A sermon preached at White-Hall the 5. day of November. ann. 1608. By John King Doctor of Divinity, Deane of Christ-Church in Oxon: and Vicechauncellor of the Vniversity. Published by commandement

11. Psal. 2. 3. 4. vers . For loe , the wicked bend their bow , & make ready their arrowes vpon the string , that they may secretlie shoote at them which are vpright in heart . For the foundations are cast downe ; what hath the righteous done ? The Lord , &c.

THe parts are two . 1. the danger , distresse ; 2. the deliverance . Jn the danger ; 1. the 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , preamble , introduction , quoniam ecce , and some turne quoniam into certè ; then haue you asseveration , certè , and demonstration , ecce : 2. the prosequution , explication , narration it selfe . The wicked bend , &c. The preamble noteth two things : 1. that the wickednes of the wicked is inseparable to him Certè , Certè , eccè verily . His iniquity is bound vp in his hart , he cannot part from it . Psal. The vngodly can set himselfe in no good way . Es. 26. Let mercy be shewed to the wicked , Senec. hee cannot learne goodnes . And then , quid eo infoelicius , cui iam esse malum necesse est ? Iuv. — monstrum nullâ virtute redemptum . 2. that his wickednes is not only inseparable , but sensible and notorious , it may bee admirable and prodigious , such and so great as deserueth an ecce , behold . So that the very dore-posts of my text haue a sprinkling and blessing vpon them : Certè telleth you that the wicked wil be wicked , Ier. Can a Morian chandge his skin ? And ecce , that hee wil be wicked with note , — vt declamatio fiat , that he may be talked of for it .

But I must with Abraham , not sit still in my tent dore , I must go in to make provision . Jf you walke further with me , you shall see persons & matter worth your seeing . Peccatores intendunt , &c. A ternary of persons . 1. the wicked . 2. the vpright in heart , or iust . 3. Iehovah . the things , 1. on the part of the wicked , their bow bent , & arrowes prepared on the string , to shoote , and that secretly , & that at the vpright in heart , and till the verie foundations be cast downe . 2. In the iust , I finde nothing but suffering , bearing , for iustus quid fecit ? what hath the righteous done ? 3. In the Lord , his being in heauen , beholding , examining , and finally rewarding . But thereof anon . Meanewhile the hand of my text , leadeth you to these remarkable particulars . 1. the actors , wicked . 2. the patients , or spectators , vpright in heart . 3. the indoles , disposition , provision , furniture of the wicked , their bow is bent , and their arrowes prepared vpon the string . 4. their execution , to shoote . 5. the adiunctum , in secret. 6. the extent , till the foundations be cast down . 7. the reason . I see none , but the wickednes of the wicked , & in the vpright of heart , righteousnes it self .

The holy ghost in that dore of my text , from which we are already past , standeth at the dore of your hearts , & knocketh for attention to all these . They are neither fables , for certè , nor trifles , for ecce ; they are both true , and great , & important . For what is there in the whole body of my text that deserueth not this character ecce to be stamped vpon it ?

1 Behold , that there should be men vpon the face of the earth , styled by the name of men , endewed with reasonable soules , effigiated to Gods image , the deliberated workmanship of his owne divine hands , his generation , 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , yet such as are hight in my text impij , improbi , without piety , without probity , godlesse , gracelesse , worthlesse men , peccatores , ( saith the vulgar ) 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , sinners exceedingly sinful , sinners with seared consciences , habituated , inured sinners , from the crowne of the head to the sole of the foote , inwardly , outwardly , nothing but sinfulnes .

2 Beholde , that their bow is ever bent , that they are strong & studious , to worke mischiefe , their braines exercised , their labours emploied , no contention of minde , no trauaile of body denied to the accomplishment of sin : not sins of ignorance , sinnes of infirmity , which wee all commit , but sins of industry , purpose , delight ; not sins of precipitation , passion ( as Gregorie calleth them ) but sins of deliberation , resolution , 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 . 1. Rom. they doe them , and take pleasure , liking in so doing : And their arrowes are ever prepared vpon the string , there wanteth but opportunity to loosen , and discharge them ; alwaies full of the strength , and spirit of wickednes , as a vessel of new wine , labouring as the clowde of a burthen of vapor , so they of maliciousnes , and swelling as the Spider with poyson , only awaiting the time when to disgordge themselues , & burst with most aduantage .

Behold , in the third place , that their sinnes are not sinnes of pleasure but horror , not sinnes of delight , but cruelty , bloudshed , none of those easie , & gentle , and fauourable sinnes , that touch not life , and hurte but their owners themselues , as pride , prodigality , & the like , this is an armed , enraged , military sinne , it shooteth forth arrowes , and darts , to pearce , to wound to slay , to bring to destruction .

4 Behold , that not content with it selfe , cruelty I meane with hir owne effects , which perturbation of minde often bringeth foorth , and leasure dearly repenteth ; for the better prospering , and speeding of her bloudy hand , she maketh subtilty hir assistant : sagittant in obscuro , Val. Max. 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , in obscurilunio , it is skilfull , artificiall cruelty . Crudelitatis horridus habitus , truculenta facies , violentus spiritus , vox terribilis . Let cruelty looke and speake like it selfe , and men wil bee warned to avoide it . Tamberlaine his bloudy tents made open profession what his meaning was . Here are Cruelty & craft coupled togither , a smoothed , dissembled , disguised cruelty . Venite , sapienter opprimamus eum .1 . Exod. They will be cruell in oppressing , yet they wil do it wisely .

Or if all these doe not moue ,

5 Behold , it is a wonder , they can finde no marke but the vpright in heart :

6 Behold , it is a wonder , they can make no ende till the foundations be cast downe .

7 Behold , it is a wonder , they can giue no cause of their malice , the righteous neuer offended them .

Eccè , behold all to gether ; wicked , the actors ; bending the bow &c. their diligence , eagernes ; to shoote , their cruelty ; secretly , their subtilty ; The vpright in hart , their mistaken marke ; til the foundations bee cast downe , their vnmeasurable extent ; and what hath the righteous done ? their vnreasonable reason .

The Actors , and Archers in my text are impij , improbi , peccatores , you knowe them already , they neither feare God , nor reverence man . They drinke wickednes like water , and adde thirst vnto drunkennes , that is , when they are drunken with sin , they thirst after it againe . This world of people , since it first had being , hath bin diuided into two disparate species and sorts of men , wicked , and righteous : betweene which two as betweene Abraham & the rich man , there hath euer bin 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 a great distance & gulfe , not in nature ( figmentum vnum , one bloud , one breath , one image , ) but in condition , conversation . This division first began when God set vp that wall of partition , Gen. 3. betwixt the seed of the serpent , and the seede of the woman . The serpent hath had his seed ever since , 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , his viperous generation , dedicated in Cain his first borne , and thence forth the line continued along in Nimrod , and Cham , & Ismael , & Esau , and many persons and people of the earth , vncircumcised , vnholy , vncleane , the seed of the adulteresse and witch , people of the curse , sonnes of Belial , children of disobedience , darkned in their vnderstandings , dishonored in their affections , defiled in their consciences , abominable , incredulous , and to everie good worke reprobate . The counter divided members of this diuision thus sundred the meanetime , God shall evidently and conspicuously diuide at the ende of the world in the open sight of men and Angells , and shall cut betweene them as by an euen thread , with the two-edged sword of his mouth , when he shall turne the wicked to his left hand , and set the righteous at his right .

