graces and Honours happy deliuerance from the intended Gun-powder Treason Nouember the fifth Anno Domini 1605. Most Reuerend Honorable and right Noble Lords MAy it please your Graces and Honors to behold the wofull picture and lamentable protect of your earthly Downefall intended the contemplation and cogitation whereof can neuer cause you to bury it in obliuion wherein the professed enemies to God King and Country endeauoured and attempted with one blow and blast to make your Mittimus and send you all to another world But Gods most admirable mercy disappointed their most abhominable mischiefe and doth moue your Graces and Honors to say thankfully with the Psalmist Thou hast saued vs from our aduersaries and hast put them to confusion that hate vs Therefore will we praise God continually and will confesse thy name for euer In which prodigious practise and mercilesse Massacre your Graces and Honors may behold your selues how you should haue Purgatory-Vulcans could bring one sparke to enkindle it still the Regall Sunne and Moone shines with a bright and beautifull lustre in the Royall firmament who by these foule monsters and fiery Meteors should haue beene finally eclipsed Charles-wayne is still in our Horizon and God grant it may be said of our King Iames as Iacob said of his Iuda Sceptrum non auferetur à Iuda Gen. 49. 10. Your Graces and Honors the fixed starres of Church and State still keepe your station and retaine your powerfull influences who by these Miscreants should haue bene sent from the stately Parliament to the starry firmament and though not then your mortall limbes yet your immortall soules should haue flowen higher But loe * The Lord was with you while you were with him and preserued you in safely as reserued instruments for his further seruice and glory to the vnspeakeable comfort of his Church and happy welfare of great Britanny Which incomparable worke of Gods infinite mercy in this most gracious and generall deliuerance as it can neuer beforgotten so it cannot be too ofr reuined which poore oblation a commemoration of your Graces and Honours preseruation as it is very seasonable for the time Nouember the 5. against which day it was and is prepared as a yearely present and poore Tribute of true thankefulnesse so I heartily wish it weresatable to merit your most honourable acceptance Yet Cum desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas Your renowned worthinesse will I hope accept my willingnesse and protect this Treatise the Transcendent of Treason vnder the fauourable countenance of your most honourable patronages so shall it be safe from all backbiting vermine and vipers of our Church and Country And as some say The Sea-Vrchin armes himselfe with some stones against a tempest so I against all the windy tempests of ill tongued Iesuites and railing Popelings who take things with the left hand which are offered with the right as Ariston once said will I suppose contemne and condemne this worke wherein their treasonable practises and precepts are in part discouered yet being armed
much ground as all Spaine containeth But woe to them that build vp Sion with bloud and Ierusalem with iniquity saith Micah Whose hands are defiled with bloud the Lord will prepare them vnto bloud and bloud shall pursue them except thou hate bloud euen bloud shall pursue thee saith the Lord by the mouth of Ezekiel But these imitate Iulius Caesar the first Emperour of Rome who held a sword in one hand and a booke in the other with this Motto Ex vtreque Caesar So these Romanists will hold a sword in one hand and a Bible in the other changing the word the sword of the spirit into a materiall sword to murder mens bodies but Caesar who shed much blood abroad had his owne blood shed at home Yet Caesar was farre of a more mercifull mind for as Austen speakes of him Hee gloried in nothing so much as in pardoning his enemies and gratifying his friends Or they follow blood-thirsty Cyrus who at last was slaine by Queene Tomyris and his head cut off and put into a vessell of blood with these words Sanguinem sitijstit nunc sanguine saturatus esta Thou hast thirsted for blood now drinke thy fill so these thirst for blood Quem babit hic auide quà m bibit ante merum As greedily he drinkes mens blood As men doe wine and thinkes as good But Dauid because he was a man of blood might not build God a materiall Temple and will you build Gods spirituall Temple with bloody hands God abhorres blood-thirsty and deceitfull men Deus non est autor eius cuius est vltor God is a reuenger of such villanies and what he affects he will effect by good meanes And therefore though Papists colour this treason vnder the cloke of Religion and for the good of the Catholicke cause the Lord will say to them I know ye not Depart from me ye workers of iniquity Then shall they couer themselues with confusion as with a cloake And truly these fiery and furious Iesuited Roman Catholickes maske and shroud their faction and treason vnder the cloake of Religion as the Dominicans lurke vnder our Ladies frock crying out The Catholicke Cause and for the good of the Church so that we may say as once wittily Erasmus demanded VVhat is Charity answered It is a Monkes cloake for it couers a multitude of sinnes So what is Popery It is a cloake to couer a multitude of sinnes and as they say Puritan sohismes are sowen together with Sisters-threed so Popish schismes are patched together out of the cloake of Rebellion yet vnder the mantle of Religion yet so farre are these people from being ashamed of these things or reclaimed from such practises much lesse to repent for them as that being apprehended for them or hauing accomplished their deuices they are still insensible of sorrow contrary to all other Malefactors for as the Poet quid fas Atque nefas tandem incipiunt sentire peractis Criminibus How good or bad their deeds were they then see When once their mischiefes accomplisht be But these would with Nero laugh and leape to see our Cities on fire and as Guido Faux the foreman of this fiery stratageme being demanded what hee would haue done when as he had put fire to the powder said Goe see the sport in the field A voice fit for a villaine or a cruell Vitellius who said as Tacitus records it Sepauisse oculos spectata in imici morte nempe Blaesi◠He did feed his eyes with the dead spectacle of his aduersary Blesus But Caesar wept when the head of Pompey his enemy was presented to him saying Ego Pompeij casum deploro meam fortunā metuo I lament Pompeys fall and feare mine owne fortune but the enemies of Sion as they haue Crocodile eyes to weepe and laugh at murthered obiects so they haue deuouring mouthes and teeth to water after such preyes I will not iudge all of them to be of so bloody a disposition for I presume some Iesuites and Priests and Monkes are like Aristippus looke for nothing but meat for their belly and a maide for their bed little busie their braines with other matterrs or some may follow their study which yet is not vsuall especially among the secular Priests whom the Iesuites call Ebrios stultos illiteratos Ecclesia excrementa Drunkards Dolts Dunces the excrements of the Church and the same secular Priests brand the Iesuites with infamous markes Statistas Atheistas Machiauelistas quot Iesuitae totidem Iudae Statists Atheists Machiauclists So many Iesuites so many Iudasses But indeed the least medlers in these matters are the Monkes and therein to be commended who if they were as carefull to feede their braines as their bellies I should thinke them the best of the bunch but herein they are faulty being onely as the Poet Epicuri de grege porcos Horat. Most of them sordide and stupide fellowes without any industry in labour or generosity in life And as long ago it was written of them Liber Pater praeponitur libro patrum Calicibus epotandis non codicibus emendandis Indulget bodie studium Monachorum Cantus ludentis non planctus lugentis Officium efficitur Monachale Greges vellera fruges Horrea Porri olera potus patera Lectiones sunt hodie studia Monachorum In a word thus One Bacchus more they loue then Muses nine They fat their bellies while their braines do pine But to leaue these whom the Pope least loues for the Iesuites are his Pulli puppi His Minions and Darlings he knowes them by their hands as the Eagle knowes his young ones by the eyes a pen in one hand and a ponyard in the other to write for him and to fight for him We will accuse no more but the parties in view whereof Faux should haue beene the Executioner and as they say An hangman must haue a cruell heart so this appointed wretch had a cruell heart to count such a sight as this should haue beene a sport and when he was apprehended he discouered no fignes of sorrow or repentance except onely that he repented for not being able to performe it Nil Christus Domini nil illi proxima Coniux Nil Princeps Carolus charus spes altera Regni Vtraque nobilitas pietate insignis armis Maiestasque loci veterum tot Curia regum Nil haec crudeli potuere obstare furori Our royall King with his illustrious Spouse That Phoenix gone vnto a better place And next succeeding hope Prince Charles his Grace The noble Peeres the Prelates of Gods House And other Monuments which might well rouse More feare then fury yet this vile Consort To blow vp all with powder counts it sport The vertues indeed vices which were in Tigellinus Neros Secretary were as Tacitus names them Cruelty and Luxury so these abounded with the first if not with the second And yet they had no cause to
complaint is verified vpon vs My people are destroyed for lacke of knowledge the seeds-men of the worde sent from the blessed sower who broke vp our stony hearts and made them flexible and did labour to turne many to righteousnesse they are taken from vs and now Impius haec tam culta novalia miles habebit Barbarus has segetes Not Masse but Mars-Priests in the Churches field Possesse the fruits which others labours tilld These and more pittifull mones would haue beene fresh and frequent in this land crying with Ieremy The ioy of our heart is gone our dance is turned to mourning the Crowne of our head is fallen woe vnto vs that wee haue sinned our necks are vnder persecution wee are weary and haue no rest Our King a Nursing Father to the Church and Common-wealth Our Noble men of Sion comparable to fine Gold Our reuerend Prelates and Pastors the salt of the earth and light of the land the chiefe Iudges and choice Gentry of the Kingdom who were as eyes to the blinde and feete to the lame All the pillars of Church and Common-wealth maintainers of the Law and Gospell had perished in this intended Massacre So that the shepheard being smitten the sheepe will be scattered yea sheepe not hauing a shepheard will fall into the hands of wolfes who will deuoure their flesh and their fleeces And looke still further and behold these powder-traitors men nourished with Tygers milke who enterprised not onely to procure a temporall politicall and spirituall ouerthrow of Church and Common-wealth but also so farre as in their power they could seeked to procure the eternall death of body and soule vnawares by force of fire to part vnprepared soules and blow vp with a fiery Dimittis bodies and soules before they could haue time to say feelingly Inmanus tuas Domine O Lord into thy hands we commend our soules heerein shewing themselues desirous to be bloudy murtherers to murder the body with death temporall and also to make away the soule with death eternall which second death worse then millions of corporall deaths Continet Myriades mortis Prima mors animam dolentempellit de corpore secunda mors animā nolentem tenet in corpore as Austen The first death driues the pained soule out of the body the second death keepes the vnwilling soule in the body for then men shall seeke death and shall not finde it for in life there is some ease in death an end but in the second death neyther ease nor end Mors sine morte finis sine fine So that to draw all to a conclusion which should haue beene the conclusion yea confusion of vs all I may supply my defects in the description of this immatchable treason with the Poets excuse Non mihi si centum linguae sint oraque centum Ferreavox omnes scelerum cōprendere formas Omnia poenarum peccurrere nomina possem No tongue can tell no pen descry This Map of mischiefe the Powder-Tragedy The Lord of Hosts who neither slumbers nor sleepes who in pitty and prouidence prouides for the safety of his Church and Children beheld our English Israel and Popish Amaleck the members of the Church militant and malignant the one secretly plotting to blow vp the other but the Lord against whom no wisdome nor vnderstanding nor