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A68984
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A murmurer
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Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?
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1607
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STC 3671; ESTC S104771
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neere birth bretheren in our language is it not possible for our liues to make vs bretheren in loues Let vs see vvher is the fault vvhat is the cause and vvhy it should take place In God no hee loueth vnity In the King no hee vvould haue an Vnion In the Subiectes noe they vvould bee obedient to their King In the Godlie noe they vvould bee obedient to GODS vvill In vvhome then Surely in none except in some priuate persons for some priuate causes to some priuate endes oh then those priuate persons are not for the publique vveale those priuate causes for no common good and those priuate ends are for no godly end but hoping there are none such I speake to none but vvish all vvell that all may be vvell Is not our Religion all one and shall vvee differ in Ceremonies and if our Lavves vvere all one should vve differ in the execution our earth all as one and shall vvee then differ in nature vvhat should bee the cause but this vvhile God is vvorking and the King is vvilling the Deuill is stirring and man is striuing but God is aboue the Deuil and a King is aboue his kingdome and vvhile God is God and the King gratious though the Deuill bee vvicked let not man bee vvilfull A true loues knot is long in knitting vvhen both endes must meete in the middest but once vvell put togither it is both faire and fast So an vnion of people is long a vvorking but once sast lincked in Ioue vvhere farre and neere meet in the middest of a good mind hovv beautiful is such a peace vvhere the people are so blessed let then al murmurers be shut out from the sound of such a Parlee vvhere vvisedome may shevv her grace in the worke of such a worth for it must bee that our King and theirs is and must be and euer I pray God be al one our Religion and theirs one and our lavves and theirs all one els how can there be loue in our liues or vnion in our hearts but I hope that God who did create our hearts by his will will so vvorke our hearts to his will that wee shall not swarue from his will but as hee hath made all into one kingdome so vve shall bee all as one people vvith one voice praising God vvith one heart seruing one King and vvith one loue embrasing one another Many little birdes flie togither in one flocke many kindes of cattell feed in one field many kinde of sheepe lie togither in one fold and shall tvvo neighbour borne Children not liue togither in one loue God forbid It is an old saying and euer true Concordia paruae res crescunt discordia maxima dilabuntur by Concord small things proue greate by discord the greatest doe decay Tvvo little Landes haue made a greate Kingdome and shall one great people bee little in loue God forbid The Landes vvere deuided and are vnited and if the people may bee vnited let them not be diuided Diuision breeds Ambition Emulation and faction and vvhat are the fruits of these frenzies hovv many kingdomes to their great misery haue tasted but vniō breeds loue Charitie faith of vvhich blessings vvhat are the benefits vvhat kingdome may not bee glad to tast A King of a deuided peopl◠may haue povver in his svvord but a king of vnion may reioyce in his Scepter a people deuided may be grieuous to themselues but a people vnited may be pleasing to God diuision is the cause of distruction and vnion of Comfort compare them then togither see vvhich is to be accepted diuisiō breeds feare and ielouzie vnion breeds the resolution and trust diuision breeds warre and hatred vnion breeds peace and loue diuision breeds dearth and danger vnion plentie and safety diuision breeds malice and murther vnion breeds loue and life diuision breeds greefe and sorrow vnion breeds mirth and Comfort Thinke then vpon the venom of the one and the vertue of the other and if thou bee not senceles of thine owne good runne not headlong vpon thine own ill desire not rather to liue in the hatefull nature of diuision then to bee lincked in the liuely knot of vnion least the God of loue that offers it and thy louing King that desireth it both hate thee for refusing it and deny thee it vvhen thou vvouldest haue it The Tovver of Babell could not be builded