p â—â— Mariana is so impudâ—nt that hee saith tâ—at it is a wholesome meditation for Princes to perswade themselues that they may bee then killed and the party not onely to doe it lawfully but with glory and commendati n. Bellarmine I confesse was a modest Papist his tenets not steeped in the auâ—atiousnesse of many yet i Micah 7.4 the best of them is but a brier and the most righteous sharper then a thorne-hedge for when I consider his k Bell de pontif l 5. c. 6.7.8 Bell de pot â—um Pont. ad Guliel Barcl p. 97. treasonable conclusions and his damnable Letter to Blackwell what doe I hold him but a Cardinall Engine of sedition The Pope is held by many a Holy Father as if the Sanctuary of peace truth and piety were in his brest yet when I call to mind how Vrbanâ— 2. held killing of Kings no murther but a zeale to the Catholicke mother and how many m Consider the miseries of these Emperours Kings and Princes Leo Isâ—uâ—us Sigon de rag â—â—al p. 10â— â—uâ—ovicus pius papiâ— mass annal p. 04. Childerick â—â—m in gest Franâ— p. â—03 Oâ—ho the gr aâ—â—uiâ— p. 6. c. 6 Henry the 1. Ben Caâ—d vit Hild. p. 2 Hâ— râ— the 4. Nâ—ucl p 7â—7 Henâ— 5 vrâ—p p 2â—2 Lotâ—ar us Otho Fris l 7 c 18. Friâ— Barbaâ—ossa Nauct p 856. â—enry 6 Hoved p 63â— Philip his brother Nauâ—â— p 898. Otho 4. Wa sing Ypâ—d Nâ—ust p. 4â— â—râ—d 7. Pâ—ndulâ— col hist Nâ—ap p 245. Henry 7. Avent p 5â—7 5 8 Wâ—ncâ—â—l us â—heâ—d Ni m p â—8 so nâ— Q. oâ— Naples Nauct p. â—024 Manâ—ed K. of Nap. 〈◊〉 Nauct p. 9â—6 Câ—dinuâ— Parai vâ—s p 11. Iâ—lian Lawrence the Duâ—es of Florence Vol p. 51. Emperours haue beene troubled by Popes with the losse of their peace kingdomes or liues and other Kings and Princes in the like manner molested how n Maâ— Paris p. 223. King Iohn amongst our selues and o Cuâ— Neubâ—g p. 1â—â— Henry thâ— second were put to basenesse how Q. Elizabeth after the Bâ—ll of Pius Quintus was never at rest how p Orâ— Sixt. 5. haâ— in Conf◠〈◊〉 15â—9 Sixtus the fâ—â—t iustified by a panegyricall Oration the murhering of Henry the third in France by a Dominican Friar I can count the Pope no oâ—â—er then a murthering Father yeâ— the Cut throat of Christendome Beâ—â—de when I recount the massacres of Merindoll and â—ieâ—s Vâ—sâ— Paris and â—f that here intende in England at this Gun pâ—wder Treason I can speake to Râ—me in no milâ—er termes then God did once to Niniveh q Nah. â— 1. Oh thou bloody Citie Oh yee then which are the admirers of that Church which think it the Paradice where the tree of life doth grow and hold no ground holy but that which that Church sanctifies see at last the Aâ—mnable impostures yee haue bâ—eâ—e mis-led with renounce that r Apoâ— 1â— 5 Woman of fornâ—cati ns and Å¿ 2 Thess 2.3 Man of sinne bee it for no other reason then the e principles of blood Treason can never bee an appendant of the true Faith And oh yee Priests and Iesuits the spirit of conspiracy and nerues of treason who with wit 〈…〉 the whole world and haue raised vp nothing a great while but a learned vâ—lâ—â—ny by whom all the Commotions the turbulencies is the Christian world hâ—ue bâ—ene either acted or animated consider at last what it is yâ—e practise Treason Treason the attempt of rashâ—â—sse the vâ—â—f â—aâ—red the scandall of humanity the 〈◊〉 of Religion wiâ—â— men should not doe it good men wilâ— not What therefore will yee â—or this still streine your wits and your neck s and make your selues fearfull to your owne people odiâ—us to vs no if reverence to God and man haue not qâ—ite fâ—rsâ—ken you if yee haue not forgotten the honor safety o the men in y ur own corpses desist from such hideous horrible graceles dâ—signes And the rather because sauing the reputation of your owne iudgements yee are circumuented being but made slaues to the subtilty insolency of your Pope for what J beseech you by all the priâ—les of conscience that are left in your bosomes hath beene these many yeares the maine incentiue of all your disloyalties hath it not beene to make your Pope not onely câ—iâ—â—e Priest but chiefe Potentate in the Christian world where his temporall iurisdiction hath not beene acknowledged there ye haue laboured to thrust it in by this spirituall feat But if ye haue but one drop of spirituall oyntment left vpon your eyes consider if the opinion be not as vaine as the attempt is desperate who knowes not the forgery as well as the ambition of