counsell can preuaile became an impenetrable shield suffered not one of his seruants haires to be burnt with fire but besotted these Traytors to communicate their counsels though darkly to others by which meanes they were discouered And we are perswaded and confirmed of the all-sauing protection of our good God towards his deare Seruant and our dread Soueraigne with the rest of the religious assembly congregated for the glory of his name and good of his Church in that Honourable House of Parliament that if the Lord had suffred them to haue made a further progresse to the instant of that disastrous and dismall action that hee would haue disabled the party who with his vnhappy hand should haue kindled that fatall fire as he did the hand of infamous Ieroboam in the very act of stretching it against the Prophet it withered or like the hand of Valens the Emperor when hee tooke his pen to confirme the sentence of Basils banishment strucken of God shooke and shrunke not able to hold the pen So surely the Lord would haue benummed that accursed hand which sought to ouerthrow Christs Church among vs for it is as easie to pull Christ from Heauen as to put his Church out of the Earth Christ cannot be a bodilesse Head nor the Church an headlesse body and though outward meanes of deliuerance to vs may seeme defectiue yet stand comforted and couragious for the gates of hell shall not preuaile against the Church It is a lame and halting confidence which cannot goe to God without the stilts and crutches of externall meanes for the Lord knoweth to deliuer the godly and in the very point and article of time will be a present helpe in trouble God came to Adam with a promise in the time of despaire to Abraham with supply in the time of sacrifice to Isaacke with reliefe in the time of famine and danger to Ioseph with honour in the time of exile to Elias with comfort in the time of persecution to Gideon with helpe in the time of battle to Daniel with safety in the Lyons denne to Ionas with release in the Whales belly to Susanna with life condemned to death to the three Children with a protecting Angell in the fiery Furnace yea to this Kingdome of England with a most mercifull preseruation neere the time of the appointed Powder-destruction to make all our English Israel alwayes in all distresses and dangers say with Moses Feare not stand still behold the deliuerance of the Lord which he shewed vnto you this day Dies Ista Salutis erat candore notabilis ipso The Lord would not haue this Powder-proiect to haue power to burne one haire of his seruants head or any smell of fire come vpon them yet caused some of these vault-pyoners to be wounded and disfigured with powder In quo peccarunt in eodem plectuntur Wherewith they sinned by the same they were also punished So that all these extraordinary mercies of Almighty God summed vp together should haue more then a Magneticall attraction to draw all Christian hearts euer to praise his infinite goodnesse and continually inuite and induce all to a serious consideration and conseruation of this admirable deliuery from this intended miserable calamity agnizing God the sole and supreme cause in preuenting of it and therefore ascribing all the glory to him who hath preserued still his Church in tranquility our King in glory the State in safety the Realme in prosperity Iutuere rupem erige ratem The snares of death and destruction prepared
King acceptable vnto the King of Kings in making harty and humble praiers for the protection and preseruation of his Maiestie let all the people in his Realme from high to low from great to small doe this comfortable and Christian seruice feâ—uently feelingly and faithfully vnto the Lord night and day crying and crauing God saue the King The Lord hath commaunded this duety to pray not onely for good Kings but euen for badde Kings When Paul gaue that Apostolicall counsell 1 Timothie z. 1. 2. to pray for Kings Caligula Claudius or Nero most bloudy Pagan Emperours then raigned Pray for the life of Nebuchadnezar King of Babilon and for the life of Balthasar his sonne that their daies might be on earth as the daies of heauen So the Lord commanded the Iewes to pray for the peace of the City of Babilon where Nebuchadnezar raigned If then the Lord charge and command to pray for such Gouernors as were Pagans Persecutors Idolaters Infidels how deuoutly deepely are all loyall subiects bound to pray and to praise God for the blessed gouernment of Zealous Christian Kings and to beseech God with prostrate soules to defend their Soueraignes from all the trecherous traynes and rebellious plots of forraine foes or homeborne parricides corner-creeping Iesuites and Iudasses and to implore the hand of Heauen to sentinell ouer them and to endue them from aboue with the gifts of knowledge prudence iustice temperance fortitude clemency with feruent zeale of Gods glory loue to the Gospell and neuer-ceasing care for the generall well-fare of their publike charge Let vs spend our spirits day and night in these prayers that a gracious blessing may be euermore vpon our Soueraigne and his Seed to prolong his daies with health and honour on earth and with immortall happinesse in Heauen Amen CHAP. V. THE second generall duety of all subiects is Obedience and that before God is better then sacrifice The enemy opposite to Obedience is rebellion compared by Samuel to the sin of Witchcraft the very Chaos of confusion containing nothing else but mischiefe and murder discord and desolation congestaque eodem Non bene iunctarum discordia semina rerum Ouid. As rebellion is most odious and detestable so is obedience commendable and acceptable and this is of three sorts 1. Obedire Deo per hominem 2. Obedire Deo homini 3. Obedire Deo potius quam homini First obey God by man 2. Obey God and man 3 Obey God rather then man Wee need not write how God is to be obeyed before all and aboue all nullius prohibitio diuinis valet obuiare praeceptis nullius iussio praeiudicare prohabitis Gods Precepts may not be couÌ„termanded by mans prohibitions nor Gods prohibitions preiudiced by mans precepts God is to be obeyed in euery thing simpliciter man is to be obeied secundum quid respectiuely so far as his commands be consonant to Gods Lawes St Austin giues al a good rule for obedience bonis in malo scienter noÌ„ obedias nec malis in bono coÌ„tradicas willingly wittingly obey not good men in the performance of ill nor disobey ill men commanding things good but God himselfe commands obedience to his breathing Images whom hee himselfe stileth Gods the mortall pictures of immortall God Dexteri digiti diuinae manus quae regit orbem the right fingers of that heauenly hand which ruleth all Reges sunt homines ante deum dei ante homines saith Lactantius Kings are men before God and Gods before men Astra Deo nihil maius habent nil Caesare terra Great is the glory of that God who makes these Gods Quantus Deus est qui Deos facit Austen Imperator omnibus maior est dum Deo solo minor est saith Tertullian The Emperor is greater in dignity then all mortall men onely inferiour to the immortall God and as Cyrillus writes to Theodosius the younger vestrae Serenitati nullus status est aequalis No mortall state equall to your Excellence or as Agapetus to the Emperour Iustinian Se non habere quenquam in terris altiorem None on the earth higher then himselfe for as Opiatus Super imperatorem non est nisi solus Deus qui fecit imperatorem Aboue the Emperor is none but onely God that made the Emperour or as St Chrysostome speaking of the Emperour Theodosius Non habet parem vllum super terram summitas caput omnium super terram hominum He hath no equall vpon earth the supreame head ouer all men on earth Lo now you Popes of Rome where were your triple Crownes your Miters if you had any then stooped to the Scepters then Pauls precept was in date with you Let euery soule be subiect to the higher powers which since you haue reiected or neglected as Apocryphall then Gregories allegorie had beene a fond hyperbole Ad firmamentam coeli c. in the firmament of heauen that is in the vniuersall Church God made two great lights that is two great dignities Pontificall and Regall that which rules the day that is spirituall things is greater then that which rules the night that is carnall or temporall things as great a difference as is twixt the Sun and the Moone so great is there twixt Pope and Kings saith Gregory Indeed of latter times the Popes haue claimed a triple Crowne Celestiall Terrestriall Infernall intruding into the regall Chayre forgetting Bernards counsell to Pope Eugenius Your authority stretcheth vnto crimes not vnto possessions wherefore doe you thrust your sickle into anothers haruest or incroach vpon others limits now they vsurpe and arrogate a place of preheminence aboue Kings and Emperors Diuisum imperium cum Ioue Papa tenet Forgetting S. Peters rule though boasting of Peters right Submit your selues vnto all manner of ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be vnto the King as vnto the superiour c. subijci domino temporali propter dominum aeternum as excellently Austen To submit themselues vnto Temporall Lords for the eternall Lords sake But leauing the fauourites and followers of that great whore which sits vpon many waters with whom haue committed fornication the Kings of the earth and which hath shaken off the yoke of obedience from the Kings of the earth Let vs looke vpon that place of S. Peter exhorting all to obedience Submit your selues c. propounding certaine arguments or reasons to enforce it 1. propter dominum for the Lords sake Vt honoremus Deum qui hanc obedientiam nobis praecipit that so we may honour God who hath commanded this obedience 2. vt euitemus poenas violatae iustitiae ciuilis that we may auoid the punishments of disobedience to the Magistrate sent ad vltionem maleficorum for the punishment of ill doers v. 14. 3. vt adipiscamur laudem ac protectionem contra iniustos that we may get praise
that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye beseeching God to be Protector Saluationum Vncti the defender and deliuerer of his Anointed to giue him prosperity peace and plenty of all things yea plenty of it which Lewes the eleuenth the French King complained hee onely wanted in his Court and being demanded what it was hee said â—ruth a Diamond faire and fit to adorne a Diadem commendable to God acceptable to Kings profitable to Common wealths Hee is the Kings and Countries best seruant that brings in his mouth a message of Trueth I haue read how a certaine poore man comming to see Constantine an Emperor renowned through the world by Fame and Fortune and that poore man fixing his eies vpon him said thus Putabam Constantinum aliquid praeclarius mirabilius fuisse sed iam video eum nihil aliudesse praeter hominem I had thought Constantine had beene some rarer and more admirable Creature but I see he is but a man to whom Constantine gaue many thanks being both plaine and true saying Tu solus es qui in me oculos apertos habuisti Thou art onely the man that hast looked vpon mee with open eies others did flatter him making him beleeue that hee was not but this man honestly and truelie told him what hee was Like Macedonius the Eremite who said to the officers of Theodosius Dicite Imperatori non es Imperator solummodo sedetiam homo Tell the Emperor he is not onely an Emperour but also a man For though in Scripture they be called Gods it is in sensu modificato a qualified sence Gods by deputation earthly Gods not by nature but by regiment they shall dwell in the Lords Tabernacle and are worthy to be in Kings Courts who walke vprightly worke righteously and speake the trueth from their hearts Qui verit atem occultat qui prodit mendacium vterque reus est ille quia prodesse non vult iste quia nocere desiderat saith Austen He that hides the truth he that tels a lye both be guilty He because he would not profit this because hee would haue hurt The Lord and louer of Trueth euermore blesse his Maiesty with trusty Nathaniels in whom is no guile Such are the best seruants and secretaries to King and Country who like one of those three seruants to King Darius the keepers of his body come with this sentence laying it vnder the Kings pillow Trueth ouer commeth all things But keepe from him O King of Kings all flattering Doegs crafty conspiring Achitophels rebellious Shebas treacherous Zimries vnfaithfull Zibas false Ioabs and Romish Iudasses who honour him with their lips but their hearts be far from him And let all true subiects to his gracious Highnesse faithfully performe all loyall seruice to this our Iosias who restores the booke of the Law and holy Scripture who like Dauid