THREE TREATISES Religiously handled, And name according to the several subject of each Treatise: 

The Mourning weed.  
The Mornings Joy.  
The Kings rejoicing.    
Published by R. M. Minister of Gods word.  
Perused and allowed.  
Mira canam, Sol occubuit, nox nulla secuta.  
The Mourning weed thou tookest me fro, and madest me to rejoice. Psal. 30. v. 21.  
fear the Lord and the King, and meddle not with them that are seditious. Prou. 24.21.  

thou SHALT labour FOR   
LONDON Printed by John Windet, dwelling at the sign of the cross keys at Powles wharf, and are there to be sold. 1603.   

The Contents of the whole book.  

1 IN the first Treatise, is shewed what cause wee had of sorrowing for the loss of our late renowned sovereign; and thereupon called The Mourning weed.  
2 In the the second Treatise, are set forth the great and undoubted hopes of our godly rejoicing, vpon the proclamation and enjoying of our most famous and rightful King, who is the ground of our rejoicing; and therfore called The Mornings Ioy, the night of heaviness vpon the death of our late beloved Queen being overpassed.  
3 In the third and last Treatise, is noted and shewed the duty of Subiects, and how they should study in all thankfulness to requited by all means possible, so great a blessing, by fearing of God, and honouring of their Prince; to Gods glory, and comfort of our King: and for that entitled, The Kings rejoicing.    

TO THE RIGHT Honourable, the countess of Derbie, his very Honourable good lady and mistress: R. M. wisheth all joyful consolation, of mind● and body, both here and for ever.  
RIght Honourable, and illustrious lady, it is not the worthiness, or any witty conceit, more then ordinary contained in this little and unworthy work( if at least it be worthy to be called a work) that hath emboldened me to present the same unto your Ho. most favourable perusing and protection, but your Honors former favor hath partly emboldened me, and the singular subject, our late& dearest sovereign, whereupon the first Treatise called the Mourning Weed is framed( if needs I would presume to publish it) hath deserved to haue the same presented to the eyes of your compassionate affection, so loyally affencted, and so lovingly beloved of her most gracious majesty, as you were.  
Not beauteous lady, that I would hereby cause the fountain of your moody mind a fresh to bee broken up,& the welsprings of your eyes to bedew again your cheerful cheeks with brinnish tears, trickling down your Honors face; but rather thereby to recomfort your sorrowful spirit with this special confection or consideration, namely that Princes( though never so peerless) are mortal and born to die, as the freshest flower is in a moment withered.  
Withall right Ho. this Meditation shall bring a true moderation to your Noble mind, to keep the golden mean, between unmeasurable mourning, and unreasonable rejoicing; never to rejoice more for any earthly glory, neither to account better of any worldly honor, then usually you do of the fairest flowers that any earthly garden can yield forth; nor never to mourn more for the lack or loss therof, then for the loss of those things, that are most frail and subject to fading: Labouring evermore to aspire( as our late most gracious sovereign ever did) to that true honour which is achieved by humility, the keeper of virtue, and by religion or piety the crown of glory; to the increase of glory and famed to endless posterity in this life, and to the fruition of all ioy and perfect felicity in the life to come. Finally( dear Madam) this conceit shall also mitigate your sorrow, for your late dearest mistress and sovereign( if your Honor conceive as the truth is) that this Mourning weed is not made onely for your honors wearing, but as all the Ladies of honor, and others in this land, haue like cause measurably to mourn, for the loss of our late beloved queen,& the more company, the more is the comfort as well in wailing as rejoicing, so all according to their leisure, place and calling, if their honors please, may take part with your honor in this weed, and so wear or tear the same, as it shalbe thought meet, either to be perused or refused onely hoping your honor( for the duty I bear you) will accept my sincerity, howsoever any other( that knows not my hart) shal censure me hardly, for audacious temerity: craving pardon for my rude tediousness, and tedious rudeness, in all duty and love, I humbly take my leave: leaving your Honor and your Honors honor, my Right honourable Lord, together with your Honors progeny, to the supreme and highest majesty; and to the guidance of his Grace, that reigneth in eternity.  
Your Honors more dutifully affencted, then powerable to effect it; Radford Mauericke. London, the 20. of May. 1603.   

The Author to the book, in a Sonnet, showing the sum of the same.  
BEing prest, pass on, though throngd among the press  
Of Poems pure, and peerless books of prise;  
Thy loyalty thy Prince may patronise;  
Thy course attire, doth parents want express;  
Thy zeal, may Zoilus tongue, and pen repress.  
I seek no praise, so God be praysde by thee;  
Its my reward, if King may honorde be.  
show solemnly, the cause of mourning cheer,  
For loss of queen, so sweet unto this land:  
Cause to rejoice, in heart with tongue and hand;  
For kingly light, that shines to us so clear;  
And for the jubilee, assigned to us this year,  
praise majesty divine: pray subiectes to contend,  
To make King glad, that God to us doth sand.  
R. M.   

THE MOVRNING WEEDE. The first Treatise.  
WE read in one of the Sonnets or psalms of King david, that princely Prophet, and sweet singer of Israel, Weeping may abide at evening, 
Psal. 30 5.  but ioy cometh in the morning.  
As if the Prophet should haue said, The changes and chances of this life, and of all mortal things, may be compared to nothing better, then to a day, and to a night, to a morning, and to an evening.  
For as we see the experience thereof continually, The fairest and clearest day, hath oftentimes a cloud● overcast it before night, and sometime a very great storm or tempest arising; as on the contrary, after the darkest and most tempestuous night, many times followeth a very calm and Sun shining day. So likewise in the world, may bee seen and observed as in a glass, the great alterations of Monarchies and Empires, of kings and kingdoms, of Princes and Potestates of the earth; sometimes the chaldeans must haue all the swinge and sway of the greatest Empire in the world, 
Dan. 7▪ 4.  sometimes the Persians, 
God disposeth of kings and kingdoms as it pleas●th him best.  some times the grecians, sometimes the romans: so in particular Countries and Dominions, one where a king reigneth, another where a Queen, some where many bear rule, and some where few; and in some places people are more savage then brute beasts, and will not submit themselves to any government. Now according to the sundry turnings and moouings of these higher Spheres,( having all one Primum mouens, 
Vngouerned people more savage then beasts.  God the sole Monarch of heaven and earth,) all other inferior Spheres, are moved, turned about or changed. hence cometh alterations in kingdoms; hence cometh changes of Kings and Princes, like as when one Planet setteth, another riseth; when the sun or moon are eclipsed in one country, they shine the more brighter in another: When the sun in our Horizon is at the highest, he declineth the more in some other country contrary unto us, never staying long in one place: hence is it, that when it is Winter here, it is summer else where for it: when it is hote in one climate, it is could in another. here-hence cometh either fruitfulness, or barrenness, light, or darkness: so likewise, from God the first mover and giver of all things, 
God desp●seth of adversity and prosperity at his ple●su●e.  cometh prosperity, or adversity, long living, or short continuing, much rejoicing, or woeful weeping.  
Of all which, the princely Prophet david had experience, above all men that ever were born, ( the son of God Christ Iesus, of whom he was a true figure, excepted.) And being about that time he composed the thirtieth psalm, or not long before, in the greatest adversity that ever he was( being expulsed out of his own house and kingdom by his own son Absolom) and at that present, or a little before, he sung this psalm, publicly by Gods great benefit and mercy restored, to his former prosperity, and re-established again in his own house and kingdom, to his own exceeding ioy, and singular comfort of his subiects: he compareth the time of his expulsion and adversity, to a night or evening, which commonly is dark and tempestuous, and his restoring and prosperity, to a day or morning, which is usually bright and more pleasing: saying as I said in the beginning, Weeping or heavy cheer, may tarry or abide at evening, but ioy or rejoicing cometh in the morning. How fitting this Sonnet of david, may sort and agree with this present time, I leave it at large to bee considered of, hasting to proceed on( by divine assistance,) according as I haue purposed, and promised in the beginning of this book.  
Two things offer themselves to be discoursed of out of the foresaid sentence of king david, namely of sorrowing and rejoicing: first of both of them jointly, as they are natural affections, and then of every of them severally in their several places, or rather of the causes of each of them, according to the time and occasion, and agreeing with my present intention.  
Sorrow, and Ioy, are two contrary passions in the heart, which maketh the mind of man either joyful or sad, sorry or merry. And such is the force of either of these passions( as physicians say) if at least they be received into the heart suddenly, and unexpected, that either of them may bring death or dissolution to the whole body, but in a contrary sort, as they are contrary in nature: sudden sorrow arising of some great cause, pierceth the heart so vehemently with extreme grief, that causing it to call in all the natural heat from the extreme parts of the body, which being gathered together, the heart presently closeth up like a Pursnet, and so being as it were in a swoon, is not able to disperse and sand out the same again, whereupon death is ready to approach: and either presently, or some time after, 
The danger of sudden sorrow.  according to the greatness of the grief it had received, by little and little, the vital spirits begin to decay, the extremer parts begin to cool, and the whole body falleth to dissolution. Therefore it is good for every one to take heed of sudden sorrow, that they set it not to near the heart at the first, if they do, though they die not presently, as Rutilius did, whereof Plinie speaketh, or within certain dayes, as foolish nabal did, who as the Scripture saith, 
1 Sam. 25. ●7.  His heart died within him, and he was like a ston( assoon as his wife told him of Dauids intent to be revenged of him, and his family, for his churlish answer,) yet the grief stil lurking in some corners of the heart( which causeth it to sand forth many a sorrowful sigh) is the cause of consumptions, which bringeth forth either a tedious life, or a hastened death: therefore it is truly said, grief hath killed many a man. Ioy contrary wise, 
Ecclus. 30.13.  if it be very great and sudden, may sometimes though not so often as sorrow doth, bring dissolution to the body, though in a contrary sort to sorrow( as I haue said) namely by reason of the extreme ioy the heart hath conceived of some thing above present expectation, openeth itself wide as a purse, so that it sendeth forth more natural heat to the utter and extremer parts then it hath strength to recall again: by means whereof, the vital spirites are so weakened, and the heart so distressed, that( as every man knoweth) tears will gush out( in more abundance sometimes for ioy then for grief) and the body standeth amazed, as yielding unto death, if it bee not the sooner recomforted. As Diagoras is reported of by Gellius, to die presently through excess of ioy. 
The inconvenience of sudden and unexpected ioy.  And I haue seen two sundry persons in great extremity onely for ioy, but recovered: howbeit, I suppose that ioy which is so suddenly taken, doth not bring such detriment to the body or mind afterward, as grief& sorrow do. In respect of these two extremities, wee are taught by the wise, a true mean& moderation, namely, to think daily before hand, that we know not what news may befall us before night: yea, every day and hour to pray to God for grace and patience, that so wee may never bee puffed up with prosperity, nor thrown down with adversity, which is the part of a man full of prudency, paciencie, and piety as job, and king david were:& therefore were not thrown down with the greatest adversities, but with prayer and patience, they overcame the same, and both might sing this part of the song( as no doubt they did in their languages.)  
Then didst thou turn my grief and wo,  