This diuision I finde in my Text , wicked and righteous , these , as commendable in their order & ranke , as the other damned & deplored in theirs . Those are impij 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , wicked in the highest degree , wickednesse giueth them nomen & esse ; Eccles. 12. hoc enim est totum hominis , this is all they are . The other , in the aime and purpose of the holy ghost , seeme to haue the absolute and full composition of righteous men . For first they are called recti corde , vpright in heart , and afterwards iusti , iust men . The former , rectitudo cordis , is the Canon and rule , The later , iustitia is the application & vse of it . Rectus corde without iustus is not sufficient , but iustus without rectus corde is stark naught . Rectus corde , 1. Cor. 4. is good , Nihil mihi conscius sum , but not complete , 2. Cor. 1. non in hoc iustificatus sum ; rectus corde , may say gloria mea testimonium &c. my reioicing is the testimony of a good conscience ; but except he be iustus also , he hath not learned the rule of his master , 5. Math. sic luceat lux tua , 8. Act. thy light must shine for the good of others . Simon Magus apparantly to the eie of the world was as iust as any man , yet the Apostle told him , Non est rectum cor tuum , thy heart is not right . Here are both , & both must be : heart , & hand , habit & action , radix & germen , roote & propagation , vprightnes of heart is bonum tuum , thine own good , but iustice is 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 the good of others : the one keepeth thee streight & vpright in thy selfe , the other distributeth suum cutque that vnto every calling and every person that rightly belongeth to them .

The wicked haue bent their bow and made ready their arrowes vpon the stringe . 2. Haue bent &c. I need not acquaint you how eager & sollicitous the wicked are to perpetrate wickednes , as a woman with child hath sorrow til she bring forth . Their artillerie is not far to seeke . Their bow hangeth not vp by the wals , Esay 48. their arrowes sleepe not in the quiuer , the one is bent , the other are prepared vpon the stringe ; in this sense Non est pax impijs . As the sea is euer working , and boyling like a pott of ointment , so they alwaies hammering , and fordging , some mischieuous act . Mich. 3. Noctes ducunt iusomnes ; operantur malum in cubilibus , they deuise mischeefe in their beds , and when it is light , they put it in practise . Act. 9. it is said of Saul ( as yet a persequutor ) that he went 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , breathing threatnings & slaughter — & si non aliqua nocuisset , mortuus esset , vnlesse he had murthred the Saints , hee had wanted breath . The Psalme saith , Alienati sunt peccatores à vulua , Ps. 58 errauernnt ab vtero . They become strange euen from the wombe . This spurious , degenerous brood beginneth to be wicked betimes . Diuines wel obserue , that originall sinne and hereditary corruption , hath a quicker , stronger vegetation , and sooner displaieth it selfe , Sueton. in them , then in other men . Tiberius would often say of his sonne Caligula that he liued for the ouerthrow of him , and his people , & senatricem populo Romano , Phaëtontem orbi terrarum educare , and that he bred a serpent to the people of Rome , an incendiary & firebrand to the whole world . There you haue one of that serpents seed , whereof I spake before . Alexander Aegaus called Nero his scholler 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 clay not mingled with water as other mens , but , macerated in bloud . He saw a sanguinary disposition in him : To his freinds that congratulated the birth of him , Domitius his father answered , scitote ex me & Agrippina nihil nisi in faustum , et horrendum , et publicè nociturum potuisse procrear● . Such egge , such bird ; there is alienatus à vuluâ , one estranged and corrupted from the wombe . Examples are infinite . Saul had euer his bowes and arrowes ready against Dauid Hee sought him as a fly , 1. Sam. 26. and hunted him is a partrich vpon the mountaines , as Dauid spake . A right archer , and fowler indeed . So were the Scribes & Pharises against our Sauiour . They watched him vpon all occasion 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , how they might catch him . So the Arrians against the Orthodox , Athansius by name , the great Atlas , for diuerse yeares , of the christian world . It is a world to read , how with their bowes , and arrowes , of implacable hatred , and indefatigable deuilish policies neuer vnbent , neuer intermitted , they persequuted that Saint .

From their inclination , 3 , 4. To Shoote priuily . propension , promptnesse to mischiefe , Come we to their practise . They beare not their bowes & arrowes as skar-crowes in a garden of cucumbers , to fray , but to shoote , not at stakes , but men , their arrowes are iacula mortifera , 7. Psal. deadlie arrowes , & least they should faile to hit , they take advantage of the darke , of privacie and secresie . They shoot privilie . Now this is the couenant of hel it selfe . For what created power in the earth is able to dissolue that worke which cruelty & subtiltie , like Simeon and Levi , sisters in euill are combined , and confederate to bring to passe ? Where subtilty is ingenious , insidious to inuent , cruelty barbarous to execute . Subtilty giueth counsaile , cruelty giueth the stroke . Subtilty ordereth the time , the place , the meanes , accommodateth , cōcinnateth circumstances , cruelty vndertaketh the act ; subtilty hideth the knife , cruelty cutteth the throate ; subtilty with a cunning head laieth the ambush , plotteth the traine , the stratageme , and cruelty with as sauage an heart , sticketh not at the dreadfullest , direfullest obiects , ready to wade vp to the anckles , the necke in a whole red sea of humane , yea country bloud ; how fearefull is their plight that are thus assaulted ? It was the case of our first parents . The Serpent commeth vnto them with faire words and fierie darts , subtilty , and cruelty . Proponit quod delectabile , supponit , quod Exitiale-Vngit , pungit . His , eritis tanquādij you shal be as Gods , made them like deuils . Thus righteous Abell was betraied , and butchered by his vnnaturall brother . Egrediamur for as , come brother , Let vs go walke and talke togither . Meane time whilest the tonge anointeth him with oile , the hand murthereth him . Ioab killeth not Amasa like an open foe . Estne pax mifrater , brother is all well ? was the vnsuspected traine to make way for his fatall weapon . All these shot in obscuro , privilie , and by stealth , it is the safest & surest shooting . Else what doth Iudas with a kisse , and all haile in his mouth , in the very forefront of his treason ? What so many wolues in sheepes clothing ? or Deuills from the blacknes of darknes , in the formes of Angels of light ? Or locusts from the bottomlesse pit with womens faces ? Or Hyaena with the call of a man ? Or the Syren with notes of melody ? Or the Crocodile with teares of mourning ? Or the whore of Babylon with her cup of fornications golden without , and sugred within , that the kings of the earth may be drunke , and die as it were senseles , and sleeping ? Or finally whie doe the rankest impostors and seducers of the earth , write pharmaca , medicines vpon the outside of the boxe , when they deliuer venena , poisons ? You see what mettals the wicked are tempred of●edged with cruelty , & backt with subtiltie . They carry both the Lion & the Foxe in their brests , as Carbo spake of Sylla ( the Scylla indeed and wrecke of the Roman people ) In imitation of whom rather then of St Peter , they write of Alexander the 6. that intrauit vt vulpes . There is subtelty , regnauit vt leo , there is cruelty , ( for he was tearmed spongia sanguinis , a spunge of bloud ) and to make vpp the full period of all his acts and monuments , mortuus vt canis , he died like a dogge .

