A View of the Romish Hydra, Table of contents – Errata
A Table of the ſpecial points and common places.
OVT OF THE FIRST SERMON.
THE practiſe of traitours was prophecied of before, and is auncient.
Treaſon againſt the Countrie and Prince deteſted.
The manner of traitours, double.
Examples of hypocriſie, and flattering in traitours.
A warning to Princes and Noble men to expel ſuch deceitful perſons out of their courts and houſes.
4 Motiues and cauſes inducing men to weaſons Vnbridled and licentious libertie, Couetouſneſſe and ambition, Enuie and Jngratitude, and Religion pretenſed, and ſpeciallie Popiſh: And the Pope by ſpecialties is declared to bee the Abiſhai in our daies.
Two waies the Pope vſeth, by himſelfe, or by his instruments, Nouices, Monks, …riars, Cardinals &c.
Papiſtes in their Religion make bloodie vowes, which ought to be broken.
The Popes Religion diſpenſeth with good oathes of allegeaunce made to Princes, and he can depoſe them by his Religion.
OVT OF THE SECOND SERMON.
SEdition and diſcord diſproued.
The aunſwere of Dauid to Abiſhai threefold.
1 Dauids prohibition in which he forbiddeth the murdering of Saul.
The reaſon of Dauid by the effect, and diſcommodities expounded at large.
Jn the perſon of a Prince are two circumſtances: by condition, as man; by calling, as King, the Lords annointed.
Whether any man, maie be killed of anie priuate man, and how.
The Expoſition of the law, Thou ſhalt not murder, out of Auguſtine.
Princes ordained not of themſelues, nor of fortune, nor of Iupiter; but of Almightie God, and therefore not to bee touched but by God, whether he be good or euil.
Why euil Magiſtrates are aduanced.
The office of a Prince, in that he is called a God.
The true oile wherewith Princes are annointed is onelie the holie Ghoſt.
The office of Subiects to a Prince as being God, & alſo a double Jmage of God.
A proofe of Dauids opinion for obedience to ſuperiours by nature a good ſchoolemiſtreſſe, as in beaſts, birdes, fiſhes, ſerpents, and other naturall creatures. Alſo in the time of Nature before the Law, and to natural and Ethniſh Princes, with the commodities of ſuch obedience to the heathen gouernours.
The puniſhments inflicted vponupon traitors by the iudgement of theſe naturall Ethniſh men, among the oulde Romanes, Turks, and other infidels.
OVT OF THE THIRD SERMON.
THE Pope a Zoganes or a Lord of miſrule: A viperous and Serpentine broode from Rome ſpread among vsus.
Chryſoſtome excellentlie diſcourſeth of this obedience of Dauid.
A general rule of reuenge: Like wil hauehave like.
The Law of Nature, a good argument.
Other particulars in Nature, of dogs, horſes, panthers, and men.
Lawes in Jndia.
The Law of God in the old teſtament giuen to the Iewes, and examples there to perſwade this obedience.
Against Acceſſaries, and Iuſtifiers of Traitours.
A notable pattern of Obedience is Dauid, and his example a ſufficient glaſſe to looke in.
Particular Lawes againſt murderers, and Mutiners.
Lawes and examples in the new teſtament.
The opinion of the fathers after Chriſt, the dutifulnes of our firſt Christians towardes their wicked gouernours.
The Ciuil Lawes againſt al abuſes touching a Prince, in fact, in purpoſe, and intent, in his coine &c.
Executions and experiments of Ciuil and Chriſtian Magiſtrates againſt ſuch diſorders and outrages.
OVT OF THE FOVRTH SERMON.
A Rule of Chryſoſtome neceſſary for Preachers.
Decrees and authorities out of the Canon and Popiſh lawes againſt murder.
Three kinds of murder.
The Popes ſayings & doings contrary to his decrees borowed out of fathers.
The verdict of Iohn Capoſius againſt Pope Innocentius, verified in the reſt of the Popes.
The ſavings of Pope Nicolas, and others preſumptuous againſt Princes.
The ſayinges of Aug. Steuchus, out of the Popes Regiſter, for the claime of an vniuerſal dominion ouer al the weſt church.
The ſpecial claime made of Spaine, England &c.
A Seminary or School of Engliſhmen at Rome, erected long ſince.
The doings and practiſe of Popes agreeable to his owne proud ſayings and brags.
The plagues and iudgements of God againſt theſe proud prieſts of Rome, and their factours and. Adherents.
The periury of Papiſts notably puniſhed by Turkes.
The Turk better in this matter of faithfulnes, then the Pope.
The hand of God vppon Popes by themſelues one vppon another.
Athenians & Romans, are moūting Eagles but plucked.
The monſter in Pope Iulius time a figure of this monſtrous Popedome.
Popes enemies to Fraunce, and yet Fraunce a friende to Popes.
OVT OF THE FIFT SERMON.
THE vnthankefulnes of people againſt Magiſtrats.
Lawes of Canutus, Edgar, and Alured, Richard the firſt, and others in England.
Diſobedience againſt the Lawes in England.
England ſubdued by Iul. Caeſar, Danes, Saxons, and that cheifely by diſcord, and treachery of our owne countrimen.
A terrible example of periury.
Traiſons in the time of diuers Kings in England puniſhed.
Treachery and prodition by an Italian in betraying Calice to the French.
Auncient practiſes of Engliſh Rebells for the defenſe of their Popiſh religion, and yet fruſtrated & vain.
