AN
ANSWERE
TO
CERTAINE
scandalous
Papers
,
scattered
.
abroad
vnder
colour
of
a
Catholicke
Admonition
.
HAuing
lately
resolued
to
recall
my
Thoughts
from
the
earthly
theatre
,
where
they
sate
and
beheld
the
variable
motions
of
men
,
with
those
cares
and
cogitations
which
are
the
proper
companions
of
publike
ministers
,
hoping
thereby
to
bee
made
partaker
of
their
contentments
,
which
borrow
from
publike
Action
,
to
giue
to
priuate
Contemplation
;
I
perswaded
my self
,
that
I
could
neuer
make
choice
of
a
better
Subiect
for
my
meditation
,
then
of
the
late
Treatise
,
Intituled
:
His
Maiesties
Speach
in
the
late
Session
of
Parliament
,
together
with
a
Discourse
of
the
maner
of
the
discouerie
of
this
late
intended
Treason
.
Wherein
,
so
many
true
and
liuely
Images
of
Gods
great
fauour
and
prouidence
,
are
represented
:
(
Euery
line
discouering
where
Apelles
hand
hath
beene
)
As
all
that
obserue
the
naturall
description
of
this
Tree
of
Treason
,
amp
;
in
Ramo
&
in
Radice
,
may
truely
say
,
necessitie
and
vse
:
So
in
the
accompts
of
all
those
seruices
we
owe
to
God
,
(
who
desireth
rather
,
wee
should
remember
what
he
hath
been
to
vs
,
then
curiously
to
affect
what
he
is
in
himselfe
,
)
Remembrance
is
the
first
,
and
the
first
commanded
.
In
this
facultie
we
excell
die
beasts
,
and
imitate
the
Angels
:
For
they
being
present
beholde
at
once
,
GODS
Goodnesse
and
Loue
,
in
the
mirrour
of
his
Deitie
;
and
wee
vpon
earth
,
(
in
the
Table
of
his
Workes
)
haue
a
present
and
full
view
of
that
which
God
is
,
by
that
,
which
hee
doeth
.
So
as
,
although
we
cannot
see
him
in
himselfe
,
yet
we
doe
particularly
see
him
in
his
means
,
especially
in
those
great
works
of
deliuerances
and
defences
,
which
he
prouideth
for
whole
Nations
and
people
,
against
publike
and
priuate
practises
.
And
therefore
if
wee
shall
grow
forgetfull
,
or
thinke
it
sufficient
for
a
day
or
a
yeere
to
pay
him
our
Tributes
of
humble
thankefulnesse
,
when
the
Heathen
themselues
doe
continually
offer
vnto
their
false
gods
,
their
Cynamom
and
Frankincense
,
Then
shall
our
errour
be
no
lesse
,
then
that
of
Israel
,
whose
prayse
and
prayers
ended
almost
assoone
as
they
had
passed
the
Red
Sea
.
But
now
while
I
was
in
this
most
serious
and
silent
Meditation
,
(
sometimes
rauished
with
the
infinitenesse
of
GODS
Mercie
and
Iustice
,
who
restraineth
the
power
of
the
wicked
,
as
hee
did
the
Viper
from
the
handes
of
Paul
;
sometimes
comforted
in
calculating
my
dayes
of
happinesse
,
to
liue
vnder
a
King
,
blessed
in
himselfe
,
blessed
in
his
Oliue
branches
,
beloued
of
men
for
his
integritie
and
wisedome
,
and
pleasing
to
God
for
his
zealous
endeauours
,
to
clense
the
Vessels
of
his
Kingdome
from
die
Dregs
and
Lees
of
the
Romish
grape
;
)
Euen
then
(
I
say
)
when
my
heart
was
not
a
little
cheared
,
to
obserue
so
much
as
the
least
note
of
my
Name
,
in
his
Register
,
for
one
that
had
beene
of
any
vse
in
this
so
fortunate
a
Discouerie
,
(
much
like
to
the
poore
day
labourer
,
who
taketh
contentment
many
yeeres
after
,
when
hee
passeth
by
that
glorious
Architecture
,
to
the
building
whereof
he
can
remember
to
haue
caried
some
few
stickes
or
stones
:
)
Euen
then
,
was
I
most
bitterly
calumniated
,
with
many
contumelious
Papers
and
Pasquils
,
dispersed
abroad
in
diuers
parts
of
the
Citie
,
without
any
Author
,
and
yet
so
continually
coming
vpon
me
,
one
after
another
(
like
the
messengers
of
Iob
)
as
I
could
neither
deuise
to
whom
to
turne
mee
to
make
my
answer
,
nor
yet
imagine
by
what
hard
destiny
I
had
drawne
vpon
me
their
furie
,
thus
to
single
me
out
for
a
Subiect
of
so
much
bitternesse
,
in
the
dayes
of
so
great
ioy
and
gladnesse
:
Yea
euen
in
the
time
when
I
was
perswaded
,
that
they
which
had
diuided
themselues
for
conscience
sake
from
all
Communion
with
vs
in
our
Religious
offices
,
would
yet
haue
tuned
their
harps
,
to
haue
ioyned
with
vs
in
chearfull
Songs
for
this
our
happy
deliuerance
.