fetcheth home the Arke of God and his sacred Gospell who like Asa puts downe Idolls and commands all to seeke the Lord God who like Iehu not kills but banishes Baals Priests the Romish rout of Seminaries and Iesuites waiters and worshippers of the Papall Moloch an Idol hauing hands alwaies to receiue gifts Our Soueraigne loathes these locusts and labours has terris templis auertere pestes To free the Church and Country of these plagues so that it makes our hearts leape for ioy and cry aloud O Lord how fauourable hast thou beene vnto our land in placing religion learning vertue and honour in one seate Quam bene conueniunt cùm vna sede locantur Maiestas virtus An admirable spectacle to behold vertue and honour in the royall Throne What fires of zeale loue and seruice should it kindle in the hearts of subiects in thankefulnes to God to serue the Lord in feare and come before his presence with a song of thankesgiuing falling downe before the Lord our Maker in soule in body all within and all without He giues all must be praysed of all prayed to of all for he is all in all He hath not dealt so with euery Nation and therefore let vs with the Psalmist say and sing O my God and King I will extoll thee and praise thy name for euer and euer Let Israel reioyce in their King and to conclude with the words of Musculus Acceptus foelix gratiosus sit iste quem Dominus nobis regem dedit Welcome wished and most worthy is he whom God hath set vp to raigne ouer vs who happily succeeded a Virgin Queene proclaimed a day before the Festiual of the Queene of Virgins a faire Prologue of much ioy who now with great felicity and tranquility hath raigned 15 yeeres in this great and flourishing Kingdome many more yeeres we continually pray to be multiplied Addat é nostris annos in annos Deus Make him full of dayes and full of Trophees of honour and grant him loyall Subiects faithfull in obedience and dutifull in all seruice saying in tongue ioyfully in heart truly God saue the King CHAP. VIII THE fifth duty of Subiects to be duly and truly payed and performed to their sacred and dread Soueraignes is Tribute which is as Vipian saith Neruus reip The strong sâ—ew of the Common-wealth without which King nor Kingdome cannot stand And therefore our Sauiour first by president paid Tribute and also by precept resoluing the Disciples of the Pharises demanding whether it was lawfull to giue Tribute vnto Caesar or no told them peremptorily That they must giue vnto Caesar that which was Caesars Reddendum est tributum honor obedientia in omnibus quae non pugnant cum verbo Dei saith Piscator vpon that place Tribute Honour and Obedience is to be giuen vnto the Magistrate in all things not repugnant to the word of God for this cause saith Saint Paul ye pay Tribute because the King is the Minister of God for thy wealth applying themselues for the same thing Custodit te Princeps saith Theophylact ab Hostibus debes itaquè ei tributum The Prince keeps thee safe from enemies thou doest owe him therefore Tribute and as he speakes still in that place Nummum ipsum quem habes ab ipso habes The money which thou hast thou hast from him and therfore Non date sed reddite Not giue but pay not a gift but a debt which all Subiects owe to him Non damus sed reddimus quiequid ex officio cuiquam damus saith Beucer We doe not giue but pay that which of duty we owe Tributes Subsidies and Taskes c are not gifts but debts which of necessity they must and ought to pay Hoc Scripturae approbant hoc leges ciuiles communi gentium omnium consensu recipiunt saith Hiperius This doe the Scriptures allow of writing there of the payment of Tributes this doe the Ciuill Lawes with the common consent of all
AND if euer Praiers needfull in this kinde now is the time Nolite tangere abhorred of Heathens is now applauded and defended of false Christians Religion and superstition now comes forth with her knife ready to cut Kings throats it beeing the generall rule of them Occide haereticum Kill an hereticke make away with him giue him an Italian posset poyson him though it be in the Sacrament as Henry the seuenth Emperour poysoned in Sacramentall bread Victor the third Pope in the Sacramentall cup and yet they say that Christs bloud is really in the wine how then comes that poyson of death mixed with that sacred substance of life The Patrons and Proctors to plead for King-killers I meane the Iesuites with their adherents make this for a conclusion That any priuate man may be an executioner of a King excommunicated and deposed by the Pope and Caesar Baronius alledges commends out of Iuo a breue of Pope Vrban the second wherein it is pronounced that they are no homicides who kill such as are excommunicate for wee doe not iudge them to bee murtherers who burning with the zeale of their Catholike mother against such as are excommunicate happen to haue killed any of them And so Suarez the Iesuite in his last booke against our King writes After sentence condemnatory is giuen of the King c. then hee that hath pronounced the sentence or he to whom it is committed may depriue the King of his kingdome euen by killing him if hee cannot doe it otherwise and the very Cannibals are not more thirsty of bloud then these false Catholickes commending commanding murther the murther of Gods Anointed Kings which any heart not stupified with Atheisme or reprobate sence would tremble at it and appropriate the doing of that deed onely to Papists for so Suarez saith If his lawfull successor be a Catholike and so that hee be a Catholike that succeedes in the right challenging the right of committing so execrable villany to appertaine to none but onely to Romish Catholikes disdaining that any should haue an hand in so horrible and hellish mischiefes against the King but onely a friend and follower of the Popes religion true-borne children of their bloudy Mother the whore of Babilon the mother of murder drunken with the bloud of Saints and with the bloud of the Martyrs of Christ Iesus If the Pope cries against any King with the Citizens in that parable Nolumus hunc regnare Wee will not haue this man to reigne presently pollicie villany mischiefe and murder fraud and deceit all shall conspire to accomplish the Popes desire If poyson and policie faile power shall â—reuaile like to him when intreaty could not moue laid his hand on his sword saying At hic faciet but this shall doe it if Mercurie be too weake Mars shall second him then leaue Apolloes harpe and take Hercules club both pens and pikes heads hearts and hands are too nimble to hurt Kings Sanguiuolenta est mens Sanguinolenta manus A bloudy heart must haue a bloudy hand How many Princes of Christendome hath that Sea of Rome swallowed and deuoured A Sea indeede nay a red Sea of bloud or Mare mortuum wherein that Leuiathan makes his Sea as the Lord tells Iob like a potte of oyntment Sed mors in illa ella Death is in the pot Out of this Sea creepe those Crocodiles I meane Iesuites Seminaries and men vsually troubled with the Kings euill Treason These Romish rats creepe into regall Pallaces at last take and taske their owne bane like the spirits of Deuils of whom S. Iohn worke myracles to goe vnto the Kings of the earth and those whom they cannot draw by their collusion they would deuoure by effusion I may say of them as Polymnestor speakes in the Tragedie of Hecuba Hastifera armata equestris Marti obnoxiagens They are well weaponed people dagges and daggers charmes poysons powder all tragicall and traiterous engines and instruments they haue to touch Gods Anointed the Kings of the earth corporally In olde time scarce any treason without a Priest in our time scarce any without a Iesuite As Iudas was the antesignanus of traytors chiefe Captain of the cursed crue so since him the false stiled Iesuits but the true Iudaites are the cheefe Shibas to blow aloud the trumpet of rebellion And there was a wicked man named Sheba the sonne of Bicri a man of Iemini and hee blew the Trumpet and said We haue no part in Dauid nor inheritance in the sonne of Ishai Euery man to his tents O Israel 2 Sam. 20. 1. And there are many of Israel that follow these Shebas but the men of Iudah claue fast vnto their King from Iordan euen to Ierusalem All good subiects will cleaue with the men of Iudah faithfully to their King and will goe with Ioab to pursue these Shebas vntill their heads be cut off and throwne to them ouer the wall These Shebas make Kings the markes of their murther saying with treacherous Achitophel I will smite the King onely or with the King of Aram Fight neyther against small or great saue onely against the King of Israel Feriunt summos fulmina montes The highest mountaines most exposed to Thunders And to perpetrate such crying and capitall murders they will hazard the perill of their liues and losse of their soules and but that the Lord hath giuen his Angels a charge ouer his Anointed to keepe them in all his waies the attempts of such desperate miscreants were deadly dangerous for as Seneca Vitae tuae dominus est quisquis suam contempsit He is Master of thy life who contemnes his owne Cato when hee had got a sword though therewith to kill himselfe cried out Now am I my owne man So these desperate villaines who runne with desire to their owne deaths are their owne men to act murder but God doth bring to nought their desires and deuices and raiseth vp for his seruants in extraordinary dangers extraordinary deliuerances The imminent danger of King Croesus yet a Heathen King opened the mouth of his dumbe sonne to tell it Bessus his parricide discouered by the chattering of Swallowes verifying Salomons wordes The fowles of the ayre carrie that voice God can cause euery fowle of heauen and euery creature on earth to finde a tongue to tell treason to deliuer his Anointed Our gracious King is a speaking mappe of many wonderfull deliuerances in extraordinary dangers still we cry and craue with Dauid Domine saluum fae Regem Lord saue the King cloath all his enemies with shame and breake them in peeces like a Potters vessell Let thy hands O Lord finde out all that hate him make them like a fiery ouen in the time of thine anger and destroy them in thy wrath Deliuer his soule from the sword and saue him from the Lions mouthes confound all Shebas that would stirre
done wrong to or whom haue I hurt c. And all the People of Britanny must answere with the people of Israel there Thou hast done vs no wrong nor hurt vs nor taken ought of any mans hand the Lord is witnesse His Highnesse speciall care and gracious desire is to haue Gods Religion sincerely imbraced Iustice executed Vertue promoted Vice punished Gods Lawes and the good Lawes of the Land generally maintained and obserued so that the Church finds him a true Defender of the Faith the Common-wealth a Father the proud a powerfull Prince the meeke and humble a mercifull Gouernour All find him a most religious and vertuous King carefull of the good of Church and Common-wealth that all the politicke members of this Princely Head may leade a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty These Princely properties and sacred graces will procure his Maiesty an eternall Crowne of glory in Heauen as God hath promoted him to a soueraignety and supremacy here on Earth and may truely moue all sound members of this politicke body whereof his sacred Highnesse is supreame Head to pray with the Psalmist Giue thy Iudgements to the King O Lord and thy righteousnesse vnto the Kings sonne then shall he iudge the people with righteousnesse and thy poore with equity In his dayes shall the righteous flourish and abundance of peace shall be so long as the Moone endureth yea to pray like the Isralites for the life of our King and the life of his royall Queene his Princely Sonne the County Palatine of Rhene with the Princesse Elizabeth and their Progeny that all their dayes may be vpon the Earth as the dayes of Heauen and that God would giue vs strength and lighten our eyes that we may liue vnder their shadow and may long doe them seruice and find fauor in their sight That God would confound all their enemies and put them to a perpetuall shame That the Lord of Hosts may be euer with them and the God of Iacob may be their Refuge to protect and direct them to hide them from the conspiracy of the wicked and from the rage of the workers of iniquity that God may euer blesse them and preserue their going out and comming in from henceforth and for euermore So we thy people and sheep of thy Pasture the louing and loyall subiects and seruants of the Lords Annointed will praise thee for euer and pray vnto thee from generation to generation God saue our King Corporally Spiritually Politically Peroratio I will draw these