Psal. 30.11.  unto a cheerful voice:  
The mourning weed thou tookest me fro,  
and madest me to rejoice.  
And as it is before said, Weeping abideth at evening, but ioy cometh in the morning. Thus having spoken somewhat of these contrary passions in general, I will now begin to speak of either of them in particular. First of sorrow, in this first Treatise, or as I haue said, of the cause of our late sorrow. And forasmuch as the Scripture calleth kings nursing fathers, 
Esay. 49.23.  and queens nursing mothers of the church and common wealth: How can it bee that we the people of this land,& the native subiects of such a sovereign, being now lately weaned from any longer sucking the sweet and tender paps of our late most dearest beloved queen, 
Our late Qu. a most loving nurse to the land.  who living, loved us as dearly( doubtless) if not more dearly, then ever any nurse or mother loved her beloved babe,& dying, cared for us better, then we could for ourselves: yea, and through whose tender, and most motherly care all the while she lived& reigned over us, we haue been fed( as I may say) with the pap of this land, with milk and honey( as the scripture saith) both in our souls and bodies, 
1. Pet. 2.2.  I mean with the sincere milk of Gods word( as Peter calls it) and with the sweetest Hony-suckles of all peace and prosperity: how can it be( I say the premises considered) but that we and every one of us; should sob and sigh in our souls for grief of hart,& say as david once said though happily in another sense, 
Psal. 131.  My soul is even as a weaned child that weepeth for his nurse: and as the same Psalmist saith in another place, I go heavily as one that mourneth for his mother, 
Psal. 35.15.  or as one that maketh a great and grievous lamentation, about his mothers grave?  
We red in the Chronicles of the scriptures, that when king josias the ioy of judah died, 
2. Chron. 35 24, 25.  all judah and jerusalem mourned greatly for him, as great cause they had, their reasons, for that he put away all Idolatry from them, restored and established true religion amongst them, kept the greatest and ioyfullest Passeouer that ever king kept in jerusalem before or after him, loved the land and his subiects most tenderly, and loved and served God himself all the dayes of his life most zealously and devoutly: insomuch that the holy Ghost regestreth& blazeth his praises in the book of eternal famed, in this sort. Like unto king josias was there no king before him, 
2. King. 23.25.  that turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses, neither after arose there any like him. For this cause it is said in the Text, That jeremiah the Prophet lamented josiah, and all singing men, and singing women mourned for josiah in their lamentations, and made the same for an ordinance unto Israel, to be kept in remembrance unto succeeding posterities.  
Now beloved king, 
queen Elizabeth compared with king josias.  josiah never was more zealous for the law, then our late beloved queen was and hath been, both for the Law and the Gospel: josiah carefully purged his land from Idolatry, and our queen with as great care from Id●latry& other rags of popery; josiah pulled down the Idols which his people worshipped,& our Queen pulled down the Idols in chur●hes, but specially that great idol of the mass, which the most part of her subiects honoured: josiah had none, that I red of, that resisted him in his work, if any, but private subiects,& some of the Priests; out queen had not only her private subiects, and the most part of her Priests& Bishops, but also many and mighty foreign enemies, as the Pope a petty God on earth, and many other great Princes in the world of his confederacie, that for this godly fact of her majesties, sought continually the ruin of herself, subiects and country; from whose malice and might, the Lord did ever protect her grace most miraculously. josiah erected, established and continued all his daies true religion, and the true service of God in his land; the world knoweth, our Queen hath done the like in this land of ours: josiah caused the law to be red& published to the people in his time;& her majesty hath caused both the law and the Gospel, to be purely preached all her dayes; and at her death was as careful to haue the same continued amongst us till the day of doom, if the Lord in his mercy would grant the same. In a word, josiah king of judah, never loved his subiects better then our late most gracious Queen Elizabeth( for it comforts me to recite her name) hath loved us, her people& loyal subiects; whose love& loyalty was her Maties ioy& rejoicing while she lived, and her comfort when she died: which caused her also before shee died, not onely as I haue said, to love us dearly, but to provide for all our safeties after her departure hence most tenderly, that true religion might be preserved, and the public peace of her country maintained, praying God, as heartily( no doubt) as ever jacob prayed for his children in his death-bed, to bless this land, and her people with all heavenly happiness, and enduring prosperity: 
jeremy, 31.19  How then, should wee not weep and mourn for the lack& loss of such a mother? Rahell the mother of some of the children of Israell, by a fine figurative speech is brought in, in the scriptures, mourning for her children after she is dead; we therefore, the living children of this land, may well mourn for our dearest mother, not because shee is dead, for therein she hath but yielded unto nature, but because shee is no longer living to care for us, and to comfort us, and daily to pray for us, as heretofore she hath done.  
When the virgin daughter of jephtha judge of Israell, 
Iudges 11.40.  was according to her Fathers rash vow either put to death( as many hold) or kept onely from marriage( as Tremelius thinketh) the virgin daughters of Israell her fellowes, went four times every year, while they lived, out into the wilderness, that there they might bewail her Virginity. That Virgin doubtless, never loved Israell half so well, as our Virgin queen hath loved England; therfore let our enemies give us leave to mourn a while,& let all the Virgins in this land, establish it for a law in their hearts, to mourn yearly in measure vpon the day of the death of their fellow Virgin,( in respect of their virginity) though while she lived, 
Our English Virgins may yearly mourn for the loss of a Virgin queen.  far above them in authority.  
And here I cannot but remember a certain note which is to be red in our Chronicles, whereby it seemeth that our queen deceased, was by divine inspiration persuaded to live and die a Virgin, for at a time of a Parliament, in the first entrance of her majesties most happy reign: There was an earnest motion made by the speaker of the Parliament, by the consent of both houses, to move her Grace to marriage, without any limitation of time when, or person whom she should mary with, leaving that( as it was meet for Subiectes to do) to the excellency of her wisdom in due time to consider of. The manner of this motion( because it was simplo) and the mindes of all the mouers,( because it proceeded from their loues, and tended to succession, and so to the great good of the land, as it might be hoped) her majesty liked& allowed of exceedingly well: But to the matter, which was for her grace to mary, her answer was so excellent, that me thinks I could willingly recite it ( verbatim) word for word. 
Her majesty intended to led a Virgins life from her tender yeares  The sum was, That from her majesties yeares of understanding, she had chosen( as she said) that life of Virginity, as most pleasing to her mind, to serve God in; that to that day, her mind so continued, notwithstanding many honourable offers made her grace, both by the Prince( as shee said) and others for her great aduancement: That if her mind were not resolved otherwise in time to come to mary, for the benefit of succeeding posterity, yet her majesty did not fear or doubt,( wherein surely wee may note a divine working) but that almighty God would so work in her hart,( to use her own words,) and in the hartes of your wisedoms( meaning her Councellors no doubt,& nobility of this land,) that as good provision( saith she) may be made in convenient time, whereby the realm shal not remain destitute of an heir, that may be a fit governor,& peradventure saieth her majesty more beneficial to the realm, then such offspring as may come of me: Lastly, saith her Grace( and even with a secret ioy shee seems to speak it,) for me it shall be sufficient, that a marble ston declare,( as I doubt nothing, but with all care and cost will now be provided) that a queen having reigned such a time( uncertain scarcely hoping then she should reign in such peace and prosperity forty and four yeares) A marble ston,( saith she, now the richest Adamant more fitting) do declare and make known to all posterity, 
queen Elizabeth her own Epitaph, made by her majesty 44. years before ●●e died.  that a queen having reigned so long, lived and dyed a Virgin. With this answer, and many thanks, and leave of her Grace, the Speaker and the rest departed, who whether they should, or did more wonder at her majesties prudency, or chastity, I cannot tell.  
Such a queen had we once, such a queen had we lately, such a queen haue wee lost, 
Prudency and chastity matched together.  as the world hath not now the like, for a nursing mother to this land: who then dare blame us for mourning and weeping not I say still, for the death, but for the lack of such a mother? 
Mourning in mea ure commended.  yea, no doubt, mourning in measure, in faith and in the fear of God, for the loss of our Parents of our body natural, or of the body politic, is agreeable to the law of nature, allowed of by the law of Nations, consonant to the will or law of God, and confirmed by infinite examples as well divine, as profane.  
Christ himself the pattern of all piety, wept& mourned at the death, 
John 11.35.  though not for the death of his friend Lazarus: and may not wee mourn then, though not for the death, least God thereby be offended, whose will therein is effected, yet at the hearing of her death, and at the funerals of our best beloved& most worthy to be loved queen, who was not onely a friend and defender of our whole country in general, but specially, and in particular, a faithful friend of the fatherless, and a firm defender& redresser of the widdows cause, and all other that she knew oppressed or in any adversity? 
A Rule for mourning.  Notwithstanding( herein I say still) there must be a mean and measure observed, and to observe the same, this rule may bee prescribed, to mourn as Christians, and not as the Heathen and papists do, with crossing and praying for the souls of their friends departed, as though they had no hope of their eternal salvation.  

