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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15494	A loyal subiects looking-glasse, or A good subiects direction necessary and requisite for euery good Christian, liuing within any ciuill regiment or politique state, to view, behold, and examine himselfe in, that he may the better frame the course of his life, according to the true grounds of the duties of an honest and obedient subiect to his king, and to arme himselfe against all future syren songs, and alluring intisements of subtill, disloyall, dissembling, and vnnaturall conspirators, traitors, and rebels. Collected for the most part out of both olde and later writers, whose names are in the next page set downe. Wherevnto are brieflie added sixe speciall causes of vndutifull subiects disloyaltie. By William Willymat.	Willymat, William, d. 1615.	1604 (1604)	STC 25761; ESTC S120179	57,436	78

same Theophilact saith Non damus sed reddimus quicquid ex officio cuiquā damus c. As who would say subsidies and taxes are not gifts but debts a gift is a thing in the free choise liberty of a man whether he will giue it and depart with it to an other yea or no and if he will not giue it yet no man hath any remedie or course by law to constraine him to giue but debt is a thing which no mā can choose whether he will pay it yea or no it must of necessity be paid the lawes will force a man to pay it will he nill he of this nature are subsidies taxes and such like vnto Kings The onely lawfull remedie against subsedies taxes c. Princes and supreme gouernours debts not gifts due and paiable by the lawes both of God and of all nations no with-standing no pleading to the contrary no deniall no excuses will serue There is no remedie for to free subiects from them but only the compassion pity and bountifulnesse of the king prince c. in pardoning and remitting the same Diuerse causes wherefore tributes subsedies c are to be paid Tributes subsidies and such like customes according to the accustomed orders of that countrey and common wealth wherein any subiects do dwell are to be paid for diuerse causes as first for the maintaining and vpholding of that royall estate which God hath giuen to Emperours Kings Princes c. Secondly tributes and customes are to be paide by subiects for the defence and maintenance of the common wealths in quietnesse peace and security and to the intent that they may be preserued the better especially in time of warres 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lib. 2. How necessarie money is in the vvars necessary prouision must be then had and as our most noble king James hath very truly written especially monie is to be had in a readines for that it is Neruus belli without which warres cannot be borne out and through want of it kings and princes shall either be forced to yeeld vnto most dishonorable and disaduantageous peace or lye open both them selues and their subiects to the open rapine and outragious violence and spoile of forreine inuaders and bloud-thirsty enemies so that their goods wiues daughters and liues shall be made common and commaunded by others Customes subsedies taxes c. are sinewes of the commonvvealth saith Vlpiā and as the same noble and learned King calleth money Neruus belli so before him Vlpian that most famous writer of law cases hath called tributes and customes Nerui reipublicae the very sinewes and strength of the common-wealth without which it can neither consist nor be well gouerned for according to the old said saying A great bird hath need of a great neast what or who is able to reackon vp or trulie to number how many waies and vpon how many occasions the kings mony must still be running little wottes and full little considers the common priuate people what affayres their gouernours haue to vse money in and to exhaust not onely their purses but their coffers and that Pro aris et focis for the good safety safe keeping euen of them and theirs that most murmure mutter and grudge at the payments of such customes by which such things cannot otherwise be effected Thirdly tributes are to be paid by loyall and faithful subiects The third cause of paying of Tribute Taxes c. thereby to contestate and acknowledge their subiection to their Soueraigne who for his good and royall preseruation hath power to commaund them their goods their lands their liues and whatsoeuer they haue their soules only excepted for that is to be resigned only to God animam deo corpus regi Fourthly and lastly these tributs and taxes are to be paied by good subiects yea and that with good and reuerent affections to their Princes in regard of thankfulnesse for benefits by them and by their meanes receaued As Dauid in his lamentation for the death of king Saul 2. Sam. 1.24 