Resting
long
in
this
debate
with
my selfe
,
whether
I
should
now
begin
a
warfare
of
words
,
that
had
so
long
put
on
an
habite
of
suffering
,
especially
against
any
of
those
,
with
whom
Disputes
are
endlesse
;
because
their
ende
is
clamor
,
without
desire
to
receiue
satisfaction
;
After
I
had
taken
secret
and
faithfull
counsell
,
from
the
loue
and
duetie
,
which
liueth
alwayes
in
me
towards
my
Soueraigne
,
and
entred
into
serious
consideration
,
how
easily
die
errors
of
publike
Ministers
,
may
reflect
vpon
the
best
deseruing
Princes
;
hauing
also
heard
from
Forraine
parts
,
how
farre
my
Name
was
there
proscribed
for
a
man
of
blood
;
I
thought
it
fit
in
regarde
of
the
place
I
hold
,
to
take
some
occasion
to
expresse
my selfe
in
some
cleare
tearmes
;
left
any
of
those
clouds
which
are
vniustly
cast
vpon
mee
,
might
darken
the
brightnesse
of
his
Royall
minde
,
which
hath
beene
alwayes
watered
with
the
mildest
deawe
of
Mercie
and
Moderation
.
And
therefore
although
I
know
,
that
Stylus
prudentiae
est
silentium
,
and
doe
remember
well
the
caution
prescribed
by
Salomon
,
in
the
apprehension
of
scattered
calumnies
,
wherein
the
follyes
of
men
like
clouds
of
tempest
are
imagedm
when
they
lacke
occasion
to
power
foorth
showers
of
malice
,
on
the
heads
of
Persons
in
place
of
gouemment
:
Yet
finding
my selfe
in
such
an
absolute
possession
ouer
my
owne
soule
in
patience
,
as
it
is
not
in
the
power
of
any
calumniator
to
disturbe
the
peace
of
a
quiet
minde
;
I
throught
it
meete
to
breake
silence
,
and
to
the
intent
my
answere
might
be
the
better
conceiued
,
to
set
downe
first
the
Copie
of
one
of
their
originall
writings
;
Whereof
the
tenour
followeth
.
THis
being
now
one
of
their
charges
verbatim
,
because
it
is
not
my
meaning
to
wander
further
,
then
the
paths
of
their
own
vncharitable
passions
do
lead
me
;
I
will
only
direct
my
answere
to
the
seueral
parts
therof
;
though
the
same
as
they
lie
,
druert
me
from
any
other
good
or
regular
methode
.
For
the
first
part
therefore
,
wherein
this
writer
in
the
Name
of
the
Catholikes
protesteth
against
the
fact
as
an
vnapprouable
&
most
wicked
desseigne
;
I
must
shortly
say
,
that
whosoeuer
shall
read
the
Panegyricall
oration
of
Sixtus
Quintus
,
made
vpon
the
murder
of
Henry
the
third
the
French
king
,
shall
well
perceiue
that
sinne
to
bee
preferred
before
the
act
of
Iudith
to
Holofernes
,
by
which
Gods
people
were
deliuered
;
and
may
also
obserue
in
diuers
other
cases
,
how
generally
our
aduersaries
are
inclined
,
to
make
an
ill
interprestation
onely
of
those
thinges
,
which
faile
in
execution
(
for
otherwise
foelix
scelus
virtus
vocatur
)
to
which
may
be
added
that
which
is
vulgarly
knowen
,
what
number
of
Authors
are
illustrated
strated
in
Rome
,
which
strongly
mainteine
the
doctrine
of
deposing
kings
.
Neuerthelesse
,
because
I
haue
euer
loued
to
measure
others
by
my selfe
,
and
alwaies
wished
that
by
some
cleare
and
constant
course
,
the
state
of
Christendome
might
be
freed
from
all
pernicious
instruments
,
which
seeke
not
to
plant
peace
,
but
to
worke
confusion
;
I
haue
bin
a
long
time
sorie
,
that
those
which
imploy
so
many
seditious
spirits
,
dayly
to
instruct
the
vnlearned
Catholickes
in
those
mysteries
of
deposing
Princes
,
haue
not
,
by
some
publike
and
definitiue
sentence
orthodoxall
(
in
which
it
is
supposed
the
Pope
cannot
erre
)
made
some
such
cleare
explication
of
their
assumed
power
ouer
Soueraigne
Princes
,
as
not
onely
those
which
acknowledge
his
superiority
,
might
be
secured
from
feares
and
iealousies
of
continuall
Treasons
and
bloody
assacinats
against
theirpersons
;
but
those
Kings
also
which
doe
not
approue
his
Papal
iurisdiction
,
and
yet
would
faine
reserue
a
charitable
opinion
of
their
subiects
,
might
know
how
farre
to
repose
themselues
in
their
fidelitie
,
in
ciurl
obedience
,
howsoeuer
they
see
them
diuided
from
them
in
point
of
conscience
.
For
whosoeuer
shall
attribute
most
to
the
force
of
Excommunication
,
shall
neuer
finde
it
(
if
I
mistake
it
not
)
further
powerfull
either
by
the
originall
institution
,
or
in
the
succeeding
practise
for
many
yeeres
after
Christ
,
then
onely
to
depriue
men
from
spirituall
graces
,
and
to
shut
them
as
it
were
out
of
the
dores
of
heauen
,
without
so
grosse
an
vsurpation
,
as
to
remoue
them
out
of
the
earth
,
or
to
destroy
their
being
in
Nature
.
