ouer the night So in the firmament of the vniuersall Church God hath set two great dignities the authority of the Pope and Emperor of the which two this our dignity is so much the weightier as that we must giue account to God for the Kings of the earth and for the Lawes of men Wherefore know ye Emperors that ye depend vpon the iudgement of vs and we must not be reduced to your will for looke what difference there is betweene the Sunne and the Moone so great is the power of the Pope ruling ouer the day that is ouer the spiritualty aboue Emperors and Kings ruling ouer the night that is ouer the Laity Now seeing then the Earth is seauen times bigger then the Moone and the Sunne eight times greater then the earth it followes that the Popes dignity many degrees doth surmount the estate of Emperors And although Constantine the great writing to a Pope alleadged the words of Peter 1 Pet. 2. 13. Submit your selues to euery humane creature as to Kings c. Yet in their Decretals they expound the minde of Peter to exhort all subiects and not his successors to be subiect proouing the Priesthood to be aboue Kings by the wordes of Ieremy Behold I haue set thee ouer Kings and Nations c. Neyther must Kings and Princes thinke it much to submit themselues to my iudgement for so did Valentinianus the Emperour and also Carolus For my power is not of man but of God who by his celestiall prouidence hath set me Master and gouernour ouer his vniuersall Church whereby all criminall causes as well of Kings as all other to be subiect to my censure For my Church of Rome is Prince and head of all nations the Mother of the Faith the foundation cardinall whereupon all Churches doe depend as the doore doth vpon the hinges The first of all other seates without spot or blemish Lady mistresse instructer of all Churches a glasse and spectacle to all men to be followed in all whatsoeuer she obserues Against which Church of Rome whosoeuer speakes any euill is forthwith an hereticke yea a very Pagan a witch an Idolater and Infidell hauing fulnesse of power onely in her owne hands in ruling deciding absoluing condemning casting out or receiuing in To which Church of Rome it is lawfull to appeale for remedy from all other Churches although it was decreed otherwise in the Councell of Carthage that no man should appeale ouer the Sea vnder paine of excommunication yet Gratians glosse can helpe that with a limitation Nisi forte Romanam sedem appellauerint Vnlesse they appeale to the Sea of Rome Of the which Church of Rome the Pope is Head the Vicar of St. Peter yea not the Vicar of St. Peter properly but the Vicar of Christ and successor of Peter Rector of the vniuersall Church and directer of the Lords vniuersall flocke chiefe Magistrate of the whole world Lex animata in terris A liuing Law in the earth hauing all Lawes in the chest of my breast Yea Nec Deus nec homo quasi neuter inter vtrūque Being neyther God nor man but the admiration of the world and a middle thing twixt both The Pope hath both swords in his power both of Temporall and spirituall iurisdiction able by his owne power alone without a Councell to depose the Emperor to transferre his kingdome and to giue a new election as hee did to Fredericke and diuers others to whom Emperors and Kings bee more inferior then lead is to gold for doe you not see the neckes of Kings and Princes bend vnder our knees yea and think themselues happy and well defenced if they may kisse our hands What doe wee talke of Kings The Pope is aboue Angels as his Clarke Antoninus writes That hee is greater then Angels in foure things 1 In iurisdiction 2 In administration of Sacraments 3 In knowledge 4 In reward And so in Bulla Clementis the Pope commands the Angels of Paradise to absolue the soule of man out of purgatory and to bring it into the glory of Paradise Who is able to comprehend the greatnes of my power and seate For by me onely generall Councels take their force and confirmation and the interpretation of the said Councels and of all other causes doubtfull must stand to my determination yea my Letters and Epistles Decretall are equiualent to Generall Councels and whereas God hath ordained all causes of men to be iudged by men he hath only reserued me that is the Pope of Rome without all question of men vnto his owne iudgement and whereas all other Creatures be vnder a Iudge onely I which am Iudge of all can be iudged of none neyther of Emperor nor the whole Cleargy nor of Kings nor yet of people For who hath power to iudge vpon his Iudge so that I differ in power and maiority and honor reuerentiall from all degrees of men For the better declaration of it the Canonists make three kindes of powers in earth 1. Immediata which is mine immediately from God 2. Deriuata which belongeth to other inferiour Prelates from mee 3. Ministralis belonging to Emperors and Princes to minister for me for the which cause the anointing of Princes and my consecration differ for they are annoynted in the arme or shoulders and I in the head This order of Priests Bishops Archbishops Patriarkes and Cardinals the Church of Rome hath instituted following the example of the Angelicall Army in heauen and the Apostles on earth For among them there was a distinction of power and authority albeit they were all Apostles yet it was granted to Peter they all agreeing to it that hee should haue superiority ouer them all and therefore had his name giuen him Cephas that is say they head or beginning of the Apostles whereupon the order of Priesthood first in the new Testament began in Peter to whom it was said Thou art Peter and vpon thee will I build my Church Math. 16. 18. And I will giue thee the keyes of the kingdome of Heauen Whatsoeuer thou shalt binde vpon earth c. v. 19. Seeing then such power is giuen to Peter and to the Pope in Peter as his successor who is then in all the world that ought not to be subiect to my Decrees which haue such power in heauen in hell in earth with the quicke also the dead whereupon Pope Clement in his Bull of lead sent to Vienna granted to all such as died in their peregrination to Rome that the paine of hell should not touch them And all such as tooke the holy Crosse vpon them should euery one at his request not onely be deliuered but also deliuer 3. or 4. soules out of Purgatory And againe Christ said to Peter I haue
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
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
but one Consistory and can almost doe all that God can doe Clane non errante Hauing an heauenly arbiterment able to change the nature of things Substantialia vnius rei applicando alteri de nihilo potest aliquid facere Applying the substantiall parts of one thing to another and of nothing make something His Doctors according with his decrees and boasting with Pope Nicolaus that Constantine the Emperour sitting in the generall Councell of Nice called the Prelates of the Church all Gods If Prelates by Constantines voice bee Gods what is the Pope the Prince and primate of all prelates aboue all Gods So that his vsurped exaltation hath verified Saint Pauls prediction Boasting himselfe aboue all that is called God dispensing with Gods precepts making it no murder to kill them that bee excommunicate dispensing with Matrimony in prohibited degrees and such like Antichristian power in papall dispensation which cases and causes may be found in his darling Hostiensis de effi◠Legit. So that by the immodest and immoderate extolling of himselfe seconded by his Canonicall Parasites of old time glosing vpon the Popes decrees and corrupt constitutione enacted in the ignorance of times and arrogance of Popes to magnifie the man of sinne the pragmaticall and dogmaticall Antichrist the succession of Popes making Emperors to hold their bridles and stirrups and Kings going before them and to surrender their Crownes vnto them crowning them with their feet and to kisse their toes and to kisse their Legates knees and to waite vpon them at their Pallace gates bare footed to excommunicate Kings to depriue them of their Soueraignty and to absolue their Subiects from Allegiance with such like Pope-like pollicy haue beene the stratagems to exalt the papall Chayre aboue the Imperiall Throne and at first vnder the femblance of humility haue ascended to this sublimity temporizing with the world being darkened with the mist of ignorance yet affected to a blind deuotion and charmed to this Chayre of superstition haue made this Serum Seruorum A Seruant of Seruants to bee Dominus Dominorum a Lord of Lords making Kings his vassayles and doe him homage debasing the Lords Annointed deposing them at his pleasure and disposing of their Kingdomes freeing their Subiects from all obedience and exciting them to violence and villany in rebelling which hath been the cheefe procurer of the shedding of much royall blood the massacres of men and mischiefs and miseries of most Times which wee shall elsewhere more plainely demonstrate I will in the next place touch a little which yet hath beene handled by elaborate and accurate pensels this point of Popes deposition of Kings the very fountaine of Treason founder of Rebellion and confounder of Religion where it is practised or beleeued I will very briefly wright of it least I should seeme to make Iliads after Homer CHAP. IX THE Romane Church or rather Court of Rome wholly degenerated and arrogating a temporall Monarchy swelling with a forged puffe of pride and primacy appropriated to the Papall Chaire challenge an exorbitant and vsurped power of deposition of Kings and of absolution of Subiects from alleagiance to them which two-fold power is termed the principall warders of Saint Peters Keyes without which the Church could not haue beene well shut or opened This power of excommunicating deposing and depriuing Kings and of absoluing Subiects from obedience to them they principally assume from a pretended primacy belonging to the Pope ouer all spirituall and temporall men or matters deriued to them as they pleade from a supremacy in Peter whose Successorship hath intitled them to such a power and priority two points oft alleadged yet neuer proued yet this primacy of Popes as their Bellarmine saith is the chiefe point of Catholike Faith and the foundation of all Religion For which power the Champions of Rome stoutly stand and among the rest the statizing Cardinall Romes-Rabbi Bellarmine the most expert Gamester at the Popes Primero in seuerall workes yet specially in his fift Booke De Romano Pontifice The whole summe of it containing arguments and examples to proue that the Pope may by his Imperiall power though indirectly and in order to the Spirituals depose Princes from their States and Thrones And as the same Bellarmine personating Tortus saith Conuenit inter omnes posse Pontificem maximum iure deponere It is agreed vpon among all that the Pope of Rome may by right and law depose Princes which speech was too generall for many popish Doctors doubt of it and denie the papall intrusion into Caesars Chaire and some that did hold it haue recanted it as Tanquerellus commanded so by the Court of Paris Florentinus Iacobus and Thomas Blanztus the two last holding this for a proposition Pontificem in omnes habere temporalem potestatem That the Pope hath a temporall power ouer all but they came to recantation nay Hart an hearty louer of the Pope yet his opinion different from Bellarmines Whosoeuer make the Pope aboue Kings as a temporall Lord Nihil habere rationis aut