Luk. 23.28.  moreover, when the women of jerusalem wept and wailed exceedingly at the crucifying of Christ,(& what true christian could behold the same wi●h out weeping) because in their wailing happily they did not consider the true cause of their mourning, which should haue been for the miseries that were to come vpon them, and their posterity, Therefore Christ himself reproveth their weeping.  
So doubtless should God be offended, if we the people of this land should onely weep and mourn for the death of our Queen, and not for ourselves, and for our children, for our sins, and for our unthankfulness, which as otherwise we were unable, so for our sins peradventure many of us unworthy, to haue so great a ioy, and rich a jewel any longer to reign or remain among vs.  
For who knows not that her majesty, 
queen Elizabeth a peerless Prince.  while she lived was a Prince of peerless prise,& who seeth not,( with grief I speak it) that the multitude of this land are a people,( as Esay said of the Iewes) laden with iniquity? 
Esay 1 4.  And therefore though the Lord haue most assuredly received her majesties soul unto his own most glorious majesty, and sacred self, and hath yet intended as I trust for his names sake, and for his gospel sake, and for his sons sake, in whose name all the faithful night and day, offer up their zealous prayers unto God, to bee longer merciful to this land, yet that letteth not, but that every one in this land, even the best of us all, as well Pastors, as people, magistrates, as common subiectes, either for our manifold sins committed, or for many good duties neglected and omitted, or for both, together with the manyes of the multitude, that haue slept almost, if not altogether Endimions sleep in sin, and all searefull security: we all I say together, and every one of us in particular, may with the Prophet ieremy, take up a lamentation, though not( as I remember still) for the death of our good queen, yet for fear our sins were the cause, that God would not suffer her majesty▪ 

Mans dayes determined with God, how long they shall last.  
job. 14, 5.   any longer to reign, or remain among vs.  
And yet herewithal the godly may take great comfort, and the enemy hath no cause to rejoice, that as wee by Gods word are assured, All our dayes are numbered, so the thread of her majesties life was drawn out, till there was not one inch or end thereof left vpon the spindle; and the lamp of her life gave light so long, 
The lamp of her majesties life burned, so long as the oil of nature did endure.  as the oil of nature with in her did endure: notwithstanding the Pope and papists by all pestilent practices, haue sought and assayed, and the seekers haue paid full dear for their labour, with all kind of instruments to cut off this golden thread, they cared not in what place, whether in the beginning, middle, or last ending thereof, and haue spewed out all kind of poison,& in all pestilent sort that the divell could devise, to delay the oil of the lords own anointing, that so the light of this glorious lamp might haue been extinguished, before the dark night of natural death approached, and before her majesties dayes, which God appointed her before shee was born, were determined and fulfilled.  
Also in this we ought greatly to rejoice, and to praise God for the same, not onely for that, as I haue said, her majesties life was drawn out even unto declining old age, very near to the age the Scripture long since appointed out to a man, even threescore and ten yeares, but also, 
Psal. 90.10  for that her grace in all peace, happiness and prosperity reigned and ruled this realm with all magnanimity, prudency, and regal authority, to the ioy of her Subiects, and grief of her enemies, 
Her majesty had as long& happy a reign as any Prince n this land, either since or before the conquest.  so many years almost as any, and far more yeares then many of her Predecessors, since the time of the Conquest, or before.  
And as her majesty while shee lived, and reigned as Gods Lieutenant here on earth, was for her most rare gifts of body and mind, of nature and grace, worthily acknowledged& accounted of, as the onely wonder of the world, 
Our queen the wonder of the world.  so we may be assured almighty God( through the rich merites of his son) hath now received her majesties soul, with great triumph, and with no less rejoicing both of saints and Angels, from this valley of tears, into his heavenly haven of eternal rest, to reign with the Trinity, in all enduring and endless felicity.  
And though her majesty were a Virgin and a maiden queen, yet was shee the mother of as many loyal and obedient children and subiectes, 
love requited with love.  as ever was any Prince in christendom: and this love of her majesties loving Subiects was not lost, for never was ther prince in the world, or under the heauens, that loved and cared better for her Country, people, and loving Subiects, then her majesty hath done, during all the time of her most gracious and happy reign, yea all they that knew her majesty know full well, and they that were ever near her grace, know better, but the God of heaven the sounder of all secret thoughts, as her majesty said in her prayer before Cales Voyage, knoweth best of all, 
The continual care her majesty had for the good of her countty and people.  the ardent love and affection, the continual care and carking, that her majesty had for the good of her country, and her most loving subiects: yea such was her Graces care for us, and over us, night and day, that shee did even whither and wear out, not onely her beauty, but her mind and body in continual study, and caring for her countries good, and the preservation therof: yea surely which is most of all,( and I may not omit it) such was her love and desire of her Subie&es safety, that Pelican like, 
Anno▪ 1588. Her Mai●stie camped in the field, resolveth to resist the force of her foes.  she could& was always contented, if need had or did require, to haue ventured her life, in token of her love, and for our sakes to haue spent and spilled her dearest blood, as besides many testes and Testimonies, Tilbury fields shall witness for her majesty, so long as this earthly Globe endureth.  
Well, all this maketh our mourning to increase the more, for the more her majesty cared for us, the more cause had we to love her, the more we loved her while shee lived, the more is our sorrow now, not for that shee is dead, but for that she lived no longer among us, and that such a flower should be plucked so suddenly from vs. For indeed our late beloved queen of England, was a flower for sweetness, full of fragrancy: for show, full of all beauty and majesty: for sap, full of all sobriety▪ for use, endued with all virtues excellency.  
Such another queen as her majesty, was yet never seen( I suppose) in earth to rule and reign in any kingdom; And such another flower as her majesty was( sure I am) never flourished in our English garden. Out alack, had wee but one earthly light under the moon, and must thou dark death needs eclipse it, for quenched it thou hast not? had we but one jewel in this land, and must thou needs steal it away on a sudden, while we slept in all sinful security? Had wee but one choice flower in our garden, and must thou needs gather it? well, thou hast done thy worst, and wee haue this to solace ourselves withal, in the midst of our sorrows. Since the greatest light in the world, the sun I mean, is subject to eclipsing, the richest jewel in the earth is subject to stealing, the freshest and fairest flower, that ever grew in that gallant Garden of Eden is subject to withering. 
kings and Princes dying comp read unto flowers withering. Esay 40.6.  And the greatest king and Monarch of the world, is but as a flourishing flower of the field, and therefore subject to dying: flowers are but flowers, though never so fresh and fragrant, and flesh is but flesh( as Esay saith) though never so gallant. Thou dire death, but stately Sergeant; herein thou hast but done thy duty,( as our queen mortal by nature, 
The office of death.  hath but yielded to necessity) which is, to arrest Kings as well as clowns, for kings are born, and therefore kings must die: and to take Princes and Potentates, as well as people and Subiects, down from the stage of this life, to rest a while in the atiring house of their graues, till others that succeed in the next scene of this earthly Tragedy, haue played their Pageants, and so descend down under the cloth of mortality, to accompany their fellowes that went before them: Singing most solemnly passing down the Stage, that sweet Song of Barnard, 
The end of al earthly glory.  to all people whom they leave behind them, Dic ubi Solomon? and all the people answering with this pleasant Applaudity, Sic transit gloria Mundi.  
The End of the Mourning weed.   

The Mornings Joy.  
WHEREIN THE CAVSES OF ALL our rejoicings for the happy proclaiming, and present enjoying of our royal king, are briefly and plainly described.  Prou. 20.28. 
mercy and truth preserve the King.  
LONDON Printed by John Windet, dwelling at Powles wharf, at the sign of the cross keys 1603.   