this Title But t Luke 22.26 it shall not be so amongst you damps the Popes affected Primacie ouer all Bishops but u Io. 18.36 my Kingdome is not of this wold throttles ouer all his Supremacie Kings Emperors Christ neuer assumed it Peter never chalenged it the auncient Bishops of the Romish Church never pretended title to it how then should it now come to be a right vnquestionable Search antiquities * Theo. l. 1. c. 7. Constantine the great was so farre from suffering Iulius the Bishop of Rome for being his Head that he gaue not his Legates but Eustathius Patriarke of Antioch precedency in the Councell of Nice x Leo ad Cler. plebem Constant ep 23. Leo commanded not Martian the Emperour to summon a Councell but made humble request for it by the Clergy and people of Constantinople y Cum lachrymis gemitibus Leo ep 14. ad Theodosium and with teares and sobs he begged of Theodosius to haue had a Councell in Italy but could not obtaine it the words of Pope Agatho of old were not imperious to Heraclius and Tiberius the Emperours but * Pro obedientia quam debuimus Concil Constant Act. 4. For the obedience wee owe you Gregory the Great acknowledged himselfe the seruant of Mauritius for a Christus dominari Imperatorem militibus sed etiam sacerdotibus concessit Greg. lib. 2. ep 103. Christ graunted the Emperour not onely to rule over souldiers but Priests in Iustinians dayes it is euident that the Emperour was held so farre superiour to the Pope that the sayd Emperor b Pontifical Cont. tom â— in vita Vigilii deposed two Popes Silverius and Vigilius and hee himselfe aswell as Theodora the Empresse thanked Belizarius their Agent for it Eutropius saith that in former times such waâ— the obedience of Popes to Emperors that if the Emperor sent for the Pope c Omni neglecta occasine Eutropius all businesse set aside he went though he knew it were to goe into banishment The boundlesse power and immoderate Tyranny of Popes ouer Princes in those ages then were not knowne are yee not perswaded in your câ—nsciences that the first raise of Popes was by the Grace of Princes and
THE CHVRCHES HAZARD Deliuered in a Sermon in the Cathedrall Church in NORVVICH vpon the fifth of Nouember 1629. By THO. REEVE Minister of Gods Word at COLEBY in NORFOLKE LONDON Printed by AVGVSTINE MATHEVVES for IOHN GRISMOND and are to be solde at his shop in Iuy-lane at the signe of the Gunne 1632. TO ALL THE ADHERENTS of the Romish Church amongst vs. HOw commeth it to passe that Rome is become the Seminary of mischiefe anâ— that where Martyrs once abounded now Conspirators the faith of that Church being once famous through the world but now her Bloodshed all Christian Countries hauing 〈◊〉 her tumults and many her Treacheries Can we iudge her that delights in crueltie the tender Mother no the a Rev. 17.4 scarlâ—t Wh râ— Are these her gentle warnings her spirituall stripes what to strike Nations to death Did Christ euer prescribe that a Church should bee advanced by such direfull designes dismall stratagems Let his Records bee searched and the Grant of this charter shewn No this practise nature disclaimes how much more Scripture detests Traytors are the worst men in the bad age Luke 21. 2 Tim. 3.4 yea the Monsters of the perilous times Out of the Manuscript of Iudas Treason may be prooued but out of the Gospel of Christ neuer Oh then that it should bâ—e held the perfection of Religion the mould of merit I wonder those practised disciples blush not to call themselues Iesuites and that the Pope the Crafts-master of the science doth not hang downe his head in the sight of the whole world to stile himselfe the Vicar of Christ Oh blessed Sauiour thou which didst suffer thy owne blood to bee shed and hadst rather loose thy life then thy meekenesse which neu r struckest enemy to death though thou haddest b Math. 28. all power which didst c Luk 9.55 coole the breaths of them which would haue had fire fetched from heauen and didst teach the d Math. 26 52. Discipline of patience to that military Apostle which did cut off Malchus his eare which thy selfe wert an innoc nt e 1 Pet. 1.10 Lambe and didst send foorth thy Messengers as f Math. 10 1â— Lambes which wouldst haue kingdomes subdued vnto thee by revealing of mysteries and not by depriving of life how wilt thou acknowledge such followers to bee of thy retinue No here Antichrist is discovered in that he is so