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The pathe of obedience, compiled by Iames Cancellar, one of the Quenes Maiesties moste honourable chapell
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Cancellar, James,
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1556
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STC 4565; ESTC S116839
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fayth if we therfore wil marke what enormities folowed after oure forsakinge the Apostolyke churche of Rome we shall finde so manye in number of theÌ„ as before hath not bene seen and namely among those of the Clergye For did not oure newe holye Bishoppes marrye horishe wiues I had almost said other meÌ„s wiues did they not besides turne godly fastiÌ„ges to riotous feastinges deuoute praier to leude pratling calyng chast meÌ„ Sodomites turned obedieÌ„ce to vnlaweful lybertie and then vnlawful liberty brought forth RebellioÌ„ euen in the beginning of al euel In y e time of king HeÌ„ry of famous memory Also in y â— time of king Edward the sixte what disobedience of lawes what rebellion what Sedicion was in this Realme we all do knowe And it folowed y â— when god had takeÌ„ froÌ„ vs the worthy younge kynge dyd not vnlawfull libertye disobedyently deuise woorke and goo aboute moste traytrously to destroye take awaye the ryght titâ—â—l and enterest whyche oure vertuous Quene Mary moste iustly had to the princely kingdom of this her realme but God who hateth the proude presumteous myraculouslye gaue them in to the handes of her hyghnes and her grace for that victory had praysed God and sayd with Dauyd oure Lord is my helper and his mightye arme hath exalted me TheÌ„ immediatly afterward her highnes as the humble handemaideÌ„ of God sowght for Moyses the chefe seruant of the seruantes of God in earth delyuered Aron forth of prison And also opened the mouthes of hym and them which before were closed together by sharpe bluddie lawes streyghtly commaundyng them to open and declare vnto her people the trechery craft and falshod of those deceitful prechers which had seduced and led her people from faith to infidelitie from vertue to vice and from a godly vnitie to sedicious rebellyon But wheÌ„ the impacient children of disobedieÌ„ce heard that theyr baneketing tables with theyr newe inuented religion and straunge seruinge of god shuld vanish fal down they could no leÌ„ger tary but as the fyer breaketh forthe of the furnes semblably blustering freting proudly came with baners displaide againste the lordes anoynted their dread sufferayne lady who before they had seen and knowen to be brought to this princely Kingdome euyn by great miracle high prouidence of god onelye and not by dent of swerd and onely by godly wisedome not by worldlye polycie had y e victorye of her enmies which had ben to theÌ„ a sufficient example As longe therfore as we wer within the goodly fold of obedience to our mother the catholyke churche we like obedieÌ„t subiectes quietly obeyed the lawes and ordynaunces of our princes Thus as you haue heard as wel by diuers examples of holy Scriptures as in this our present tyme howe god leueth not vnpunished any one which to his will and commauÌ„dement is not obediente also as ye haue heard of the fall of theÌ„ so must we vnderstande of our fal froÌ„ the vnitie of Chrystes church It is necessary therfore suÌ„ thinge to speke of y e holie fathers which walked iÌ„ a most parfit order of obedieÌ„ce as first in the time of the law of nature we do reade y t AbrahaÌ„ among y e ebrues for his great vertue was reuerenced obeyed had in gret honour and Abraham also hauing then no prescribed law honoured Meâ—chisedecke not that he was so commaunded of god But that nature led by grace stirred and prouoked him to honoure the saide Melchesedech whoÌ„ God had called to hygh actoritie and Abram also of hys owne free wyll dyd geue vnto Melchesedech y e seruauÌ„t of god the tenth part of that spoile why the he had gotten in his victorie againste the kinges Which wyll was accompted to hym a lawe and wrought that worke in him by grace Abraham being yet free and not vnder the law did shew vnto vs a great example of our obedience in obseruynge of the law which as then was neyther maunded nor yet written but onely by goddes singuler grace inspired in the hearte of man Then it folowed that when the tyme was come that the holye Prophet Moises was commanÌ„ded by god to bryngforth of the lande of Egipt hys peculier people and after the lawe was geuen he led and gouerned them and also after the lawe receyued they were gouerned without a kyng vntyll the time of Samuel the Prophet In whose tyme the people beeyng desierous to be lyke vnto the Gentylles called vnto Samuell and sayde let vs haue a kyng that he maie go before vs to battayle Samuell this heryng them wente to oure LORDE and sayde Lorde thy people cryeth vpon me too haue a kynge and God sayde to Samuel heare the voice of the people in all that they saye vnto the for they which are desirous to haue a kinge haue not caste thee away but me that I should not reigne ouer them but this thou shalte say vnto them that they there wyues sonnes and daughters menseruauntes and women seruauntes oxe asse and all other theyr goodes and cattels shall bee at their kinges will and commaundemente And Samuell dyd speake vnto the people as GOD hadde commaunded hym and chose them a kyng oute of the house of Cis whose name was Saul And Samuel before the whole multytude called hym the Lordes annoynted beecause he was made holy vnto the Lord. Here is to bee noted gentle reader the greate loue and kyndnesse that God had to his people to kepe them in awe and feare and howe mercifullye he did show vnto theÌ„ by the mouth of hys Prophete Yf necessitie required to serue for a common welth their king according to god hys appoyntement by hys Scriptures whom he had ordayned to be their head and gouernour For as euery one body hath one head whiche by witte and reason gouerneth the hole partes of the same bodye so GOD gaue vnto hys people beyng but one whole bodye a head to rule and gouerne them as one bodye and that they as particuler partes of one bodye and members to one heade shoulde bee gouerned by that heade in case lyke So god gaue them a kinge to bee theyr heade to reygne ouer them and that they as obedient subiectes should truely serue obey him For it is written throughe me kinges do raygne throughe me Councellers make iuste lawes and throughe me princes beare rule and iudges of the earth execute iudgement Who therefore that wyll call to mynde the noble hystoryes of princes and also haue in memorye the famous tyme of theyr regymente and the prosperous estate of the weale publicke it is necessarye for him fyrst to behold the order that god almightye hath put generally in al hys creatures and most chieflye to the estate of maÌ„kinde for whose vse all other creatures as I haue sayed were ordayned of god And like as in the inferior creatures there are diuers properties of natures wherby one excelleth another â—o in