calling to remembrance the benefits which his subiects had reaped by him in his life time said to the daughters of Israel Weepe for Saul which clothed you in skarlet with pleasures and hāged ornaments of Gould vpon your apparell Lam. 4.20 The benefits that come by a King c. And againe as the prophet Ierem. said of king Iosiah that he was the breath of their nostrils and that vnder his shadow they had beene preserued aliue among the Heathen Euen so may I say and write vnto all wise and discreete loyall subiects were it not for the care vigilancie paines and circumspect gouernment of your kings princes c. what would become of your braue and fine attire of your costly gorgious garments of your most exquisit fine linnin of your silks of your veluets your skatlets of your exceeding sumptuous clothings your ornaments of gould your surpassing apparell The benefits that subiects receiue by their king and gouernour and of all your pleasures that your selues your sonnes and your daughters do take therin Nay more then this what would become of the breath of your nosestrills that is of your very liues then which what can be more precious vnto you and how were it possible for you to be preserued aliue among your enemies so greedily on euery side hunting for your landes your goods and all those treasurers whereof you make most accompt were it not that you are shadowed vnder the wings of the lords annoynted of king princes c. vnto whom for these and exceeding many moe benefits receaued and discommodities and mischiefes auoyded too many for me heare to repeate by name next vnder God the primary authour of all goodnesse you are altogether beholding for these so great blessings which none knowes nor considers how great they are but such as haue taffed and smarted for the want of them Let subiects therefore be thinke themselues in their consciences how much they are bound to their soueraignes and studie to be thankfull againe to them as in all other duties and obediences so also in this point of chearfull and willing paiments of tributes taxes c. Tributes and taxes are the lawfull reuenues of Princes Caluin in his institut lib. 4 ca. 20. sect 13. which they may chieflie employ to sustaine the comon charges of their office which yet they may likewise vse to their priuate royalty which is after a certaine maner conioyned with the honor of the princely state that they beare But yet alwayes so prouided that Kings and Princes should on the otherside haue this for their parts-still in remembrance that their exchequers and treasure-chambers are not so much their owne priuate coafers as the treasuries of the whole land Let not this doctrine that Tributes are so necessarily and strictly to be payd be an occasion to encourage Princes to wastfull and vnnecessary expenses A lesson necessarie for Kings

things most vnhonorable yea worthy of death Exo. 21.17 Exo. 22.18 Prou. 20.17 How honour is to be giuen to magistrates in talking with them And as honour is to be giuen and exhibited to higher powers and states in talking of them so is it also in talking to and with them as in giuing them their honorable right and iust titles thereby in speach to declare a due and worthy reuerence and estimation of them when any talke is had with or before them 1. Pet. 3.6 Mark 10.17 1. Sam. 14.15 In letting them speak before vs. Iob. 32.6.7.17 in keeping a reuerent silence in courts and iudgment places in their presence vntill we be bidden speake and then not to be sawsie or malapert in words before them The third kind of honour due vnto superiours Act. 24.10 The third thing way or meanes by which superiours are to be honored may appeare in the subiects behauiour and gesture in their presence as in bowing the knees to them Mark 10.17 Gen. 18.2 In standing by them when they sit downe Gen. 18.8 Exo. 18.13 In giuing them the chiefe feats 1. King 2.19 Luk. 14.7.8.9 In reuerent rising vp before them as they passe by Leu. 19.32 In meeting them as they come towards vs. The fourth kind of honour due vnto superiours Gen. 18.2 1. King 2.19 Fourthly they are to be honored inwardly in the very secret mind and affection that is their subiects are to thinke honorably louingly and reuerently of them from their very hearts acknowledging them to be the deputies and ministers of God prouided and sent of God for their weale and the rather to moue subiects more willingly and readily to yeeld them their due honour they must learne know and consider that whosoeuer honoureth the deputie is counted thereby to honour him that appointed the deputy and whosoeuer despiseth him whom God hath sent despiseth therin God the sender and whosoeuer perswadeth himselfe that externall honouring of his Prince is sufficient Eccl. 10.20 though inwardly in his heart he foster