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master_n	father_n	king_n	son_n	3,169	4	5.2990	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01371	A watch-vvorde for warre Not so new as necessary: published by reason of the disperced rumors amongst vs, and the suspected comming of the Spanyard against vs. Wherein we may learne how to prepare our selues to repell the enemie, and to behaue our selues all the tyme of that trouble. Compendious for the memorie, comfortable for the matter, profitable for the matter, profitable for the tyme.	Gibbon, Charles, fl. 1589-1604.	1596 (1596)	STC 11492; ESTC S117690	33,754	62

Nabuchadnezer did he wil not spare a Papist though he be a Papist but he will rather suppose it is done of policie to possesse life and therefore in this regard they should arme themselues against the enemie because they are like to speed no better thē we if he preuaile Themistocles had rather die then beare Armes against his Country VVhat more neere to any then his natiue coūtry For thys cause I reade of Zeno who being taken by a Tyrant and enioyned to tortures he bit out his tongue spit it in the Tyrants face for feare the extreamitie of the payne should make him confesse any thing against his Country Let these Heathen men excite vs to carrie true harts to our Country for as Paedanius saith he that betraies his Country is worse then he that besiegeth it Treason hath been odious in all ages To Man To God To Man it is odious Antigonus the King woulde alwayes say I loue Traytors so long as they are in betraying but when they haue betrayed I hate thē Ierome to Pammachius sayth that Princes doe indeed admit treason but they condemne the Traytors Hier. de optimo genere interpretandi Many betray their country in hope of Preferment Reward Loue of the Enemie Yet commonly they fayle in theyr purpose and receiue in steede of preferment reproch in steede of reward punishment and in steed of loue hatred As for preferment we reade of Lasthenes who when he had betrayed hys Countrie to King Phillip of Macedonia he expected to haue had some preferment and dignitie for hys deede but the common Souldiers in derysion called hym euer after by no other name but TRAYTOR insomuch as he complayned to King Phillip for redresse the King made hym thys aunswere the Macedonians are rude and playne people and knowe not how to call things but by theyr own proper name noting heereby that as he had committed treason so he iustly deserued no other name but Traytor As for Reward we read of certayne Phaliscian Scholemen vvho hoping of reward went about to betray theyr Countrie to Camillus vvho rewarded them as they deserued for hee commaunded that they should be brought home agayne into theyr owne Countrie with the strypes of theyr own Schollers because they would haue betrayed them Menelaus presumed of some reward vvhen hee sought to betray his Countrie to Eupator so hee had for he commaunded he should be put to death for his desert 2 Mach. 13. As for Loue vvee reade of the King of the Thraciaris who in hope of fauour fell from Anthonie to Augustus which afterward he boasted on in the presence of Augustus and others but Augustus turned hym to hys friend and sayd I loue the Treason but the Traytor I commend not Plutarch King Pyrhus Phisition promised to the Romayns that he would for theyr sakes worke treason agaynst hys King and Countrie they were so far from fauouring hys ill pretence that they dyd detect hym to his King that he might take heede of hym that example of Iudas may be pretelie heere-vnto applyed the Iewes made of Iudas whilest he was a working the Treason but vvhen he had done they made no force of him for when he told them he was touched and disturbed for the treacherie vvhat is that to vs say they see thou to it Math. 27 4. A Traytor may haue some kind intertaynement for the tyme but he shall neuer haue any matter of trust committed to him for he that will betray hys natiue Countrie shall liue euer suspected of falsehood in a forrayne Nation To GOD. Treason is an odious thing to God and so odious that although it should passe vnpunished amongst men yet he will pursue a traytor himselfe with his iudgements whereof we haue many examples in the scriptures Absalom committed treason against Dauid hys father and Zimri against Elah hys Maister yet for all that Dauid dyd not punish hys Sonne nor Elah hys Seruant the Lord shewed hys iudgments vpon them for one vvas hanged by hys owne haire 2 Sam. 28 and the other burnt hymselfe 1 King 16 18. Iason was a notable Traytor to his Countrie and raunged lyke a roge or vagobond afterward from Countrie to Countrie he did escape the punishment of men but God still pursued hym tyll at last comming to Lacedemonia where he had thought to haue had reliefe he dyed most miserablie vvanting the last office of humanitie which is buriall 2 Mach. 5 7 8 c. There be many yet I will but note one other worthie example Iehoiakim betrayed and rebelled against Nabuchadnezzer a wicked King this action so much displeased the Lord that he raysed vp many bands of men agaynst Iehoiakim to aflict hym for his treacherie 2 King 24 1. If the Lord will punish such as worke treason against theyr King though he be a tyrant vvhat will hee doo to those that betray a good Prince which mayntaynes the Gospell Sithence treason is so odious to God and man as Barnherd sayth Aliorum perditio tua sit cautio let other mens destruction be our permonition and let euery one of vs carrie true harts to our Queene and Countrie If it be a punishment to haue a Tyrant to raigne and a double punishment to haue hym taken away Hosea 13 11 for better is a Tyrant then no gouernour Iudg. 17 6 vvhat a blessing is it to haue a godlie Prince as we haue and a double blessing to enioy her dayes as we doe but how vnspeakeis our punishment if we loose her therefore let vs vnite our heads harts and hands and venture our own liuings and liues for the preseruation defence of such a Prince Then we may be fully resolued if we haue had vnfeyned repentance for onr sinnes and make defensible preparation for our selues and vse feruent prayers for our successe that God will so blesse vs with the meanes as we shall not neede to feare the iniurious assault of that proud Senacharib of Spayne Let Ahab call vpon Baal the Turke vpon Mahumet in their troubles and the Spanyard vpon Idols in hys attempts we wil pray and depend vpon the God of Israel And if Symachus boasted that in his wars his woodden gods did deliuer him from the Senons D. Mar. co Ro. we may be assured that our immortall and liuing God can and wil deliuer vs from the Spaniard Chrysostome Incepisse multorum est sed perfecisse paucorum FINIS