vvhen the languages vvere diuided Jerusalem vvent to ruine vvhen the Princes vvere diuided Rome hath beene shaken since Religon hath beene diuided Antwerpe hath beene decayed since the States vvere diuided France vvas impouerished vvhen the Nobles were diuided and England vvas disturbed when Scotland vvas diuided but now the Landes all bearing one name the Subiects all one vnder one King the laws all tending to one ende vvhy should not the Nations bee all one people Flowers grovve svveetely together Trees beare fruite naturally together fishes swim friendly togither birdes sing merrily together beasts seede quietly together and is it not then a shame for men that vvee cannot liue louingly togither a drop of water is weake but many droppes of water will driue a mill a sparke of fire is little but many sparkes together will make a fire to consume a whole Countrie a corne of powder is little but a great many together will discharge a great shot a herring is a smal fish but a skull of them together vvill ouerthrovve a prettie ship a pike is a small vveapon yet a stande of them being together vvill ouerthrovve a greate Troope and a man is a small Creature but where men hold togither what monster can hurt them So these Lands being one land and the people one people what kingdome can annoy vs no let vs say and if wee bee our selues to our selues and in peace among our selues and that our God be with vs neither the world nor the Deuill can hurt vs But if there bee a breach in a banke the Sea breaks in ouerflowes the Land If there be a breach in a furnace the fire will burst out and burne the whole house If there bee a breach in a wall the Bore will breake in and spoile the whole vineyard If there be a breach in a hedge the cattel vvill breake in and eate vp the grasses if there be a breach in a Fort the enemie will enter and sacke the Towne if there bee a breach among pikes the horsemen will breake in and ruine the Campe If there bee a breach in a conscience Corruption will get in and kil the whole man if ther be a breach of loue in the hearts of a people the enemie will take aduantage for the inuasion of the kingdome See then and consider hovv dangerous a thing is diuision and hovv safe an assurance is vnitie and take the best and leaue the worst and so shall none of your pales bee broken oh heauens vvhat a hell is this in the vvorld that men should liue so like Deuills one one
A Murmurer LONDON Printed by ROBERT RAVVORTH and are to be sold by Iohn Wright at his shop neere Christ-Church gate 1607. TO THE RIGHT HOnorable the Lords of his Maiesties most Honorable priuie Counsell RIght Honorable It cannot bee vnknowne to your wisedomes how perilous a thing both to the Crowne the Peeres and the Nobles yea and to all the parts of the common-weaâ—th is the vngratious vngodly yea prophane hellish humor of murmuring especially against God the king or any their ordeyned magistrates in a Kingdome for the cure wherof what care is to be taken your discreet considerations can determine and knowing in your honorable dispositions an assured hate vnto all such vnpleasing and vnprofitable spirits as no doubt but you wil weed out froÌ„ the good hearbs in the grouÌ„d of your charge and again how blessed a thing the vnioÌ„ of harts wil be to your honorable Spirits whose continual care of the preseruatioÌ„ both of our king and his vvhole kingdom deserueth no little honor I haue presumed rather vpoÌ„ your honorable pardons of what may offend your patience then your fauorable acceptaÌ„ce of my vnvvorthy seruice to present your Honors vvith a little tract against Murmurers murmuring in vvhich if I haue passed anie thing displeasing to your good patience huÌ„blie crauing pardon I atteÌ„d the sorrovv of my Imperfection but if I haue in any thing contented the least of your good likings I will leaue murmurers to the fruite of their malice and pray to God so to blesse your good minds that you may find out such offendors and giue them the due of their desert and in your selues among your selues may be so lincked in your loues that to God and his Maiestie you may euer liue togither in your seruice that when wickednes is weeded out and Grace is planted in the place God may be pleased the King best preserued and the Common wealth best gouerned So fearing with tediousnes to be a trouble to your good patience beseeching God to blesse you al with as much happines as murmurers are worthy to want I humbly rest Your Honors in all Humblenes To the Reader LET me intreat you