harbour a contemptuous malicious and rebellious thought that man is altogether deceiued in such his conceite for that subiects conscience that is guilty of dishonorable and quarrelsome thoughts against his supreme head and gouernour though he keepe it neuer so secret is wreacked and such a one is giuen ouer vnto other vncōscionable faults Epist Iud. 8 as S. Iude witnesseth That they are filthy persons that despise gouernment And therfore as subiects do feare to be deliuered vp into a reprobate mind The beginning of all conspiracies treasons c. arise from the heart that first faileth in honouring the highest povvers and tender the works of godlines in themselues let them tenderly keepe the houourable reuerence of their Prince in their minds inward affections and in the reines of their consciences for the neglect and smal regarde and care hereof hath bin the very fountaine and well-spring of all conspiracies treasons and open rebellions to the ruine and vtter confusion of thousands And thus farre concerning the third thing due vnto Caesar CHAP. IIII. Concerning prayer the fourth duty of a loyall subiect AS euery faithfull and loyall subiect is to giue vnto Caesar obedience feare honor as here before in this present treatise you haue hard it plainly laide downe prooued so likewise for a fourth duty are all true harted subiects boūd taught and commaunded by God in his blessed and sacred word to pray and call vpon him for the prosperous estate good successe and long continuance of kings 1. Tim. 2.1.2 Iere. 29.7 Baru● 1.11 princes and all such as are set in authority that the societie and companie of mankinde may liue quietly and peaceably vnder them considering how burthensome crownes scepters how hard the welding of them is and how difficult a matter it is to discharge them well whether it be in respect of themselues or of their subiects They must be prayed for that they may haue Gods fauour and his needfull protection from all wicked treacherous and rebellious assaults both of forreine enemies and home-borne desperate male-contented dissembling hypocritish corner-creeping conspiratours they must be prayed for vnto the Almightie that he would direct guide and lead them in such wayes as are most acceptable to himselfe that he would preserue them from all euill What things especially are to be prayed for in the behalfe of kings princes c. they must be prayed for that they may haue the honour and feare of God before their eyes as the only marke to aime at in all their proceedings and purposes and that they may be endued from aboue with the gifts of knowledge prudence Iustice temperance fortitude vpright seueritie discreet clemencie and an earnest zeale of Gods glorie Gods truth and of the welfare of their poore subiects committed to their charge They are to be prayed for that like as God hath deliuered and put his sword into their hands so he would take their hearts into his hands Things to be begged by praver in the behalfe of kings princes c. and so temper and guide them that they may vse his sword according to his owne will and pleasure for the cherishing and praise of their wel-doing subiects but to take vengeance on them that do euill and finally that they may set before their eyes meditate and consider well of the good and imitable examples of good godly and vertuous Kings Princes Iudges and gouernours as of Dauid Ezechias Iosias Moses and such other like vnto these commended in holy scriptures whose paths they may tread whose famous godly and zealous actes they may follow Thus in old time God commaunded the Iewes to pray for the life of Nabuchodonazer and for the prosperitie of Babilon as in Ierem. 29.7 And in Baruch 1.11 Pray saith he for the life of Nabuchodonazer king of Babilon for the life of Baltazar his sonne that their dayes may be on earth as the dayes of heauen c. Thus many yeares afterward did S. Paul exhort 1. Tim. 2.1.2.3 that supplications prayers intercessions and giuing of thankes be made for all men for Kings and for all that are in authoritie that wee may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all godlinesse and honestie for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Sauiour And who was that King Nabuchodorazer What a kinde of king Nabuchodonazer vvas for vvhō God cōmanded prayer to be made that the Prophet so exhorted the people to pray so for him and his sonne Baltasar It was euen such a one as had with sword and fire ouer-runne their whole land burned their countrie their townes and cities yea euen Hierusalem it selfe wherein was the holy temple of the Lord that they trusted so much vnto such a one as had slaine their king their nobles their parents children kins folkes and friends and had carryed them away captiues to Babylon he was an Heathen king a