probabilitatis to haue neither shew of reason or probability saith he Yet I confesse the generall voice of moderne Papists and among the rest the Iesuites who dispositiuè naturally are inclined to disobedience and pragmatically and dogmatically declare the same These are the chiefe Instruments but Treason consummatiue comes from the Pope first deposing then commanding and warranting disloyalty and conspiracy against them Augustinus Triumphus saith The Emperor of Heauen may depose the Emperor of the Earth in as much as there is no power but of him but the Pope is inuested with the authority of the Emperor of Heauen hee may therefore depose the Emperor of the Earth and as the same saith The Emperor is subiect to the Pope two wayes 1. By a filiall subiection in all spirituall things 2. By a ministeriall subiection in his administration of temporall things for the Emperor is the Popes Minister by whom he administers temporall things so he In like sort saith Aluarus Pelagius that the Pope hath vniuersall Iurisdiction ouer the whole world not onely in spirituall things but in temporall things albeit he exercise the execution of the temporall sword and iurisdiction by his sonne the Emperor as by his aduocate and by other Kings and Princes of the world The Pope may depriue Kings of their kingdomes and the Emperor of his Empire So he Capistranus agrees with him The Emperor if hee be incorrigible for any mortall sinne may bee deposed and depriued the sentence of the Pope alone without a Councell is sufficient against the Emperour or any other It is manifest therefore how much the Popes authority is aboue the Imperial celsitude which it translates examines confirmes or infringes approoues or reiects if hee offends he punishes deposes and depriues him So he Thomas of Aquine in this is also very popish Any man sinning by infidelity may be adiudged to
Great Brittans little Calendar OR TRIPLE DIARIE In remembrance of three daies Diuided into three Treatises 1. Britanniae vota or God saue the King for the 24. day of March the day of his Maiesties happy proclamation 2. Caesaris Hostes or The Tragedy of Traytors for the fift of August the day of the bloudy Gowries Treason and of his Highnes blessed preseruation 3. Amphitheatram Scelerum or The Transcendent of Treason 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 Honorable Assembly of the representatiue Body of the Kingdom in generall from that most horrible and hellish proiect of the Gun Powder Treason Nouemb. 5. Whereunto is annexed a short disswasiue from Poperie By SAMVEL GAREY Preacher of Gods Word at Wynfarthing in Norff. LONDON Printed by Iohn Beale for Henry Fetherstone and Iohn Parker 1618. NOBILISSIMO ET Honoratissimo Domino GEORGIO Marchioni Buckingamiensi Baroni de Whaddon Regio Hipparcho praenobilis Equestris Orcinis periscelidis Sodali à Secretioribus Regijs Consiliario c. Pietate virtute clarissimo Bonarum Artium admiratori Patrono Domino mihi vnicê colendo INter praeclaros Dominos quos Anglia plaudit praecipuum retines ordine honore locum Nobilis es animo virtute notabilis omni dotibus excellens ingenij genij Omnibus heroûm Splendescis laudibus omnes admirantur amant magnificant que colunt Inter praecones quorum sacra buccina cantat laudes condignas infimus ipse sono Primus at in votis sipossim posse sed imus in votis primus voce sed imus ego Primus an imus ero placidâ cape mente laborum primitias humili dat mea musa manu Honori Tuo addictissimus obseruantissimusque Samuel Garey TO THE RIGHT Honorable George Lord Marquesse of Buckingham Maister of his Maiesties Horse Knight of the most Noble order of the Garter c. LYeurgus enioyned the people to offer little Sacrifices vnto their Gods for saith hee they respect more the inward affection then the outward Action So in a Dedicatory imitation I presume to present this little sacrifice of my future seruice oh were it worthy of your Honors acceptance vnto your Honorable selfe hoping your Honor will more regard the inward deuotion then the outward Oblation and happy is this little labour if it may merit the portion of your Noble protection much more of your Approbation that so being graced with the mild aspect of so propitious and Noble a starre of Honor it may be the more welcome to the world and others inuited to read it for your Honors sake though not for the worke sake And vnder whose Honorable shadow may this Treatise Britanniae vota or God saue the King more surely and safely shelter then vnder yours who night and day deuoutly say and pray God saue the King whose approoued fidelity in Kings-seruice hath mooued God and the King to promote you to great dignity which you grace with such Christian yet Courtly humility that both in Church Court and Country you are highly and worthily honored Heerein your Honor followes those Noble patternos Celarinus and Aurelius of whom S. Cyprian writes In quantum gloria sublimes in tantum vereoundia humiles dum nihil in honore sublimius nibil in humilitate submissius Proceede most Honorable with such pious Graces and Christian vertues to adorne your eternall minde Emeliore luto finxit praecordia Titan. Your excellent eminency in the endowments of Nature and Grace in whom vertue valour beauty and bounty Armes and Arts are conioyned hath made all men ioyfully congratulate the amplification of your deserued Honor whose merits march with your pursuits So that not onely genus but genius makes you Nobilem Notabilem Vndemagis magtsque viri nunc gloria claret The world bestowes vpon you that worthy not vndeserued Character of vertue free from the aspersion of Court staines that I may borrow the Poets verse to put you on in your vertuous progresse Quô tuate virtus ducit ipedefausto Grandia laturus meritorum praemia Accept into your Honorable Patronage according to your accustomed gentlenesse this weake Worke of your deuoted seruant who craues pardon for this ambition in desiring to obtaine your Noble fauour and protection imitating Aeschines to Socrates hauing no meete thing to gratifie your Honor withall I am willing to giue that I haue euen my selfe who will alwayes desire to be at your Honors seruice Donec haurietomnes Xanthi Phoebus aquas And euer will pray to God to giue you happy increase of fauour with God and men and that your Noble name and same may long flourish on earth and be eternally blessed in heauen Stet Domus hac donec fluctus formica marinos Ebibat totum Testudo perambulet orbem For which multiplication of grace in this life and consummation of glory in the other my humble prayers are and euer shall be powred forth to God for your good Honors great happinesse in either World At your Honors seruice and commandement I rest euer in all duty Samuel Garey TRI VNI DEO Votiua Britannica Tria QVod varijs Triplicem Regem Deus alme perîclis incolumem liberes in columen patriae Caelesti vt Regitriplices tria munera Reges Aurum Thus Myrrham Symbola sacra ferunt Sic ter-Magne Deus tua magna Britannia sacrat officio summo Trina sacrificia Aurum firma fides Thus est tibi victima laudis optima Myrrha tibi flere dolere mala Aurum Thus Myrrham Credendo precando dolendo Turba Britanna sonat credo precor doleo Credo precorque Deum gentis peccata dolenda condonare fides laus dolor ista Deo Samuel Garey 24 Martius 5 Augustus notusque 5 Nouember in annos omnibus Angligenis candida festa bonis Martius Augustus quintusque Nouembris ab Anglis sint semper precibus festa sacrata pijs S. G. To the Christian Reader sauing Grace READER accept this imperfect worke with as thankefull an hand as it is offered with afaithfull hart if any thing in it please thee giue God the praise let none of his glory cleaue to vs earthen Instruments Si quid in hoc Lector placet assignare memento Id Domino quicquid displicet hocce mihi I cannot expect or hope for in this criticall Age but that this Booke will fall into the hands of Carpus as Paul left his Cloake Bookes and Parchments with him at Troas 2 Tim. 4. 13. Yet against the scourge of maleuolent tongues I am armed with patience and doe put on the resolution of Epictetus Si recte facis quid eos vereris qui non recte reprehendunt If thou doest well what needest thou feare them who say ill and as Martiall said to Laelius Carpere vel noli nostra vel ede tua And there are many enuious drones who neither like to labour
themselues or loue that others should bring any hony to Hiue but Vindico me ab illis Solo contemptu Among the Popish Sectaries this worke will find an harsh incounter yet God is my Record I haue not to my knowledge wronged them their owne writings Axioms and Actions haue as it were with a line chalked mee out the way wherein I haue walked The Romish Iesuites I know will raile and rage at it whose censure I regard not as Cicero censured of a Gentlewomans dancing The better the worse but of their censure I say The worse the better Malis displicere laudari est saith Seneca to displease ill men finds praise with good men Onely I craue a fauourable and friendly acceptance of the iudicious sober and indifferent Reader acknowledging this labour required more maturity retired and second thoughts then my publick and priuate paines in my ministery could affoord me so that Festinans canis caecos parit catulos This worke is not as it were Elephantis partus Long in conceiuing breeding and bringing forth It is rather vrsi partus An vnformed Embrio some bred and brought to light Whatsoeuer it is reade it ouer before you iudge and then say with the sonne of Syracke Behold I haue not laboured for my selfe onely but for all them that seeke wisdome If men lacke this labour it shall not much hurt me if praise it their praises are but Apocriphal for I passe not for mans iudgement if the Lord praise it it will be then praise-worthy Bonum est laudari sed praestantius est esse laudabilem saith Seneca It is good to be praised but it is better to be praise-worthy Farewel and helpe me with thy mutuall prayers and follow it with thy practise and so I commit it to thy Christian Conscience and thy Conscience to God Thine euer in the Lord SAMVEL GAREY Ad Authorem CAelica vota Deo pro Rege inserta Libello Omnibus insculpat mentibus illa Deus Summa Salus Regis Regni sacra vota Britanni Vt longê Laehesis regia fila trahat Fundunt vota Patres proceres plebs vine Iacobe Dulce Decus populi praesidium patriae Hoc diadema diutene as cum prole perenni Nati natorum Sceptra Britanna regant Prodiat hic labor si liuor mordeat illum Liuoris dentes frauget iste labor Prodiat hic Liber si liuor perdere tentet Ipsum liuorem destruet iste Liber S. W. Sacrae Theol. Doct. Britanniae Vota OR God saue the King For the Kings day the 24. day of March. This is the day of our King Hosea 7. 5. This day is a day of good tidings and wee hold our peace 2 Kings 7. 