But against whom is this double engine prepared ? If they will needes shoote , 5. At the vpright . let them take their marke aright . Let them shoote at him that shooteth at them , the great Nimrod and hunter before the Lord , the devill 6. Ephes , he shooteth the arrowes of temptation & death , let them shoote the arrowes of praiers , and orisons . Or let them shoote at the wicked the limms of the deuil - Diluculo interficiam , Psal. 101. I will make hast ( saith Dauid ) to destroy the wicked from the earth . Not so ▪ Seldome shall you see the wicked against the wicked . Squama squamae coniungitur , they stick too close together , they symbolize to nearly in wickednesse ( vnlesse by an overruling hand of God , and some extraordinarie iudgment , somtimes they turne their swordes each into others bosome , Iud. 7. and are drunke with their owne bloud , as with new wine ) But for the most part , even for that league , & kindred of wickednes , which they all hold , be their sects and professions of wickednes neuer no different , their rites , and religions neuer so opposite one to the other , Prov. 1. yet Marsupium ( they say ) sit vnum omnium nostrûm , Let vs all haue one purse , there is concors discordia , an agreement in their disagreements , an vnanimous consent in them al to bande against the innocent : Cōiunctis caudis , though adversis vultibus : Foxes will make shift to carry firebrands in their tailes to burne the cornefields . Thus Herode , and Pilate notwithstanding their priuate iarres , could quickly put themselues in tune to Crucifie Christ . And Scribes , Pharisees , Sadducees , Herodians , Roman souldiours , Iewes and Gentiles , though non Coutuntur , they conuerse not in many things , yet [ deponamus hic inimicitias ] leaue their quarrels & grudges at home , Niceph. if the cause be against the righteous . Meletians , and Arrians at the first were at variance betweene themselues . At length in the common pursuit of the church , they became 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , so knit togither in amity , that they exchanged names , and Arrians were called Meletians , Meletians Arrians . Ten seueral nations , 83. Psal. faciunt vnitatem contra vnitatem ( to vse S. Austins word ) make an venitie , or rather a conspiracy against one people of the Lorde . The reason is , the wicked with the wicked agree in multis tertijs , in many thirds ; but the wicked with the righteous ( except in the nature , and shape of man , ) communicateth in nothing . Quoniam invtilis est nobis , & contrarius operibus nostris , &c. The righteous is wholy vnprofitable to vs , and contrarie to our workes . His life is of an other fashion , wee cannot abide to looke vpon him . 2. Sap.

Let al this haue his passage . 6. Til the foū dations . They shoote , and shoot Priuily , and that at the vpright of heart . But filij hominum quovsque ? How long , O yee sons of men ! Is your malice vnexorable as the graue ? Deepe and bottomles as hell ? O sworde of the Lord ( cry they in the Prophet Ieremy ) how long will it be ere thou cease ? returne into thy skabberd rest , and be still . O yee arrowes of the wicked , how long ? Returne into your quiuers . Not , till the foundations be cast downe , and not a stone standing vpon a stone , nor a soule breathing vpon the earth , that beareth the name of a righteous man . Truth must first be banished from the earth & righteousnesse trodden down as mire in the streets , & Christ driuen out of his kingdome amongst vs , or els no peace . In this case the wicked is like the beast , non numerat , cannot endure a seed , a remnant , a berry here and there in the vtmost boughes , not one that professeth to know God , no not one . Vtinam Pop. Rom. Vnam haberet cervicem , was the wish of Caligula , that the people of Rome had but one necke , that at one blow he might cut it of : so these of the righteous . Venite , disperdamus eos de gente 83. Ps. Come , let vs cut them of from being a nation , and let the name of Israell be no more in remembrance . 137. Ps. The voice of Edom was like vnto it , in the day of Ierusalem , Exinanite , exinanite vsque ad fundamenta in eâ , Downe with it , downe with it even vnto the ground . It was Pharao his pollicy for the rooting out of Israell , Exod. 1 quicquid masculini sexus , all that is borne male cast it into the river . And Hamans pollicy in procuring those letters of the King for the killing of the Jewes in al the prouinces of his kingdome . The foundations must be cast downe .

The last is the cause of all this bitternes , What hath the iust done ? which in the righteous I finde none . For what hath the righteous done ? The subiection or answere implied must needs be , nihil , iust nothing But Aristides must be banished out of Athens , iustus quia iustus , for no other cause but for iustice , and Christians must be thrown to the Lyons , 1. Sa. 26. Christianus quia Christianus . Davids apology to Saul is , wherefore doth my Lorde thus persecute his servant ? what haue I done ? Or what evill is in mine hand ? O Lord my God ( Psa. 7. ) if I haue done this thing , &c. nay , if I haue not done the contrary , then let mine enimie persecute my soule , &c. but when they were sicke I put on sackcloth , and mourned for them as for mine owne mothers sonne ; this was all the hurt I euer did them . 1. Sam. 12. Behold ( saith Samuell ) here am I beare recorde . Whose Oxe haue I taken ? Or whose Asse haue I taken ? Or to whom haue I euer done wrong ? They answere , Thou hast neuer done vs wrong . Wherfore then do yee call for a king ? What iniquity haue your fathers found in me ? saith God . 2. Ier. Wherein hane I grieved thee ? Testifie against me . 6. Mich. Many good deeds haue I done amongst you , for which of my good deedes ? Ioh 10. saith our Sauiour in his Gospell .

The conclusion of all is , Psal. 35. Oderunt me gratis . The righteous Lord , and his righteous Christ , and their righteous seruants suffer these wrongs from the wicked without cause .

You see what aggrauateth . Men as innocent as innocency it selfe , yet persequuted with mortal , immortall hatred , both by force and fraud , and that to their vtter extinguishment and eradication from the face of the earth . So much of the distresse : the deliuerance which was my latter part , I referre to conclude with .