â—pposite to Christ g Cum sitis inhumani impij crudeles homicidae non ampl uâ—câ—itis Ch istiaâ—i Lucifer Caralitanâ—â—râ— Athan l â—p 65 Seeing yâ—are inhumane impiouâ— cruell homicides yâ—e are no longer Christians Their ab sing of the Scriptures the mingling of their owne works with Christs precious satisfactions the steame of their Brothell-houses their shop of Imagery their new built Chaldron of Purgatory the grounding of the principles of their Religion out of Apocryphall allegoricall parab licall places or out of most darkâ— and intricate places of Scripture from which no conuincing arguments are to bee fetched the voluntary confession of their owne Writers that neither h Transubstanstiation The vtter reiecting of Hoc est c â—pus mâ—uâ— for a cleaâ—e place and oncluding N n potest per vllam scripturam probati Fisher cont capt Babilon n. 8. Bellarm nes conf ssing Scoâ—us his opinion that there is not extant any place so expresse that without the Churches dâ—claration can euidently constrâ—â—ne vs to admit it not to be improbable de Euch l. 3 c. 23. § Non dissimili Transubstantiation i Haâ—â—e Communion custome G eâ— de Val de vsu Euch c. 10. lade of the peoples deuotion Hâ—â— Communion in one kind k Indulgences Roff Assert luth conf art 18. Cajet opusc tom 1. tract 15 de Ind cap 1. Indulgences l Sacrifice for quicke and dead Câ—ster in coâ—p oâ—th fid dem â—rep 5. c. 2 p 1. 2. sacrifice for quicke and dead m Prayers vnto Saints and Images Batâ—n in 2â— q 1 art â—0 prayers vnto Saints worshipping of Images n Christâ— descension into Limbus Patrum no where expressed that Chr st wâ—nt thitheâ— to deliuer the soules â—f the Fathers Mâ—â—c 〈◊〉 Canâ— l â—l c. Theol. c 4 Christs descension into Limbus patrum o Confâ—ssion Glâ—ss in Gâ—at de poen dist 5 c 1 in poenit Confession nor many other points are cleerely to bee proued out of Scripture their reviving of the ancient heresies of the p Valent ut â—â—anâ— Heraâ—eonites for extreame v ction Irenae l 1 c 11. Aug l 〈◊〉 haeâ— c 16 Valentinians and Heracleonites q Angelicâ—â—s for wo shipping of Angels Aâ—g â—e haer c 39. Angelickes r Caâ—pâ—â—aâ—ians for woâ—shippinâ— of Images Epiph haer 27. Aug. de â—ar cap 7. Caâ—pocratiâ—ns Å¿ Collyridiaâ— fâ— worsh pping of the viâ—gin Mary Epâ—h haer â—8 Collâ—ridians t Samâ—saeans for reliques Epiph â—aer â—3 Sampsaean u Mâ—â—ichees for Priests single l fe Aug Epiâ—t 74 Id. de morib Ecc Maniâ—â— l. 2. c. 13. Manichees * Mestaleans that Baptisme doth â—â—eâ—y 〈◊〉 e sinnes going before Theod. diuin Decrâ—e de Baptismo Messalians x Nâ—diâ—edales â—or their â—aâ—e fâ—oted Fransiscanes and Seculars Aug de har c 58 Nodipedal y Catha â—stâ— for merits Isioâ— 1 Etym. lib. 8 c. 4. Catharists z Armezians for woâ—sh pping of the Crosse Nâ— â—ph l. 1â— c 45 Armenians a Aâ—stoâ—ickâ— for voluntary poverty Epiph haer 61. Apostolickes b Mar â—us the 〈…〉 for hauing bloâ— in the Chalice Epiph haer 34. Marcus c Nouatians for doubting of remission of sinnes Aâ—b i. â— de Poen c. â— l. 2. c. 5. Novatians and others their Boy-fathers alleadged in solemne controversies the digladiations of their owne Divines against them and the maine points of our profession proved substantially out of their owne Writers make mâ—e to renounce them but their conspiracies mak mâ—e to abhorre them defy them looke agast vpon them but specially when treason comes to be dogmatised by their Schoolemen every Romish Theologue almost now adayes not being able to compose a Body of divinity without this sanguinary Maxime in s rted iustifying the lawfulnesse of Treason and as if it were a professed 〈◊〉 describing and prescribing the meanes of it making no conscience of it after d Suarez defens fid Cath. adv Aug. sect exc lib. 6. c 4. n. 18. condemnatory sentence yea if the Popes e Bann 2. 〈◊〉 p. 5â—â— in erpretatiue sentence can but bee conceiued it is enough to doe but deny their Religion is to f Sand. de clau Dan. p 25. runne vpon the sword of the Church g Suarez def fid â—at adv Aug. sect er lib. 6 c. 4 n. â—8 any person then appointed by the Pope mâ—y take away the life of his Soveraigne if none bee appointed the Successor may doe it if there bee no Successor the Kingdome may doe it yea h Mariana instit reg