Insomuch
as
the
writ
it selfe
de
excommunicato
capiendo
,
and
other
such
like
courses
,
which
are
variable
in
sundry
gouernments
,
haue
rather
issued
from
the
goodnes
of
such
Christian
kings
,
as
were
desirous
to
worke
the
better
obedience
to
the
Rules
of
the
Church
,
then
from
any
power
of
Excommunication
in
his
owne
nature
,
all
censures
of
the
Church
hauing
left
life
vntouched
,
siue
fuerat
Ethnicus
siue
Publicanus
:
Many
of
the
heathen
themselues
hauing
taught
this
for
a
rule
,
Bonos
imperatores
voto
expetere
oportet
,
quoscunque
tolerare
.
And
therefore
I
cannot
but
maruaile
the
more
at
some
dark
and
cautelous
writings
published
of
late
vpon
this
accident
,
&
auowed
vnder
the
name
of
one
of
their
Prime
men
,
wherin
he
hath
bestowed
many
thundring
words
,
against
those
which
shall
attempt
against
Princes
by
priuate
authoritie
,
and
yet
reserueth
thereby
a
tacite
lawfulnesse
thereof
,
in
case
it
be
directed
by
publicke
warrant
.
A
matter
no
lesse
discrediting
the
sinceritie
pretended
in
this
particular
,
then
that
most
strange
and
grosse
doctrine
of
Equiuocation
,
which
is
so
highly
extolled
in
the
Church
of
Rome
,
though
it
teare
in
sunder
all
the
bondes
of
humane
conuersation
.
For
who
so
shall
please
to
reade
one
place
of
the
holy
Father
Saint
Augustine
(
of
whose
Bookes
by
this
occasion
I
haue
turned
ouer
some
fewe
leaues
)
shall
finde
,
that
when
the
Priscillian
Heretickes
in
all
their
examinations
before
the
Rulers
of
that
time
,
did
seeke
to
dissemble
their
heresie
,
by
vsing
those
answeres
of
Equiuocation
,
wherewith
the
Papists
now
maiutaine
it
lawfull
to
deny
all
trueth
vnder
a
mentall
reseruation
,
and
wresting
the
words
of
S.
Paul
,
who
requireth
euery
man
to
speake
the
trueth
to
his
neighbour
,
inferred
,
as
if
they
might
speake
falsely
to
all
others
.
This
reuerend
Father
soundly
and
cleerely
refuted
that
irreligious
Principle
,
with
this
short
sentence
;
Corde
creditur
ad
Iustitiam
,
ore
fit
confessio
ad
salutem
:
Otherwise
(
saith
hee
)
Peter
,
who
professed
Christ
in
heart
,
and
denyed
him
in
wordes
,
would
neuer
haue
redeemed
his
denyall
with
so
many
Teares
.
This
were
to
take
away
the
Crowne
of
Martyrdome
,
and
to
make
all
the
holy
Martyrs
fooles
;
who
,
making
a
conscience
to
dissemble
with
Heathen
Magistrates
,
sealed
with
their
blood
the
inward
thoughts
of
their
hearts
and
confessions
of
their
mouthes
.
Neither
should
any
man
professe
this
opinion
,
but
hee
that
seeketh
to
subuert
all
Lawes
and
dueties
of
Ciuil
societie
,
breaking
out
into
this
Expostulation
,
O
fontes
lachrymarum
,
Where
are
ye
to
be
found
,
O
ye
fountaines
of
teares
?
How
shall
we
hide
our selues
from
the
displeased
face
of
Trueth
?
For
the
second
part
,
where
you
pretend
an
apprehension
of
so
many
massacres
and
pressures
to
come
against
Catholickes
,
or
some
more
horrible
Lawe
to
bee
decreed
in
Parliament
,
then
is
already
allowed
,
and
therein
taxe
me
as
one
that
am
like
to
prooue
a
fierie
Instrument
;
Giue
me
leaue
to
tell
you
,
That
those
are
false
pretences
,
which
some
lewd
Impostor
hath
vsed
as
false
glasses
to
multiply
your
feares
.
These
poore
Calumniations
are
like
to
Adams
figge
leaues
,
vnable
to
couer
your
shame
.
For
as
hee
sought
a
couering
,
non
quia
nudus
sed
quia
lapsus
;
So
is
it
your
fault
,
not
your
feare
,
that
maketh
you
cast
those
vniust
Imputations
vpon
your
Prince
and
State
.
Sed
pereuntibus
mille
figurae
.
These
men
that
rule
your
consciences
,
haue
first
dazled
your
eyes
with
fearefull
,
but
false
obiects
,
thereby
hoping
to
engage
you
more
deepely
in
their
pernicious
Attempts
.
They
haue
sought
with
Nero
to
set
Rome
on
fire
,
and
after
to
lay
the
blame
on
Christians
.
Thus
hath
your
credulitie
bene
ouertaken
with
vaine
shadowes
,
whereas
,
the
children
of
Wisedome
are
of
slow
beliefe
.