The wicked bend their bowe &c , Application . Haue I spoken all this while as to men that slept ? Or doth any man aske me in fine narrationis , at the ende of my tale , quis est hic what meaneth the man ? Eccles. 22. As when the high Preist adiured our blessed Sauiour , Art thou the Christ , the sonne of The liuing God ? & Pilate the like , about his kingdome , Art thou the King of the Iewes ? His answere was , Thou saiest it , what need more words ? So the very words of my text only read and recited in your eares doe sufficiently declare what my meaning is . J say againe ( which were enough for application ) The wicked had bent his bow , and made ready his arrowes vpon the string , to shoote privily at the vpright in heart , and our foundations must haue bin cast downe and what had the righteous done ? Certè ; Certè . it was as sure as that we haue breath and being , to praise the name of our God , who are heare mett together . It is no fiction , Pag. 34. as that ( they wil tell you ) of Squire out of Spaine , you know the author . It is no question betweene them and vs : Pag. 6. for Catholikes ( they say ) no lesse then Protestants admit the due detestation , Ergo the true concession & conviction of it . It was not done in a corner ; It was a spectacle to God and Angells and men . It is not so auncient & superannate as the story of Pope Iore , which hath gained by the age of it , now skarsly to be beleeued . This was recenti memoriâ factum , a matter of yesterday , this very day three yeares , the fift of Nouember ( blessed be Gods holy name ) did this popish prodigious brat suffer abortion . I must adde the Eccè Eccè . to , Behold . But an eccè of an higher straine them any other in the booke of God ; not an eccè as at a pyramis , or Pharos , ' or Colossus solis , or any the like wonderfull but with all delectable and pleasing obiect , rather an eccè , as at some portentuous comet , or fearfull firie meteor in the aire which men behold , both with wonder & horror , Eccè . I may be bold with the tongue of Moyses Deut. 4. to saie , Aske of the daies of olde that haue beene before you , since the daie that God created man vpon the earth , and from the one ende of heauen to the other , sifacta est aliquandò huiuscemodi res , if euer the like thing were done : and it may bee answered by that of the 12. tribes of Jsraell concerning the dismembred Levites wise 19. Iud. Nunquam res talis facta est in Israel ex quo , &c. The like was neuer done nor heard of in Israel nor throughout the world since the first day that man was created . When Sixtus quintus began his encomiasticall oration of the Jacobine that killed the French King , 1 Habb . he taketh the words of the Prophet Habbacuk for his entrance . Behold , a worke wrought in your daies , you will not beleeue it when it shall be tolde you , a poore Friar hath slaine a king , not a king in paper , a painted king , but the great king of France , &c. Antisixtus returneth them vpon him againe , Behold a worke wrought in our daies : you will not beleeue it when it shall be tolde you . Our holy father the Pope hath defended a most nefarious parricide , regicide . I haue more right to the words then they both togither with the preface vnto them . Aspicite ingentibus , & videte , & admiramint , & obstupescite , see and behold and wonder and bee astoed , let me adioine from the 13. of the Acts where the place is alleadged , 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , vanish , cease to haue power in your selues to see or thinke any more , quia opus factum in diebus nostris , shal I saie , a worke done ? No , it was the worke of the Lord in die illâ , that it was not done : but an attempt & parturition of a worke brought to the very instant of birth , such as let strangers heare the report of , they cannot beleeue it . Behold , that which so many millions of eies , since those windowes were first opened in the head of man , to behold the light of heauen , I say so many millions of eies in their seueral generation , now sunke down into their holes , and consumed within their tabernacles neuer saw : neuer those glorious and constant lights of the firmament , those cleare and christalline eies of nature , which walke through the whole world , and giue no rest to their temples , the sunne that wardeth by daie , and the moone that waketh by night , they neuer saw the like , I say not for the indiuiduum , but not for the species , though let them not deceaue themselues nor you , this was not species but monstrum . They wil bring you precedents to this from Antwerpe , & the Hage and I know not whence . Gallob . to . 8 A succedent I graunt , nearest vnto it of all others , I thinke from hence it tooke light , in the yeare 1606 , when Boris the vsurping Duke of Moscua foreseeing his death , placed in a subterra neous vault of the pallace , a statue with a burning lampe in the hand of it , the burning to continue till it should take a traine of powder , purposly hid there to haue blowen vp the Pallace , & destroied Demetrius his rightfull successor . But it commeth far short of this .

The wicked : and what God hath ioigned , Impij . let not me put a sunder eccè , impij , behold the wicked , wicked with an eccè , demonstrable , rather indemonstrable wicked , we demonstrate not principia , these were principles and first heads of impiety . They may be articled as the deuill in the gospell 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 the wicked , the most abominably , desolately , deperditely wicked of all others , in whome was the roote of wickednesse , and the deepnes of Sathan had possest their hearts . Men of wicked witts , wicked wills , wicked hands , wicked labours ( it was labor improbus indeed ) wicked dispositions , wicked designes , wicked names ( some of them ) wicked vowes , wicked othes , wicked sacraments , wicked praiers , wicked religion , wicked all things . Psal. 16. Their offrings of bloud wil I not offer , saith the Psalme . Apud Barbaros ( saith Lactantius ) sacrificatum cum humano cruore . Barbarians sacrificed with mans bloud . He goeth a step farther : Lib. 1. de fal . rel. 21. Latini non expertes . The Latines are not free from it : and addeth Latialis Iupiter etiam nunc sanguine colitur humano . Etiam nunc , even at this day ( but howlong , Lord , righteous and true , before thou avenge it ? ) the Latine , Laterane Iupiter , or rather Saturne , the deuourer of his children , or rather Moloch , must be sacrificed vnto with humane bloud . O dementiam in sanabilem ( the same father ) incurable madnes , Cap. 18. when sacrifices are so sacred and execrable , sacraments for assasinates , masses for massacres . Quid illis isti dij amplius facere possent si essent iratissimi , quàm faciunt propitij , cum suos cultores parricidijs inquinant ? Is this religion ? Nonne satius est pecudum more viuere , quàm deos tam impios , tam prophanos , tam sanguinarios colere ? were it not better to be without religion ? I say no more of them : Populus Romanus est . Nec breuiùs potui , Ber. 4. de Consid. nec apertiùs . Bernard spake of the citizens , I of the members and disciples of the Church of Rome . They belong to Rome , that Laerna malorum , where Hydra , the beast with many heads dwelleth , the Colluuies and common sewer of all infande wickednes , where no lawe of God nor man , nature nor nation escapeth breaking : where Dominus Deus noster papa , with a plate of blasphemy nailed on his browe , the greate Archimandrites of the worlde , and his stables and stalles of vnhallowed breasts , fax sacrificulorum , grex monachorum , armentum Cardinalium , with their decrees and decretals , canons and glosses , bulles , breues , & indulgences haue concluded & caused to be done , & after the doing dogmatized , defended more outragious , exorbitant wickednesse then euer hath beene red or heard of vnder the cope of heauen . The woman iniquity Zach. 5. which was carried into the land of Sennaar , vt aedisicetur ei domus , hath bin long since transported into the cittie & church of Rome , vt ibi ponatur super basin suam ; there is hir surest dwelling .

The wicked bend their bowe , Intenderunt arcum &c. when they wrest & pervert scripture ; & make ready their arrowes , when they end forth sharpe and sophistical arguments , witty & wily pamphlets , and shoot priuilie at the vpright in heart , when with their subdolous & sly insinuations of reconciling them to the mother church , and converting their soules they overreach the simple & credulous . This they do daily . But these are not the archers I now meane . They are of an other band , pyrobolarij , they shoot wild-fire , hell-fire . Their arrowes haue spiritum in alis , Zach. 5. winde in their fethers , ( they should haue flowen and blowne with a witnes ) & miserable destruction in their heads . Such archers , such artillery neuer was . No meruaile ; they were Roman archers , and their artillery was shaped in the shop of Iesuits and Priests ( I seuer them not , Ambros Iannes & Iambres are fellowes in sorcery ; and the Libbard & Lyonesse , though of diuers kinds , will company togither to make a Leopard , Jesuits and Priestes , to doe a mischiefe ) I say of Iesuits and Priests , the cunning Pyracmons and Cyclopes , fireworkers in the world , and maisters of all villanies . These shoot not at clowtes , but Crownes , Sceptres , Monarchies , Empires ; not at crowes , but men , Kings , Queenes , Princes , peoples , states ; not for wagers & pastime , but to make havock and wast vpon the earth , and to bring al that withstandeth or offendeth , to vtter destruction .