seemed not fuller of pleasant fruits then wee of faithfull Protestants not a scattered flock were we at this time but a fold well filled wee were in our multitudes Our Aduersaries Next Aduersaries And who are Aduersaries to vs if not Romes squiâ—t-eyed brood they are Papists wee Protestants and as the saying was of old p expectas vt Quintilianus ametur Dost looke that Quintilian should be loued Quintilian that was the Oratour against the vices of the times so dost looke that any Protestant that hath laid open the nakednesse of the whore of Babylon should be tendered by her Followers no as Fabritius enuied all that Marcus Aurelius did so we must looke for nothing but the spirit of contradiction and contention in all our passages q Ganius Arianus quod os suum obturaverat Chrysostomus coepit tyrannidem exercere Erasm in vita Chrys Ganius the Arrian because S. Chrysostome had stopped his mouth burst out into tyranny So because we haue gagged the obstreperous throate of Romanists that they cannot so rifly or succesfully belch out their Doctrine of Deuils amongst vs they swell with malice against vs yea they haue sacrificed in hatred against our cause as it is reported of Caligula that he sacrificed to Enuy Marke Rome and see if it be an auspicious planet to our Church no it lookes with malignant aspects I will looke for honey in the nests of Dragons as soone as for affection in the followers of Antichrist their Vatican is the Councell-chamber of mischiefe to vs the Popes keyes are but picklockes to our state It was neuer well with Christian states since Popes came to weare Triple Crownes what hath hee to doe with Crownes r Plat. the Phrygian Miter that Syluester 1. wore vpon the cold Mountaine of Soracte would become him well enough when Popes come to weare Triple Crownes then oh yee Christian Princes your Crownes shake on your heads but why a Triple Crowne a Triple jest that his Followers might thinke they could want no meanes vnder such a Diadem'd head or wherefore else where is hee King of Pasquius poste the Lady Ioanes porphiry Chayre and the Curtisans stewes where like a Prince hee takes tribute Constantines donation proued to be ridiculous I know no other Kingdomes he hath vnlesse I would credit some Iesuits who say hee is King of Heauen Earth and Purgatory as for Heauen indeed though Rome boast of many miracles yet I neuer read nor heard that God sent him downe a Crowne from heauen for Earth strange it is that Christ whose Vicar the Pope pretends to be neuer woare crowne but that which was put vpon him in scorne a Crowne of Thornes and yet that the Pope must haue his browes filleted as for Purgatory indeed that is a Newfoundland and if the world were well rid of Popes it were no matter if there hee woare a Crowne But in the meane time till this doubt bee resolued by what right the Pope c mes by his Triple Crowne I am sure of the ruth that hath followed vpon it triple woe is threatned to all them that will not yeeld obedience to the Tâ—iple Crowne wee like not of his pride then the proud man waxes â—eâ—uish and tâ—trical to all them that will not approue of him â—â—e Church of Rome is the Å¿ Genius Euangeâ—â—i Calvâ—n ad Regem Gaâ—lâ—ae Fiâ—nd and â—ury to haunt the Gospel the Protestants Little-ease I know not whether all amongst vs will count thesâ— Aduersaries but sure I am that they are they that once chayned vs vp in the botome of their l thsome prisons and burnt our bodies t ashes they left vs no other visibility of our Church but Martyrdome nor no other monuments of our Religion but such as were fetched from their flaming stâ—kes they suppressâ—d our writings depriued vs of our liues and sufferâ—d none but their owne sworne Scribes to bee pen-men of h stâ—ries and then askt vs where was our Church before Luther Are thâ—se friends courtesies I know not let brainsicke lymphaticke bewitched besotted persons led away with an asâ—â—ntatory or an abderitious spirit conceit them to bee Friends but sure I am when time was they were such deere Friends as made vse of their time and vse of our blood therefore for my part I see the enemies eye in their heads the gall of Aspes in their bosomes Aduersaries they are Our and Our Aduersaries Sayd Next Sayd And oh that it should be sayd that Rome should not say to any thing what the intrepid men of the earth and not hardy to any enterprise They scotch at a mischiefe and be faint-hearted in any pestilent pernitious deuise Let them serue no longer vnder Antichrist who is sayd to be t 〈…〉 â—deus facie Dan. 7 20. a man