9. CHAP. I. IOASH the sonne of Ahaziah being hidde by Iehosheba the daughter of King Ioram sixe yeares in the house of the Lord because bloudy Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah whom Iehu killed had destroyed all the Kings seede of the house of Iuda excepting onely Ioash whom Iehosheba the wife of Iehoiadah the Priest had preserued In the seauenth yeare Iehoiadah the Priest seeing Athaliah to vsurpe the Crowne calls forth the Captaines and gathers the Leuites out of all the Cities of Iudah and the chiefe Fathers of Israel to Ierusalem and hauing first bound them with an oath of Allegiance then presents vnto them the sacred spectacle of their Regall Soueraigne Ecce filius regis regnabit Behold the Kings sonne must reigne He sets a watch and guard to secure and safe-guard him Lo how dangerous is the chaire of State all like officious Subiects stand to withstand the treachery of Traitors then in a regall Solemnitie they bring forth the Kings Son the ioy Iubilie of al their harts the wished welcome progeny of Iehoshaphat descended longo de stemmate regum of an ancient line of Princedome they put the Crowne vpon his head they giue him the testimony they make him King Iehoiada and his sonnes annoint him they all clapt their hands for ioy and with their hands their hearts and with their hearts their tongues till their many yet vnited voices euen reuerberate the aire with this heauenpiercing eccho this eucharistique gratulation God saue the King So when the daies of that admired Queene O quam te memorem virgo were on earth concluded our late deceased Soueraigne Queene Elizabeth of most famous and blessed memorie then the Foxes of Babilon who had lyen in hoâ—es XLIIII yeares began to threaten as Esau did his brother The daies of mourning for my father will come shortly then will I stay my brother Iacob the day of her death the dawning of their desire for then they thought like Bustards in a fallow field to raise vp themselues vi turbinis the Papists hoped then to haue raised their religion by a whirle-wind of rebellion but our pacator orbis which was Constantines praise and title frustrated their bloudy hopes and as Paterculus saith of the Romane Empire after Augustus death that there was great expectation of much troubles but tanta fuit vnius viri maiestas vt nec bonis neque contra malos opus foret armis there was so great a Maiestie in one man that there was no vse of Armes for good men or against bad men So the great Maiesty of our succeeding Soueraigne King Iames as learned vertuous and religious a Prince as any vnder the roofe of Heauen calmed all the stormes and imaginary tempests which were feared and expected so that the world did see Sol occubuit nox nulla secuta est Our Sunne did set and yet no night did follow the enemies of England saw it then to their griefe who hoped that when the Sunne went downe some erraticall starre should shine but still the Planet keepes his course Phoenix-like a new and yet the same renewed So that Pythagoras transmutation herein holds eadem anima in nouo corpore an alteration in sexe yet of the same condition both peerelesse Paragons and princely patternes for the perfection of Princes To leaue the one who now liues a glorious Queene in Heauen behold our dread Soueraigne the Augustus of this latter world praeteritis melior venientibus author a King not onely virorum but sacrorum a defender of men and Defender of the Faith Rex idem hominum Christique sacerdos Now to our great ioy and comfort of great Britannye his Maiesties happie and auspicious day of that most welcomed applauded proclamation God saue King Iames hath annually xv times rowsed and reuiued toto diuisos orbe Britannos The remembrance of the blessings it hath brought by Gods great mercy with it both spirituall and temporall should mooue all that liue vnder the wings of his peaceable dominions to lift vp harts and hands to the King of Kings to multiply his daies as the daies of Heauen to saue him from all conspiracies treasons and rebellions to pray for him as the
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
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
and fidelity will animate vs like that Romaine Marius who being accused by the Senate of Treason in a passion teares his garments and in sight of them all shewes them his wounds receiued in the seruice and defence of his Countrey saying Quid opus est verbis vbi vulnera clamant What need of words our wounds declare our blood was shed for your welfare Faithfull seruice is laudable before men and acceptable before God it may be by the wicked sometimes blamed but it cannot be shamed though it be not alwayes rewarded on earth it shall be sure to find rewards in Heauen as they once complained Penes caeteros imperij praemia penes ipsos seruitij necessitas that others found the sweet preferment and they had horse and heauy burthen for their seruice yet vertue is a reward to it selfe bonorum laborum gloriosus fructus the seruice of the righteous is accepted and the remembrance thereof shall neuer be forgotten Ipsa quidem virtus sibimet pulc herrima merces And this seruice due to our King and Country if neede require must reach vsque ad aras prodigall of labor limbe or life to defend both the safetie of both eyther King or Country is so inseparable that the seruice done to eyther is alwaies commendable and honourable VVee haue famous presidents in this kinde to presse vs to performe the vtmost of our seruice in loue to our Country in duety to our King the 3 Decij Zophirus Cn Scipio â—uluius Nassus c. all offered to sacrifice their liues in loue for their Countrie Dulce decorum est pro patria mori The story is most famous of Quintus Curtius a noble Romane who hearing by the Oracle that the safety of the city of Rome consisted onely in the sacrifice of one of her best affected children valiantly and voluntarily leaped into that deuouring gulfe and so preserued the Citie Hor. ad Flor. Hoc opus hoc studium parui properemus ampli Si patriae volumus si nobis viuere chari A spectacle of loue and loyalty a sacrifice of high obedience that is presented vpon the wings of death I will not â—…y worthy of imitation because like vnto selfe sacrifiing of Cleombrotus they were Martyrs stultae Philosophiae Martyrs of their fond Philosophy yet notwithstanding worthy to stirre vp great affection for Subiects to loue as truely their King and country and the King and Country to loue such Subiects that for them aduenture their liues Naturally euery one loues his Country Nemo patriam diligit quia magna est sed quia sua est saith Seneca No man loues his Country because it is great but because it is his owne Ouid Nescio quâ natale solum dulcedine cunctos ducit immemores non sinit esse sui The Persians did beare such loue to their Country that they must sweare by the Sunne rising neuer to become Iewes Grecians Romans Egyptians but euer to remain Persians They counted no fault more foule then to be a foe to his owne Country It was an excellent saying of Aulus Fuluius who finding his sonne in the conspiracy of Catiline tells him Ego non te Catilinae genui sed Patriae I did beget thee not for Catiline but for thy Country They that are Traytors to their King and Country may fitly be compared to Vipers The Vipers are conceiued as Pliny writes by biting off the Males head and borne by eating through their Mothers belly So they would Decapitare Caput destroy the King their head and lacerare matrem teare the bowels of their mother their natiue Countrey Our English Fugitiues are the spawnes of these Vipers Parsons Saunders c. who because they could not eate through her bowels and belly with their teeth in reuenge raile at her with their tongues to whom I cannot giue a fitter answer then that which the Spanish Verdugo gaue to Sir William Stanley railing against this his natiue Country saying Though you haue offended your Countrey yet your Countrie neuer offended you These Iesuited fugitiues who at Rhemes or Rome doe now Caluo seruire Neroni vnnaturally forsake their King Country Kindred and deuote their liues labours to giue all homage to the chayre of Rome and though they colour their treasonable plots and proiects of confusion vnder pretence of conuersion yet bloudy is that faith that Cain-like will kill their natiue brothers and Nero-like rip vp their dearest Mother Conuersio animae praetenditur subuersio regis reip Ecclesiae intenditur They pretend religion but they intend rebellion and desolation But to leaue these Vipers of whom I may say as the Souldiers at the death of the sonne of Maximus Non debet seruari vnus Catulus Not any of their young ones worthy to be kept vp for store let vs in an example or two behold the deepe affection of Kings loues vnto their Subiects The story is common of King Codrus the Athenians King who being assaulted and assailed by enemies receiued this Oracle That his army should preuaile if he would suffer himselfe to be slaine of his enemies which newes when it came to the eares of his aduersaries they made an edict Nemo tangat Codrum None might touch Codrus Codrus then changed his habit see the fire of loue he went to his enemies thus disguised marke the flame there was he slaine looke vpon the ashes the vrne of Codrus what doe they say but Hor. Quo nos cunque feret melior fortuna parentes ibimus ô socij comitesque So King Leonides sacrificeth his dearest bloud at Thermopilas fighting valiantly in defence of his Country and kingdome Cic. 1 Tusc Dic hospes Spartae nos te hic vidisse iacentes dum sanctis patriae legibus obsequimur In a worde I neuer read of any King vnlesse such as Nero and Caligula that did not wish well to his owne Country and kingdome For Principis est consulere omnibus prospicere saluti patriae saith Cicero It is the office of a King to take care and counsell for the welfare of his people Princeps suorum subditoruÌ„ velut sui ipsius corporis membrorum curam gerit saith Agapetus A Prince takes care of all his Subiects euen as the members of his owne bodie And so Alfonsus a King had his symboll a Type of his true loue a Pellican with her bill pricking her brest feeding her young with her bloud with this inscription pro lege pro grege declaring Emblematically That Kings with continuall cares wast their liues to prouide for their peoples welfares For good Kings will say with Hadrianus Caesar Sic se gesturum principatum vt sciant rem populi esse non suam They will so gouerne that all men may see they aime more at the publicke good then any priuate gaine It is their office to protect their people prouide for the welfare of the common-wealth maintaine good Lawes execute