GAVDIVM POPVLI, HVMILIME CONSECRATVM REGI: COR PLEBIS   
MOst noble and renowned king, most dear and undoubted sovereign, never was this sage sentence happy is that realm where either Philosophers be Kings, or kings philosophers, more truly verified then at this time; nor never had nation more need then we the people of this land, duly to consider of it, in al thank fullness towards God, and in all love and loyalty towards your majesty.  
The consideration whereof hath even compelled me( the unworthiest of your Graces ministery) to compile, though in a most rude and ill-digested sort,( either for want of leisure, or learning, or both) this present pamphlet, sprouting forth into three branches, carrying their titles according to the chief argument, or subject whereupon they are framed.  
The middle branch( whereupon virtue useth to rest) drawing her sweetest sap from you our singular good sovereign, and therefore as due to your majesty,( not in my name, that am altogether unworthy to be name) but in the name and behalf of all the joyful subiects of our Deuonian country or Shire; the same is presented,( an unworthy present truly for a king) to the most leasurable perusing( if at least ever there may be leisure allotted to look vpon it) and to the princely protection of your gracious favour: the rather, for that your grace is not onely a favourer, but a father unto all those that seek by any means( how simplo soever) to further the proceedings of the gospel.  
Most humbly praying your royal majesty, favourably to pass over al the imperfections of this rough and vnfiled work, pardoning the workman for his love and loyalties sake; and finally to receive this poor mite, of a ministers good meaning, into the treasury of your noble mind; among the rich jewels of the learneder sort of this land, that either are, or may be offered: nor for the repairing, but for the comforting& refreshing of you our king,& under God unto us a most sacred sanctuary. Beseeching the supreme majesty, who sitteth in the mercy seat, in sancto sanctorum, between the Cherubims, to bless your highnesse with a glorious reign, and to make the people of all your Graces Dominions, zealous, thankful, and obedient subiects, first to God, next to your majesty; Amen.   

REX ET REGINA BEATI  

A Almighty God in mercy hath, H  
All Englands ioy renewed;  
N Not our deserts, but blessed love, E  
New blessings hath bestowed,  
N No natural due, but heavenly rain. N  
Now Albion land may see,  
A A King, a queen, a Prince, a Peer, R  
And year of jubilee.  
R Religion long to Englands ioy, Y  
Remained hath in dead:  
E Exceedingly God doth it keep, P  
Enduring to our seed.  
G God haue the praise,& still our prayer, R  
give grace( O God) to hear:  
I endue our hearts with loyalty, Y  
enure our souls to fear;  
N Nothing but thee, and thee alone. N  
Now ioy we much to see:  
A King, a queen, and noble Prince, C  
All regal in degree. E.   

God save our King, our queen, and Prince,  
God shield them from annoy:  
confounded( O God) all Popish pride,  
Thine enemies( Lord) destroy.   
R. M.   

THE MORNINGS IOY. The second Treatise.  
IT is reported, and agreed on by many writers of antiquity, 
One Phoenix in the world at one time.  that there is but one phoenix in all the world at one time, which bide after she hath lived a long time( some writ 600. yeares) by a secret instinct of nature, being ready to die, maketh her nest higher in the top of the mountaines then ever before( like as they report the swan singeth sweetest when her end is nearest,) even so high that with the reflex of the sun, and beating of her wings, both she and her nest are set on fire, and so burned into ashes; out of whose ashes they say, springeth and ariseth a new phoenix: And it is no less assented unto by all Nations and people of the world( except Papists) that knew our queen, 
Our late queen while she lived, a rare Phoenix.  her wisdom, learning, and religion, that shee was while shee lived, the onely phoenix, among all the Kings and Princes of the world.  
Now see wee then the wonderful working of God, and so see it, that wee may understand it, and so understand it, that wee may remember it, and so remember it, that while wee live, wee may not forget to praise God for it. The matter and the manner whereof is this.  
So long as our Phoenix queen lived, and flourished in health and strength of nature, another phoenix for us was not to bee found, no nor to bee spoken of: but no sooner began shee to decay, and to yield unto nature, but presently as yet were out of the Ashes of her burning zeal, and love towards us, shee with the care of her noble council, 
Our kings most right& lawful successor to the imperial crown of England.  and others of her nobility pointeth us out a succeeding Phoenix, a most sure and certain successor, and right inheritor, to the Imperial crown of this realm; no foreigner, but of the royal blood, his own Grandmother being born and bread in this land; and the eldest daughter of our late Soueraignes grandfather, king henry the seventh of famous memory, and of as famous renown for many special virtues, and princely qualities, as any king of this land that I haue red of, either before or sithence the Conquest.  