The bow that the wicked in my chase bent , was neither of yron , nor steele . A man may flee from the iron weapons Iob. 20. & a bow of steele hath beene broken by the arme , Psal. 18. This was a bow of a stronger , tougher making , & more vnresistable stuffe , I meane a Cellar of strong sides , & impenetrably thicke wals , darke and deepe , closely compact , that is as much as to say , hard-bent , where little or no vent , and passage was left for the breath and furie to issue out , like the amphora or pitcher in Zacharie , wedged with a talent of leade at the mouth of it to keepe in the strength . Jt was as wel and as strongly strung with 36. barrels of gun-powder great and small , for the more violenteiaculation , vibration , and speed of the arrowes . Their arrowes were fagots , billets , peeces of timber , barres of iron , massy stones , togither with all the timber in the beames and iuices , al the tubble and stones in the wals of that great and glorious pile , rather pallace of building , where they framed their engine . The Campus Martius they were to shoot in , the soile , the seat , the very centre of the parliament-house . Their marke the fairest in the field , the tallest poppies in the garden . Fight neither with great nor small , saue onlie with the king of Israel , was the chardge , 1. Reg. 22. here otherwise ; shoot not only at the king of Israell , but at reginam à dextris , the Queene at his right hand , and principem haeredem at his knees , at the counsaile both of secresie and state , at Moses and Aaron , prelate and potentate , angulos populi , & angelos domini , at all the worthies of David , the first , second , and third rancke , the great Sanedrim , the strength & flower of the land , the whole land it selfe in collection and representation , the 3. estats , 3. essential parts , like the head , heart , and liuer , without either of which no life of pollicy is . This was their archery , and this had surely come to passe , ( the arrow was euen then vpon the string , their doome ( day was come , the candle and match were in the hand ) to the vtter extirpation of the King and his race , the alienation of the sceptre of Iudah , the extinction of Preist and sacrifice , eversion of Nobles , and their families , extermination of Christ and his Gospell out of the kingdome , profligation of iustice and religion , if our gracious Lord God ( by the reuolution & returne of yeares , now publikely and solemnly thrice blessed , and to the latest generation of the world to be blessed for euer ) had not giuen warning to those that feared his name , vt fugerent à facie arcus , to fly from the rage of this bow , by letters more then hieroglyphicall , aenigmaticall , interpreted by a wisedome more then humane , Aug. not lesse then angelicall . But ne glorietur , let not the wiseman glory in his wisdome . Da veniam imperator , pardon me gracious Soueraigne , it was not flesh and bloud that revealed these mysteries and riddles vnto you , sed Pater qui in coelis & angelus magni consilij , your father & Sauiour that is in heauen . You haue seen their bow & arrowes artillery , weapons , engines , ordinance for battery , more then double , centuple Canon . Iouius writeth of Alfonsus D. of Ferrara , that hee made with his owne hands 2 peeces of ordinance invsitatae magnitudinis & violentiae , the one of which had to name terraemotus , earthquake , the other Cacodaemon , the devill himselfe , so was this of theirs .

They had bent their bow & made ready their arrows vpon the string : and bee not deceiued in them . Crie not peace , peace , all is well . Their bow standeth euer bent , and their arrowes are euer prepared . Pharetra eorum sepulchrum patens Ier. 5. their quiver is an open sepulchre . Bern. 4. de Consider. Gens immitis atque intractabilis , & adhuc snbdinescia , nisicum non valet resistere . The Aspelyeth in her hole & waiteth for the warmth of the sunne . The Lyon lurketh in his den , and watcheth for his fit test season . Their quiet and forbearance is rebus sic stantibus , whilest it is , as it is ; but rebus cadentibus , let some declination of the state be , let the vigor of iustice and rigor of execution cease a while longer , and they multiply & swarme as they haue done , you shall see them betake themselues to their bowes and arrowes againe . Echidna Excetram , is the prouerbe , & de radice colubri egreditur regulus 30. Es. Of a Serpent commeth a serpent , & of a viperous & traiterous brood , looke for vipers and traitours . One complained to Phillip of Macedon whose treason the king had made vse of , that his people called him traitour . The King answered , Rudes sunt Macedones , & scapham vocant Scapham . The people of Macedon are a rude & plaine people , and call a traitor a traitor . Liberaui animam mean . When such are the Masters , such will the schollers & disciples be . When such their principles , such wil be their practises . Though one vault be discouered & couered againe , yet so long as that other more deepe and dangerous vault remaineth prauum & inscrutabile cor , Ier: 17. a wicked and vnsearchable heart , an endlesse and liuing veine of powder & salt-peeter , an everlasting burning Aetna , of rooted , engraffed , settled maliciousnes against Christ and his members , Looke for no better from them .

— Si fas caedendo caelestia scandere &c. will every Iesuite and Preist , Iesuited and reconciled apostata , transfuga , mal content say , if this bee the way to the kingdome of heauen , thus I may meritt , & shine as a staire in the firmament , by embruing and bathing my handes in the bloud of a king , I will bee a starre . The end of their preparation was , to shoote , & shoote closely . Vt. Sagittent in obscuro . Cruelty executeth for them , suttelty directeth . These were cruell enough , when they shott at all . And they were subtile enough when they said to a vault in the ground , couer vs ; and went downe into a mine of the earth , as it were quick into their graues , out of the land of the liuing into the regions of death , the territories of Sathan , the Limbus & border of hell to hide their wickednesse . Whether the one or the other both were transcendents not to be placed in the classes or rankes of hitherto experienced or practised wickednesse .

Cruelty is the ensigne and badge of that church . the habit of the harlot is according to her heart , 1. Sagittant . skarlet and purple , hir diet , the diet of the Cannibals . I saw hir drunken ( saith the Apostle ) with the bloud of Saints - 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , Apoc. 17. I wondred to see hir so wonderfully drunke . The Citty was first founded in bloud ; the bloud of a naturall , german brother . And the papacy also founded in bloud , the bloud of a naturall leidge Lord and Emperor at what time , it was truely written , — Suffocas Phoca imperium , stabilisque papatum .

Emperour and Empire must downe to aduance the popedome . Gul. Stamphurdius . The issue of bloud hath runne ever since , & cannot be stopped to the worlds end . It was wel obserued , that at one & the same time were these three Bonifacius 3. Vniversalis Episcopus , Phocas Caesaricida , & Mahumetes Arabs . Mahometisme , and the Popedome , & the murthering of christian Emperors and Princes began at once . So that as the Pope hath gotten to name , domesticus Turca , a homeborne Turke , so the Turke may as iustly bee called exterus Papa , a forraine Pope , they communicate so nearly in cruelty . Now the greatest 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , festiual cruelty , solennity & feast day of sacrificing & slaughtering the seruants of Christ , that Rome ever kept , had beene that , without Gods mercifull preuention , which was now intended . It greiueth them to heare it stiled singular from all example . Pag. 6. But so it was . Neither shall all the indices expurgatorij in the worlde , blot out the memorie of the fact , or ease them of this attribute . Detestable I confesse was the mind , & not lesse the memory of Nero , who caused the citty of Rome to bee fired in twelue places at once , that he might see an image of the burning of Troy . Himselfe sate singing the meane time . Jt was the losse but of houses & goods . Sabellic . Heliogabalus vpon one of their feast daies , when the people had taken vp their places in the theatre before day , to behold the sports , caused a number of serpents & venemous wormes to be turned in amongst them , to sting them to death , the acting whereof was much to his comfort ; it was the wracke but of common people . Maximinus for the immanity of his mind & doings , was vsually tearmed Cyclops , Busiris , Phalaris , Typhon . Al these were Abaddons , Apollyons , destroiers of nature and mankind . The storie saith of Annibal , that his vertue for the most part saevitiâ constabat , Val. Max. consisted of cruelty . When it commeth to report of L. Sylla , Vix mihi verisimilia narrare videor , I scarsly seeme ( saith the story ) to speake likelyhoods . Hee stroue to be sirnamed Foelix for cruelty . En quibus actis , saith the authour . He kept a Register and Kalendar of al his bloudy actes . Id. Cuius tamen crudelitatis C. Marius invidiam levat . Yet doth C Marius iustifie Sylla . You haue heard before of the cruelties of Caligula . But of Nero ( Suetonius telleth you ) debebatur hic partus moribus Ro. qui Caligulae nomen ac titulos obscuraret . Nero must be borne to iustifie Caligula . Nihil extra humanam figuram Tartarus nisifera bellua . Dubravius affirmeth it . The Tartarian is a savage beast in a mans skin . Adde vnto al these as famous in their times and generations ( if bookes bee true ) the Spaniards amongst the poore Indians . But from the 5. of Nouember was three years henceforth , til time shal be no more ; Let the name of Nero with the rest , rest in peace , and bee buried in silence , and in steed of Syllan , Marian , Scythian , Tartarian , Barbarian Turkish , Spanish , Let Romish , Popish , Antichristian , Catholique , Catacatholique cruelty be a proverbe , astonishment , hissing for all nations and ages to come .