Iustice defend the Faith and promote the Church So we read that when the Emperor is crowned the Archbishop of Colen propounds seuerall demands An Ecclesiam defensurus Iustitiam administraturus Imperium conseruaturus viduas orphanosque protecturus c. Whether hee will defend the Church Administer Iustice Preserue the Empire and protect the widdowes fatherlesse and friendlesse The Kings of Sparta at their Coronation did sweare to raigne according to Lycurgus Lawes and I thinke it is the order of most Christian Kings at their Coronation to sweare to rule according to Iustice and to maintaine the lawes and liberties of their kingdomes for farre be it from Kings thoughts to say with Thrasymachus Principum vtilitate libidine omne ius definiri All Law to be defined by their pleasures and profit for that is to say with the Mother of Antoninus Caracalla to him quodlibet licere any thing to be lawfull for him or with Caracalla himselfe Imperatores leges dare non accipere Emperors giue Lawes but doe not liue by them The foundation of well-gouerned Kingdomes hath two supporters saith Machiauell bonas Leges bona Arma good Lawes and good Armes And that famous Emperor Iustinian saith Imperatoriam Maiestatem non solum armis decoratam verùm legibus oportet esse armatam Imperiall Maiesty not onely to be adorned by Armes but also armed by Lawes and then the Lawes will be best obeyed when the Law-makers obey themselues It was a woe our Sauiour denounced against the Interpreters of the Law because they did lode men with burdens greeuous to be borne and they themselues touched not the burdens with one of their fingers Promulgers and publishers of Lawes ought to be practisers of the same It was a royal speech of the Emperor Traian when he deliuered the sword praefecto praetorij saying to him Si bene imperauero prome sin contrà aduersus me stringito If I rule well draw out that sword for me if otherwise against me and happy is that Kingdome whose supreame head giues good Lawes to others and liues by them himselfe it animateth all to obey Ad te oculos auresque trahis tua facta notamus nec vox missa potest Principis ore tegi Principis vita est censura ciuium saith Plinie The life of King the life of imitation his good life as powerfull to draw people to goodnesse as good Lawes Claud non sic inflectere sensus Humanos edicta valent quam vita regentis The Rulers godly life like a good Glosse vpon a Text makes a perfect commentary vpon the Law to moue vulgar obedience O then let vertue and piety flame in the breasts of Princes cherish these O sacred Potentates at your high Altars and then your excellent actions will produce exemplar imitations Persius Regibus hic mos est centum sibi poscere voces Centum ora centum linguas Many millions of men are your spectators nay the world is your stage wherein your actions are euen axioms to draw that many-headed beast the multitude eyther to vertue or vice What a glorious and most applauded of all the Saints of Heauen is your well-acted taske and office if you render vp your Crownes to him that is the King of Crownes and Scepters with a commended plandite then indeed you shall worthily Pers Sat 1. Os populi meruisse Cedro digna locutum linquere Leaue happie monuments on earth of your immortall same and at your farewell from your earthly thrones leaue a lamenting and bewailing world but attended vnto heauen with the praiers of your people with an army of Angels to welcome your arriuall And heerein how are the people of great Britaine bound to render perpetuall praises to Almighty God who hath blessed them with such a godlie and gracious King who with his life lawes and labours by his publicke example in the true seruice of God by the integritie of his life industry in sacred studies clemencie in gouernment delight and diligence in hearing Church-exercises making his Court as it was said of Constantines Ecclesiae instar like a Church their publicke Seruice and Sermons deuoutly performed and religiously accepted and embraced labouring Regis ad exemplum totum componere regnum by a Kingly patterne of deuotion to excite all to an holie imitation So that wee ought to giue God more thanks then Plato did who yet thanked God for three things 1. pro ratione 2. pro natione 3. pro eruditione for his reason nation and learning 1. for his reason being made a man not a beast 2. for his nation a Grecian not a Barbarian 3. for his liuing in the daies of learned Socrates of whom hee reaped great knowledge Wee ought also to thanke God for these and other blessings beeing not meerely men but Christian men liuing vnder the reigne of a most Christian King a Defender of the Faith and cherisher of the Gospell a louer of Peace that wee may truely say as the people did at the death of Pertinax the Emperour Dum illeregnabat tranquille viuebamus neminem metuebamus While hee reigned wee liued quiet and feared no enemies So now euery man may sit in peace vnder his Vine and Figtree beare a part in the song of those heauenly Souldiers praising God and saying Glory be to God in the high heauens for our peace on earth VVe enioy that blessing promised to Salomon I will send peace and quietnesse vpon Israel in his daies A blessing worthie of thankesgiuing So that wee may in a Christian peace serue the God of peace and praise him for our peace and pray to him for the preseruation of the happy instrument of this our peace for peace is a nurse of Religion but bloudie warre the mother of misery mischiefe and abhomination for Nulla fides pietasque viris qui castra sequuntur In time of Warre the God of peace neglected True faith and Pitty is then reiected Let all from head to foote from our Salomon in the Throne to the poorest member in the kingdom prostrate their humble soules to the throne of God the giuer of all blessings and in all faithfull obedience tender him their dutifull seruice seruing the Lord in feare and reioycing in trembling ascribing all praise and thanks to God saying Saluation belongeth vnto the Lord and his blessing is vpon the people Gratias agere Deo possumus referre non possumus giuing God all possible thankes for his blessings the least whereof is more worth then all our thanks yet Ascensus gratiarum descensus gratiae the ascending of our thankes doe bring descending graces And with our best and faithfull seruice to our good God the King of Kings let our loyall and dutifull seruice be neuer wanting to his vertuous vicegerent his annointed deputy on earth our high and dread Soueraigne Qui tangit eum tangit pupillam oculi ipsius as the Lord speakes of Sion Hee
all the World and that the Emperour holds his Empire of the Church of Rome and may be called the Popes Vicar or Officiall as Iacobatius Writes Agreeable to the doctrine and propositions of Bellarmine that Kings are subiects to Popes and haue degraded Emperors and thereupon they challenge both swords and striue to free themselues and Dragon-like with their taile would draw the third part of the starres from all obedience and allegiance from the Kings of the earth denying all suites and seruice tributes trials or secular punishments to be inflicted vpon them exempting all their Cleargy from temporall subiection Contrary to the Precepts and practise of the Priests and Prophets of the Law and Christ and his Apostles in the Gospell yea contrary to the practise of the purer times euen in the Church of Rome when as their Bishops acknowleged their seruice and fealty to Caesars and paied them tribute Episcopi dederunt tributa potestatiregiae non resistentes c. saith Eusebius The Bishops paid their Tributes not resisting regall power yea let their Pope Vrban speake tribute was found in the mouth of a fish Peter fishing Ecclesia tributum reddidit then the Church paid Tribute yea Tributarium nummum debetis dare quo vos indicatis obedientiam vestram You ought to pay tribute mony by which you ought to declare your obedience But peraduenture they will alledge King Artaxerxes commission giuen to Esdras in which it pleased the King to command that no Tribute or taxe of the Priests Leuites holy Singers Porters Ministers of the Temple or workemen of the Temple should be taken or any had power to taxe them in any thing the answere is easie First this immunity proceeded ex mera gratia beneplacito from the meere fauour and pleasure of the King the better to incourage them in their worke at Ierusalem Secondly they possessed no lands but liued by oblations and sacrifices being herein like the Druides among the Frenchmen who payed no Tribute as Caesar writes the reason was because they had nothing and where nothing is the King loses his right Thirdly a particular fauour or example makes not a generall law Indeed Iustinian the Emperor hath granted to the Cleargy speciall priuiledges and freed them from military or martiall imployments personall officers and from many exactions but all this proceeds ex beneplacito out of an Emperiall fauour and royall grace which all vertuous Kings beare vnto Gods Ministers non ex praecepto or praxi for practise Christ himselfe payed Tribute for himselfe and Peter and by precept Giue vnto Caesar that which is Caesars telling his Disciples The Lords of the Gentils had dominion ouer them And S. Paul commands euery soule to be subiect to the higher Powers to pay Tribute and to giue Tribute to whom they owe Tribute To them therefore that challenge immunity from the performance of these publicke debts of tributarie duties to their Liege Lords and Kings I may say to them as Dioclesian to the Philosopher Thy profession differs from thy petition thy profession teaches thee to giue Caesar his due and not to rob him of his right Bishop Latimer calls such theeues that rob the King of his due debt Subsidies Tributes or Taxes Rather imitate that Ambrose the famous Bishop of Millan who teacheth thee a better lesson Si tributum petit Imperator non negamus agri Ecclesiae soluant tributum si agros desiderat Imperator potestatem habet vendicandorum tollat eos si libitum est Imperatori non dono sed non nego If the Emperor demand Tribute we doe not denie it your fields of our Church shall pay tribute If the Emperor demand the fields he hath power to challenge them let him take them I neither giue them nor denie them in no case arguing obedience in ordinary or extraordinary exactions agreeing fully with Luther If thy substance bodie or life should be taken from thee by the Magistrate thou maist say thus I doe willingly yeeld them vnto you and acknowledge you for ruler ouer me I will obey you but whether you vse your power and authority well or ill see you to that For Kings must one day giue account of all their workes to the King of Kings and if they haue abused their power by Tyrannie crueltie or any bad gouernment an hard iudgement shall such haue that beare such rule for then abides the sorer triall as the Sonne of wisedome speakes The power is from God the abuse of it from themselues and they will finde it when God and it cals them to reckon The chaine of gould is not made the worse because an harlot weares it about her necke it is Luthers comparison in this case so still Kings must be obeyed for conscience sake if not commanding contrary to Gods commandements Let vs in these follow the steppes of faithfull Fabricius of whose fidelity Pyrrhus boldly speakes Difficilius Fabricius a legalitate quam sol a suo cursu vertipossit Let the Sunne first turne from her course then we from the course of loyall obedience and allegiance alwaies remembring that Christian saying of the Martyr Ignatius No man euer liued vnpunished which lifted vp himselfe against his betters superiours his Princes disobedience brings infamie disgrace death yea hatred after death that the sorrowfull Sonne may say of his treacherous sire Ye haue troubled me and made me stinke among the inhabitants of the land as Iacob said of Simeon and Leui. Let vs alwaies from the bottome of our heartsâ— pray for the Kings safety corporally for his saluation spiritually and preseruation politically Let vs obey him because hee is the Lords annointed appointed by God to be his vicegerent representing the person on earth of the King of Kings in heauen Let vs honor him not with lips onely but with hearts truelie because he is the Father of our Countrie the constant Defender of the Faith and so worthy of double honour Let vs be ready to performe at his command our best seruice being his natiue and naturall Subiects born and bound by Allegiance to all Christian dueties of subiection Let vs be willing to pay Tribute a publike purse must helpe the publicke peace Multorum manibus grande leuatur onus Yet let vs pay him his duty Tribute to him for we owe him Tribute Custome to him for we owe him Custome Feare Honor Obedience Seruice and all other loyall seruices and performances of duties belonging to good subiects in their seuerall degrees and places humbly to tender them and render them vnto our gracious and high Soueragine Lord the King whose Sword Crowne Scepter Throne and Person iustly requires all these duties the Sword exacts obedience Crowne commands honor Scepter seruice Throne tribute and Person prayer alwaies powring forth to God this prayer and petition God saue the King Corporally Spiritually Politically CHAP. IX First Corporally