lines to the maine Center of all making our conclusion short and gratulatory First to your Grace sacred Soueraigne the mighty Monarch of these flourishing Kingdomes shall I that am but dust and ashes prefume to speake vnto my Lord and King Let not my Lord be angry though I speake once and how happy shall this poore Embrio be if euer it be graced with the milde aspect of your Princely eyes and once but touched with your Regall hands which holds the Iacob staffe to measure the height of all learning Giue patient leaue and licence to your vnworthy and vnable vassall prostrated in all submissiue obedience at your Highnesse feete to celebrate and congratulate the happy day of your Maiesties entrance into this kingdome A day of good tidings and who can hold his peace A day which was the beginning to multiply and aduance our chiefest ioyes on earth making vs sing with the Psalmist This is the day which the Lord hath made let vs be glad and reioyce in it O Lord I pray thee saue now Lord preserue him whom thou hast giuen giue him O King of Kings good successe peace prosperity multiply these good daies grant him many of these happy yeares Annos vt annis addat è nostris Deus Eusebius the Bishop of Caesarea thought himselfe much honoured that he was appointed to preach at the inauguration of Constantinus the Emperour so I take it as my great ioy that I the most weake of all our tribe am one of the first in this kinde to write the aniuersary of Englands happinesse by your Maiesties entrance to put them in a perpetuall remembrance to reioyce with thankefulnesse And if I should remember in your presence the innumerable benefits and blessings your subiects of great Brittaine enioy by your Princely comming to this Crowne I might be iudged a flatterer a creature most odious in your Graces eyes modesty compels me to be silent I will onely say that which I haue read the Painter Zeuxes did who being to make the portraiture of Iuno chose out certaine amiable Virgins put the seuerall beauty of them all into that picture so indeed the wise Creator of all hath made you such a King the liuing picture of all earthly perfections and as it was an old saying That in one Austen there was many Doctors in one Iulius Caesar many Captaines so in one and our King Iames many Kings the very perfection of most Kings But I will turne our praises into prayers remembring Antaloides saying to a certaine Orator making a long oration of Hercules praises cut him off thus Quis eum vnquam sanus vituperauerit VVho euer in his right wits discommended him So who dare nay who can except the seed of the serpent dispraise your Highnesse whose vertues finde fauour with God and men euery tongue pronounces your name with ioy and euery heart affects your Maiesty with content and comfort As God hath giuen you power in hand so haue you pittie in heart Clementia Regis est quasi imber serotinus saith Salomon The pitty or fauour of a King is like the latter raine and your princely delight is not in sono catenarum in the noyse of chaines but like the good Emperor rather desirous to call the dead to lise then put the liuing to death So that I may say to your Grace as Mecaenas saide of Octauius Caesar Omnes te tanquam parentem seruatorem suum intuentur te moderatum vita inculpata pacificum amant c. All people fixe their dutifull eyes vpon you as vpon the publike Father of the Common-wealth loyally louing you being milde and mercifull holy in life and peaceable in gouernment So that though at last there must be a translation to an incorruptible Crowne in Heauen yet all your Subiects pray the time of that transmigration may bee long dedeferred Horac Serus in coelum redeas diuque Laetus intersis populo Britanno I need not heere play the part of King Philips Page to cry at your Princely chamber dore Memento te esse mortalem Remember you are mortall or with the Artificers of the Emperors tombes at the day of the Emperors Coronation offer a lap full of stones with these verses Elige ab his Saxis ex quo Augustissime Caesar ipse tibi tumulum me fabricare velis Of these same stones most
â—lla Like the noise of thornes burning vnder the Pot as Salomon Eccle. 7. 8. And therefore these fulminations were againe confirmed by Pius Quintus his successour Gregory the 13. Yet all these plots instar vaporis euanuerunt vanished away like smoake proceeding out of that smoaky Kingdome of Antichrist and her Crowne and person by the fauour of the Almighty vnder whose shadow shee was protected safely defended and reigned forty and foure yeeres foure moneths and eight dayes a Virgin Queene and died in peace in a full and glorious age so beloued so honoured and so esteemed of her subiects at home and Princes abroad as neuer any Queene more so that it was verified of her truly which the Psalmist of Christ typically Why did the Heathen rage together and the People imagine a vaine thing The Kings of the Earth stand vp and the Princes assembled together against the Lord and against his Annointed but he that dwelled in the Heauens did laugh them to scorne the Lord had them in derision for there is no wisdome neither vnderstanding nor counsell against the Lord. And this our deare and dread Soueraigne whom the Lord of mercy still preserue hath beene subiect to sundry dangers by wicked Traitors as his Maiesty doth witnesse it himselfe not onely since his birth but before his birth euen in his Mothers belly but especially to two most horrible Treasons this in Scotland attempted by the bloudy Gowries the fift of August and the other in England the fift of Nouember the Gun-powder Treason from both which barbarous and monstrous proiects the latter no age can parallel the like the great King of all Kings in his great mercy graciously protected him that both King subiects may say with Zachary Being deliuered out of the hands of our enemies we may serue him without feare in holinesse and righteousnesse before him all the daies of our liues So that our King may vse the Psalmists words When the wicked euen mine enemies and my foes came vpon me to eat my flesh they stumbled and fell The Lord did reward them according to their deeds and according to the wickednesse of their inuentions Therefore giue vnto the Lord O ye sonnes of the mighty giue vnto the Lord all the glory for your deliuerance CHAP. III. TREASON hath beene alwaies accounted an heynous sinne and by Iustinian ranked next to Sacriledge Crimen laesae Maiestatis proximuÌ„ Sacrilegio c. Treason is next to Sacriledge the one a robbery of God this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a fighting with God so odious that the sole intention without action or execution is death for Voluntas reputatur pro facto in causa proditionis The will is accounted for the deede in Treason Principis in rehus voluisse sat est And therefore there was a statute made in the reigne of Edward the third That whosoeuer shal imagine the Kings death are guilty of rebellion and high treason This statute toucheth all Iesuites who are perduellionum signiferi the ring-leaders of Rebels to animate them to rebellion vnder a colour of religion If the meere intention of Treason be so capitall what then is the Action Clamitat im coelum vox sanguinis The voyce of blood cryes to heauen for reuenge VVhat doth the voyce of royall bloud spilt by the hands of execrable Parricides destroying Gods owne image the Lords Annointed May I not call such as Polycarpe called Marcion Daemonis filiolos the Deuils children and say as our Sauiour did to the Iewes Ye are of your Father the Deuill he hath beene a murtherer from the beginning Nay the very Heathens void of Gods word did greatly abhorre Traitors and seuerely punish them Traitors among the Greekes were brought to Delphos and they did offer them a quicke sacrifice to Apollo The Persians did bury such quicke and the Romanes brought such to the publicke Theaters where they were hewed in peeces per gladiatores by the sword-players Cn Pompeius the Great made a Law as Pomponius relates it to punish Parricides destroyers of Fathers or Mothers in this kinde To put them into a great vessell or tun or such like instrument inclosing with them in it a Dogge a Viper a Cocke and an Ape and to cast them into the Sea VVhat then shall be done to the publicke Parricides destroyers of Kings and Countries Our Lawes of England hath prouided for them a fit punishment which is this A Traytor conuicted hath his punishment to be drawne from his prison to the place of execution as being vnworthy any more to tread vpon the Mother earth and that backward his head downe-ward as hauing beene retrograde to the naturall course of obedience after hanged vp by the necke twixt heauen and earth as deemed vnworthy of both his priuy parts cut off as vnfit to leaue any generation behinde him his bowels and entrailes burned which in wardly conceiued and concealed Treason his head cut off which imagined such mischiefe and last of all his body quartered as a prey for the birds of the aire and as it was said of a traiterous Iesuite Sic bene pascit aues qui malè pauit oues In life he had no care the sheepe to feede And now his carkasse serues the fowles in neede The Apostle Paul saith That they that resist shall receiue to themselues iudgement The greeuousnesse of iudgement should be proportionable to the heynousnesse of the crime for if the law requireth an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth life for life what death sufficient for a Traytor that kills a King a murderer of many who is worth ten thousand of vs so that hee cannot be sufficiently punished of man but God also will punish him who is a reuenger of such sins Neuer did I reade of any Traytor that did euer escape both the hand of man hand of God Looke vpon Absalom a double Traytor to his Father and his King his end sutable First his chiefe Counseller and plotter Achitophel hanged himselfe twenty thousand of his adherents were slaine in battell Last of all Absalom by the hand of Heauen was hanged vp by the hayre of his head in stead of an halter vpon an Oake tree in stead of a gallowes or gybbet Sheba that traiterous Rebell lost his head for his treason against Dauid King Ammon the sonne of King Manasses an euill King was slaine by his seruants who conspired against him slew him in his owne house but this bloudy fact of King-killing was so odious to the people of the land that they slew them al that had conspired against King Ammon Treacherous Zimri slue his King but the people hearing of it made Omri King to take Zimri who fired the Kings house and died in the fire Bigthan and Teresh who sought to lay hand on King Assuerus were both hanged on a tree The Scripture is plentifull
in such examples In profane histories there is a cloude of witnesses to verifie the punishments of Traytors Brutus and Cassius who killed Caesar neuer enioyed good till bloud was requited with bloud VVe reade of Eugenius that rebelled against the Emperor Theodosius whose rebellious army the Lord dismaid so that Eugenius was forced to fall downe at the feete of Theodosius and had his rebellious head cut off from his shoulders So of Procopius who rebelled against the Emperour Valens who being taken had for reward his two legges tyed to two young trees growing neare together bowed downe by strength which being suddenly let rise rent the body of Procopius who would haue rent the body of the kingdome So of Magnensius who rebelled against Constans the Emperor who neuer enioyed good day after till hee was destroyed by Constantius the Emperors brother Annibal Bentiuolus chiefe Ruler of the Bononians was killed by Cannensis who conspired against him but presently the multitude were stirred vp with the sight of that bloudy fact and destroyed with death all that stocke and family The same Author tells vs of the bloudy and treacherous murder of that butcherly Monster Oliuerot who sending letters to Iohn Foglianus that he might be honourably receiued at Firmanis and beeing nobly entertained treacherously pretends a great Feast inuiting Foglianns and the chiefe men of the City after the banquet by his Souldiers appointed in secret places kils them all that were present a most barbarous and diuellish stratagem but afterwards he payd the price of bloud for his throat was cut and so hee died Miserè pereunt qui malè perdunt Bloud calls for bloud Caines Conscience so prickt for murder that he thought euery man that met him would haue killed him if they escape which yet is rare the hand of man neuer the hand of Diuine Iustice Herod no parricide or Regicida but Puericida a murderer of children from two yeeres olde and vnder by his greatnesse scapes mortall reuenge but not Diuine Iustice on earth for hee died