As for their subtilty , In obscuro . doubt not of it . Whose very profession is to be false-prophets , seducers , Antichrists , their religion a mystery of iniquity , and their working vneffectual without strong illusions , & lying wonders . Especially where the great Mercurialists of the world for wit & deuises , those 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 ( as they called Archimedes ) 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , centimani that haue a finger in the menaging of al Christian states , are at one end of the busines . J meane the Iesuits , 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 Iesuitae , falsly-named Iesuits ; Iesuits by antiphrasis , ( some say ) as those Emperors were called Africani , Asiatici & the like , because they were most opposite and maligne to those countries , so these most contrary and fatal to the name of Iesus . With others Iesuitae by Aphaeresis , Suitae , as regulares were named gulares , epicuri de grege porci , for their swinish & impure liues . with others Iesuitae by diaeresis , asmuch as to saie , Iesum vita , who in their whole order , institutes , practise , say in effect to Christ as the deuills did , Quid nobis & tibi Iesu ? What haue we to doe with thee o Iesu ? Lastly . Iesuites by 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 agnomination Iebusites : and then whilst the Iebusite ( or his proselite ) is in the land looke for no good to Israel . Their names are diuerse according to their natures and manners . Ignatiani in Spaine , Theatini in Italy , Iesuini in Campania , Scofiotti in Ferraria , Presbyteri S. Luciae in Bononia , Reformati sacerdotes in Mutina , aliaque passim nomina habent , together with sundry other appellations as Pap. Massonus reporteth , In Paulo . 4ᵒ but commonly best knowne by the name of Iesuites , And what are those ? The Iesuits catechisme telleth you , 2. Lib. 17. not such men as we are . They haue 2 seules in their bodies ( he might as wel haue said , ten soules ) a Roman soule in Rome , and a french soule in France , 3. Lib. 26. so an english soule in Englande . They vse to make a iest at perfidiousnes & trechery , for aske them amongst their freinds what a Iesuite is , they answere , everyman .

— Quoteneam vultus mutantem Protea nodo ? what meanes shal we find to encounter these chādglings , Camaeleons , these Mathaeos tortos , crooked apostles , Tortuous Leuiathans , as ambiguous in their answeres as 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 in his oracles , this serpent surrepent generation , with their Maeandrian turnings & windings , their mentall reseruations , their amphibolous , amphibious prepositions , which liue , as those creatures part in the land , part in the water , so these halfe in the lipps , halfe in the heart and conscience . Of which I may saie , as S Ierome of the letters of Iouinian , has praeter Sybillam leget nemo .

— Non lectore tuis opus est sed Apolline scriptis , Martial . they are not to be vnderstood by any mortall man . what hope of truth and simplicity from these or their impes , when they haue not only practised through infirmity of flesh & pusillanimitie , but with the faces of Sodome and Gomorrhe haue patronaged , published , perswaded to the whole world the lawfullnesse of their heterogeneous , mungrell propositions ? From henceforth therfore let them ease the inhabitants of Crete from that deserued infamy which the Apostle laieth vpon them 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 ; & adde vnto these the Cilices & Cappadoces , nations renowned for false hood , Cretes Cilices Cappad . whereof the prouerbe was 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , And let those 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 Kings of lies , as Andromache called the Spartans , and trilingues Siculi , as Apuleius called the Sicilians , togither with all their companions , craftesmasters for fraud and forgerie , resigne to the Jesuits .

Now if euer the word of the Psalme were verified of any , Psal. 83. malignaverunt consilium , they deuised a pestilent , Prov ▪ 1. devilish counsaile , and that of the Prouerbes , Come let vs lie in waite for bloud , ponamus tendiculas , let vs set snares , the margent saith , voraginem , a very gulfe , Deglutiamus eos , Let vs swallow them vp quick as hell , it was true of this machination . For marke the excesse and height of their fury .

They shoot not at fanes and wethercocks , Fundamenta diruta . Senec. at pinnacles and peeces of temples . The very foundations must be cast downe . Nolunt solita peccare quibus peccandi praemium infamia est . Ordinary factes cannot make them famous . In tam occupato saeculo fabulas vulgaris nequitia non invenit , Erostratus must burne the temple of Diana , to get him a name , these must not rest , til they see the foundations downe . The variety of interpretations frameth my iust application to my hands .

1 Fundamenta literally . Materiall foundations indeed had beene cast downe by these sonnes of the earth , which the hands of ancient Kings had laid , Pallaces of incomparable honour and state had beene shaken into stones of emptines and consumed into cinders and dust , if their day had sped . 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 ( say the 70 ) buildings of absolute , consummate perfection . Positiones ( with Genebrard ) settled and pitched in their places , not likely to haue stirred , without violence , till the pillers of heauen and earth had beene dissolued . These foundations had beene cast downe .

2 Some saie , these foundations were Preists . & indeed in the story of Saul ( of whom it is thought this psalme treateth ) 85 Preists of the Lord which ware a linnen Ephod , were slaine by the hands of Doëg in one daie . 1 Sam. 22. Preists are foundations . They are fulcra reip ▪ proppes of the common-wealth . They beare the arke of the Lord , and their lippes are arkes and coffers to preserue knoweledge . These foundations had bin cast downe ▪

3 Some say , these foundations were 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , doctrines ; the knowledge of God and his lawes . These are also foundations ; fundamentum aliud nemo , No man can lay any other foundation then that of the Prophets and Apostles &c. It was the law of the euer liuing God that brought Dauid into so much hatred ; and it is the Gospel of Christ that bringeth vs . These foundations had also beene cast downe , It was the cheefe marke they aimed at .

4 Fundamenta with others are foedera , covenants , leagues of amity , often made and often broken by Saul . Now what couenant , what bond , either of nature and humanity , or of natiue country , of consanguinity with some , with others of alliance , with others of religion ( for on some of either sort had the Lot fallen ) had withheld this false and fedifragous nation of men from this barbarous action ? These foundations had also been cast downe .

5 Fundameuta with Symmachus and Ierome are 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 . Lawes . These are foundations to , and were then vpon the anuile , the assembly was for lawes . Lawes and law-makers , with the reuerend Judges and Iusticers , Mutae and Loquentes , al must haue gone ; these foundations had beene cast downe .

6 Kimhi & Aben Ezra say that foundations in this place , are Consilia , Counsailes . Counsailes are foundations . Prou. 15. For where the multitude of counsailours is , there is health . Consilia Solonis were held as behoueful to Athens as trophae a Themistoclis . The ones counsailes , as the others triumphs . And Agamemnon wished that he had had ten such about him as Nestor was . They are not the eies of a king , but perspicilla regis ( one calleth them ) his spectacles through which he looketh ▪ The thrice honored & renowned order of these , were likewise appointed to the slaughter ; these foundations had beene cast downe .