If
therefore
you
had
measured
those
things
by
the
rules
of
Time
,
and
had
entred
into
a
true
comparison
of
things
past
,
with
things
present
;
you
must
needs
haue
conduded
better
of
things
to
come
.
For
if
you
behold
the
precedent
Reignes
of
the
two
late
sister
Queenes
of
different
Religion
,
you
shall
finde
more
blood
in
fiue
or
sixe
yeeres
of
the
first
,
then
in
fiue
and
fourtie
yeeres
of
the
second
.
Examine
likewise
,
whether
you
haue
seene
since
this
Kings
time
,
any
the
least
prints
of
bloody
steps
.
Hath
he
added
new
seuerities
to
the
Lawes
of
the
former
Time
,
which
he
found
established
?
or
hath
he
not
in
some
things
qualified
them
?
and
in
other
forborne
to
execute
them
,
euen
vpon
those
persons
which
publish
with
sound
of
trumpet
the
sentence
of
diuorce
betwixt
his
Subiect
and
his
Souereigntie
?
Let
me
appeale
to
your
owne
consciences
(
which
in
euery
man
holdeth
place
of
Iudge
and
Witnesse
)
whether
vpon
the
present
fury
of
this
fiery
Treason
,
which
inflamed
so
many
against
the
generalitie
of
the
Papists
(
according
to
die
nature
of
suddaine
perill
,
which
hardly
admits
of
rust
distinctions
)
there
hath
beene
any
one
acte
of
blood
or
crueltie
committed
;
though
all
men
know
,
that
die
greatest
violences
that
could
haue
beene
vsed
in
such
cases
,
vnder
colour
of
publicke
safetie
,
would
haue
been
interpreted
to
be
the
true
effects
of
care
and
prouidence
.
Nam
crudelitas
si
à
vindicta
,
iustitia
est
si
à
periculo
,
prudentia
.
Nay
rather
behold
the
excellent
temper
of
his
Maiesties
mind
,
who
doubting
what
the
humour
of
sudden
apprehension
might
produce
at
such
a
time
,
no
sooner
had
performed
his
owne
publicke
duety
of
Praise
and
Thanksgiuing
to
God
,
but
hee
pronounced
in
open
Parliament
how
farre
he
was
from
the
condemnation
of
the
generall
for
particulars
.
All
which
being
laid
together
,
I
doubt
not
,
but
those
which
are
not
in
the
desperate
consumption
of
sinne
,
will
freely
acknowledge
his
Maiestie
to
bee
a
Prince
of
PEACE
and
MERCY
,
that
delighteth
nor
in
the
noyse
of
Chaines
&
Fetters
,
but
rather
with
Theodosius
deferreth
Execution
,
and
wisheth
Se
potuisse
potiùs
mortuos
à
morte
reuocare
.
And
now
for
the
imaginary
Power
,
which
it
pleaseth
you
to
ascribe
vnto
vs
of
his
Maiesties
Councel
,
in
which
number
,
as
a
plotter
against
Romish
Catholiques
,
you
make
me
to
be
one
of
the
Quorum
;
I
should
take
it
alwayes
for
an
Honor
and
happinesse
,
for
me
to
receiue
not
onely
iniury
,
but
persecution
it selfe
in
so
Noble
a
Societie
,
where
persons
of
so
great
Honour
and
Iudgement
are
Actors
;
who
know
full
well
,
that
Counsailors
of
Kings
doe
stand
for
thousands
or
hundreds
,
onely
as
it
pleaseth
them
to
place
them
;
and
that
all
their
greatnesse
groweth
meerely
from
humble
endeauours
,
no
further
meritorious
then
as
they
are
valued
by
a
gracious
acceptance
.
Neuerthelesse
,
seeing
I
am
made
by
you
a
diuided
Member
from
the
Body
,
and
graced
with
so
hard
an
Epithete
as
a
Boutefeu
,
and
that
you
are
content
to
borrow
my
Name
to
scandalize
the
State
you
liue
in
;
I
must
freely
say
to
you
without
bitternesse
,
That
howsoeuer
it
may
serue
your
turne
for
a
while
,
to
make
me
the
marke
of
your
malice
;
yet
those
that
rightly
iudge
of
the
spirit
in
which
this
writer
speaketh
,
will
hardly
imagine
,
that
this
Faction
followeth
any
other
Body
,
then
the
Body
of
Authoritie
.
It
is
not
the
Head
alone
,
nor
any
other
particular
members
that
these
men
shoot
at
,
but
at
the
Church
and
Common-wealth
;
which
like
Hippocrates
Twinnes
haue
long
both
wept
and
laughed
together
.
These
are
the
things
which
the
Enemies
of
this
tithe
doe
studie
to
subuert
,
and
not
any
poore
greatnesse
of
mine
,
who
am
onely
great
in
the
eyes
of
Enuy
.
Nay
rather
they
are
angry
with
Aristotle
,
who
bids
wise
Princes
keepe
downe
Faction
,
which
is
euer
humble
till
it
get
the
Key
of
Power
.
They
are
grieued
,
or
rather
heart-broken
,
to
behold
such
an
Vnitie
of
State
and
Councell
,
as
dares
bid
the
world
doe
,
as
she
would
be
done
vnto
.