Our king james a most noble phoenix  Who this new and noble Phoenix is, Proclamation with sound of trump, hath every where proclaimed; and the heartes of all true Subiectes aclowledge, with as great ioy and rejoicing both in city and country, as can bee wished or desired.  
It is james the sixth of that name, by Gods grace King of Scotland, and by Gods special providence and appointment, the first of that name, King of England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith; so that now we may boldly and in the sweetness of our souls say, as duty bindeth us, God save King james, our Noble King.  
We red much in the Gospel of james and John, 
Math. 4.21.  they were two disciples, and nere kinsmen to our saviour Christ, according to the flesh.  
now, when our saviour was dying on the cross, in the greatness of his love, 
John. 19.25.26, 27.  commended the cure and care of his beloved mother, to his cousin and Disciple S. John: but when our late queen the Mother of our country died, shee in all her love committed, or at least earnestly wished, the care and government of all her children and loving subiects to be committed( to whom also of right it belonged) to the godly care of james king of Scotland, her majesties nearest and dearest cousin, 
Our king Godson, and near cousin to our late beloved Queen.  and most loving Godson: which king james, though he be not an Apostle, and the brother of John, yet I am sure, and Gods everlasting name be praised for it, his majesty is a perfect Protestant, and of the very same religion that james the Apostle was; having both one God, one Christ, one faith, one baptism, yea and under God, as well able, if not more able, to keep and defend all good Protestants, his beloved subiects, from the power and tyranny of the Pope and Papists, as ever S. John( by any natural gift he had) was able to save and defend the beloved mother of our saviour, from the rage and persecution of Herod, Pilate, Cayiphas,& all the rabble of Priests, Scribes& pharisees. And here I cannot but remember a pretty tale of certain women going on Pilgrimage to Saint james of Compostella, or some such like place, who all the way( the wind being hard in their faces) prayed God and Saint james, the wind might turn; but their prayer was never heard, until they returned home, and by means thereof the wind was worse in their faces homeward then before. 
The Papists praying to Saints doth them no good  So truly these many yeares the papists haue prayed God and Saint james, the wind might change in our country: and now being changed, their faces may bee never the warmer by any thing I know, by the change of our gracious queen, unto our godly King james, except they agree with his majesty in Religion. Whose Graces most noble and worthy praises if I should but once begin to report, by reason of mine ignorance and insufficiency, I should rather eclipse and darken, then any way open or reveal the same as appertaineth; besides the incurring of a great suspicion, 
A Minister ought to take heed of flattery.  of that grievous 'vice of adulation or flattery, which a Minister of the gospel,( above many other vices) ought to beware of.  
And if it were or had been my purpose, to pass away the time, and to fill out the page. with Publishing of praises; then I might put over all the rest that I yet intend to speak or writ of, until an other year. I mean the reporting of the most deserved praises, of our late peerless Prince, and renowned queen Elizabeth, would bee a labour so infinite, which thing indeed( if I were worthy and able) I might do the more lawfully, and therein nothing offend against duty, seeing as the saying is, 
The virtues of the godly do never die.  post funera virtus; after death, the virtues of all godly Princes and good people, may be published, and sounded out with the golden trump of eternal famed.  
Howbeit, to the performing of such a work as the reporting and publishing of her majesties more then deserved praises; seeing I know mine own insufficiency, and want of skill, and also aclowledge mine own sapless barrenness, and inability for such a purpose, I do therefore willingly leave and assign over so great a task( in due and convenient time, with sound and mature deliberation to bee performed) either to the most clarified wits of our purest Poets, and rarest Chroniclers of our age( those who all their life long haue drunk of the sweetest streams, 
The worthiest unworthy enogh to report her majesties worthy and deserved praises.  that spring out of Parnassus hill) or to the finest Academians( either divines or other) that England or all Europe yeeldeth, whosoever they bee, that haue dived deepest, into the profundity of all artes and sciences.  
And it may be( I speak it not to discourage any for the greater the work, the greater also is the glory of him that doth well finish it) onely I say it may be, when they haue thoroughly considered every way as appertaineth, not all her majesties best deserts,& worthy praises( for who can number them) but the rarity of her wisdom, and variety of all excellent kindes of knowledge and learning( for there were few tongues in christendom, but either her majesty spake them eloquently, or understood thē perfectly: 
Her majesties singular knowledge in the tongues very admirable.  when this( I say) and such like as I cannot think of, shall come into their mindes, before they publish the same with conding praises to the world, it may be they may say( though not publicly, yet privately to themselves) Hic labour, hoc opus est, such another task we never took in hand before.  
For my part, seeing I haue intermeddled, not presumptuously, but dutifully and lovingly,( as God knoweth my hart) in this kind of business: I will crave leave of the learned to draw my neck out of such a yoke, concluding this point with that sweet saying of Salomon: 
A good name better then a sweet ointment.  {αβγδ} melius est bonum nomen, quam unguentum bonum. A good name and a glorious famed, arising of true virtue,& grounded vpon good desert, is far better and sweeter then any precious ointment, though compounded with the purest spices: as that ointment was, which the law commanded to be made for the anointing of of Kings, 
Exod 30.23.34.  Priests, and Prophets. That ointment will smell throughout all the house where it is, though locked up never so closely: and this ointment of her majesties famed, I doubt not, will smell the world throughout, and give a most odoriferous savour in the nostrils of all succeeding posterities, maugre the malice and malignity, of al Antichristian Iesuites, or pestilent Papists wheresoever. Yea, I am more then assured, 
Math. 26.13.  that as Christ said of Maries anointing of him with that precious box of ointment of spikenard wheresoever the gospel be preached, there her famed for that fact shall ever be reported; So I say, I doubt not to affirm it, the glorious famed of our late renowned queen, for her first establishing, 
The glorious famed of our late renowned Qu. touching her care in religion shall ever be remembered.  publishing, and most constant confessing, of the gospel of Christ:( Notwithstanding all the might and malice of the divell, Antichrist his son, and al his adherents) together with her majesties sound perseverance therein, even unto the end of her daies and her most Princely care as long as life did hold, for the continuance and propagation of the same gospel, and true religion in al her majesties realms, territories, and dominions, after her grace; decease, and natural dissolution. This worthy work of her majesty( I say) the Chronicles of all ages and in all Christian kingdoms shall report, to the increase of her famed, and good encouragement of all other Christian kings and Princes in christendom, to do the like by her majesties example, or to be ashamed before men and Angels, if they do the contrary, so long as printed paper shall endure.  
Now then to proceed on with our purpose, no sooner( as wee haue said) was our most fortunate and female Phoenix dissolved, but presently anew Phoenix, of the more worthier gender, and of the same royal blood was published and proclaimed, so that before we could well consider, and therefore less mourn for the death of the one( the life and light of the other approaching) our mourning was changed into most undoubted hopes of rejoicing; so that heaviness and bitter lamentation abiding at evening, 
The ioy of our new king ●xpelled the cloud of sorrow we had conceived upon the death of our late Qu.  ioy and exceeding cause of godly rejoicing came in the morning; therefore may this little Treatise, howsoever impolished rightly be called The Mornings joy: First in respect of the joys already apparent, as also for the ioy of the great hopes wee are hereafter to expect all which are already I trust truly conceived, in the harts of al the godly of this land,& by Gods special providence,& the zealous prayers of the faithful, may be every day more and more cherished, increased and continued, to the glory of God( who hath began it) and to the great grief of the godless, that in hart and mind much repined at it, howsoever God doth bridle their affections, and suffer them not to break out into open rebellions.  
And for this cause do I the rather call many of our hopes, undoubtedly conceived& already in esse, but hopes of expectance, that none may haue cause to upbraid me, that I should Canere Triumphum, ante victoriam: for though I be young, yet am I not altogether ignorant of the subtle sleights of satan, who now, as ever heretofore( since he was cast out of heaven and ever will do, till he bee chained fast in hell) hath with all his sleights, 
satan ●eekes to st●p all godly purposes in the beginning.  might and malice, endeavoured to crush the brains of all godly purposes( intended for the good of Gods Church and children) in their swaddling clothes, 
Gen. 3.1.  as I may say. So he dealt with our first Parentes in Paradise: So with the godly Patriarkes: So with the children of Israel, when they were to come out of Egypt, and in the wilderness: causing the multitudes much to murmur, and to rebel against Moyses and Aaron, 
Exodus 16. c& 32.1.19.  but most busily while Moses was in the Mount, stirred up the people unto most gross idolatry, to this end( as the old Fathers haue thought) that Moses might be over heat in his zeal, in beholding their cursed calf, and so break the Tables of the law, as indeed he did, wherein their greatest good was intended and included. So afterward, when they should enter into the promised land, ten of the twelve searchers said, The land of Canaan indeed, is a very good land, 
Numb. 23.28.29.  flowing as God had said, with milk and honey: but the Cities thereof were strongly walled, and mighty Giants and Anakins inhabited them, so that it was impossible to overcome them.  
So after when the Iudges ruled, 
judge 5 31. 1. Kin. 6.1.& 15.12.  none but godly Debora could bring peace and rest to the Church and common weal forty yeares: So after the kings were crwoned, none but Salomon must build the Temple of the Lord, 
2. Kin. 3.4.& 22.2.  None but a few of the kings after him, as Asa, jehosaphat, Ezechiab, and Iosia must purge the land from idolatry, and stablish the law, and true religion among them. So after that the Iewes( for their sins and idolatry) had been well scourged of God in babylon by seventy yeares captivity, no king but cyrus and Darius, 
Ezra 1.1.& 53.  must restore back these captives, none but Ezra, Zorababell, Nehemiah, zealous to conduct them home to their own Country again, to build their Temple, 
Nehe. 4.  and to restore religion: when they were returned, how by the malice of the devill were they let and hindered, by the Captaines beyond the river, certain yeares together, for the setting forth of so glorious a work? 
The repairing of Gods temple always hindered by the worse● sort.  after they began to repair their walls and to re-edify the Temple, how subtle and malicious enemies had they both at home and abroad? insomuch as they were fain to work with their instruments of labour in the one hand, and with their sword to fight in the other. And all those stirs and uproars in the Church of God, from time to time, haue been wholly raised, devised and set on, for the disturbing of every good work begun, by the might and malice of the devill, and all wicked Princes and people that ever he could procure on his side, which evermore are the greater number in the world, and not the least in the visible Church of God. Neither was the might or malice of the divell half so great in the time of the law, as it hath been since the gospel began. No sooner was Christ the corner ston born, 
Mat 2. ●6.  but all the babes blood in Bethelem, and all the coasts thereabout must be spilled for his sake: While this sweet babe Iesus was in the arms of his mother, she must fly into Egypt from the rage of Herod that bloody persecuter. 
& 14.14.  No sooner must John Baptist point out Christ to be the lamb of God, that taketh away the sins of the world, but presently by the devils procurement, 
Mat 4.1.  he must loose his head for his labour. No sooner is our saviour baptized and sanctified with the visible presence of Gods spirit, for the great work of our redemption, 
Christ our king tempted how should we be free.  but the devil which is a Prince in all Countries,( and feareth no colours) taketh him in task, hand to hand, to try whether he can fight for his faith or no, or whether cowardlike, he will yield the field, before his Souldiers be gathered together, or the main battle be set in any order. No sooner came our saviour to publish the glad tidings of the gospel, but the divell, 
Luk 4.29.  and his Souldiers would haue thrust him down from a steep hill to haue broken his neck: when he was at home, his friend, by the devils assignment grieved him, when he came to jerusalem, 
& 6.7.  the Iewes persecute him, never leaving him till they delivered him up to the Gentiles, 
joh. 19.23.  to be slain and crucified for the sins of the world, as God his Father had preordained him. So did the same satan deal with his Apostles and Preachers presently after the death of Christ while the gospel yet continued, among the Iewes, first stoned Stephen, 
Acts 7.1. c. 12.2.  slay james with the sword, and because that pleased the people, made Herod to cast Peter the Apostle into prison also. Likewise when for the infidelity and grievous unthankfulness of the Iewes, The gospel by Gods special appointment and permission, was to be published among the Gentiles( which thing the divell never dreamed of, for he had thought to haue kept us Gentiles for ever in his dungeon of darkness, and ignorance of God and all godliness) then he rageth out of all reason, and without all measure, then for the greater trial of Gods children, and for the punishment of the Gentiles, that would not believe the gospel, stirreth up most grievous persecutions, 
The Apostles drink of their Maisters cup.  so that none of the Apostles that followed Christ, escape Scot free,& most of them put to cruel death for the preaching of the gospel. But nothing I suppose ever made the devill more madder, then Paul the Apostle. Of the Gentiles, because through ignorance he was first of his own band, and a persecutor of the Christians; but on the sudden by Gods special grace, called miraculously( by Christ himself) To be a chosen vessel that he might be sent far abroad among the Gentiles. 
Act. 9.1.15.   
In converting of whom, Paul never laboured more faithfully, then the divell laboured diligently, to raise up persecution against him, and all that followed and believed his doctrine: 
Acts. 14.19.  at Derby, at Lystra, 
Acts 27.1.  at Iconium, and at many other places, till they came back again to jerusalem; where, because his persecutors could not haue their will, and wreak their malice then vpon him, 
2, Tim. 4.17  they sand him bound unto Rome; where he made the gospel, and the profession thereof famous, throughout all the Iudgement Hall, by his sound disputing, and constant preaching, whereat his first answer before the tyrant Nero, all forsook him▪ but the Lord strengthened him, and for a while delivered him( to show his power) from the mouth of that lion.  
When the Apostles were all persecuted or put unto death, was satan yet quiet? No doubtless, for then the ten most cruel persecutions, soon after their disceasing, 
The glory of kings to haue care of Gods Church and children.  would not haue so long continued, to the great slaughter of Gods best beloved children, until it pleased God of his great mercy, to raise up Constantius the Emperor,& Constantinus his son, to calm that so great tempest,& to comfort the heartes of Gods children, who were fled into the wilderness, and corners of the earth for their relief and succour.  
But that old read dragon, would not there yet suffer them to be quiet: But still with greater rage then before, persecuted the woman, 
Reu. 12.6.  The Church( I mean) which even in that time of straitenesse, had brought forth not a man child only, but many thousand children, both of men and women, which never bowed their knees unto Baal.  
So true is that saying, the blood of the Martyrs is the seed of the Church, And thereupon it is finely said of one.  