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
mighty Caesar take Of which I may thy tombe begin to make Your Highnes needs not these aduertisements the memorie whereof presage our lamentations though it shall bring you in present possession of perpetual glorification who liue and labour to passe off this worlds Kingly Theater with that approbation bene fidelis serue Well done faithfull seruant enter into thy Masters ioy Our hearty and humble prayers shall euer be powred foorth to the King of Kings from the bottome of our soules that your Highnesse may still reigne many happie yeares on earth in prosperous health Kingly honour and all happinesse and may oft renew and reuiue our hearts with these annuall ioyes and when the last period comes that God may make you as glorious a Saint in Heauen as you are a great gracious high and happy King on earth and leaue behinde you the succession of your loynes to sit vpon the Throne to the worlds end and all your faithfull seruants and subiects will ioyne with mee in this prayer and say Amen Amen Next to your Honors most graue and wise Senators the politicke Statists of the land who represent Romanos rerum dominos gentemque Togatam The most honourable Counsell to the royall head whom for fidelity I may compare to the heart of England to you by right of office place and charge this faithfull seruice principally appertaines to procure and pray for the Kings safety who is as it was said of Iudith the exaltation of Ierusalem the great glory of Israel the great reioycing of our Nation That hee may enioy many Alcion daies and reigne many golden yeares in safety and securitie Virg Aurea securi quis nescit saecula regis It is your noble taske carefully to consult in the preuention of publicke mischiefes and though wee may now say with Agamemnon Victor timere quid potest What need the Conqueror feare yet Cassandra will tell vs Quod non timet feare that you doe not feare feare procures precaution precaution preuention feare the plots and proiects of the sonnes of Anak the Popes Giants traiterous Iesuites of whom I may say as Ammianus Marcellinus writes of the Saracens Nec amici nobis vnquam nec hostes optandi si amici perfidi si hostes foedifragi VVee need not to wish them to be our friends or foes if friends they will proue treacherous if foes perfidious Circumspect precaution is the life of pollicy for stultum est cum sit is fauces tenet puteū fodere for that is like the Phrygians sero sapere to be wise too late But why doe I like an vnexpert Phormio dispute of warres in Hannibals presence you are the Nestors of this kingdome wise as Serpents but innocent as Doues be careful to take the Foxes which would destroy our Vine Faber cadit cum ferias fullonem neyther state nor statute free till the Realme be freed of them being like Nouatus whom S. Cyprian describes in these colours Saepe blandus vt fallat aliquādo saevus vt terreat semper curiosus vt prodat nunquam fidelis vt diligat Alwaies flattering to deceiue sometimes cruell to terrifie alwaies curious and cunning to betray neuer faithfull to loue But your Honours know best how to preuent the mischiefes of such miscreants who desire the ruine of King and Country for you can best tell how to doe it Propert lib. 2. Nauita de ventis de tauris narret arator enumeret miles vulnera pastor oues I will not meddle with your high affaires rather follow mine owne duety fall to prayers for you that God may euer be present and president at your Counsels giuing you the spirit of counsell and of courage wisely to foresee and happily to preuent all misfortunes and miseries intended against our King and Country and that our Iudah and Israel may dwell without feare euery man vnder his vine and figtree from Dan euen to Beersheba al the daies of our Salomon That God would still multiply these happy yeares and grant that our high and princely Cedar with all the faire goodly branches may long flourish in this land and that all his subiects high and low may safelie shelter vnder the shadow of his gracious gouernment blessing your Honors the very supporters of the state the pillars of the land with grace and wisedome from aboue to prosper your Counsels and euer direct you to consult for the glory of God the good of the King the comfort and welfare of Church and Common-weale To you also the bright stars of Court blest with the dailie beames and influences of the Regall Sunne who like orient Pearles serue to adorue the golden Diadem to you I may fitly tender these present meditations who no doubt dailie doe meditate vpon this Theame to say and pray God saue the King You faire flowers of honor who flourish in the courtly Canaan a place which flowes with plenty and pleasure the very garden of delight where the Bee gathers hony and the spider poyson where you may reape all earthly pleasures which are like Ionas Gourd content a while but not continue your eies behold the subiect of our prayers the ornament of our land Nay I may say with the Poet Hor. lib. 4. od 14. od 2. O quâ Sol habitabiles Illustrat oras maxime Principum Quo nil maius meliusue terris Fata denavere bonique diui Nec dabunt quamuis redeant in aurum Tempora priscum Vpon no shoares the Sunne doth shine Blest with a King more diuine The fire of your feruent prayers for the welfare of the King should perpetually flame at the high Altar of deepe deuotion being graced with all kingly fauours and aduanced with honour and rewards if you should proue disloyall or vndutifull to the King hee might rightly vse the Prouerbe Mercedes locat in pertusum sacculum Put his rewards in a broken bagge and might iustly frowne on you and his wrath like the roaring of a Lion and euen strike you dead with a Quos ego If you desire the Kings fauour which is the way to honor be faithfull and loyall This raised Mordecai to ride on the Kings horse in royall apparell a Crowne of gold on his head c. and to be eternized with the eternall Crowne of truth It raised Ioseph to ride in the second Chariot of Egypt Daniel to be clothed in purple and a chaine of gold about his necke Look vpon King Dauids gratuitie for Barzillays loyalty who commanded Salomon on his death bed to let the sons of Barzillai to eate at his table This is the onely way to winne the Kings fauour which if you lose you are but falling starres your Fame obscured your Names contemned Macro salutes Seianus no longer then he is in Tiberius fauour Actum est ilicet peristi But your faithfull seruice to your Soueraigne will be commendable to God and men seruing in soule the King of
heauen and seruing loyally the King on earth not to prefer earth before heauen to say with some Mart. lib. 9. Seeke others for to feast with Iupiter aboue I heere on earth my Iupiter will loue But first seeke the kingdome of God and his righteousnesse and this wil teach you to serue your King with faithfulnesse and to pray for his preseruation in all humble and harty diligence and obedience saying God saue the King Also to your Honors right noble Peeres this taske belongeth alwaies to pray God saue the King being noble by birth or place this will ennoble your persons more if you say faithfully as Iudith did to Bagoas concerning Holofernes feignedly Who am I that I should gaine say my Lord surely whatsoeuer pleaseth him I will doe speedily and it shall be my ioy vnto the day of my death then your names and fames shall euer stand registred in the Chronicle of honor free from the blacke Characters of disloyall infamie And though Fortunes image be made of glasse brittle and mutable yet your honourable memoriall shall neuer perish Death which is the true Herald of Armes blazoning mans pedegree to be but genus lutulentum a picture of dust be he a Prince in his pallace or a begger vnder a bush yet corruption is their Father and the wormes their mother and sister Their good workes following them but their pompe left behinde them onely their sanctitie to God and seruice to their King and Countrie shal make them glorious in heauen and famous on earth Posteritie will hold them worthy of honor and desire to reserue a Catalogue of their names and will say These were the Noble men that loued their God their King and Countrie Many haue done vertuously but these surmounted them all Archidamus told King Philip after his victory at Cheron that if he should measure his shadow he should not find it an haires breadth bigger or longer then before so let no vaine-glory fill you with empty wind it cannot make your shadowes bigger or longer glory more in your owne vertuous actions then in your renowned Ancestors for though some doe boast to be A loue tertius Aiax yet Quae non fecimus ipsi Vix ea nostra voca Ouid. It is the honour of a noble man when he doth excell in vertue his forepassed Ancestors when he is religious to feare God and to honour the King saying of his Soueraigne as Isaac said to Iacob Cursed be he that curseth thee and blessed be hee that blesseth thee and wishing with the Apostle would to God they were cut off which doe disquiet him alwayes loyall to his Soueraigne and louing to his Countrey willing to aduenture in their seruice his limbes or life euer wishing and praying God saue the King and Countrey Likewise to your Fatherhoods most right and reuerend Fathers the Heads and louing Brethren of the Tribe of Leui whose place and office bind you in all duty to be loyall to the royall Tribe of Iudah to you I may without offence proffer this poore present who spend your spirits at Gods Altar to offer a morning and an euening incense of seruent prayers for the preseruation of Gods Annointed exhorting with Paul that first of all supplications prayers intercessions and giuing of thankes be made for Kings and for all that be in authority And indeed before all and aboue all we of the Church the vitall spirits of the politicke body haue manifold motiues to pray for our Soueraigne who vnto vs against the tempest of these times is a refuge an hiding place from the wind and as the shadow of a great rocke as it was said of King Ezechiah His Maiesty is a Defender of the Church as he is a Defender of the Faith and against the Atheists and Alexanders of these dayes that would doe vs much wrong he stands to pleade our cause to grace our calling that we may say with the Poet â—unen Sat. 6. Et spes ratio studiorum in Caesare tantum Solus enim tristes hac teÌ„pestate camaen as respexit Though the Church be made blacke blacke by customary contempt and continuall oppression and persecution yet the King kisseth her with the kisses of his mouth and his loue is better then wine we will reioyce and be glad in thee we will remember thy loue more then wine the righteous doe loue thee And herein if we may boast in any thing we may boast in this That our Church was neuer the Author of Treason The Mother of Soules should not be the murderer of Kings members inclined to rebellion were neuer well possessed of Religion As we haue hitherto beene faithfull obedient and loyall so still euer be from the Church Sit procul omne nefas Let the mother of blood and treason still dwell vnder the roofe of Romish Babylon the mother of whoredomes and of these abhominations drunken with the blood of Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Iesus Christ which cloake these murders and massacres vnder the mantle of Religion like the Rulers of Ephesus distressed with a terrible battery in that Seige her Gouernours tied with ropes the wals and gates to Dianas Temple that so being consecrated to the Goddesse that enemy should assault them at his perill Euen so the Popish pollicy is to tie euery thing to the Temple Conspiracies Murders Treasons all tied to the Church cloaked vnder a colour of Religion that I may say with their owne Leo Ecclesiae nomine armantur contra ecclesiam dimieant They arme themselues with the name of the Church to fight against the Church and to destroy the pillars of the Church Hi Christum simulant sed Sathanalia vivunt Well let our preaching and praying tend to this end to giue Caesar obedience to feare God and to honour the King knowing that all must submit to the Higher Powers for conscience sake and for the Lords sake and they that will not doe it they are none of Gods Clergy none of the Heritage of the Lord They haue neither conscience nor calling like to certaine Bishops in Ambrose dayes of whom he writes Quod dedit cum episcopus ordinaretur aurum fuit quod perdidit anima fuit cum alium ordinaret pecunia fuit quod dedit lepra fuit That which he gaue when he was made a Bishop was gold what he lost was his soule when he made another it was for money what he gaue was a leprosie But these Bishops liue beyond the Alpes I hope there is none in Albion It is our comfort and our Crowne that our calling and conscience is such which burnes in zeale and duty to God and loyall obedience to our graciour Soueraigne Morning and euening at noone and at night at bed and boord praying God saue the Church God saue the King To you the wise and worthy Iudges