These
are
knowen
so
well
to
bee
the
true
causes
of
their
Despaire
and
Discontentment
,
as
they
shall
ground
a
faith
vpon
very
weake
Principles
,
if
they
imagine
,
that
open
vowes
of
my
destruction
(
a
matter
of
so
small
consequence
)
can
make
them
free
from
imputation
of
contriuing
higher
Practises
.
But
now
for
that
which
commeth
in
the
third
place
,
which
is
their
protestation
,
that
for
the
auoiding
new
mischiefe
to
come
,
it
is
intended
by
good
men
vpon
a
spirituall
Resolution
,
to
take
my
life
;
and
that
there
are
fiue
persons
vpon
the
secret
,
but
all
bound
vp
by
the
Sacrament
,
whereof
two
are
so
weake
and
so
sickely
,
as
they
can
hardly
forfeit
two
or
three
moneths
of
life
:
To
these
I
can
onely
say
,
that
hauing
their
feete
so
nigh
the
graue
,
their
ghostly
father
deserues
small
thankes
,
that
will
send
them
thither
in
bloody
coffins
.
For
they
doe
neither
carrie
the
markes
of
Rome
Heathen
,
nor
of
Rome
Christian
:
for
vnder
Heathen
Emperours
,
the
victories
were
scorned
,
which
were
barbarously
gotten
,
mixtis
veneno
fontibus
:
And
when
Rome
was
pure
and
primitiue
,
you
shall
finde
the
Armes
of
the
Church
were
Teares
and
Prayers
.
But
now
their
Oracles
are
so
farre
degenerate
from
the
former
puritie
of
that
ancient
Church
,
as
they
make
murder
spirituall
Resolution
,
and
openly
threaten
the
liues
of
Kings
that
are
Gods
breathing
Images
;
when
die
Prophet
Dauid
trembled
to
violate
the
skirt
of
King
Sauls
garment
.
All
which
considered
,
I
doubt
not
but
those
Recusants
which
doe
discouer
such
pernicious
spirits
,
will
out
of
the
light
of
this
fire
perfectly
discerne
the
darkenesse
and
danger
of
that
Religion
,
whereof
the
faith
is
lapped
vp
in
such
an
ignorant
&
implicite
obedience
;
and
so
much
the
rather
,
because
it
hath
fallen
out
so
often
,
that
the
scruples
of
Conscience
and
seeds
of
Treason
,
haue
growen
vp
as
close
together
,
as
the
huske
and
Come
in
one
eare
.
And
therefore
I
should
thinke
that
those
men
,
which
carie
the
vnlearned
Papists
,
like
Hawkes
hooded
,
into
those
dangerous
positions
,
may
instly
challenge
any
that
shall
seeke
to
rob
them
of
the
deserued
Titles
of
Boutefeux
and
fiery
matches
.
For
these
are
they
that
haue
made
their
Church
a
Court
,
their
religion
a
vassal
to
ambition
,
and
are
so
hot
vpon
earthly
Honours
,
as
they
cannot
distinguish
Inter
summa
&
praecipitia
.
These
are
they
that
enioyne
men
to
eate
their
God
,
vpon
the
bargaine
of
blood
;
where
those
whom
they
depraue
doe
know
,
that
whatsoeuer
God
doth
affect
in
goodnes
,
he
doth
effect
by
good
meanes
.
And
howsoeuer
they
terme
our
Sacraments
as
bare
and
naked
signes
;
we
may
iustly
say
that
wee
haue
neuer
hitherto
brought
them
into
the
combination
of
murder
,
or
into
the
house
of
crying
sinnes
.
As
for
that
sort
of
them
which
pretend
to
bee
so
full
of
present
griefe
,
through
the
distresse
of
themselues
and
their
friends
(
for
being
onely
Recusants
)
as
it
dulleth
all
apprehension
of
death
:
Those
that
lacke
charitie
,
will
iudge
this
dulnesse
to
be
,
Plus
tristitiae
quàm
poenitentiae
,
more
for
sorrow
that
the
proiect
hath
failed
,
then
that
it
was
concerned
.
As
for
the
Plotters
and
stratagems
whereof
they
complaine
,
If
those
which
vse
lawfull
meanes
to
preuent
conspiracies
,
must
bee
esteemed
Plotters
,
and
Subiects
fit
for
procription
;
howe
shall
his
Maiestie
escape
their
censure
,
that
was
Gods
chosen
minister
vpon
Earth
for
this
particular
Discouerie
?
Or
to
what
ende
doe
Princes
admit
of
Councellors
care
,
or
Secretaries
vigilancie
,
(
whose
Offices
are
to
stand
Sentinell
ouer
the
life
of
Kings
,
and
safetie
of
States
)
if
their
endeuours
to
countermine
the
secret
mynes
of
Treason
,
be
thus
exposed
to
misconstruction
?
Or
if
by
stratagems
those
Lawes
are
meant
,
by
which
all
branches
of
Treason
are
punished
;
why
doe
they
forget
that
those
ordinances
are
deriued
from
the
wisedome
of
Parliaments
,
two
hundred
yeeres
before
my
cradle
?