of an impudent countenance as if he could blush for nothing their Master can infuse courage into them they shall merit by it and when he that sits in the chayre will thus authorise countenance sinne and lay down hire aforehand euen to put them into his Rubricke to record them in his Kalender for Saints the highest preferment these men looke for what villany will not our Aduersaries undertake u Plutarch Scipio sayd that if he bade his souldiers throw downe themselues from the toppe of a rocke they would not refuse it So these men will throw downe themselues into the bottome of hell at the Popes command Here was an action odious horrible enough yet was it not Sayd Yes they had bound themselues vnto it by oath and taken Sacrament vpon it Romes oathes Romes Sacraments oathes the spring-heads of conspiracy Sacraments the broad seales of treason Now then beeing thus mortised in mischiefe what can ye looke for but pertinacy in the worke Excordes no Effrontes heartlesse no browlesse in it fervid and vigorous that it might have beene dispatched two yeeres space could not rebate their edge nor make their hearts relent from this horrid enterprise with joynt consent and vnchangeable purpose doe they settle themselues to it when Faux was apprehended and examined whether it touched not his conscience to bee the Actor of such a wretched intendment hee answered like a man steeped in Roomes Lees that it repented him of nothing but that it was not executed so that this was not some floating conceit or swimmering resolution but as solemnly concluded and obstinately vowed vnto as euer was any thing it was decreed it was Sayd Our Aduersaries sayd They shall neither know nor see Next They shall neither know nor see This is the point of cunning and doubt not of that to be there when Rome is the Schoole-mistrisse of subtilty the very Accademy of hellish pollicy where Iesuits are lutors the Pupils cannot but bee subdolous If ye would have a snare to bee layd send for these crafts-masters they are the exâ— cunning Artizans of the world versed exercised in all versute fraudulent courses Would ye haue a taste of their subtilty there
needes no more to relish your palates then the remembrance of this dayes intention I haue read of many craftie plots as of u Gen. 34. Simeon and Leui that set vpon the Sichemites whilst they were sore of their circumcising of x 2 Kings 19 Adramalech and Sharezer that slew Senacherib when he was worshipping in the Temple of Nisroch of y Knolles Chasis Ilbeg who s ying vnto Hadrianople like a discontented fugitiue and hauing gotten some authority in the Citie on the suddaine set vpon the warders at the gates and having slaine them let in his ambushment not farre off and so betrayed it into the hands of the Turkes of z Knolles Terhates Bassa who feyning himselfe to be at the point of death sent for Ales-Beg and his foure sonnes with pretence that if he should die he would commend his gouernement into his hands till Solyman his Master should otherwise dispose of it and so with this wily devise hauing drawne them to him presently put them all to death of a The watch-word beeing Nirâ— in which were thirty thousand slain at Constantinople Procopâ—et Euagr. those desperate wretches in the dayes of Iustinian that went with sharpe weapons secretly vnder their garments and stabbed men to death no men knew which way But of all subtill deuises this carries the superiority For consider the passages in it To the Priest it is disclosed vnder seale of confussion so that he must not râ—ueale it Next the Actors had sworne that neither directly nor indirectly by word nor circumstance they would discouer it so that they had made sure worke at home Confessors and complices are bound to secrecy like Angerona the goddesse of silence that the Poets speake of which holdes her finger vpon her lippes with a tablet vpon her breast and this inscription vpon it Heare see and say nothing Papirius was not more ready to cut his tongue out of his mouth because he should haue beene forced to confesse his treason then these would haue beene ready to haue beene discerpted eviscerated to haue had limbe torne from limbe rather then they would haue had any thing brought to light Consider further First the place wher they wrought vnder the ground They are not for a roome where the light of the sun that bright and broad eye of the World could