most miserably and I will set it downe in Theophylacts words Amara morte perijt Herod febri dysenteria scabie podagra putredine verendorum generatione vermium spirandi difficultate tremore contractione membrorum malam absoluit animam Alike was the end of that bloudy Tyrant Antiochus whom the Lord punished with the paine of the bowels that was remedilesse and sore torments in the inner parts and all his members bruised with a great fall so that wormes came out of the body of this wicked man in aboundance and his flesh fell off for paine and all his army grieued at the smell so that no man could beare him because of his stink no not his owne selfe Thus that murderer suffered most grieuously and as he had intreated other men so he died a miserable death for with what measure men mete it shall be measured to them againe This is so cleare a Truth that murder neuer goes vnpunished on earth by God or Man as that diuine humane histories common experience affords pregnant proofes and examples then how much more will the Lord reuenge the murder of his owne Vicegerents whom hee hath giuen a generall precept not to touch them no not to curse them in thought much lesse to hurt them in deed as Traytors doe or desire Hor epod 7. Quô quô scelestiruitis aut cur dexteris Aptantur enses conditi What meane you ô ye monsters of men are you not afraid to put forth your hands to destroy the Anointed of the Lord Can you lay your hands vpon them and be guiltlesse Remember Ignatius godly counsell No man euer remained vnpunished which lifted vp himselfe against his Prince Though they want power to accomplish their bloudy actions yet are they odious Traytors in the eyes of God and man Looke vpon the tragedy of those Traytors whom Heldebrand the Pope stirred vp against Henry the fourth the Emperor First he stirred vp Rodulphus then Hermannus and afterward Ecbertus all seruants and subiects to their Lord and Master the Emperor And when these failed his successour Pope Vrbane raised vp Conradus and Henricus the Sonnes against the Father all laboured to their power in this proiect of rebellion marke the issue and end First their Author ghostly Father in this Treason the Romane Achitophel Gregory the seuenth alias Heldebrand not like Achitophel hanged himselfe but for his bloudy bestiall life was forsaken of his people eiected out of his Popedome and died in sorrow misery and infamy Secōdly Rodulph had his right hand cut off in a skirmish fetching deepe sighes ready to giue vp the ghost said to certaine Bishops Behold this is the right hand wherewith I swore fealty to Henry and lo now I leaue his kingdome and my life Thirdly Hermannus had his treacherous head by a great stone cast downe by a woman deadly broken so that his braines dasht in peeces running about his eares which did affright his army and scattered them with feare Fourthly Ecbertus did flie out of his Throne into a sinkehole and hoping to saue his life lost it Fiftly Conradus the elder sonne rightly dis-inherited did end his daies miserably Sixtly Henry the younger sonne by periurie and cruell treachery against his Father gate the Crowne but with little comfort And since many of the Popes of Rome haue Heldebrandized raising vp Subiects to rebell against their Soueraignes whose successe hath bin sutable to their attempts The Chronicles of euery Nation haue too many examples of Dukes Earles Lords Knights Gentlemen and others of inferiour sort prouing Traytors to their annointed Gouernours whose treacherous acts haue found tragicall ends Traytors are odious euen to their Abettors and Maisters who first moued them to that villany and as it was said of Antoninus Odit Tyrannum non tyrannidem They may like the treason but they loath the Traytor Alexander the Great as Iustin saith at his Fathers obsequies commanded publike iustice to be done vpon those whom he had before secretly imployed to kill him And Nero the monster of men as Tacitus saith disauowed his Commissiō giuen to asouldier to kil Agrippa Such agents are abhorred of their Adiutors and if possibly they can they will be their executioners for feare they should disclose their conspiracy for both are Traytors both worthy of death Some desperate wretches who for loue of the trencher or for hope of reward or for some other respects will be wagered and hired to enterprise hellish and horrible designes who being debosht vassals bankrout of grace and goodnes to purchase loue or liuing as they hope of them of whom they haue dependance whose hearts are died in a deepe tincture of disobedience will hazard life lands yea hell it selfe to atchieue the proiects of their animating superiours So said Restalrig that
if the Pope denounce them excommunicate and may driue cut hereticall Kings from their kingdomes as Wolfes saith Bellarmine or if they be not apparent but secret hereticks saith Symancha yea not them onely but their sonne and followers are to be rooted out as Creswell agrees with Symancha by any meanes whatsoeuer saith Saunders eyther by open force as Iezabel by Iehu or by craft as Holophernes by Iudith say Raynoldus and Bourchier or by knife and dagger whereby Henry the third Henry the fourth were murthered for fauouring them whom they terme hereticks Yea before any sētence denounced against them or by dagges and poyson as Queene Elizabeth assaulted as Walpoole and Comensus perswaded or by Gunpowder as lately appeared ratified by Iesuites and popish Priests Garnet Gerard Oldcorne Greenewell c. So that I may rightly say Iesuiticall Papisme is the Catechisme of Treason teaching Subiects that their Emperor or King may be depriued by the Pope and the right of their kingdome conueyed ouer to others and if they will not acknowledge it they must be constrained by Armes eyther of their owne Subiects or other Catholike Princes if the Pope will haue it so yea euen to part with their kingdome and life also saith Francis Bozius lib. 2. c. 14. Yea that the Pope is directly Lord of things temporal the Ruler and Monarke of the world saith the same Bozius and so consequently to haue power to depose Kings and dispose of kingdomes so that I may truely affirme that which once one of the kings of America said to a Spaniard telling him of the diuision and disposition of Pope Alexander the sixt concerning the new-found part of the world the King answered That the Pope was not the Vicar of a good God but of a Deuill who would giue that to others which did not belong vnto him and surely in nothing doth the Pope more liuely shew himselfe to be Sathans Vicar then in medling with the kingdomes of the world and the glory of them and arrogating the Deuils title All these will I giue thee if thou wilt fall downe and worship me yet Christ would not be a King or a diuider for his Kingdome was not of this world nor Peter would not cast Nero out of his throne by the Thunderbolt of excommunication or deposition nor any of the Apostles take from Caesar his Scepter or Subiects or Kingdome or life yet he that brags he succeedes Simon Peter Simon I grant but not Peter will by his excommunication binde Kings that they may not reigne and Subiects that they may not obey which is to vse Vrspergensis wordes a diuellish Art which hath brought in treachery vnder the cloake of religion dangerous to Kings and damnable to Subiects But it hath beene the Popes policie a long time to make discord among Kings and rebellion among Subiects for it is well obserued that foure things specially haue raised the Pope 1 The diuision of the Empire 2 The departure of the Emperor out of Italy 3 The dissention of Kings 4 The rebellions and treasons of people And the speciall motiue of this fourth Monster Rebellion hath beene the diab olicall doctrine of seditious and bloudy Romanists not Masse but Mars-Priests teaching and tempering with the people that all the dominion of the world both diuine and humane was in Christ as man and so now it is in the Pope the vicar of Christ as Carerius writes That Christ committed to Peter the key-keeper of eternall life the right of earthly and heauenly gouernment and that in his place the Pope is vniuersall Iudge the King of Kings and Lord of Lords as an other writes by vertue of this pretended claime of Peters successor and Peters primacy that they may doe any thing and as Platina writes in the life of Gregory that he accustomed to vse these words Nos nos imperia regna principatus quicquid mortales habere possunt auferre posse c. We are able to take away Empires Kingdomes Principalities or whasoeuer mortall men can haue for the Pope cries like Plintes frogge Mihi terra lacusque Both earth and Sea belong to his See nay Purgatory is part of his patrimonie And all this Pope like Maiesty is deriued from Peter yet he loaths his mantle and puts on Aarons miter Peter saith he was a Primate of all I succeede Peter therfore may excommunicate Kings and then depose them free Subiects from obedience vnto them and by vertue of the words in S. Peters vision Arise Peter kill and eat that is as Baronius doth fondly glosse it Goe Pope kill and confound the Venetians or as the same Cardinall to prouoke Paul the fifth against the Venetians saith Mee thinkes I see sitting in Peters chaire Gregory the seauenth and Alexander the third both issuing out of the City of Senes whence your Holines takes your beginning whereof the one did bring vnder Henry that obstinate Emperor the other Fredericke c You must take in hand the same quarrell Thus make they their Lord of the seauen hilled City a bloudy Bishop a striker and a fighter contrary to Pauls Canon a man of bloud and a warrier and all this must be cloaked vnder the colour of Peters chaire this holy-water sweetens the Harlots cuppe as if religion and rebellion sprung out of one blade as if faith had a knife to kill and to teach grace to destroy nature Thus these impostors not Pastors raise rebels and preach the murther of Gods Annointed inuenting opinions ' of excommunication of Kings deposition absolution of subiects from obedience which questions are all like spirits sooner raised then put downe beeing patronized by the deuoted Champions of the Popes chaire Bellarmine Allen Carerius Perron Symancha Suarez Philopater Saunders Creswell Reynolds Parsons Becanus c. laborious vassals to ambitious Popes whose publishing of these pernicious errors hath ouerthrowne many popish Families brought a torture to their Consciences punishment to their karcasses infamy to their progeny scandall to their religion for attempting treason vnder pretence of their Romish profession But let vs consider though by way of digression how and by what meanes this ambitious Antichrist hath aspired to this arrogant altitude to set his chaire aboue Kings thrones and to challenge a power to depriue Kings and to make or vnmake temporall Monarkes a matter which requires a large volume if we should fully describe their policy in rising and ruling but I will but epitomize it contracting it into a short Compendium it being by many learned Diuines in their seuerall workes more amply discouered CHAP. 7. THE exaltation of Popes aboue Emperors and Kings did first especially begin in Pope Boniface the third who obtained of Phocas that murdered his Master and Emperour Mauritius to be created the vniuersall Bishop So that the Pope is indebted to a King-killer for the glory of his kingdome and euer since he hath made much