Besides
,
if
any
thinke
it
in
the
power
of
fewe
,
much
lesse
of
anyone
,
to
be
able
to
extort
determinations
of
extremitie
,
or
procure
new
Lawes
in
Parliament
by
selfe
humour
;
those
neither
vnderstand
the
course
of
Law-making
,
nor
the
wisedome
,
grauitie
,
or
nature
of
Law-makers
in
this
State
,
where
Kings
themselues
,
from
whom
(
as
from
the
Center
)
all
the
liues
and
executions
of
Lawes
take
their
beginning
,
are
pleased
freely
to
admit
their
Subiects
negatiues
,
with
good
and
gracious
acceptation
.
And
now
for
my selfe
,
with
whom
you
would
condition
to
leaue
Plotting
,
as
you
tearme
it
,
against
Recusants
:
First
,
discretion
telleth
me
,
that
as
the
Husbandman
,
which
casteth
his
eye
ouer-curiously
vpon
winds
and
clouds
,
doeth
neither
sow
nor
reape
in
season
;
so
,
that
seruant
,
whose
faith
and
zeale
in
the
seruice
of
Kings
,
becommeth
awfull
of
enemies
either
for
their
power
or
enuy
,
is
neither
worthy
of
fauour
nor
protection
.
For
when
I
consider
die
Prince
I
serue
,
that
hee
hath
not
taken
vp
wisedome
of
Gouernment
vpon
credit
,
but
carrieth
still
the
Iethro
of
order
in
his
owne
bosome
,
disposing
the
meane
causes
,
to
those
that
are
fit
to
rule
ouer
hundreds
,
and
ouer
fifties
,
reseruing
still
the
greatest
to
the
greatnesse
of
him selfe
,
like
a
King
rich
in
the
experience
of
many
yeeres
Raigne
,
ouer
a
free
and
valiant
people
,
both
by
nature
,
seat
,
and
education
:
I
freely
professe
both
before
mine
owne
and
all
other
Nations
,
that
although
I
participate
not
with
the
follies
of
that
Flie
,
who
thought
her selfe
to
raise
the
dust
,
because
shee
sate
on
the
Chariot
wheele
:
Yet
am
I
so
farre
from
disauowing
my
honest
ambition
of
my
Masters
fauour
,
as
I
am
desirous
that
the
world
should
hold
me
,
not
so
much
his
creature
,
by
the
vndeserued
Honours
I
hold
from
his
Grace
and
Power
,
as
by
my
desire
to
bee
the
shadowe
of
his
minde
,
and
to
frame
my
iudgements
,
knowledge
and
affections
according
to
his
:
towards
whose
Royall
Person
I
shall
glory
more
to
bee
alwayes
found
an
honest
and
humble
Subiect
,
then
I
should
to
command
absolutely
in
any
other
calling
.
For
the
rest
which
may
concerne
mee
in
my
Religion
(
howsoeuer
darkned
with
this
middle
vaile
of
sinne
and
frailtie
)
it
is
built
vpon
the
sacred
grounds
of
Hope
and
Faith
,
in
the
precious
blood
of
my
Redeemer
,
without
presuming
vpon
any
particular
merits
.
And
whereas
they
alledge
,
that
men
resolued
to
die
,
are
masters
ouer
other
mens
liues
;
My
answere
is
,
they
haue
no
more
power
then
the
least
Spider
,
who
by
permission
can
doe
as
much
.
And
if
the
dayes
of
my
life
were
in
their
hands
;
as
they
might
peraduenture
take
from
me
some
moneths
of
ioyes
:
So
am
I
assured
they
should
take
mee
from
yeeres
of
sorrowes
.
But
these
poore
threats
amaze
no
hopes
of
mine
,
I
am
none
of
those
that
beleeue
with
the
men
of
the
olde
world
,
that
the
Mountaines
shake
,
when
the
Moules
doe
cast
.
And
farre
I
hope
,
it
shall
be
from
mee
,
who
know
so
well
in
whose
Holy
BOOKE
my
dayes
are
numbred
,
once
to
entertaine
a
thought
to
purchase
a
spanne
of
time
,
at
so
deare
a
rate
,
as
for
the
feare
of
any
mortall
power
,
in
my
poore
Talent
,
Aut
Deo
,
aut
Patriae
,
aut
Patri
patriae
deesse
.
For
who
doubteth
that
the
Magistrates
who
conuerse
with
varietie
of
spirits
,
must
not
sometimes
vndergo
Tempests
?
All
our
actions
are
vpon
the
open
stage
,
&
can
be
no
more
hidden
then
the
Sunne
.
If
we
deserue
ill
,
we
shall
heare
ill
;
Or
if
the
present
time
doe
flatter
vs
,
yet
when
our
glasses
are
runne
,
(
which
cannot
be
long
)
that
glory
which
maketh
worthy
men
line
for
euer
,
dyeth
with
vs
;
and
our
posteritie
shal
be
the
heires
of
our
dishonor
.
And
therefore
suadeat
loquentis
vita
non
oratio
.