7 Lastly , fundamenta with others are 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , vices , successiones , successions , supplies . Obstupe scite coeli , super hoc . Behold , the King , Queen , & their issue , not adolescens secundus alone , Ecclesast . 4 deliciaegentis Britannicae , but the whole progeny , father and sonne , damme & young , roote and branch , res and spes , present and to come , all must haue drunke of this deadly cup of woful desolation . Now to put al togither , if foundations of buildings must haue beene cast downe , and Priests the foundations , doctrines the foundations , couenants the foundatiūs , lawes the foundations , counsailes the foundations , and successions the foundations , we had beene , as one summeth it vp , Eversi à fundamentis , quite turned vp by the rootes , & razed from the lowest foundations ; our church , our common-wealth , our gouernment , our bodies , our families , our posterity had beene vtterly ouerthrowne . When Elizaeus eied Hazāel 2. Reg. 8. with the teares running downe his cheekes , to thinke of the euill he should doe to Jsrael , in burning their citties with fire , dashing their infants against the stones in the streets , and ripping vp the women with childe ; Hazâel answered , Num enim sum servus tuus canis , vt faciam rem istam magnam ? Am I thy seruant a dog ? can I bee so forsaken of humanity , and loose the bowels of manly compassion ? What then doth res ista magna deserue to bee thought of ? Pag. 6 not the rash and wofull attempt of vnfortunate gentlemen ( as our Italionated Mountebancks seeke to salue it ) but the most nefarious , facinorous , flagitious , incogitable fact , of persons ( with their proctors and patrones ) neither generous , for what drop of ingenuous bloud was in them ? Nor men , for what sparke of humanity ? Nor dogges , vnlesse of the brood of Cerberus , nor Tigers , nor Panthers , nor euening Wolues , nor shee-Beares , nor any thing , but by the vnnaturallest , strangest 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 that euer was feigned by Poets , very incarnated , transanimated devils ? Who that they were vnfortunate in it , that God that sitteth in heauen , and ruleth not by fortune or chance , but by an architectonicall , soueraigne art of vnfallible prouidence , be praised for euer and ever . Amen , Amen .

I haue yet the cause to demaunde . Iustus quid ? What hath the righteous done ? Quid commeruit ? What hath he deserued ? Bucer . Quid enim mali ? At leastwise what evill ? Arnob ▪ what had David done ? Or what Davids like , who walketh in the steps of David ? I appeale to the conscience of your Maiestie , that inwarde reflexe of your Princely heart , and to the open and broad eie of the world , what harme had you euer done them ? Was it bycause you eased them of their fines and impositions ? Or sent them with life and limme vntouched beyond seas ? Or admitted them to your gracious presence , and let the light of your countenance fal vpon them , Hebrewes and Aegyptians both alike ? Or distributed your fauours , honors , aduancements of them and their houses with an equal hande ? Cic. ora . pro Ros. Am. For which of your good deedes ? Or was it because you receaved not the whole weapon into your bosome , as C. Fimbria complained of Q. Scaevola ? That you diuided not the halfe of your kingdome to the Pope , as Herode promised halfe of his to an harlot ? That you allowed not copartnership in supremacy with you within your own Dominions & Realmes ? Admitted not altare contra altare , a linsey wolsey , miscellan , medlyreligion within the land , here an house for the arke & there a temple , for Dagon ? More then this ( which as far be from your sacred Maiestie ever to yeeld vnto , as you are neare to Christ and christian simplicity ) iustus quid fecit ? What hath the righteous done ? This , this is the true cause , and euer wil be the quarrell whilest the couenant of daie and night standeth , that the Gospell of Christ and the faithfull professors thereof are not either wholy expelled the kingdome , or affronted , mated at least with a pellex , I meane an adulterous , idolatrous religion , to haue as firme footing in the land as the other hath . In the daies of your predecessor of memorable glory whilst she liued , & now of as glorious a memory , what was the cause of their multiplied , variated complotments against hir , like the monsters in Africk , everie daie almost a new conspiracy , that then they gaue hir not leaue to liue , now not leaue to be dead , and to sleepe in hir dust , but are angry at hir very manes , — Nec mors mihi finiet iras , — Saeua sed in manes manibus arma dabo , that they haue ript hir vp from hir cradle , runne through hir life to hir graue , and will needs go down into hell to seeke hir immortall & now immaculate , incorruptible soule amongst hobgoblins and infernall spirits ( you knowe my author ) what is the cause ? J say Iusta quid fecit . Rather man sueta quid fecit ? Gracious Lady , what had shee euer done ? Whose finger did she euer cause to ake , and hir heart aked not with him ? Only this , that she nurst vp with the milke of hir breasts , and hazarded to haue done with the dearest bloud in hir veines , that euangelicall truth , which by the blessing of God and your Maiesties zeale , this Church yet retaineth ? Sim. metap . in Clem. Ro But our comfort is : Si canes nos allatrauerint & consciderint , auferre nobis non possunt quin simus homines rationis participes , illi autem sint canes latrantes . Men shall be men notwithstanding the barkings of dogges , & dogges shall be doggs . And therefore avaunt , now not Hazāels dog ( whosoeuer thou art ) but hellish Curre , 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , ( for what was the fire of hell prepared , if not for such tongues ? ) Go seeke thy Popes , & Cardinalls , & Cortizans , thy Incubos , & Succubos amongst hobgoblins & infernall spirits ; surrexit non est hìc , she is in heauen , she is not there , she shal be a Saint in heauen , when thou shalt be a dog without , and as shee sate vpon a glorious throne in earth to iudge hir people , so shall she sit vpon a far more glorious throne in heauen , to iudge such miscreants as thou art . Nullam habet authoritatem illa sententia , vbi qui damnandus est damnat . Thy tongue cannot hurt hir with God nor good men , though it be as peircing as hot irons , hette like the ouen of Babylon seuen times red-hot , at the fornace and hearth of hell it selfe .

Most Gracious Soueraigne . You are yet a liuing Lion . And the Lion of the tribe of Iudah graunt you may long and long so be . It may be they feare the Lions paw , and dare not as yet breake forth . But when you shall bee a dead Lion ( as that imperiall Lionesse now is , and Lions must die as well as wormes ) these dogges will barke at your manes to , these Aegyptiacal dead flies will cause the sweet ointment of your precious and glorious name , to stinke vpon the face of the earth , what in them lieth , with their Leprous , venemous breath , and libellous , infamous pamphlets , as they do hirs . Jt is not this plea , Iustus quid fecit ? That can excuse you . I would they had iuster cause to aske , iustus quid facit ? That your Maiesty would do them right , and administer iustice vpon them , in the timely execution of your Lawes , and necessary castigation , coercion of their vnrestrainable audaciousnesse . That your faithfull and good subiects did not demand with grones of heart , Misericors quid facit ? What meaneth his Maiestie to deale so graciouslie with them : Some iustice with mercy and lenitie woulde doe wel . Some frostes with the fire that warmeth these snakes in the bowels of your lande . Some pluckes at these thornes and prickles in our eies , ( the meane time ) and wil bee hereafter in our ●ides and hearts . Least if iustice goe on to sleepe as ●t were hir dead sleepe , the tares of disloialty , treasons , and seditions be so thicke sowen in the field of your kingdomes , by those envious men , the seedes-men of Rome , that it wil be difficulty and maistry afterwards to remoue them .