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
with the Monarchie of greate Britaine and all good Christians professors of the Gospell be deuoted Suppliants to the King of Kings with ioyfull tongues and zealous hearts to pray and say God saue our King God saue King IAMES Viuat valeat vincat God saue the King Corporally Amen Spiritually Amen Politically Amen ΤÎλος Gloria Tri-vni Deo in secula Caesaris Hostes OR THE TRAGEDY OF TRAITORS For the fift day of August The day of the bloudy GOWRIES Treason and of our Kings blessed preseruation I will sing a new song vnto thee O God and sing vnto thee vpon a Viole and an Instrument of ten strings for it is hee that giueth deliuerance vnto Kings and rescueth Dauid his seruant from the hurtfull sword PSALM 144. 9. 10. Dum iniusti saeuiunt iusti saluantur vtilitati bonorum militat potest as prauorum Gregor in Moral By SAMVEL GAREY Preacher of Gods Word LONDON Printed by IOHN BEALE for HENRY FETHERSTONE and IOHN PARKER 1618. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE S ir FRANCIS BACON Knight Lord Chancellor of England Right Honourable Lord IT was the saying of St Hierome to Celantia Summa apud Deum nobilitas est clarum esse virtutibus Yea the wise Moralist vnchristened Seneca could say Nobilitas animi generositas est sensus nobilitas hominis est generosus animus The which true Nobility of the minde is your inherent and hereditary honor famoused for Piety Iustice Learning and Liberality so that the world sees you write not your desires in the dust We blesse God and wonder to behold in you so admirable a patterne of true Nobility moues vs to say with K. Lemuel Many haue done vertuously but you surmount them all in your great perfection of Arts and happy progresse in Grace the world can number but few such Vereor ne violem frontem tuaÌ„ sedem honoris testem verecundiae I know the sound of the trumpet of your praises is no musick to your eares neyther doe I loue such straines the land in generall ecchoes your renowned applause and God who hath so blessed you and by the Kings Maiesty promoted you to so honourable a Place continue you an happy instrument of much good to Church and Common-wealth and prosper your noble proceedings according to the promise of your admired entrance And now most honorable Lord I humblie craue your pardon in presuming to present so simple a Present vnto the view of so approued a iudgement who haue Mercurium in lingua MineruaÌ„ pectore yet although not the manner being meane and homely yet the matter handled may iustly merit your noble acceptance being a description of the hainous sin of Treason the fall and Tragedy of Traitors plagues which the Arch-traitor to mankinde hath added to the world and also a seasonable subiect for the Time August the fift against which day it was and is prepared as an annuall obiect And I know there is none within the compasse of Great Brittaine poures forth more hearty prayers to God with a more feruent and faithfull soule then your Honor doth for the preseruation of our most deare and dread Soueraigne and for the detection and destruction of all pestilent and truculent Traitors Wherefore in a hopefull affiance of your honorable acceptance I humbly offer this little labor a Testimony of my great obseruance with my selfe perpetually to your seruice not after a ceremoniall submission but from a serious agnizing and feeling of mine owne imbecillity euery way so obscure and weake that ingenuouslie I confesse Et scripfisse pudet quia plurima cerno me quoque qui feci iudice digna lini And of all others I know your Honors censure and iudgement is most substantiall yet my weakenesse thus farre encourages me that your Honor will like my willing mind commend the matter though not the manner and I hope will fauourablie accept this Mite and put it into your richer Treasurie and countenance it with your worthy protection which will be like Aiax buckler to shield it safe against detraction Ringanter rumpantur liueant improbent maledici si Honori tuo arriserit instar mille Platonis calculus I would not bee a monster to please all but some and say with the Poet Lucilius Me paucis malle à sapientibus esse probatuÌ„ So giuing my farewell to this feeble Infant saying as Iakob did when he parted with his beloued Beniamin * Goe and the Lord shew thee fauour in his sight and sovpon the bended knees of my prostrated heart to God I shall euer incessantly pray to the Lord Keeper of Heauen and Earth to make your paths euery way prosperous blessing your Honour with happy preseruation and a longioyfull life on earth and grant you an eternall Patent sealed by the euerlasting Decree of the sacred Trinitie of immortall possession of a glorified life in Heauen Your good Honors euer to be commanded in all duety and seruice SAMVEL GAREY Caesaris Hostes OR The Tragedie of TRAYTORS Now these are examples to vs. 1 Cor. 10. 6. If thou hast any enemy or Traytor send him hither and thou shalt receiue him well scourged 2 Macch. 3. 38. CHAP. I. THE memory of Gods great and glorious workes either of iudgement vpon his enemies or mercy towards the Church ought to be preserued with a thankefull remembrance So the Iewes being preserued by the meanes of Queene Ester and godly Mordecai from the intended plot by Haman kept the foureteenth day of the moneth Adar yeerely with feasting and ioy So when God had deliuered his people of Israel from the tyranny of Tryphon by the meanes of Simon their Captaine he ordayned that the same day of their deliuerance should be kept euery yeere with gladnesse So when the people of Israel were deliuered from the captiuity of Babylon and restored to Gods true Religion they kept a Feast seauen dayes together to the Lord with reioycing and thanksgiuing The Feasts of the Passeouer Pentecost Tabernacles were commanded by Moses to be kept holy in remembrance of great benefits receiued at Gods hands Hence it was that in times past the Patriarks Prophets and people of God would not forget any memorable act of Gods prouidence without setting some remarkeable Memonto vpon it that so it might remaine fresh to succeeding generations that the children vnborne might tell it to their children That valley wherein Iehoshaphats aduersaries were ouerthrowne was called Beracah a valley of blessing that so the Name might present to their minds to praise God for their maruellous victory Iacob did call the place where God appeared to him Bethel The House of God which before was called Luz and Dauid the place where Vzza was smitten Perez vzza i. the diuision of Vzzah and Abraham the place where Isaac was deliuered from the bloody knife Iehouah-ijreh i. The Lord seeth or prouideth and the Iewes called those holy-dayes which they solemnized for their deliuerance from Hamans deuice
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
with your Graces and Honors defence as with precious stones built vpon the chiefe corner-stone Rocke Christ Iesus though flouds from the Sea of Rome should come or the windes of wicked Iesuites blow vpon this booke with their infecting breath and would beate it downe with a storme of words yet Non cadet quia fundatur super petram I feare to be tedious and therefore in all dutifull and submissiue reuerence I cease my hand yet my heart till death shall neuer cease to pray for all your prosperous happinesse and heauenly successe in your holy and high affaires for the Church King and Country for which Diuine blessing shall be duely and daily powred forth the poore deuotions of your Graces and Honours most humble seruant Samuel Garey Ad Gloriam Dei Sionis gaudium malorum luctum MAgnae Britanniae immortales Gratiae Pro salute Britanniae quinto Nouembris Ab horrenda proditione Anglo-Papistarum Qui pul vere bombardico Parliamenti domum Euertere sunt machinati Hoc Aniuersario commemorantur In libre diligenter exara illud erit in die nouissime in testimonium vsque in aeternum Esa 30. 8. Amphitheatrum Scelerum OR The Transcendent OF TREASON For the 5. day of Nouember Sonne of Man write thee the name of the day euen of this same day for the King of Babel set himselfe against Ierusalem this same day Ezech. 24. 