prayed for thee that thy faith shall not faile hauing such a promise and assurance who then will not beleeue my doctrine So that all they that beleeue not my doctrine or stand against the priuiledge of my Church of Rome I pronounce them heretickes for he goeth against the Faith which goeth against her who is the mother of the Faith And moreouer to shew the strange vertue of the Popes keyes his Schoole Doctors haue a twofold distinction 1. Clauis ordinis the key of order hauing authority to binde and loose but not ouer the persons whom they binde loose which authority they take not immediately from Christ but from the Pope the Vicar of Christ 2. Key is Clauis Iurisdictionis the key of Iurisdiction which the Pope hath from Christ immediately as being his Vicar hauing not onely power to binde and loose but also dominion ouer them on whom this key is exercised By the iurisdiction of which key all are subiect to the Pope the Emperours ought to subdue their executions to him Onely the Pope is subiect to no creature no not to himselfe except hee list in foro poenitentiae to his ghostly father submitting himselfe as a sinner but not as a Pope the papall maiesty euer remaining vnminished No man must iudge or accuse the Pope of any crime as murder adultery simony c. but as the Iewes were commanded to obey the High Priest of the Leuiticall Order so are all Christians bound to obey the Pope Christs Lieutenant in earth Concerning whose obedience or disobedience reade Deutron 17. 12. where their ordinary Glosse payes it home saying That he who denieth to the Priest obedientiam obedience lyeth vnder the sentence of condemnation as much as he that denieth to God his omnipotentiam his omnipotence The greatnesse of the Popes priesthood began in Melchisedech solemnized in Aaron continued in his children perfectionated in Christ represented in Peter exalted in the vniuersall iurisdiction and manifested in Syluester c. So that in regard of this priestly preheminence it may be verified of the Pope which the Psalmist writes Psalm 8. 6. 7. c. Thou hast put all things vnder his feete all sheepe and oxen the beasts of the field the fowles of the aire and the fish of the Sea c. which place his owne Antoninus hath applied to the Pope and with a clearkely Paraphrase hath expounded thus By Oxen are signified the Iewes and heretickes by the Cattell of the fielde Pagans by Sheepe all Christian men Princes Prelates and people by the Birds Angels and powers of Heauen by the Fishes of the Sea the soules departed in paine or purgatory as Gregory by his prayer deliuered the soule of Traiane out of hell By them which passe through the paths of the Sea are signified such as are in Purgatory and stand in need of others helpe and yet be in their iourney Viatores de foro Papa passengers and belong to the Court of the Pope and may be relieued out of the storehouse of the Church by the participation of Indulgence And though it be truely doubted that pardons haue no power to extend to the departed yet Romes Doctors can helpe that for though it was said to Peter Whatsoeuer thou shalt loosevpon earth and so being not on earth they cannot be loosed yet they will dissolue that doubt by a distinction vpon super terram vpon the earth that may be taken two waies eyther to the looser and so a Pope being dead cannot loose or to the loosed which must be vpon the earth or about the earth But what do I talke of the Popes power in such points the whole Quire of the Popes Cleargy in their books tractations distinctions glosses summaries c. sing altogether such notes The Pope say they being the Vicar of Iesus Christ throughout the whole World in the stead of the liuing Lord hath that dominion on earth which Christ would not haue yet had it in habitu and gaue it to Peter in Actu that is the vniuersall iurisdiction both spirituall and also temporall which double iurisdiction is intimated by the two swords in the Gospell and by the wisemens offering of Incense and Gold to Christ to signifie that the dominion spirituall and temporall belong to Christ and his Vicar And as Christ saith All power is giuen to him both in Heauen and Earth so it is holden inclusiue that the vicar of Christ hath power on things cclestiall terrestriall and infernall which he tooke immediatly of Christ and all other take it mediatly by Peter and the Pope And they that say The Pope hath onely dominion in spirituall things may be compared to the Counsellors of the King of Aram 1 Kin. 20. 23. Their Gods are Gods of Mountaines and therefore they ouercame vs but let vs fight against them in the plaine or vallies and doubtlesse we shall ouercome them So Counsellors flatter Kings saying Popes and Prelats be Gods of Mountaines that is of spirituall things but not of vallies that is of temporall things Therefore let vs fight against them in the vallies in the power of temporall possessions and so we shall preuaile ouer them But what saith God v. 28. Because the Aramites haue said that the Lord is the God of mountaines and not God of the vallies therefore will I deliuer all this great multitude into thine hands and ye shall know that I am the Lord. Which place though very impertinent in this point they vrge with great importunity to proue the Popes power ouer all mountaines and vallies that is say they ouer spirituall and temporal matters and so very vnthankfully they regard Constantines gift of their patrimony to Syluester saying It was not so much a Donation as a Restitution Yea they say the Pope is superior to Emperors yea superior to Lawes and free from all Constitutions Who is able of himselfe and by his interpretation to preferre equity being not written before the Law written The Faith Supremacy Chaire of Peter Keyes of Heauen power to bind and loose all these be inseparable to the Church of Rome being presumed that God prouiding and Saint Peter assisting the Diocesse of Rome that it shall neuer fall from the Faith and though the Pope be not alwayes good yet the merites of Saint Peter be sufficient for him who bequeathed a dowry of merites with inheritance of innocency to his posterity And if the Pope be an Homicide or an Adulterer he cannot be accused but rather excused by the murders of Sampson the thefts of the Hebrewes the adultery of Dauid or if any of his Clergy be found imbracing of a woman it must be presupposed that he doth it to blesse her To be briefe All the Earth is the Popes Diocesse and he the Ordinary of all men hauing the authority of the King of Kings vpon Subiects yea God and his vicar haue
kind A fearefull example worthy to make vs more thankefull to God more dutifull in our liues more carefull of Gods Lawes who out of his infinite loue and mercy preserued vs from this generall and diabolicall massacre And as I haue read how the Romanes in detestation of the name of proud Tarquinius who tyrannized ouer them banished a good Citizen onely because he had that name so let the name of the Powder Treason worke such detestation in the hearts of all Papists that they may neuer hereafter thinke of any treasonable plots against King or Country but banish for euer all such intentions or inuentions out of their hearts which I pray God giue them grace to doe And let all from high to low fall downe vpon the knees of humble and thankfull hearts and cry with Dauid Praise the Lord of Lords for his mercy endureth for euer let Israel now say that his mercy endureth for euer who deliuered his people when like Izaacke almost the knife at their throats and when they had prepared their fire wood powder to offer vp Prince Peeres and People like Isaacke as a burnt offering when they purposed to persecute their soules and take them to tread our liues downe vpon the earth and to lay our honour in the dust then did the Lord arise in his wrath and lift vp himselfe against the rage of our enemies so that they who made a pit and digged it fell into it themselues their mischiefe returned vpon their owne heads and their cruelty fell vpon their owne pates The wicked are snared in the worke of their owne hands and may moue all to cry aloud Come and behold the workes of the Lord he ruleth the World with his power his eyes behold the Nations the rebellious shall not exalt themselues Praise our God ye people and make the voice of his praise to be heard Praise him in his mighty Acts praise him according to his excellent greatnesse let euery one that hath breath praise the Lord for this great and gracious mercy in the meanes of our maruellous and mercifull deliuery CHAP. III. The discouery of the Plot IN the discouery of this Archtrayterous plot I may truly repeate Liuies words who in a great case of ioy saith Maius gaudium suit quà m quod vniuersum homines caperent It was a greater ioy then men are able to comprehend by an vnusual discouery to haue a generall deliuery from so dismall Tragedy For when they had thought and writ that God and Man had concurred to punish the wickednesse of the time God and Man consented to reueale the wickednesse of their treason and makes vs hope well of that Prophecy we do reade in Telesphorus Antichristus non poterit subiugare Venetias nec Parisios nec Ciuitatem regalem Anglia Antichrist shall not be able to sub due Venice nor Paris nor the Kingly City of England London The principall instrument and humane meanes of the discouery of this diuellish treachery was a letter like Dauids letter to Ioab which Vriah carried for his owne death sent some ten dayes before the Parliament should haue begunne priuily and cunningly conueyed by an vnknowne man to one of the Footemen of that Right Honourable Lord worthy of perpetuall honour for his fidelity the Lord Mount-Eagle charging him to put that Letter into his Lord and Masters hands which Letter that thrice-honoured Lord receiuing wondring at the strange contents thereof and perplexed what construction to make of it like a most dutifull Subiect and diuine Eagle concluded not to conceale it but for all the latenesse and darkenesse of the night repaires presently to his Maiesties Pallace at White-Hall and there deliuered the same to the late deceased Earle of Salisbury Sir Robert Cecil a very vigilant Counsellour and wise Statesman then his Maiesties principall Secretary which said Letter being afterward vpon the Kings returne to White-Hall presented to his Maiesty euer fortunate in his Princely iudgement in clearing obscurities and doubtfull mysteries did vpon the instant interprete and apprehend by the darke phrases yet contrary to Drammaticall construction that it must be done by blowing vp the House of Parliament by Gunpowder commanding a search to be made by which the matter discouered and Agents were apprehended Whereas if his Maiesty had not accommodated his interpretation to this kind of danger no worldly prouision or preuention could haue put backe this lamentable destruction So that is here verified which Salomon deliuered Diuination in labijs Regis A diuine sentence shall be in the lippes of the King The glory of God is to conceale a thing secret but the Kings honour is to search it out In this Gunpowder Treason our King was Regi◠〈◊〉 Kingly Prophet inspired by God in deciphering and declaring the darke meaning of their ambiguous and mysticall Letters It was the Lords mercy to put into the Kings mind the darke meaning of this dangerous mischiefe for Ibi incipit diuinum auxilium vbi deficit humanum When humane helpes are ready to faile God will come in the very point and article of time to deliuer his seruants and will raise vp some meanes either ordinary or extraordinary to discouer and defeate the deuices of the wicked As indeed did diuinely appeare in this deliuerie first that a Letter should be writ secondly a glosse or commentary made vpon it by the King contrary to common construction yet that was the second meanes vnder God whose might and mercy was aboue all of our preseruation Telenus prophecied to Cyclops his eye should be put out but he was incredulous to beleeue it contemned this aduertisement Risit o vatum stolidissime falleris inquit So some might haue thought this letter to haue beene the euaporation of an idle braine but our Teltroth Cassandra sacred Soueraigne presently presaged the truth knowing Traytors to be like Sampsons Foxes to haue fired tayles and to be firebrands of fury presupposed it to be a plot of fire for Traytors are Flagellarci◠Flabella seditionis scourges of Common-wealths Bellowes of sedition to inkindle fireworkes of destruction they are like cruell Surgeons that alwayes launce and seare and vse the cutting knife and fire no gentle Remedies as their heads like the head of Nilus vnsearchable so their hearts in cruelty insatiable and hands in execution infatigable as their bloody heads hearts and hands appeare in this bloody businesse These gunpowder Traitors plotting so abhorred a Particide though God frustrated their inhumane attempts and brought the wheele vpon themselues yet were they most accursed murtherers in the sight of God Saul a murtherer in mentall affection in hunting after Dauids life though he failed in manuall action and execution So Hamax in plotting the death of innocent Mordecai was a murderer in heart and had a murderers reward Neuer drop of innocent blood-shed but it cries for vengeance therefore