A concubinary Prieſt, and traitour made a Martyr of the Popiſh people in England.
Welch prophecies defeated.
Traiſons of Biſhoppes, Abbats, Priors, Minorite Friars, Monkes, and Prieſtes in England, and ſome executed in their beſt habit of Religion.
New traitors for the Religion of the Pope in the time of K. Henry the 8. K. Edward the 6. and of Queene Elizabeth, rebelling & riſing, but had alway a …al & an euil end.
The Queens maieſty foloweth the example of her Anceſtors in this Realme reſiſting the pride & authority of the Pope.
OVT OF THE 6. SERMON.
FOrreine examples in. Fraunce and Flaunders.
The law of Conſcience the laſt and worſt witnes and tormentour of murderers and Traitors.
Of the trembling, and terrour of an euill conſcience in this Act.
Dogges, Fiſhes, Swallowes, rauens, al creatures terrifie & aſtoniſh a murdering and guilty conſcience.
The concluſion of the firſt part of Dauids reply againſt Abiſhai.
2 The ſecond part is Dauids Proteſtation, in himſelf deteſting that fact with the reaſon annexed, that god hath waies to kill Saul at his pleaſure, and therfore he wil not take vponupon him gods office in that behalfe.
Death common to all, and of the late mortalitie among vsus.
The vanity of this world, and end of all fleſh: wee are all the naked image of Hippocrates.
Infants and yongeſt muſt die.
The great perſonages, Saul and ſuch Princes muſt dy, by one of three kinds of death, ſet downe by Dauid, and vnderunder that his diuiſion manie are comprehended.
The death of perſecutours and traitours.
Their brauerie and bragges againſt the godly, but all in vaine.
Examples thereof ould and freſh in memorie.
No Eloquence can ſaue from death.
The Pope that deliuereth others out of purgatorie, and by battle, & Bul killeth Princes, cannot deliuer himſelf frō death: whereof he is warned by his owne ceremonies, and it maie appeare by the end of many Popes, ſpeciallie euen in the very Act of their rage againſt Princes.
Albeit theſe wicked men muſt die, as Saul did: yet the godlie delight not in their death, no more then Dauid did in the death of Saul.
The compaſſion and ſorrow of good Princes, Pagans & Chriſtians, and of Queene Elizabeth in the death of the traitours and offendours that ſuffer.
An admonition to traitors, and offenders yet liuing.
The death of good Princes is of neceſſitie: but yet a plague to common weals and to the church.
Mutations and changes perilous.
Praier for the good Princes.
OVT OF THE SEVENTH SERMON.
A Queſtion whether the Papiſts be the authors of theſe troubles, and tragedies againſt Princes, or Proteſtants.
The reſolution is flat againſt Popes, the trumpets of ſedition.
The ſturre betwixt the Pope Paſchal, and Henrie the 5. the murderer of his father.
The deteſtation of theſe Traitours by a few moe examples of Iewes, Romanes, Hungarians, & of Danes.
The cauſe of theſe practiſes againſt good gouernours, is their goodnes and Gods cauſe: the ſecond cauſe in the practiſers is their ignorance.
Christ and his goſpel a ſtumbling ſtone.
The lot of the Prince and the Prophet is, to be hated for their Religion.
The third part of Dauids diuiſion, his politick and prouident Reſolution.
The prouidence of god gathered out of the circumſtance of the text, threefold.
The firſt part, Gods ſpecial care, prouidence and protection of Princes, as here of Saul
Murmurers & mutterers alwaies againſt rulers, againſt Moſes though no ruler then, yet appointed by god, againſt Dauid, and Chriſt.
And yet all theſe and others were preſerued vntil their time appointed, as appeareth by the notable examples, of Cyrus, Romulus, Seruius Tullius, Conſtantine, Antonine, Veſpaſian, Waldemar, Lodouicke, Charles 5. Henry 4. and by authorities.
The ſecond prouidence of god ouer Dauid and his church, and eueryevery member thereof.
A comfortable doctrine to the elect and godly: who ſomtimes ſtagger, ſeeing their affliction, and the proſperity of the godles.
The meane that God vſeth here to preſerue, is a deadly ſleepe.
God hath many waies of deliueraunce, comprehended in two general waies by Origen, declared by examples.
The prouidence of God defined by Aquinas.
The decree of man and the determinations of god contrary.
Prince and preacher muſt run their courſe without ſtop.
The third kind of prouidence for temporall things.
Murmurers in this point.
God… prouidence reacheth to the godly and to the followers of the word and religion.
Almunition of Roialms, al promotion of men from God.
Contrariwiſe ſinne the cauſe of diuiſion between God & vsus, and the only impediment and hindraunce of his carefulnes and prouidence.
The purity of Chriſtians in the time of Conſtantine and Traian.
The care of her Maieſty, and her honorable Counſail in the time of dearth.
A Citation and ſummoning of England to iudgement for ſin in al Eſtates, Magiſtrates and Cleargy people.
Two ſorts of men ſpecially offending, irreligious and ſuperſtiouſly religious.
The waie of reconcilement to god, is a general reformation of al, and repentaunce.
Faultes eſcaped correct thus.
Pag. 49. Lin. 5. Falerians., P. 107. L. 28. Prodition.
P. 116. L. 12. Deteſtable. P. 117. L. 3. Ineſtimable.
P. 147. L. 24. Proceſſion. P. 171. 18. put out, Of.