2. CHAP. I. AS Moses did speake in another kinde to the people of Israel Enquire now of the dayes that are past which were before thee since the day that God created man vpon the earth and aske from the one end of Heauen vnto the other if there came to passe such a great thing as this or whether any such like thing hath beene heard So I may say Enquire of the Times past and search the Records of all Antiquities and you cannot finde such a damnable and diuellish proiect the very modell of all mischiefes and Miscellan of all massacres the intended Powder-plot the Quintessence of all impiety and confection of all villany the like neuer de ficto much lesse de facto in which these prodigious and barbarous monsters not men but loathsome lumpes of mire and bloud in whose proditorious brests the spirits of all expired traytors by a kinde of Pythagoricall transmigration were inclosed intended to haue destroyed the obiects of Englands earthly glory the glory of succession yea succession it selfe to extinguish the whole light and life of the land vno actu tactu ictu by one blow and blast of powder Tollere Rem Regem Regimen Regionem Religionem Furious Phaetons in one day yea howre with a dismall fire-worke to burne all to ashes of a glorious Monarchy to make an Anarchy to offer our most gracious King royall Queene vertuous Prince and hopefull Progeny with right Noble personages of honourable place and birth the reuerend Cleargy with all the rest of that wise and flourishing assembly to offer them all as a quicke and liuing sacrifice not powdered with salt or salted with fire as our Sauiour but salted with powder to make such an Holocaust or burnt offering as should be the general martyrdome of the Kingdome to bereaue vs of our Eliat and Horsemen of Israel and take them away in a whirle-winde and chariot of fire Quot mortes in vna morte How many deaths in such a death to cut off caput caudam head and tayle branch and rush Prince Priest and people from our Israel in one day Quomodo inaudito potuit manus impianisu Tam dirum fabric are nef as Respublica in vno Funere tollenda est vno tumulanda sepulchro With such an hellish deed for to desire To bury King and Kingdome in a fire How ought the heauenly and happy deliuery from such an horrible and hidcous Tragedy excite all continually to thanke and magnifie our most mercifull God for such a miraculous preseruation And though the crying sinnes of the Land had deserued such a Doomesday of fire yet the Lord in mercy hath deliuered it from that desolation and secured by his outstretched arme of power and pitty the Royall Head and loyall members of great Britanny from his and our enemies who tooke crafty counsell against thy people and consulted against thy secret ones They said Come let vs cut them off from being a Nation and let the name of Israel be no more in remembrance but they perished at Endor and were dung for the Earth Shall such wondrous workes as these be knowne in the darke and thy righteousnesse in the Land where all things are forgotten Can such a deliuerance from such a dismall danger so villainous in the Agents so dolorous for the patients so craftily contriued so eagerly pursued so neerely effected the watch of a night and turning of an hand betweene vs and so deadly desolations can such a gracious worke be euer buried in obliuion Indeed it was Israels error whose prayers and praises ended so soone as they had passed the Red Sea and shall we that haue escaped not that Red Sea of water but a Red Sea of fire shall wee end our prayers and praises to God because that danger is past Oh how vnworthy shall we be of future fauours if so vnthankefull for past blessings And truly herein the Land is faulty in forgetting these benefits in a cold and not continuall acknowledgement of their humble thankefulnesse to God for these and other vnspeakable benefits And at the first all peoples hearts did burne within them like those two Disciples when they did but talke of the Powder Treason admiring and acknowledging the infinite mercies of God in the preuenting this most abhorred massacre and with heart and voice magnified the Lord with Dauids Psalme If the Lord had not beene on our side may Israel now say If the Lord had not beene on our side when men rose vp against vs they had then swallowed vs vp quicke when their wrath was kindled against vs. Praised be the Lord which hath not giuen vs as a prey vnto their teeths but a few yeeres being past they beginne to slacken this duty and are cold in praysing God for so blessed a deliuerance Perchance pondering Parsans words Will you neuer giue ouer saith he your clamors and exaggerations The Powder Treason the Powder Treason No we should neuer giue it ouer to poure foorth our perpetuall praises to God for protecting vs from so prodigious a plot and practise Our Eucharisticall deuotion to God for the preuention of the downefall of the Land should not be so momentary and like a morning dew as if the renued remembrance of so great deliuerance should become wearisomenesse vnto our spirits or the wonderment of the Lords mighty worke being past our gratulation to God should be out of dare vnseasonable and more then halfe forgotten No the deliuery from this flagitious and most bloody designement as it
held Deum ex humanis membris consistere God did consist of humane members then how abominable is it to worship God vnder the shape of an Image and ascribe the same honor to the Image as they doe to the samplar God as they say by it representedâ— So that to such God will say as the Prophet speakes Confounded be all they that serue grauen images or that glory in Idolles and as Esay I am the Lord this is my name and my glory will I not giue to an other neither my praise to grauen Images And I wonder that any should be so bewitched as to delight in Images historicall vsel deny not but all spirituall vse is fornication and abomination but more to creepe and croutch to them the visible obiects of dust or dirt to bowe to the stocke of a Tree as the Prophet speakes this is the basest thing that almost the Sunne euer sawe vnworthy of man whose knee should bow to his Maker and not to the stocke that he hath made himselfe how odious is the seruice and sacrifice of such creeping and croutching Idoll-suppliants in the Lords sight he will cast the dung vpon their owne faces euen the dung of their solemne feasts such fordide seruice such prophane and heathenish sacrifice which stinckes in his nostrills and say I neuer required this woodden worship at your hands I neuer commanded you to buy these Bookes which you say shall put you in remembrance of me but you that cannot remember me without the sight of an Image on earth I will forget you and shall neuer haue a sight of my Image in heauen Thus hauing spoken a little yet enough to satisfie a temperate and ingenuous Reader to behold the corruptions of Popery in the forepassed points I will come to our next promised part Popes pardons wherein I wil be more briefe because they are called by them Bullae Bulls or Indulgences rather bubbles something in appearance empty in the substance of proofe or profit Fourthly Popes pardons Their Cardinall Allen in his defence of Popes pardons saith that to impugne the power of pardons is to ouerthrow the greatest matters which life and Faith doe stand vpon and saith that Luther except one Witclife condemned in the Councell of Constance was the first that contradicted them from which point did begin the toyle and tragedy of these times wherein the Cardinall speakes not 〈◊〉 Cathedra for the Waldenses long before Witclife and Bohemians before Luther did contemne and condemne this vsurped power of popish pardons wherein the pith of popery is inclosed Indeede when it pleased the Lord to open Luthers eyes to see the truth he began first to finde fault with the base inundation of picke-purse pardons though as hee saith then he did but fight in the darke for when Pope Leo the tenth had sent abroad his pardons which were preached by Terelius a Dominicke Frier ' Luther admonished the people of the abuses and deceits of the pardons and pardoners which long before his time had beene reproued in the Councels of Lateran and Vienna and complained to the Archbishop of Mentz to the Bishop of Brandenburg to the Prouinciall of the Augustine Friers and to the Pope himselfe and Surius the Papist confesses that he did iustly complaine and afterward compelled by intollerable iniuries and neglect of manifest truth and reformation cast off the seruile yoake and vassalage of Antichristian captiuity These Pardons haue no ground in holy Scripture or Primitiue Church or Fathers of the Church for a thousand yeares after Christ but are indeede the impostures of this last age delusions of Sathan and the temptations to Epicurisme and all vice when as such pardons for all kinde of sinnes are proffered and prostrated to all such as can prouide money for them For the Court of Rome hath an order containing the price to be paid for all kinde of sins as murther incest parricide sodomy sacriledge c. and they that would see the particular summes of money for all kinde of sinnes and offences and what their pardon will cost in the Court of Rome for all capitall and horrible faults let them read Musculus common places in the title of the Ministers of the worde of God towards the end Some of their writers confesse De Indulgentijs nihil habemus nec in Scripturis nec ex dictis antiquarum doctorum we haue nothing of pardons neyther in the Scriptures nor in the ancient Doctors their Gregory of Valence saith that Gratian Lombard who liued not aboue 400. yeares agoe Nihil de indulgentis â—…nisse haue recorded nothing of Indulgences And the same Iesuite saith Erant Catholici quidam ante Lutherum quorum opinionem Thomas refent qui indulgentias pias fraudes esse duxerunt There were certaine Catholickes before Luther whose opinion Thomas recites who accounted these indulgences holy fraud rather lenocinia diaboli the enticing impiety of the Deuil and the whore to be so indulgent to their sons as rather to cocker then correct them for their sinnes So Pope Boniface the 8 the first inuenter of Iubily pardons grants Non solumplenam largiorem immo plenissimam omniâ—m suorum veniam peccatorum Not onely a full and large pardon but a most full pardon of all their sinnes and to giue pardon for many hundred yeares to come and that for doing a very small seruice as Pope Gregory who made a prayer about the length of a Creede which whosoeuer shall say deuoutly shall receiue fiue hundred yeares of pardon quicke worke yet prouided that at the end of euery verse he say a Pater noster and an Aue. Sometimes pardons for dayes as Pope Innocent the sixt to them who say a short prayer about the scantling of an Aue hee shall obtaine pardon for twenty thousand daies Pope Iohn the two and twentieth giues to them who say a short prayer three thousand daies of pardon of mortall sinnes and twenty thousand daies of venials and if that prayer too long or pardon too short let him say fiue Pater nosters before the Vernacle and hee shall haue ten thousand daies pardon by that Pope Gregorie the third giues a pardon to them that shall say a prayer as long as three Aues and kneele before a Crucifice for sixe thousand sixe hundred threescore and sixe daies iust so many daies as Christ had wounds on his body as some say saue that our Lord appeared to S. Briget at Rome and told her that his wounds were but fiue thousand foure hundred and fourescore or as others tell it fiue thousand foure hundred fourescore and ten excepting the prickes of his crowne which were threescore and twelue But some other Popes haue beene more liberall in the grant of these pardons Pope Sixtus the fourth graunted to them who say a prayer of his making which hath not aboue fiue and forty words forty thousand yeares of pardon Read a Bull of