Ioh O earth couer not thou my blood A murtherer is the very Image and picture of the Deuill who was a murtherer from the beginning as our Sauiour saith and they that practise or doe purpose to murder men poyson Princes destroy Countries blow vp Cities fire vp Parliaments are of their Father the Deuill and led by his Spirit And truly this practise as it was of extraordinary ascendencie so it had a rare discouery by a letter of their owne darke doubtfull and Sphinxian deliuered strangely and when accepted it might haue beene thought to haue beene an idle gull or pasquill and neuer further haue come to light or being further examined they might haue missed the marke in the interpretation of the mischiefe but God so ordered that this foolish letter as it might haue bin iudged was the meanes to discouer their treachery and confound their villanie And further though a Treason suspected yet nothing detected till the very night before the day of their intended slaughter they had almost brought it to this passe Paulominus in inferno habitasset anima nostra Our soule had almost dwelt in silence yea they had almost consumed vs vpon the earth we were in articulo mortis not onely as men appointed to dye but at the point to dye but God who is adiutor in opportunitatibus a refuge in due time of trouble did breake the snare and we were deliuered It pleased God to permit the Deuill to feede these his true seruants with false hopes let them go on freely without rub till they had fully wouen their Spiders web and come to the very point of execution and deliuery of that deuillish monster whereof they had so long trauailed and might say with those mourning messengers of King Ezechiah sent to Esay the children are come to the birth and there is no strength to bring forth when we were albicantes ad messem white for the haruest and ready to be cut downe and wanted nothing but thrusting in of Falx their sickle to cut vs downe or Fax the fire to burne vs vp or Faux euen Guido Faux or Faux Erebi hellish Faux to swallow vs vp when we might say with Dauid there is but a step betwixt vs and death being at the mouth of the pit then the Lord takes vs as brands out of the fire or as Amos like firebrands pluckt out of the burning When our enemies thought they had the prey in their hands and all had beene sure when the danger was most deadly and deliuery desperate then the Lord did fight against them in our cause Now will I arise saith the Lord now will I be exalted now will I lift vp my selfe Yee shall conceiue chaffe and bring forth stubble the fire of your breath shall deuoure you as you haue sowen iniquity so shall you reape affliction ye haue sowen the winde yee shall reape the whirle-winde Then did the Lord dash their deuices in peeces and made their Sun set at noone as Amos 8. 9. or rather caused their sinne to be discouered at midnight All the former part of the night their hellish factor Faux was about his worke of darkenesse in preparing all his Engines and snares of death ready for the morning and yet before the morning watch I say before the morning watch they were disappointed and discouered and their chiefe Agent Faux apprehended Sorrow might endure a night but ioy comes in the morning Redeunt spectaculâ— manâ— VVhen these Romish Idumeans enemies to our Israelites had said like them in their hearts Who shall bring vs downe to the ground then did the watchman of Israel who neyther stumbers noâ— sleeps bring the deuices of the wicked to light manifesting their mischiefe detecting their conspiracy saying to these sinners as to the seas Thus farre shall ye goâ— and no further Eâ—… Deus 〈…〉 When God arose his enemies were soone scattered they also that hate him shall flye before him to make all to say with Esay Heare ye that are a far off what I haue done and ye that are neâ—e know my power when the wicked had said in their hearts Let vs destroy them alltogether 〈…〉 Lord awake as one out of sleepe and as a Giant refreshed with wine and smote his enemies in the hinder parts and put them to a perpetuall shame praised be his blessed name for euer And that no heart of man should presume to detract or defalke any part of the glory from Gods entire and plenary praise in the work of this deliuerance or sing like them Saul hath slaine his thousand and Dauid his ten thousand Consider the gracious and wonderfull prouidence of God that the malefactor and Powder-Monster Faux was taken when hee was new come out of the vault from working his fire-worke hauing three matches and all other instruments ready in his pocket whereas if this Sinon had beene taken while hee was enclosed in his Troian Horse hee confessed hee would not haue failed to haue blowen vp the house himselfe and his takers all together for as the Poet well writes of such Nihil est audacius illis Depraensis iram ac animos à crimine sumunt Such wretches taken and their deeds once seene Harden theis hearts and doe increase their spleene Yet such was the ouer-ruling power and prouidence of God herein without any secondary causes that the party assigned for the deed should be then without who if hee had beene within had done the deed in part and in stead of touching the parties had ouerturned the place To moue all King and Subiects not to sacrifice to their owne nets as if any worldly policy could haue preuented this wretched impiety but that alone the sacred goodnes and prouidence of our most deare and blessed God might triumph in this deliuerance Not vnto vs O Lord not vnto vs but vnto thy name giue the glory Thou art worthy O Lord to receiue all the glory honor and power and let all the Creatures in Heauen and Christians on earth fay Praise and honor and glory and power be vnto him that sitteth vpon the Throne and to the Lambe for euermore who hath deliuered vs from this ocean of misery this odious Massacre And should mooue all Head and members to cry with Ezra Seeing that thou our God hast stayed vs from being beneath and hast giuen vs such a deliuerance should we return to breake thy commandements and ioyne in affinity with the people of such abhominations Seeing the Lord in this extraordinary worke hath declared such liuely markes and expresse Characters of his diuine maiesty might and mercy towards vs shall we not magnifie the Lords mercy with Miriams melody Sing ye vnto the Lord for he hath triumphed gloriously the horse and his rider hath he ouerthrown in the Sea He hath confounded the barbarous immanity and inhumanity
anathematized but neuer others Can Gods Church be wonne or woed with swords and armes Indeed Phillip of Macedon led an Army against Bizantium and said that hearing of the beauty of the City he was come to make loue to her but the Otator tels him It was not the manner of Louers to wooe with instruments of warre but musicke The City of Gods Church will be wonne with no warlike Engines the weapons of our warfare are not carnall saith Paul The Church of Christ was neuer planted by blood except passiuely and so Semen Ecclesiae fuit sanguis Martyrum The blood of Martyrs the seed of the Church But these parties would build vp their Church with blood actiuely as if lately they had passed from Mount Gerizim to Mount Eball to curse and consume all It is a weighty and worthy worke to plant the Gospell the glad tidings of peace and no better way to doe it then by prayers and peace but in this worke the Papists euer vsed the wrong toole labouring to make men Haeredes vineae exhaeredes vitae Dispossesse them of life here howsoeuer hereafter If their arts faile their armes follow fit souldiers for Bacchus who is described with Buls hornes Semper paratus ad feriendum Alwayes prepared to strike and fight but it is a pretty saying of one Nemo ita tenetur inter duo vitia quin ei exitus patet absque tertio No man is so included betwixt two vices but he may get out without making a third If these men were so confident of the truth of their Religion and none more confident then the ignorant why did they not follow the Counsell of truth it selfe if they persecute you in this City flie into another yet they had no cause to say so truly why did they not forsake all and flie to Rome there were their hearts what did their bodies here or if with him they would first kisse their Father and Mother before they would follow Christ had a naturall affection to the things on earth yet why were they not willing with the Apostles to submit themselues to the higher Powers in bodily obedience but in spirituall seruice to say with Peter and Iohn Whether it be right in the sight of God to obey you rather then God iudge ye But how comes it to passe that such Lay-Papists of small knowledge and lesse grace should take vpon them to be reformers of Religion Were they extraordinarily called to this worke as Ehud was to be a Sauiour to Israel in destroying King Eglon or as Iehu in killing Ioram and the stocke of Achab had the Lord said vnto them as to Ioshua Arise goe ouer this Iordan feare not nor be discouraged for I the Lord thy God wil be with thee c. They write indeed that God and man had concurred rather the diuell and his Angels had consented Iudas heart Esawes hand and Achitophels head had all conspired Concurrêre homines sed quales quippe profani Impuri infames scelerati sanguinolenti Horribiles medici funesti seditioss Tales demissi coelo censores A crue combind but who prophane impure Infamous wicked such as all would cure With blood and fire Phisitians that with powder Would blow vp all diseases cry yet lowder Heralds from heauen these sent the Church to plant If God sent such then God good men doth want If such be good in hell ill men are scant But the Lord gaue such no Commission for such wicked and him that loues iniquity doth his soule hate the Lord will iustifie no wicked men nor imploy them in any wicked action But these had their Commission from the deuill and were at his command set to this worke and might say with Chrysalus in Plautus Insanum magnum molior neg otium Verâ—… possim rocte vt emolier A mad peece of worke I goe about And feare I shall not doe it as Iought And because they failed in the performance of it therefore manus manum fricat one Traytor bemâ—nes an other alas vnfortunate Gentlemen grieuing that it was their ill fortune to haue their hopes frustrated for it is very true which 〈◊〉 obscrues conspiracies discouered will not be credited or will be impayred by report 〈◊〉 occisiâ— principibus vnlesse the Princes the obiects of their mischiefe be slaine which if at any time it come to passe and the conspirator escape how highly he is magnified imitating a people of whom I haue read who worship Iudas for a God because he did betray Christ to the Iewes to be crucified by whose death comes saluation Thus this Catholicke cause should haue produced a Catholicke curse vpon our Common wealth but when they cursed vs God blessed vs defeated the deuises of the wicked dispersed these fogges and mistes of Sathans spirits and made it manifest to all the world that both their cause and course was bad Causa mala est fructus edidit illa malos For a corrupt tree bringeth forth euill fruit and therefore were they cut downe with the axe of Iustice and were not Gods mercy aboue all his workes cast into fire CHAP. IX Fourthly the Ends. WE are come to the last act of this intended Tragedy the ends of it which is almost without end In their expectation though frustrated in the execution they had set vp Hercules Pillars Nil vltra no humane malice or mischiefe could reach any further Hoc Scelus Abyssus ex Abyssu natum A boundlesse prodigy sprung from the bottomlesse pit I will not nay cannot fully finish this taske onely touch it Magnum opus hoc moueo maior reliquis datur ordo Perficere in captum This point I onely touch and leaue the rest To them who are with greater gifts possest And so many learned men by Preaching and Printing haue laboured in this worke and still out of the store of matter this Subiect affords will annually spend their breath in the declaration of this deuillish mischiefe and deliuery by Diuine mercy that I may forbeare any large discourse And truly if all of vs were as some say the seauenty Interpreters appointed by Ptoloms were put in diuersas cellulas â—aman sio diuisi eadem scriptitarunt into seuerall Roomes yet all separated they writ the same things which S. Ierome thinkes a fabulous figment So if all of vs were put apart heerein we should agree and sing with Ananias Azarias and Misael Blesse yee the Lord praise him and exalt him aboue all things for euer for he hath deliuered vs from the hell and saued vs from the hand of death and deliuered vs from the furnace and burning flame of powder euen from that fire hath he deliuered vs. Therfore coÌ„fesse vnto the Lord that he is gracious and his mercy endureth for euer wherein for better order sake to touch the Tragicall ends and dismall effects of this confused Babell a monstrous and multiplying Hydra of