Besides
,
that
errour
which
in
all
mortall
things
hath
her
power
,
strength
and
declination
;
hath
now
her
foundations
discouered
and
her
Towers
taken
,
so
as
it
is
to
bee
suspected
,
shee
will
play
so
long
with
the
temporall
Soueraigntie
of
Kings
,
as
it
shall
bee
the
glorious
worke
of
Kings
to
breake
downe
her
walles
and
strongest
defences
:
And
therefore
ill
becomming
seruants
to
slacke
their
pace
,
for
feare
of
malice
,
but
rather
to
rest
assured
,
that
vnto
such
as
faithfully
bestow
their
time
in
the
seruice
of
God
,
the
euening
and
the
night
shall
come
vpon
them
naturally
one
after
another
:
Their
faith
shall
ascend
before
them
,
and
their
good
fame
shall
remaine
after
them
.
To
conclude
,
seeing
God
hath
pleased
to
deliuer
vs
from
so
many
vnspeakeable
miseries
and
afflictions
ready
to
haue
fallen
vpon
vs
,
like
the
visitation
of
Ierusalem
,
wherof
the
Prophet
speaketh
;
When
their
candle
hath
his
cleared
light
,
and
when
they
sleepe
in
the
armes
of
peace
,
loe
then
shall
he
the
time
of
their
visitation
:
And
seeing
this
should
haue
happened
vnto
vs
in
the
dayes
of
a
iust
&
gracious
King
,
when
euery
man
reioyced
vnder
his
Vine
and
vnder
his
figge
Tree
:
Let
vs
both
for
the
honour
of
our
Nation
,
&
the
good
of
our
soules
,
be
mind-full
to
informe
our selues
so
perfectly
of
all
our
dueties
both
diuine
and
humane
,
as
wee
may
not
become
(
through
our
owne
grosse
ignorance
)
the
authors
of
our
own
confusion
.
Let
no
man
set
so
high
a
price
on
that
false
reputation
of
keeping
oathes
to
priuate
friends
,
as
for
their
sake
to
forfeit
faith
and
loyaltie
to
Prince
and
Countrey
.
Will
you
finde
true
friends
,
saith
Seneca
?
Search
them
inter
recta
officia
,
and
there
shall
you
finde
them
So
saith
the
Canon
Law
,
Nonest
appellanda
fides
,
quae
ad
peccatum
inuitat
.
Tully
in
his
bookes
of
Offices
disputing
the
case
inter
Patrem
&
Patriam
,
If
thy
father
(
saith
he
)
intend
a
Treason
to
his
Countrey
and
State
,
and
tell
thee
of
it
;
thou
must
first
disswade
,
after
threaten
,
and
after
accuse
.
For
this
is
a
Rule
approued
;
In
promissorio
prore
iniusta
,
iurans
illicitum
,
obligator
ad
contrarium
.
And
therefore
seeing
God
hath
saued
vs
so
miraculously
from
this
confusion
;
whereof
the
minde
of
man
(
which
within
a
moment
searcheth
from
East
to
the
West
)
can
no
way
finde
the
bottome
;
Let
vs
make
it
appeare
vnto
the
world
,
by
the
difference
of
our
constant
measure
of
thankefulnesse
,
that
we
esteeme
not
this
an
ordinary
acte
of
Gods
prouidence
,
nor
a
thing
to
be
imputed
to
any
fault
or
fayling
in
their
plots
or
proiects
,
but
a
miraculous
effect
of
the
transcendent
power
,
farre
beyond
the
course
and
compasse
of
all
his
ordinary
proceedings
.
Who
although
hee
seeme
for
a
time
to
giue
way
,
as
though
hee
regarded
not
how
men
come
to
their
ends
and
purposes
;
(
letting
them
grow
like
poysonfull
herbes
,
)
yet
at
length
when
they
are
ripest
,
hee
will
cut
them
off
,
and
when
they
are
fullest
of
their
venimous
qualitie
,
pull
them
vp
for
other
mens
medicine
;
hauing
made
the
Scorpion
to
carry
the
oyle
about
him
,
which
cureth
the
wounds
he
giueth
.
To
which
let
vs
adde
this
further
Faith
,
that
as
the
place
where
this
prodigious
Massacre
should
haue
bene
committed
,
is
the
same
place
where
the
ancient
Religion
of
the
Primitiue
Church
,
shooke
off
the
bonds
and
fetters
of
the
Romane
corruption
vnder
which
it
had
long
continued
in
seruitude
:
So
whiles
the
same
Faith
shall
bee
Religiously
and
constantly
professed
,
that
it
shall
neuer
be
in
the
power
of
mortall
man
,
to
shake
the
least
corner
stone
of
that
blessed
and
sure
foundation
.
Thus
haue
I
giuen
my
pen
her
libertie
to
runne
her
stage
;
thereby
to
free
my
minde
trauelling
(
as
a
woman
with
childe
,
)
with
more
waighty
cogitations
then
I
could
containe
in
silence
,
or
expresse
in
order
;
hoping
my
intentions
shal
receiue
a
fauourable
censure
,
seeing
they
are
bounded
with
honest
and
humble
limittes
.
If
it
be
saide
that
I
haue
taken
too
slight
an
occasion
to
answere
a
slander
that
lacks
an
Authour
;
I
desire
to
be
thus
rightly
concerned
,
that
no
man
would
haue
sooner
contemned
those
Shewells
or
dead
papers
,
which
moue
with
the
winde
,
then
I
should
,
if
so
many
aduertisements
from
abroad
,
and
Confessions
at
home
(
concurring
with
this
calumnie
)
did
not
in
Iustice
challendge
at
my
handes
some
speedy
course
to
preserue
my
poore
reputation
from
these
cruell
aspersions
.