world hath blinded that the light of the glorious Gospell of Christ which is the image of God should not shine vnto them let them all know that these voices sound from heauen vnto them to their conuersion and consolation if they accept them or condemnation and confusion if they reiect them Come out from among them separate your selues saith the Lord and touch no vncleane thing and I will receiue you and I will be a Father vnto you and you shall be my sonnes and daughters saith the Lord. This voice is not the voice of man but of God Come out of her my people that ye be not partakers in her sinnes and that ye receiue not of her plagues for her sinnes are come vp into heauen and God hath remembred her iniquities as it is there prophecied of the fall of mysticall Babylon which is Rome Therefore let my exhortation bee that vnto you which a reuerend and learned Doctor gaue as a farewell to his friends Commendo vos dilectioni Dei odio papatus I exhort you to loue God and leaue the corrupt doctrine of Popery which is a forme of Religion yet Non secundum Iesum Christum nec verbum nec tenet capâ—t Not according to Iesus Christ or his Gospell nor doth it rightly hold the head making the Church a monster with two heads the Pope a visible Head on earth and Christ in heauen the inuisible Head We beseech you in the tender bowels of Christ to haue pitty vpon your owne soules open your eyes without partiality or preiudice to behold the truth and embrace it and to moue your hearts with Peters wordes as newborne babes desire the sincere milke of the word that ye may grow thereby so shall you and we haue infinite cause to reioyce and our Church say with Peter yee were as sheepe going astray but are now returned vnto the chiefe shepheard and Bishop of your soules With which sauing Grace the God of all grace and goodnesse Iesus Christ enrich your soules withall to grow in Grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Iesus Christ to him bee glory both now and for euer Thus hauing declared in part the corruptions of popish Doctrine which must be reiected of all who desire to be faithfull seruants to our Sauiour or performe seruice acceptable vnto him for what concord hath Christ with Belial what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols Take heede of the Leauen of Rome as our Sauiour warnes his Disciples of the leauen of the Pharisees and Sadduces their pernicious doctrine full of errors repugnant and decrogatory to Christ and his Gospell It remaines and followes in the next place to touch That if you beleeue and embrace al the points of moderne Popery now broached and maintained in the Church of Rome you cannot bee dutifull and obedient Subiects to our and your Soueraigne and since I haue in my former Tractates obiter by the way promiscuously touched lesuiticall precepts and practise in this kinde papall depositions of Kings from their Regiment and absolutions of subiects from loyall obedience applauding traytors by canonization commendation for treasonable attempts I will not be large and liberall heerein onely propound a few positions and propositions to your consideration to iudge of them whether they be not opposite to all loyall obedience which are maintained and divulged to the world by your great Doctors and Pillars of the Romane Church And first you are not ignorant that very lately Anno 1606. Pope Paul the fifth prohibited all the Romane Catholickes so tearmed by his Breue that they should not take the oath of Allegiance vnto which they were enioyned by the Kings Maiesty which argues hee would haue them refractary in matters which onely concerne ciuill obedience for the scope of that oath tended to professe and practise a dutifull allegiance to the King in all loyall submission The like also did Pius quintus Pope to the late Queene Elizabeth commanding her Subiects to rebell and discharging them from allegiance But omitting these things as vulgarly knowne I will goe to the Iesuites schoole and heare how they teach you If a Christian King become an Hereticke immediatly his people are freed from his command and their subiection saith Symancha But all Christian Kings are esteemed Heretickes who are not Catholikes of the Romane size Ergo. The Iesuite Creswel vnder the name of Andreas Philopator against the Decree of the Queene of England sect 2. â—u 157. deliuers this proposition Principem qui a Catholica religione deflexit excidere statim omnipotestate a Prince who declines from their Catholike religion rather superstition falls presently from his Regall power But all Protestant Princes decline from that religion Ergo no King or no power The same Iesuite num 160. saith Omnium Catholicorum esse sententiam obligatos esse subditos ad principes haereticos depellendos qui sidei Catholicae inuriosi sunt si modo vires ad hoc habeant idoneas It is the sentence of all Catholikes that the subiects are bound to driue away hereticall Princes who are iniurious to the Catholike Faith if they haue forces fit for this purpose And againe num 162. Subâ—â—ti â—…di Principes suos non tantum legitime possunt 〈◊〉 sedetiam ad hoc praecepts divine conscientiae arctissimo vinculâ— ac extremo animarum suarum periculo tenentur Subiects may not onely lawfully trouble such Princes but are bound to doe it by Diuine precept and most strict band of conscience and extreame perill of their owne soules And the same Iesuite againe Si Imperator vel Rex haereticuÌ„ fauore prosequatur ipso facto regnum amittet If an Emperor or King fauour an heretike he shall lose his kingdome ipso facto Now Protestants in their Calendar are branded for heretickes Ergo. And to these accord and publish the like doctrine many others of their writers Ribadeneira de principe lib. 1. cap. 18. pa. 177. c. 26. pag. 172. c. Paulus Chirlandus de haeret q. 3. nu 2. Conradus Brunus de haeret lib 3. cap. vltimo Io. Paulus Windeck de extirp haer Antidoto 10. pag. 404. Antidot 11. pag. 408. Stapleton in oratione contra politicos Duaci habita Baronius Card. in Epistola contra Venetos Bellarmine the Cardinall full of such stuffe Hee affirmes that Kings are subiect to Popes Bishops Priests Deacons and would prooue this inferiority by Scriptures and Fathers De laicis lib. 3. He holds many other propositions disgracefull to Kings vndutifull for subiects and contradictory to all Scripture Secular principality is ordained by men and hath his being by the law of Nations de Rom. Pontif. lib. 1. c. 7. § praeterea a grosse Assertion for so great a Doctor In causes onely Temporall Cleargimen are bound to obey Princes and no longer obey then the Pope will de clericis lib. 1. cap. Per totum caput So ridiculous positions
as the very naming of them is a confutation Simancha and Creswell haue concluded that no hereticke that is a Protestant is capable of a Crowne and though a lawfull heire yet no iust possessor hauing obtainedit And to this effect Pope Clements Bull was After the death of the late Queene whether by course of nature or otherwise whosoeuer should lay claime or Title to the Crowne of England though neuer so directly or neerely interessed therein by descent and Blood royall yet vnlesse he were such an one as would not onely tollerate the Catholicke Romane religion but by all endeuours and force promote it they should admit or receiue none to the Crowne of England And Samancha Tit. 64. Sect. 75. faith The father may be deposed for an hereticke and his sonne and heire also excluded from claime of succession vnlesse he be a Romane Catholicke Thus they seeke to dispossesse Kings who are enthroned by God and haue their Scepters from the King of Kings yea they â—ind Kings to their good behauiour if they doe displease the Pope then depose them and so no Kings Molina saith The King can vse his Temporall sword but at the Popes becke Tract 2. de Institut Di. 29. Thus debasing Kings the highest powers on earth to be subiects to the Pope who yet in a counterfeit style cals himselfe Seruus seruorum a seruant of seruants Sonat humilit as in voce sed superbia in actione Saith Gregory Iacobs voice and Esawes hands Hypocriticall humility is worse then manifest pride And truly if the Pope had a sparke of the spirit of humility he would condemne his Parasites voices Papa est per queâ—reges regnant The Pope is he by whom Kings reigne Saith Bozius or Papa data est omnis potest as in caelo in terra Dominatur amarivsque admare à flumine vsque adtermin os orbis To the Pope is giuen all power in heauen and earth and reignes from one Sea to an other from the stood to the end of the world or Papa potest omnia facere quae Deus potest The Pope can doe all that God can doe horrible impiety and intollerable flattery And these tell the world he can make and vnmake Kings and the Popes like it well enough excommunicating Kings deposing them and disposing of their Kingdomes to others So that it mooued Art 〈◊〉 King of Peru to say as Benzo and Lopez tell it Insigniter fatuum esse opertere papam qui quae non haberet alijs liberaliter largitur vel carte impedentem nebulonem qui eiectis veris possessoribus alienas terras peregrinis addiceret in mutuas cades mortale genus armaret That either the Pope was an egregious Sot who would liberally giue things which he had not or a very impudent companion who expulsing the true possessors giues it to strangers arming the world to mutuall yea mortall slaughters I will not trouble my selfe to behold the nakednesse rather wickednesse of these drunken Noes vncouered in the midst of their Tents vomiting out vile positions full of sedition and disobedience against the Kings of the earth it require rather teares to bewaile it then a pen to report it and the learned heerein know more then I write and for the ignorant it is good for them in this case to be ignorant still yet I confesse I aimed most in this labour to informe the ignorant hauing no minde to meddle with seducing Priests I cannot charme such deafe Adders if this litle handfull of my loue and labour presented vnto you may be profitable to win any of you I will say and end with the Apostle Iames Brethren if any of you haue erred from the Truth and some man hath conuerted him let him know that hee which hath conuerted the sinner from going astray out of his way shall saue a soule from death and shall hide a multitude of sinnes The Lord who is a God of Truth for his mercy sake and for Christs merits sake open all your eies to behold the Truth and your hearts to embrace it that we may all hold one Head in vnity and haue one heart in verity that all with one minde and mouth may praise and pray vnto the Lord in the militant Church on earth and be thrice happy members of the Triumphant Church in heauen Amen Candido lectori Humanum est errare errata hic corrige lector quae penna aut praelo lapsa fuisse vides FINIS * Epist 34. * Baron annal tom 1 ad an 1. fol. 53. * Math. 2. 11. * Walafriâ— Strabo lib. de rebus Eccles * Epist 77 * Eccluâ— 24. 39. * 1 Cor. 4. 3. * Le moribus a 2 Kings 11 3. b 2 Chr. 22. 9. 10. 11. c 2 King 11. 4 d 2 Chr. 23. 2. e 2 Kin. 11. 4. f 2 Ch. 23. 3. g 2 King 11. 6. 11. h 2 Chr. 23. 11. i 2 Kin. 11. 12. * A queene ouer men a queene ouer her selfe for a maiden queen k Mundi totius vna decus Beza Epigram in class hisp Anno 1588. l Gen. 27. 41. Ad certum tempus sunt Christiani postea peribunt redibunt Idola verum tum cum expectas miserinfidelis vt transeant Christiani transis ipse sine Christianis Aug. in P s 70 m Quo nil praestaÌ„tius orbe nobiliusque nihil nostro sol aspicit aeuo Mortua regina quasi non est mortua quia reliquit similem plus quam fimilis hic n Quem beneficia accepta memorem non redduÌ„t is grauius suppliciuÌ„ meretur Chrysost de Sacerd. lib. 4. o Tertul. in Apâ—log c. 30. p Psal 132. 18. q Plut. in vita Flaminij r 1 Kin. 1. s 1 King 1. 40. t 39. Proditor est martyr coeli certissimê° hares u Mariana de reg lib. 1. c 7. * Maria. p 60. Vid orat sixt Qt habit in consistoria Saunders Fra de Verone Azorius Philopater Allen aly x Tertul in Apol. Spolia opima Joui Sen. Prosperum scelus vocatur virtus y 1 Chr. 16. 22. z Reu. 17. 46. a Machau Princ. c. 11. b Psal 21. 8. 9. c Psal 129. 6. a 1 Tim. 2. b Tribus argumeÌ„tis ostendit oranduÌ„ esse proregibê° quorum duo sumpta sunt ab effectu vtili Pisc in locuÌ„ c Plin 2 Panegy ad Traianum Rex sapiens est stabilimentum populi Wisd 6. 24. Rex si bonus est nutritor est tuus si malus tentator tuus est Aug. ser 6. de verb. dom secund Math. Bellua multorum capitum homine nullum morosius animal nec maiori arte tractandum Sene. d Quot capita tot sententiae quot homines tothumores quot humores tot mores Lipsius e Exod. 18. 19. f Psalm 2. 10. g 2 Chr. 1. 10. h Wisd 6. 21. i Magna seruituâ— est magna fortuna nam ipsi Caesari cui omnia licent propter hoc ipsu multa non licent Seneca consolat ad