by the wicked were by the wisedome of our gratious God escaped and the wicked were snared in the worke of their owne hands A deliuery deseruing eternall Trophies of Triumphs to glorifie God with our prayers and praises with our lips and liues and neuer follow them of whom the Apostle who glorified not God neyther were they thankefull but may continually call vp our hearts to this duty and cry with the Psalmist Come and hearken all yee that feare God and I will tell you what hee hath done to my soule for he hath deliuered our soules from death and our feet from falling that we should walke before God in the land of the liuing Therefore praise our God yee people and make the voice of his praise bee heard and say with the children of Reuben Gad and Manasses God forbid that we should rebel against the Lord and turne this day away from the Lord c. And as the children of Israel after their returne from the captiuity in Babilon and hearing Ezra reade the Law the ioy of their soules Ezra praised the Lord the great God and all the people answered Amen Amen lifting vp their hands and bowing themselues worshipping the Lord with their faces towards the ground and Nehemiah with Ezra and the Leuites tels the people This day is holy vnto the Lord your God so let our English Israel deliuered from the intended bondage of Babilon hearken to their Ezraes in the Pulpit made for the preaching of Gods Law wherof they should haue beene depriued and with their Priests praise the Lord our great and good God answering Amen Amen bowing themselues in all humility at the footestoole of Gods Maiesty annually celebrating the fift day of Nouember with praises of thankesgiuing and saying This day is holy vnto the Lord our God This day shall be vnto vs a remembrance and wee will keep it an holy feast vnto the Lord throughout our generations we will keep it holy by an ordinance for euer to remember this maruellous worke of Englands deliuerance from the plotted powder-destruction to praise Gods holy name and glory in his praise singing and saying cheerefully with our tongues and deuoutly with our hearts Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for euer audeuer and let all the people say Amen Amen To the ternall and eternall glorious Godhead Father Sonne and holy Ghost one and the same God in nature and number indiuisible inuisible inuincible our sole and soueraigne protector and preseruer God ouer all blessed for euer be all praise power faith feare glory and maiesty yeelded by vs by ours and by all his redeemed for all his mercies in generall and for this speciall deliuerance in particular humbly heartily holily for euer and euer Amen Glory be to God in the high Heauens and peace on earth Luke 2. 14. FINIS A SHORT DISSVVASIVE FROM POPERY To all Lay-Papists who desire to be true seruants to their Sauiour or good Subiects to their Soueraigne 1. Kings 18. 21. How long halt yee betweene two opinions If the Lord be God follow him but if Baal be he then goe after him Tert. de resurr carn Aufer haereticis quae cum Ethnieis sapiunt vt de Scripturis solis quaestiones suas sistant stare non poterunt Hugo de Claustro anim lib. 1. Superstitio dicitur verae religioni superaddita falsa religioÌ„ Melancthon Ex malo dogmate malis moribus dignoscuntur lupi By SAMVEL GAREY a Preacher of Gods Word and a perpetuall petitioner to God for your happy conuersion to Gods holy Truth LONDON Printed by Iohn Beale for Henry Fether stone and Iohn Parker 1618. To the Right VVorshipfull Sir Philip Kniâ—et Baronet and his worthy Lady The Spirit of Grace Truth and Wisedome be multiplied Right VVorshipfull I Am bold vpon experienced acquaintance with your generous qualities and gentle fauours towards me to send this vnworthy Treatise to your worthy viewe I know whose iudgement it must passe yet am fearelesse not in a grosse stupidity of mine owne weakenesse but in an hopefull presumption of your vsuall Gentlenesse a disposition euen naturalized in your courteous breasts whereof I acknowledge with gratefulnesse the acceptable fruites of your long and large loue towards me and for which I euer rest your thankefull friend and ingaged debtor in part of requitall whereof I haue presumed to offer to you this Handfull of my duty and hearty loue towards you and vnder your worthy name to send it to the world that they who are bettered by it may thanke you for it A short Disswasiue from Popery necessary for these Times wherein you may behold in part some points of the corrupt Doctrine of the Romish Church which is the common Mother of corruption superstition For that Church must needes be a Chappell of errors which enlarge the sacred Canon with Apochryphalls diminish the authority of the Scripture with Traditions ouerthrow the Originall with Translations peruert the Text with Glosses as the Romish Church doth Yea to maintaine her errors she conceales the light of Truth the Scripture from Lay people vnder the curtaine of the Latin language and euen in the Schooles among the learned she is put to poore shifts often forced to conclude arguments out of meere Allegories lame Similitudes fained miracles naked names of Fathers hired Testimonies of Schoolemen and other deboshed vassailes and proctors of the Romane Court who with all artificiall pollicy labour to adorne the Romane Harlot with painted trimmings whereby the vnwary young age of many more credulous then iudicious is deceiued and deluded The whole subiect of our former worke well perused and indifferently weighed doth giue good light looking vpon her corrupt precepts and cursed practises to discouer that smooky Kingdome of Antichrist but perchance you may say to me with Seneca Quidme torques lacer as in quaestâ—…bus Subtilius est contempsisse quam 〈◊〉 Why doe you trouble me with such questions it is more subtilty to contemne them then to confute them Worthy Sir it shall not be I hope labour lost if to your priuate contemplations you shall adioyne these short and sacred speculations specially penned for your seruice and published for the beâ—…e of all who are willing to open their eyes to walke in Truth I giue all but a small kind of taste in these points of Popish fragments if any mans appetite long for it I dare promise him heereafter more full dishes The Lord giue vnto you a Christian care in the profession of the Truth which with a sincere heart I haue preached vnto you and perfit your first Progresse in the grace of God to the holy Sanctification and happy Saluation of your bodies and soules for euer For which mercy and grace to be bestowed on you I shall euer vnfainedly pray to God and rest Your Worshipes poore Orator in Christ Samuel Garey A SHORT DISSVVAsiue to all Lay-papists who desire
Confirmation granted by Pope Leo the tenth Anno 1513. sept id Martij pontificis anno primo the which Bull was granted Hospitali sancti spiritus in Saxia almae vrbis in which is an approbation of all former pardons obtained to the saide Hospitall and the members thereof as Innocent the third grants to all that visit the saide Hospitall two thousand and eight hundred yeares of pardon Pope Alexander the fourth grants foure thousand yeares eight hundred Lents of pardon Pope Celestine the fifth grants also to the saide Hospitall and the members an hundred thousand yeares of pardon Pope Clement the fift grants also two thousand and eight hundred yeares of pardon Pope Boniface the eight 2500. yeares of pardons Pope Clement the sixt 8000 yeares and 8000 Lents full remission of al their sins Pope Innocent the sixt 2000 years and 2000 Lents of pardons Pope Benedict the 12 3000 years as many Lents of pardons All which grants of pardons by the Popes confirmed to the said Hospitall and the members if this were as good ware as they make some beleiue who would not goe visit this Hospitall yea be a member of it Can any Papist goe to the Deuill who may haue a pardon for a little money and saying ouer a prayer or two which prayers haue such power that when S. Bernard said one before a Rood it so pleased the said Rood that it bowed it selfe and embraced him in the armes Like the Rood of Naples which spake so kindely to Thomas Aquinas Or like the Crucifixe which nodded the head to the Monke Gualbertus Indeed if Popes prayers be like Amphions harpe to mooue stones Saxa moueresono testudinis prece bland◠Ducerè quò vellet The famous Amphion with his harpe could play To moue the stones so popish harpers pray If Popes can giue so large pardons for sinnes and haue so good prayers I muse they cannot cure the Papists of bodily sicknesse for sicknesse is the punishment of sinne rather Popes doe encrease their sicknesse by procuring Gods plagues and punishments to be inflicted vpon them for affecting such practises to haue their sinnes pardoned of Popes when as it appertaineth onely to God They who are Gods dearest Ministers I feare the Pope is none haue no other power heerein then to declare in Gods name forgiuenesse of sinne not to make them a pardon for money if they truely beleeue in Christ and repent and so release the band of discipline in open offenders where the fruites of repentance appeare and so the meanest minister of Christ by vertue of his spirituall office may declare absolution of sinnes to the truely penitent but to forgiue sinnes none can or may doe it but God alone I euen I am hee that putteth away thy iniquities for mine owne sake and will not remember thy sinnes Come vnto me all ye that are weary and laden and I will ease you with a thousand places of Scripture exhorting all to come vnto Christ and apply his bloud vnto their soules for the remission of their sinnes There is no other way by which wee can be saued or our sinnes pardoned ad impetrandam nostris sceleribus veniam non pecunias impendere sed hoc facere c. saith Chrysostome To get a pardon for sinne money will not doe it but to beleeue in Christ And indeed the Pardon-Procters are so dazeled in the defence of them like the sodomites smitten with blindenesse at Lots doore that they cannot tell how to finde any ground for them but are compelled abruptly to say with Bellarmine Sufficit ad Indulgentias Bullas defendendas Ecelesia authorit as The authority of the Church alleadged not proued is sufficient to defend Bulles and Indulgences a weake argument to defend wicked pardons But their Glosse vpon that great Bull of Boniface the 8 saith Foure things concurre as principall to make a pardon effectuall 1 Authority in the granter 2 Capacity in the receiuer 3 Piety in the end 4 vtility in the worke But authority heerein the Pope hath none idoneity or capacity in the receiuer namely that he be a true member of Christ and purged from his fault the Pope cannot tell Piety in the end is none for it opens a wide way to all impiety vtility to the party none for hee is robbed of his money and deluded in his soule the onely vtility comes to the Pope to enrich his coffers for by this deuice a world of wealth is raised for men who doe beleeue these pardon-mongers to be released out of the paines of Purgatory telling them what a grieuous punishment it is to lye in Purgatory fire which is indeed ignis fatuus or the fire of the Popes kitchin to warme his backe and belly they will willingly giue their money to goe to Heauen by a pardon Thus it is written of Boniface the ninth who sent into diuers kingdomes his Treasurers with pardons who extorted great summes of money from simple people that in some one Prouince they would get together aboue an hundred thousand florens omnia peccata relaxantes releasing all offences whatsoeuer Christ said to his Apostles freely you haue receiued freely giue But heere no penny no pardon no pater noster so that wee may say of these Popes as one doth of Gregory the ninth O auarum cor vbi Petri paupert as quamiactatis O couetous hart where is Peters pouerty whom yee boast of that to play impostors to the world will sell such ware as you fetch from the Deuils shop to cozen the simple of their money bring them into a fooles Paradise to hope of pardon of their sinne by buying your mercenary indulgences and Buls the basest trash that can be inuented to sell for siluer remission of sinnes and euen saluation of soules as Iudas did for thirty peeces his Sauiour But heerein let Gods children say to the Pope as Daniel did to Balshazzer keepe thy rewards to thy selfe and giue thy gifts to another keepe your paltry pardons to your selues saying as Dauid did to the Prophet Gad Let vs fall into the hands of the Lord for his mercies are great and not into the hands of men the Pope or his Priests for the very mercies of the wicked are cruell The inuention of Popes pardons was to maintaine their pride the power vnlawfull the causes vngodly the vse abhominable and the end deceiueable neyther by the Scriptures or practise of the Primitiue Church warrantable I hasten to put this Piunace into harbour weary with being on the Sea of Rome therefore to bee briefe let all that desire to be faithfull seruants to their Lord and Sauiour who as yet halt betwixt God and Baal being as one cals them Lunae vituli Moone-Calfes once a moneth come to the Temple hoping to walke to heauen with statute-legges or others who are more setled vpon their lees whose mindes as yet the God of this