In
which
consideration
,
although
my
desires
to
weare
out
many
dayes
,
are
drawen
within
as
small
a
circle
as
my
feares
,
and
both
my
spirit
and
Iudgement
,
farre
from
such
a
deiection
or
weakenesse
,
as
to
endeuour
,
or
expect
a
remooue
of
fixed
resolutions
,
by
force
of
Arguments
or
protestations
;
Yet
when
I
remember
with
Seneca
,
that
euen
the
great
and
fairest
Kingdomes
,
whose
Lawes
abound
in
bloody
lines
,
doe
loose
so
much
of
their
beautie
,
as
they
become
no
lesse
deformed
,
then
the
basest
Shambles
;
and
when
I
know
that
our
greater
IVDGE
,
and
SAVIOVR
of
the
World
,
who
alloweth
voyces
to
all
kindes
of
sinnes
,
hath
made
the
voyce
of
blood
to
speake
so
lowd
,
as
it
pearceth
HEAVEN
it selfe
:
I
doe
presume
so
well
of
all
indifferent
and
equall
Iudgements
,
as
my
desence
in
this
degree
,
shall
neuer
bee
held
for
a
needlesse
curiositie
;
Quia
Inauditi
,
tanquam
innocentes
pereunt
;
Especially
seeing
mine
owne
conscience
telleth
me
so
plainely
,
that
as
Clemencie
is
the
truest
keeper
of
Kingdoms
,
So
Cruelties
are
of
al
other
the
falsest
Guards
.
If
it
be
said
,
I
haue
bene
too
sharpe
in
censuring
the
Romish
Catholiques
in
generall
,
because
I
haue
beene
iniured
by
some
Infested
spirits
of
that
Profession
;
I
doe
professe
ingenuously
,
that
I
am
not
perswaded
that
such
a
Malice
as
this
,
which
hath
no
Paralell
,
can
euer
fall
into
those
hearts
that
hold
any
seeds
of
Conscience
,
or
that
these
fiue
pretended
good-men
,
which
are
combined
in
this
resolution
,
haue
any
sense
of
any
Religion
at
all
,
but
rather
that
they
are
some
dispersed
remnant
of
that
impious
Consort
,
whose
eyes
and
hearts
are
dayly
wounded
,
to
behold
so
many
faire
Mornings
,
to
follow
after
so
blacke
a
Day
,
as
had
prepared
miserie
euen
for
the
childe
vnborne
.
And
when
I
doe
remember
vpon
the
death
of
the
late
Queene
of
happy
memory
,
with
what
obedience
and
applause
,
both
professions
did
concurre
to
his
Maiesties
succession
and
now
obserue
how
little
assistance
was
giuen
to
these
late
sauadge
Papists
,
who
had
gathered
together
some
few
rotten
branches
,
fallen
from
such
decayed
and
withered
Trees
as
CHRIST
had
cursed
in
the
Gospel
,
hoping
therewith
to
haue
set
a
Fire
,
and
made
a
combustion
in
the
State
:
Although
my
prayers
shall
neuer
cease
,
that
wee
may
see
the
happy
dayes
,
when
onely
one
Vniformitie
of
true
Religion
is
willingly
imbraced
in
this
Monarchie
;
Yet
I
shall
euer
(
according
to
the
Law
of
God
)
make
so
great
difference
in
my
Conscience
betweene
seeing
sinnes
,
and
sinnes
of
Ignorance
,
as
I
shall
thinke
it
Iust
by
the
Lawes
of
men
,
Solum
necis
artifices
arte
perire
sua
.
And
now
for
answere
to
your
Postscript
,
wherein
you
seeke
so
much
to
diuert
me
from
suspecting
those
whome
you
call
Puritanes
to
be
Authors
of
this
Slander
;
I
haue
onely
this
to
say
,
That
you
should
neuer
haue
needed
to
put
your selfe
to
so
much
paines
for
that
perswasion
,
seeing
neither
the
regular
Protestant
,
nor
those
that
are
vnconformable
to
the
present
Discipline
of
the
Church
,
can
euer
be
iustly
charged
to
haue
mixed
their
priuate
differences
with
any
Thoughts
,
much
lesse
with
any
Actes
of
bloody
Massacres
.
Et
hic
baculum
fixi
.
Further
replyes
expect
not
therefore
at
my
hands
:
I
will
henceforth
rest
in
peace
in
the
House
of
mine
owne
Conscience
,
where
if
I
doe
good
deedes
,
no
matter
who
sees
them
;
if
bad
,
(
knowing
them
my selfe
)
no
matter
from
whom
I
hide
them
:
for
they
are
of
record
before
a
Iudge
,
from
whose
presence
I
cannot
flee
.
If
all
the
world
applaud
me
,
and
hee
accuse
me
,
their
praise
is
vaine
.
Falli
potest
fama
,
conscientia
nunquam
.
If
this
may
not
suffice
,
but
that
you
will
still
threaten
and
exclaime
,
I
must
heare
with
patience
,
and
say
with
Tacitus
,
You
haue
learned
to
curse
,
and
I
to
contemne
:
Tu
linguae
,
ego
aurium
sum
Dominus
.