haue discerned them neither where men with their two sparkling planets in their heads could ordinarily view them no they lurk in their theuish corners they are for a caue a dungeoÌ„ a vault a close celler who could there haue spied out any thing but he that needed neither eye to search or to haue window to be opened or vault doore to be vnlocked to whom darkenes and light were both alike but for men they were sure enough The time when they wrought in the night Night is that which wicked men take vp for a mist to their actions a mantle to their wretchednesse b Nocte â—atent mendae vittoque ignoscitur omni Ovid. Faults haue then gotten their couerts and men may sinne by a kind of priuiledge This was the opportunitie they tooke when honest men were at their rest then they were watching and sweating to conuey in their engines of horror The materialls whereupon they wrought which were chiefely gun-powder c Contra terra motum nulla latebra nulla fuga Petr. 91. Dial. Against an earth-quake saith Petrarch there is no hiding nor shifting so say I for Gun-powder The blast is inevitable for all them within the compasse it is a quicke dispatcher In a plague a man may escape in a battell a man may come foorth aliue against poisons a man may haue Antidotes but from Gun-powder what muniment or preseruatiue no it is the strongest arrow in deaths quiuer The colour they set vpon the worke it was to lay in winter provision Were not these men thinke you much to bee commended that could prouide so well against a hard Winter and was not that Master thinke you very happy that had such a faithfull seruant as Faux to lay vp in store for him but the Master should neuer haue made vse of this prouision for himselfe neuer haue warmed himselfe with the billet nor haue had so much as a draught out of the 36. barrels the Master herein me thinkes was a strange kind of prodigall oh but it was for friends it was for a Parliamentary breakfast and Papists care not to bestow much vpon such a courtesie for vs there were Lawes to be made and they would haue them to be proclaimed Cum sonitu with noise indeed it had beene the lowdest trumpet that euer the earth heard or shall heare except the trumpet vpon mounâ— Sinah and the last trumpe Heere are Popish procâ—amations of Lawes d Mugitu lamâ—nta â—li omnia comâ—lerent Greg. Naz in Mon. they would fill all the sky with a lamentable roaring Well the devise was so great that they began to send forth their Prophesies tâ— their friends That the memory of novelties should perish with a cracke and in a moment should their bones be crushed yea they thought a man might have seene any thing in the Aegyptian darknesse as soone as have had any thing in this enterprise discovered in so much that when it was revealed Faux that Cerberi Faux if it may be lawfull to vse the word that jawe of Cerberus vttered this blasphemous censure that not God but the Devill had â—icovered it Now lay all these things together and consider with your selves whether mans eare ever heard or mans heart can conceive a more secret plot no our Adversaries were close enough like Basilisks they would have kill'd before they had beene seene Our Adversaries said they shall neither know nor see Till we come into the midst of them Next Till we come into the midst of them And were not our Adversaries aymes as haughty were they not for the Midst the height of authority the heart of command Yes Rome would be felt in her stroke They care not for some eminent man or some chiefe familie but for the Nation a Nationall Stratagem e Raâ—â— alâ—o 〈…〉 our Kiâ—gâ—ome must haue perished from her highest toppe Twelue men were abâ—ut to brâ—ng into bondage a whole Kingdome with one stroke yea with one blow to make a gâ—nerall thrall the Papists strike home They would put out all the lights of the Land at a blast what a darke house had there beene Rome hath a strange kind of extinguisher They would batter downe all the bulwarkes of the Kingdome at one Cannon-shot Mahomet the Great Solyman the Magnificent nor any of the mighty martiall spirits in the World euer had such artillery The King in his Throne should haue bene blowne vp the Queene his consort in wedlocke shouâ—d haue beene his consort in woe the Prince at their knees should haue beene heyre apparant to nothing but their misery not a Noble-man shâ—uld haue beene left not a Prelate to gouerne the