Sanguine fundata est ecclesia, Sanguine caepit,  
Sanguine succreuit, sanguine finis erit.   

Gods Church with blood of Abell  shed,  
Was all begord, and over spread;  
The like befell, in age succeeding,  
And shall do still, in church continuing.   
For when that fearful beast, having 7. heads, and 10. horns, the old roman Empire which raised these ten cruel persecutions, was wounded and abased: another beast which was Antichrist, which had two horns like the lamb, 
Reu. 13.1& 11& 18.3. Antichrist a bloody beast though he pled the simplicity of the lamb.  but spake like the Dragon( of whom he learned to bee cruel and bloody, like the former beast) was set up& honoured, with whom all kings of the earth, for the space of 500. years, committed most filthy fornication, till the light of the gospel by those bright lamps, began to shine out of Germany, whose beams like the sun in the morning, did make bright these our Northern Regions, 
God causeth light to shine out of d●rknes  whereat the divell and Antichrist his son haue grievously stormed, and like unto the wild boar, hath from time to time, since he was first cast out, sought and laboured by all means possible to break in again into the lords vineyard, to wast, roote out, and destroy those pleasant plants, which by the space almost of fifty yeares preaching haue been deeply planted in these our Countries; and now I trust, 
The pure gospel preached in England during the reign of King Edward and queen Elizabeth, and I trust shall be continued till the end of the world, in despite of the divell and Antichrist.  shal be watered a fresh with the sweetest spring of celestial comforts: which no doubt will cause the divell to bestir himself a new, and Antichrist his captain to muster his whole Company of Iesuites, Seminaries,& Papists at home, and all the professed enemies of Christ,& our country abroad, who with tooth and nail,( as they say) will strive against this happy success, of ours, endeavouring by all means possible, to turn all our hopes of rejoicing, into heaps of slaughters& most assured causes of mourning, if it lay in their powers, or if God for our sins and unthankfulness, should permit them so to do.  

2. Cor. 2.11.  Wherefore, seeing( I say) wee are not ignorant of these devilish sleights( as S. Paul saieth) nor of the secret malice of our Popish enemies, though they can happily like the snake,( for want of strength) lie quiet in the bosom of our Country, till they may bee better warmed and cheered to thrust out their stings against vs.  
These things( I say) considered, haue caused me to strike my sail of rejoicing, so low as possible I can, and to call these great things which the Lord hath begun to do for us, and I trust in his good time will finish the present possession, and further hope of rejoicing, which if our aduersaries had but half the like cause, would in all their writings haue published for mountaines of joys: notwithstanding for Zions sake, I could not bee still, 
Esay. 62 1.  and for Ierusalems sake would not hold my peace, till in the zeal of my soul, I had laboured both privately in mine own charge, and publicly in this simplo sort, as I haue done, to stir up the hearts of Gods children to a joyful rejoicing in the Lord, and to all kind of thankfulness and ready obedience to God and our King. From whom, 
The sap of our ioy included in the virtues of our king.  as in the roote or stem( next under God) all the sap of our ioy and comfort springeth up, and many flourishing branches of heavenly and earthly blessiings bud forth to the comfort of our Church and commonweal wherein we live.  
When the Iewes a long time had Iudges to rule over them, though some of them, 
1. Sam. 8.19.20  wise as Debora, and holy as samuel, yet they still cried out, give us a King to reign over us, as all other Nations haue.  
So long as our Debora reigned( which was four yeares longer then Debora judged Israel) and thereby all peace and prosperity heaped vpon us, and our land, yet there were that cried out, give us a king to reign over us, as all other Nations haue. now God in his mercy hath given us a king, and our eyes haue seen him to our hearts content, and in good time wee doubt not, will crown his majesty to reign over us, and will they yet be contented think we, that before were grieved? I think not; but how soever they be discontented, if Gods will herein bee once effected, sure I am, therein wee shall haue such a blessing, as this land hath not enjoyed in that respect, 
About fifty yeares gone since king Edward died.  this fifty yeares; so that if God will, this may bee called our year of jubilee; though our enemies hoped happily, it would haue turned to us a year of misery. Whose hope( I doubt not) God will frustrate, as he hath in this, that many yeares before it came, they counted and called, the death day of our sovereign, a golden day: but the God of heaven seeth their malicious mindes, and I trust will cut their combs shorter, that take felicity to crow and cry for the death of Princes, but to our purpose.  
A King God bee thanked wee haue proclaimed, and trust shortly with ioy to haue him crwoned, and peaceably established in his kingdom; whereat our aduersaries in deed haue no cause to rejoice, either at home or abroad; when it shall bee reported in other Nations, that England hath now a King reigning over them, 
The great causes of our rejoicings; 1 Taken from our King, as a stately stem or three of virtue.  which for his prowess( if he bee provoked) dare to look any King of christendom in the face; which for his learning and Religion, is able to lead us unto the living waters of comfort, which for his sex is able By the help of his God, to leap over a Wall, and likewise able to travell abroad to see the coasts and strength of his country, 
Psal. 18.21.  and valour of his Captaines, to inquire out and learn the manners of his Subiects and people, as well they that rule under him, as they that are ruled: to sit in his seat of iudgement, when it pleaseth him, to advance iustice, and to grace his majesties most worthy justicers. All these things our enemies may talk of, to their terror, but every good subject may think of it to his comfort, this therefore is the roote and cause under God of all our rejoicing.  
What other hopes of our rejoicing are their like to bud out of this stately stem? many more then I can think of, and many more then I will speak of; and of them that I purpose to remember, I will rather point at them, then speak of them: we may ascend from the stem, 
2 From the branches of our Kings posterity.  to consider of the lively branches already sprouting from this noble stem; having the greenest olive three, and of the sweetest kind growing with our king in his Graces Garden, 
Gods great blessings vpon our King in his princely posterity by the fruitfulness of so flourishing a queen.  with olive branches round about his Table: these blessed branches, are already known to bee two sons, and two daughters, of most singular hope, and God knoweth howe many more his Grace may yet haue to his own comfort, and great stay of this land; whom it may please his majesty to make Dukes and Princes of his realms and Dominions, which may led his Armies to the terror of his enemies, while his majesty may manage the other affairs of his country, living with his subiects in peace and quietness; yea to succeed in their fathers throne, when the father of spirites shall call him to his mercy, which is not even now unthought on( as the examples of the Emperours teach) when his majesty shall be in the midst of his royalty; 
Lapi●aries used to come unto the Emperors the day of their coronation: earnestly enquiring what kind of ston they would haue their tombs erected with, to put them in mind of their mortality.  as also it appeareth( to the perpetual renown of his Grace) by his majesties sweet and most singular instructions already given unto prince henry his eldest son, who naturally, if God give life, is to succeed in his fathers room. These things in the fear of God may be thought on, and are no small hopes of rejoicing.  
From the branches we may take some comfort in the leaves, which are our next and nearest neighbours, the Scots; who as they are one language almost with us, so may they by Gods good grace, bee joined together in great love and friendship with us, 
3 From the leues which are the Scots our near country men, and of one language and religion with vs.  seeing no Sea parteth us, but one bordereth on an others Coasts( which heretofore hath been the cause of much discord and bloodshed, as our own remembrance can tell us, if the Chronicles of both Countreys did not report the same) all this by the blessed benefit of GOD, and by the careful regard of the King and Nobles of both our Countreys, may bee turned to the great good and comfort of both our realms, for now though wee bee two several kingdoms, yet wee all are but the Subiectes of one King, and the people of one God; in whose fear we ought to live together in all godly peace, and for whose faith wee ought to fight together in the time of war; these also are no little hopes of rejoicing.  
May wee not look down again from the leaves to the bark of this goodly Cedar of our English Lebanon, 
4. The bark of this godly three, our Kings allies& confederates.  which are our Kings allies and confederates: The noble King of denmark, a good friend to England, his Graces brother in law, and the queens natural brother, all her Graces children nephews and nieces unto that King, besides the league and friendship our Kings majesty hath with many other Christian kings and Princes, which may be a stay to the state of our land, against the power of the pope, as the bark causeth the strength to the three, by holding in of the sap.  
Hence( if God will haue it so, 
The fruit of Peace, if it please God to grat it among christian princes  and our sins cry not against it) may come greater traffic with many nations, then lately wee haue had; traffic may bring profit, and profit comfort and content to many poor subiectes of our country, which complain they are impoverished, that they can haue but little for their labour, the world is so dead they say, for want of traffic: howbeit I fear rather it is by reason of the covetousness of the richer subiectes, both Mar●hauntes, and others through an insatiable desire of gain: where by money is brought into a few mens hands, by to unreasonable enhancing of the price, of all foreign commodities; 
covetousness. the roote of evil, and the cause that commodities pass not, but at an excess rate, for the poorer sort.  so as the commons of our country, cannot haue them at any reasonable rate: even for the redress thereof, surely( wheresoever the fault or cause be) the common sort of this land, haue great hope to see it bettered, which may well be called, The poor peoples hope of rejoicing, whereof God grant they may not be frustrated.  
So here then we may be assured to our farther comfort, that if there be such virtue as we haue spoken to be expected, from the root, stem, branches, bark, and leaves of this goodly three. What hope may wee conceive of the blossoms which begin already so gloriously to break out, 
Good beginnings, are as it were certain Pledges, of as good proceedings and better endings.  yielding forth abundance of all comfortable fruit, to the glory of God, and greatest good of this land.  
And these fruits, if they be of the rightest kind, as we are most ascertained they are, must either issue out of the sap of true religion, or out of the pith of al purity of life and conversation; the one following the other, 
piety breedeth purity, as purity adorneth piety.  as the shadow doth the substance: these like two fountains springing forth from the garden of Eden, will greatly cheer and refresh the church of God, and exceedingly beautify and adorn the flourishing estate of our common weal; when every one both in life and religion, both magistrate and subject, 
Good Maiestra. good subiects, good pastors, good people.  both pastor and people, will haue an eye to the king, to frame their manners and religion, according to his best likin● as the Poet saith, Regis ad exem plum, totus componitur orbis. Well, blessed bee God for these our good and more then great hopes of rejoicing, which are doubled and increased for that our enemies the Pope and Papists I mean especially, haue not yet reioyced over us, as they had hoped, nor haue any cause to triumph in all insulting sort, as their maner is: Neither I trust ever shall haue cause to rejoice, so long as God shall keep us from their Idolatry, and infidelity; 