The foundations ( you haue heard before ) were in sundry acceptions . 2. Part. Dominus in templo . I omitted one of all the rest , that fundamenta were retia , nets which the wicked spred to entrappe the righteous , their crafty and clandestine counsailes , whervpon they built the whole frame of their mischiefes . These were cast downe , al their proiects descried , their purposes frustrated . But by whom ? For iustus quid fecit ? What hath the righteous done , to breake those snares , and to deliver himselfe ? That is the path which Basill with some others walke in , so they make the connexion . The answere is , Basil nihil , nothing , lesse then nothing . Ad dominum ceu anchoram sacram confugit , hee fled to the Lord as his anker , altar , sanctuarie , cittie of refuge , tower of defence , mons in vertice montium , mountaine aboue all mountaines , that is to saie , helper aboue all worldelie helpers . The Lorde is in his holy temple . Psalm ▪ 124 The Lordes seate is in heaven . Our soule hath also escaped as a birde from the snare of the fowler . The snare is broken , and wee are delivered . By whome ? Benedictus d. Blessed be the Lorde that hath not giuen vs vp a pray to their teeth . That is , Dominus in templo suo sancto . If the Lord had not bin on our side ( may England now saie ) if the Lord had not beene on our side ▪ what then ? Our foundations had beene cast downe , and theirs had beene reared vp . But adiutorium nostrum , Our helpe standeth in the name of the Lord which made heauen and earth . Dominus in templo sancto suo . But what will the wicked saie ? Dominus in templo sancto suo , Dominus in coelo . &c. What is that to vs ? populus in scabello , maie doe what they list . Dominus deseruit terram . The Lorde hath forsaken the earth . Not so . Jt is answered in my text , Oculi eius respiciunt , his eies behold , nay , palpebrae eius interrogant , his very eylidds consider , hee siteth not idly in heauen , as the wicked imagin . There is apertio oculorum , saith S Austin , and opertio . Openning and shutting the eie in God , his eie & his eielid . God seeth with his open eie , when hee discouereth a thing at the present , and causeth vs also to see it , But considereth with his eielid , when he maketh as if he slept , winketh at the waies of sinners , taketh leasure and respite before he bring them to light . It is not to be thought but that oculus respexit , if you consider himselfe , the bright eie of the Lord was vpon the first thought and imagination of this Salmonean thunder and lighning , and followed them in the whole course therof , went with them , when they trudged to Doway , and gadded to Spaine , marked the hissing of the bee of Aegypt to the fly of Assur , all the intelligence , I meane , that past betwixt the Leiger Iesuite in England , with the leigers of Flaunders and Spaine ; yet he bewraied not this at the first , but palpebrae eius explorarunt , he sate with his eies shut , & considered vnder his eieliddes , bare himselfe silent and stil , & let them runne on , til they had runne themselues to perdition . You see what palpebrae are . I could giue you strange examples , perhapps not proper to this daie more then others , yet neither impertinent to my duty , nor vnacceptable to a loiall auditorie , nor strangers to my text , where palpebrae are mentioned , nor aliene from the worke we haue in hand , our greate Hallelüiah , and solemne sacrifice of praise & thanksgiuing . For doe we blesse God for preseruing the life of our King , and shal we not blesse him for preseruing the honour of our King ? I verilie assure my selfe , that discrimen and narrow exigent of life , which his Maiestie was put vnto , when he was in the fanges of the Lion , & in the very armes & gripes of death , did not so much afflict him , as an vndeserued crime & imputation cast vpon him , of a dishonorable fact done . Qui negligit famam , homicida est . It was 8. years since , vpon the fifth of August last , that the Gowries conspired against the life of the Lordes annointed , and receaued their deserued meed . There haue beene oculi nequam in the world , mistrustfull eies that haue looked awry vpon that fact euer since , & would not beleeue it . But what hath the Lord done the meanetime ? Albeit oculus non respexit , his eie did not open out of hand , and giue them present satisfaction , yet palpebrae explorarunt , his eieliddes considered , he thought vpon it in secret , in the counsaile of his owne heart , and by a posthumous , penitent tonfession ( after the conspirators were most of them dead , and almost rotten ) of one of the complices themselues , laid it as it were in the sunne-beames , and put it past al question . It were strange to giue you a parallele to this , coetaneous I thinke in time , and of the same standing . It was eight yeares since likewise , in the daies of Clement the eighth , that Letters were sent vnto Rome , to the Pope and two Cardinals , Aldobrandine and Bellarmine , wherein the hande of the King was abused , his heart neuer coulde . ( I doe but touch by the way : I am vox clamantis , the voice to a famous crier and lowde trumpetter of these thinges ) The matter hath long slept , yeares after yeares haue expired , and Pope deceased after Pope . But palpebrae eius explorârunt , though the eie of the Lorde hath not seemed to stirre al this while , his Eie-liddes haue considered , and bethought of the meanes and opportunitie to bring all forth . And now at length , truth the daughter of time , or rather of the euerliving God , though not by that miracle in the Psalme Ex ore infantium , yet by an other not inferiour , Ex ore malignantium , out of the mouthes and hearts of enimies , which intended a scandall to his sacred person , hath as strangely discouered this as that other , to the glorie of his great name , and the honour both of king and kingdome . Both these haue the eie-liddes of the Lorde considered and revealed the one after eight yeares , and the other after eight ; the one by an actor or accessarie to the fact , the other by the actour ; the one by occasion of papers and skrolles , the other by occasion of papers and pamphlets . And now to the seruice of this happie day , wherein wee sing our Hosanna , and commemorate our great and general iubilee , Let this bee added as not the least part of our Christian ioie , that his religious Maiestie , so farre is it from him , with other kings of the earth to receaue the marke of the beast imprinted in his forehead , that he is iealous , impatient , cannot endure that any scratch of a pen , or type of a Printers Presse should leaue the least note or suspicion vpon him , as if euer he had but a thought in his heart to fal downe and worship that golden calfe . I returne where I left . The Lord is in his holy pallace , &c. There he sitteth , and seeth , and considereth both with eie and eieliddes , Psal. 58. and in the ende shall iudge . Laetabitur iustus cum viderit vindictam . If the righteous shal reioice to beholde , much more to escape vengance . If when he washeth his feet in the bloud of the wicked , much more that the wicked wash not their feete in the bloud of Saints . Factum est istud à domino : this was the Lords doing alone . He shut the mouth of that pestilent quiver that not an arrow was shot against vs to hurt one haire of our heades ; and stood as a wall of fire about vs , 2. Zach. to keepe vs from that merciles Tophet of fire , even ready to haue devoured vs . And therefore , non nobis domine , non nobis , not vnto vs , O Lord , not vnto vs , but vnto thine all-onely name , not the names of our king nor princes , our Sages nor Senators ( the greatest names amongst vs ) but to thy name alone , if we be so wretched to denie it , da gloriam , giue thou the honour and glory of that daies redemption . But let vs giue it to . Afferte domino filij Dei , giue vnto the Lord O yee sons of the mighty ; and afferte domino familiae gentium , giue vnto the Lorde O yee families and tribes of the people , giue vnto the Lord that honour that is due vnto him . Princes , and private persons , Prelates and people , Nobles and Commons , high and low , one with an other , old men and maidens , young men and sucklings , praise the name of the Lord , sing praises , sing praises vnto him whilest you haue any being . It is the cause of our meetings and panegyrickes this day , and it shal bee a Law in Israell and an ordinaunce in Iacob amongst our childrens children to the last day . Sit nomen domini benedictum , Let the name of the Lorde bee blessed from this time forth world without end , and let all the people say , Amen .

FINIS .