by the kindnes I hope in you to bee perswaded that what I haue written in this little Tract is rather done to reueale the follie of a malitious humor then to taxe any person with the infection The labour is not long nor the sence obscure the substance whereof leauing to the censure of your discretion or correction of your good patience with my loue to your kind desert I rest as I find cause Against Murmurers and Murmuring OH Murmurer what wouldest thou haue was there euer any Kingdome so many years and so many waies blessed and thou in it so little worthy of thy comforts and so worthy of the contrarie is not thy Earth fertill are not thy Riuers sweet is not thy Aire temperate are not thy Citties faire thy people rich thy men strong thy women fruitfull thy Magistrates wise and thy King gratious are not thy Seas as a wall to defend thee from the assaults of thine enemies and hath not thy peace bred such a plentie as maks thee admired in the whole vvorld hast thou not vvith all this the richest iewel in the world yea and more vvorthy then the vvhole vvorld vvhich is the heauenly vvord of God to direct thee in his holy vvill and vvil not al this suffice thee to bring thee to the seruice of thy God to acknovvledge his goodnes to admire his greatnes to giue glory to his Maiestie vvhat shall I then say vnto thee but as I said in the beginning oh vvhat vvouldst thou haue In the time of blindnes vvhen the booke of life vvas shut from thy reading vvhen thy learned preachers and zealous people vvere put vnto the fire vvhen ciuil vvarres did breed thy penury and thy forraine enimies vvere readie to inuade thee vvheÌ„ thy Gouernour vvas a Tyrant thy life a bondage thy estate a miserie then hovv glad vvouldest thou haue bin to haue tasted the least of the blessings that novv thou art full of and then vvouldest thou haue prayed for deliuerance from thy sorrovves and ioyed in the least hope that might haue cleered thy heauy heart and art thou novv so hard harted so ill natured so void of seÌ„ce or so full of ingratitude that thou canst not conceiue thou vvilt not acknovvledge thou dost not vnderstand or vvilt not bee thankfull for this great measure of grace that God hath bestovved vpon thee vvhat then wil becoÌ„e of thee but let me aske thee what doth aile thee is ease a griefe pleasure a paine peace a Trifle plentie a Toy a good King a small blessing a graue Counsaile a meane comfort and the vvord of God a slight Ievvell learned Preachers and profouÌ„d Lawiers little blessing what shall I then say vnto thee but that they are ill bestovved on thee doest thou murmure at Religion is it not better to serue God then Man and to beleeue the Truth then follovv Error to vvorship God in the Heauens then make a kind of God on the Earth and to begge pardon of thy God at home then to buy it of a man abroad dost thou murmure that the Saints are not worshiped and wilt thou forget to vvorship God aboue wilt thou murmur at thy Loyalty learne the witch-craft of Rebellion wilt thou forget thy vocation and fal into the sin of presumption are these the fruites of thy deuotion fie vpon thy follie that hast no more tast of discretioÌ„ wouldest thou rather hear the vvord vnderstand it not then vnderstand it and beleeue it or trust rather to the vvord of a Priest for thy coÌ„fort then to thine ovvne faith for thy Saluation oh pittiful imperfection vvhat shall I say vnto thee but onely pray for thee that God vvil forgiue thee opeÌ„ the eyes of thy vnderstanding that by the light of his grace thou maist get out of thy darknes and beholding the greatnesse of his mercy giue glorie to his holy Maiestie Leaue therfore thy murmuring and turne it to thanksgiuing that so great a part of the vvorld being shut vp in the caue of Error thou vvalkest in the vnderstanding path of the perfection of all truth least if thou continue in thy accursed nature thy gratious God seeing thy vngratfulnes either depriue thee of thy comfort or cast thee into vtter darknes vvhile the Buls of Rome shal breed too many calues in Britanie Again dost thou murmur at peace hast thou a spirit of discord dost thou delight in blood oh brood of Caine looke on thy brother Abell heare the curse on thy condition doest thou vvalke in quiet vvorke in quiet eat in quiet sleep in quiet is thy vvife in thy bosome thy Children at thy Table thy seruaÌ„ts in thy busines do thy friends come to see thee thy neighbours salute thee thine enemies liue from thee doth Musicke fill thine Eares Beautie thine Eyes Wisdome thy