A cursed three yeeldeth forth cursed fruit. Such a mother such a daughter.  
idolatry evermore the cause of Gods childrens captivity   the one being the roote of the other. Infidelity,( which springeth through want of the true knowledge of God) is the roote, and Idolatry is the cursed fruit, that springeth from so crabbed a three: for which two sins, God ever hath, and ever will, deliver over his church and chosen children unto captivity, either of body or of mind, or of both.  
God preserve and purge this land, from al popish Idolatry, and then howsoever God punish us, and this land for our other sins( which are many and grievous) with other temporal punishments, as daily we see and deserve, and worse are to be feared, except we repent, yet of Gods mercy, for his sons sake, and for his Gospels sake, we shall bee preserved from all popish tyranny; except it be for partaking, or to much suffering them in their Idolatry: For these jebusites will ever be pricks in our eyes, and thorns in our sides, and as some of them daily desire, so will they continually seek to work our destruction, that they may rejoice at our miseries, which of all miseries, to the godly minded, none may be compared thereunto.  
For what I beseech you else is meant by the often and earnest prayers of Gods Church and children, every where to be seen in the scriptures, that God would not deliver them up into the hands of the enemies of Gods truth, 
Psal. 94.3.4& 115.2.&. l 33.3 4.  least they should say in derision of God and all godliness, Where is now their God? The reason surely is, for that as I haue said, all the chastisements and corrections, whether it be war, Pestilence, famine or fire, or whatsoever else God layeth vpon his Church and children, as well as vpon the wicked for their sins, or for their trial, or for examples sake, none of them in singular, nor all of them in general, are any thing comparable either in grief or greatness, 
The taunts of Gods enemies, the greatest grief of Gods children.  to this plague or punishment, to be delivered up into the hands of Gods enemies,& the enemies of the truth and the gospel,( as the Pope& all professed Papists are) to be mocked, spited, and derided as Christ our saviour was, before, and at the time of his death. 
Math. 27.39.40.41.42.43.  hail king of the Iewes, Tell us who smote thee: Come down from the cross, if thou be the son of God: He saved others, himself he can not save,& the like: As the Philistians mocked samson, 
Iudges. 16.30.  when he plucked down the house vpon their heads for their labour. As Dioclesian the tyrant, and julian the Apostata, taunted the persecuted Christians. As the Babylonians in most scoffing sort, said unto the poor persecuted Iewes, Sing us one of the songs of Sion. 
Psal. 137.3.  In a word beloved, as the Papists once heretofore in this land, for that we would embrace their idol the mass, haue had their fill of despising and reviling of Gods elect and chosen: So now seeing they haue been curbd and kept in with such a longing desire of an alteration, if now( I say) God should suffer them to haue their wills over us, the true professors of the gospel, they would surely insult over us, more then ever before, not with fire& faggot onely, for that Gods chosen fear not, but with the spear of their tongues, they would pierce our souls, when wee should every where hear them say unto Gods saints: Where is your religion? Where is your communion? Where is your preaching? Where is your gospel? Where is your God? O God of glory defend the true professors of thy gospel, from this despite of our souls, and then dispose of our bodies and goods as it pleaseth thee.  
O dear Christians, 
Gods great mercy in delivering and keeping us still from Popish ●i●anny  my soul cannot sound the depth of this mercy, if God haue determined, as I hope he hath, to deliver us from this misery, in not leaving us to the will of Gods enemies, and to continue yet longer, the light of his gospel among us, not only for the confirmation of their faith, that are already of understanding to acknowledge the mercy of God in calling them, 
Babes and sucklings shal praise God for his mercy in continuing his gospel among us  but also for the sweet sakes of many millions of little silly souls, either little babes or others, which are under yeares of discretion; yet by reason of the care of their Christian Parents, more by custom and imitation, then by any knowledge& discretion, holding up their lily white hands towards the heauens, with lisping lips, make their several prayers and supplications, daily for Church, king and country: yea many of them surely, of very tender yeares, with more zeal and knowledge,( often times) then thousands of very aged people, that all the time of their youth were misled, and misled in ignorance and Idolatry. How much therefore are wee bound to praise God for this mercy of al mercies, if it please his majesty to grant, that neither the trees that seem to be fast rooted, may bee shaken with the boisterous blasts of persecution; nor these tender springs, beginning to sprout out, may not be nipped with the could frosts of popish devotion.  
Such a blessing as this is, so long time as heretofore to bee secured, 
A rare blessing  and now a fresh to be protected under the flourishing branches of so princely a defender of Christs true faith, from all the rages and settlings of our Antichristian enemies, I know not whether the Chronicles of all ages, either divine or profane, haue recorded the like, neither can I well conceive, if this blessing bee continued and fully effected, as God grant it may, whether for the same, we the true professors of Christ, haue more cause to rejoice, then our enemies the papists, both at home and abroad, haue cause for ever more to be ashamed and confounded: For let the papists assure themselves,( as Hamans wife could tell her husband, 
easter. 6.13.  when it was to late, after all the assignments were sealed, for the destruction of Hester, Mordacay and the Iewes) that if our Mordecay be of the stock of the Iewes, that is of the truest religion, as they know well enough he is, then Haman if he procure not the kings favour, the sooner in embracing true religion, may bee hanged on his own gallows: Yea and Mordecay and all the Iewes may take better courage to resist& repress the Popish Babylonians, by all means possible, as far as lawe and Christian charity, and religion will give them leave. Neither let them think otherwise, but that if the Lord prosper this his own work, it is to break the pride of their power, and to make them see( except they will still bee blind) nay to feel with their hands, 

The works of God are admirable, but good for his children ever.  
God strongest when mans help is weakest.   except the deadliest palsy of darkness haue taken them, the power of Gods own might, what he can do against his enemies, when it pleaseth him, how and when he can bring the same to pass, when they least think of it, and when it seemeth there is least power in the reason of man to effect it. This God doth for his own glory especially, for the good of his children continually, and finally for the conversion or confusion of his foes.  
And here though there bee great cause, I will not spend paper further to press any professed Papists, English Seminary, or Iesuite in this realm, then is fitting, by upbraiding them, as they would us surely outrageously, if they had but half the like advantage over us, for their vain folly, and fruitless fury, in designing, seeking, wishing, and contriving( like vipers of the vilest brood) the death, the untimely death, yea the unnatural death, of their and ours late dearest sovereign, seeing it may bee, some of them may live so long, to publish the same themselves, more to the praise of God, in preserving her majesty, then any pen can express, after her Grace hath slept a while in her grave, 
Our late Qu. a most merciful Prince.  that shee was the most mildest& mercifullest queen, if not too merciful) that ever ruled or reigned in christendom, even to them of their own faction, which thing they would never confess while her majesty lived: 
A vilde slander of the Papists.  but rather by most vile and slanderous libels every where spread abroad, like as they are now continued, do report( but how vntruely, God and all the world knoweth) that her sacred majesty was a bloody Prince, and that her majesties more then a Solomonicall peace and regiment, was a time of tyranny, 
Esay 5.20.  and persecuting government. But woe be to them( saith the Prophet) that call good evil, and evil good; and wo be to their souls, if they speedily repent not that thus haue slandered, and yet cease not to slander the Lords anointed, and quiet tranquilitie of our country.  
O sly serpents and brood of Adders, with tongs more poisoned with the venom of the Pope, then the tail of a Scorpion! could you, or now can you, count the dayes of our late beloved queen, bloody, that never drew drop of blood from the graceless traitors against her life, crown and dignity, but ever with sorrow and grief of mind?  
And could you not haue considered( though with silence haue passed it over, for who takes pleasure to remember it) the riuers of blood, that were  shed by that bloody Bishop of Rome, your sweetest father in heaven or earth, and other bloody Bishops of our land, in the reign of queen Mary, and before, as in all other countries in christendom: Can you be content to call that kind of government tyranny, where never any are put to death but either for fowle felony, or most treasonable treachery, 
None put to death i● England, ●ut f●●●e●ony or treason  and can you call the popish and catholic regiment, mercy, that never are satisfied, nor never will be satisfied( in persecuting onely for religions sake) the poor saints of God, 
Reu. 6.10.  whose souls still cry under the altar for vengeance, with all kind of torments and tyranny? I am a subject, and my life is free, except I offend the law: yet if it can be proved, that ever any man woman or child, was in all the reign of our late sovereign, put to death onely for religion, I say I will willingly leave my life for that, to the disposing of him that can prove it.  
Let the Pope therefore leave off for shane, to Canonize rank traitors, for singular Saints; 
The Pops haue made many silly saints in th●n tim●s.  such as in former time, Thomas Becket was( if not many more mischievous traitors) and let his vnholine be resolved, that this saying is as true as old, Non mors said causa mortis facit martyrem: that it is the constant dying in the defence of the gospel, and true religion of Iesus Christ, that hath made so many Martyrs in the world, and that it is the Romish religion, and his Antichristian pardons, blasphemy, pride, and perjury, that hath set so many Christian Princes by the ears, and caused many silly subiectes traytourously to rebel against their Soueraignes, and so to sin against their own souls, 
P●o. 20.2. ( as Salomon saith) And let all those that contrary to their allegiance to God and their Prince, haue hithervnto submitted themselves to the papal sup●emicy, become good subiectes, to their king and country, as Gods word every where commandeth them, 
unhappy they whom other mens harms make not to beware.  and the fearful end by the just iudgement of God inflicted vpon rebelles and traitors at all times, doth warn and admonish them, whereof we haue purposed to speak somewhat in the next Treatise.  
At this time( I say) in stead of upbraiding them, 
2. Kings. 6.17.  for this their so great folly and fury, I will exhort all good Ghristians to pray for them, that the eyes of their understanding may bee opened, as the eyes of Elisha his seruant were, that they perceiving more to bee with us then with them, nay, God to bee with us, 
God present in mercy to help his people ever  and not with them, nor never will bee( except in iudgement) until they by true repentance, and acknowledging their gross and grievous errors in Popery and Idolatry, turn clean away from the Pope( the divels darling) and so become true and unfeigned professors of Christ his gospel, Gods sweet son, and our onely saviour.  
And here let men and Angels judge, between the Doctrine of Popery, and piety, which is true Christianity, and between the professors of the one, and the publishers of the other.  
The Christian courses that wee ever take with them, are agreeable to the gospel of Christ, which wee profess; and the ungodly courses they hithervnto haue taken with us, are agreeable to the decretals and decrees of the Pope, whom they aclowledge to be the Vicar of Christ: but in truth, is that Antichrist, And man of sin whereof Paul long ago prophesied; 
The Apostle P. pointeth out the Pope for Antichrist.  one that doth altogether oppose himself against Christ and all they that do profess his name: The Lord twice or thrice, hath miraculously heretofore( like as he hath Scotland and other countries) delivered this land of ours, from their tyranny, and now again( we hope) for ever, 
2. Thes. 2.4.  will save us from their cruelty; not for our merits, but for his own mercy, which thing cannot but bring great cause unto us of all godly rejoicing.  
Now as I may not, nor mind not, to upbraid these papists farther( as I haue said) then is fitting; so it is my part and agreeable with my duty, 
The duty of Protestants.  earnestly to call vpon all professed protestants, as well Pastors as people, that they be more zealous in the publishing and professing of the gospel, then heretofore they haue been; that they live more sincerely in their lives and conversation, then heretofore they haue done; above all things, that they would adorn themselves with the virtue of humili●ie, in humbling of themselves, and their souls before God, who graciously hath begun, continued and in good time will finish this good work, to the praise of his own glory, if wee daily pray, and praise his majesty for the same.  
Also here all carnal gospelers, 
carnal gospelers reproved.  and lukewarm professors, are to be raised out of their sinful security that lie sleeping in the bark of Gods church, caring nothing for any storms or tempests that beat against it, they neither feel them, nor fear thē; if in a calm and with a pleasant wind, they may sail over the Seas of this world, they are well content to bee called professors: but if the storms of adversity blow vpon them, 
Acts. 27.30.  and the tempests of persecution, for the gospel sake, once begin to pinch them: then like the mariners that were with Paul in that great shipwreck; they had rather leap into the seas of sin, to the hazarding of their souls, then tarry any longer in such an old vessel, as the ark of Gods Church is, for fear God will not bee so good as his promise, in saving and preserving them from all dangers both of soul and body.  

Not example of multitudes, but the truth of Gods word; must ever guide our consciences in religion.  These are the neuter and Omnifidians of our time, that will hold with the most as they say, and wheresoever the main battle is pight, they will be sure to be of the rearward, or in the left wing, that as they see cause, they may flee to which side they imagine to be the strongest.  
The third and worst sort of all, are the Nullifidians, or atheists of our time. The Rogues, the Ruffians, the Tossepots, and drunkards, which as they scoff at God and all godliness, 
The atheists scoff at God and all godliness.  so care they not of what religion they be, but weigh not whether there bee any religion at all, far worse then the Turkes, 
The turk aclowledge a God, but deny Christ to b●e their Red●emer.  that aclowledge there is a God, but allow none but Mahomet to bee his Prophet: far worse then the rest of the Heathen, that worshipped so many kind of Gods, as there were divels in Hell to entice them: even jump with the Barbarest people of all nations: that live worse then beasts without law, without civility, without common honesty, as our common tospots and drunkards do.  
These are the very mockers of our time, which walk after their own lusts, 

Tossepots and drunkards worse then beasts  
2. Peter. .4.   and say( as Peter foretold:) Where is the promise of Christes coming unto iudgement? But those scoffers of God and his Ministers, shal feel and find one day, that there is a God, that there is but one true religion, which we teach, that there shall be a general iudgement: yea they may feel it too soon, that there is now a God in heaven, that seeth their sins, and hath a great& grievous controversy against them for the same. 
Hosea 4.2.  And though in his mercy, he spare his chosen while, and will suffer himself to bee entreated, that his gospel may yet longer continue among us: yet let them know, that God hath punishments enough in store, whereof we haue but too many examples daily to plague them for their sins,& to make this whose land to mourn for their transgressions.  
God will rain down vpon the wicked( saith david) fire and brimstone, storm and tempest, this shall bee their portion to drink: and again, 
Psalm. 11.6. psalm 68 21  God will wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such as goeth on still in his wickedness: They shall go down into hell, and all people that forget God. Let them not imagine, because God doth spare them, 
The longer God stayeth from punishing, the soter shalbe their punishment that repent, not.  that therefore he cannot punish them; nay surely, the higher the hammer is lifted up, the greater is the stroke when it falleth; and the longer God forbeareth these atheists, the sorer will his iudgement bee, when it cometh,( as the heathen could fain, Their idol Gods to haue leaden feet, whereby they note a slowness in punishme●t, but to haue hands of brass, or of Iron, to pay home when he striketh) In a word, the richest and proudest Atheist in the world, is but as day in the hand of the Potter, which God will bake in the oven of his wrath, and with his iron mallet, will crush them in pieces to their endless woe in this life, and to their eternal perdition in the world to come, except speedily they repent and amend their stinking, sinful and wicked lives; 
Ehr. 12.29  for our God is a consuming fire; and if his wrath be kindled, yea but a little, blessed are all they that put their trust in him.  
So that wee may conclude this point, as also the premises, touching this second part, as the godly at this day, haue great cause to praise Gods mercy, if it shall please his majesty to speed and prosper his handy work, and to continue the light of his gospel longer among us, when our aduersaries thought and hoped it should haue been put out in obscure darkness; so the wicked and godless, that haue no fear of God before their eyes, may fear his iustice and judgements that hang over their heads: and as the wicked the more and the longer God stayeth from punishing them, the more a great deal do they increase their sins and unthankfulness: 
Gods blessings should increase our thankfulness.  so the godly& the truly faithful on the other side, the more the Lord ladeth them with blessings, the more they stir up their souls in all zeal and thankfulness to praise his goodness for the same, either privately or publicly, as the benefits are conferred; whereof we haue so many examples in the psalms of david for praising of God: as, I will sing of the Lord, and praise his name, I will tell of all his wondrous works from day to day. O my soul praise the Lord, and all that is within me praise his holy name, O my soul praise the Lord, and forget not all his benefits, 
Psal. 103.1.2  Praise the God of heaven, for his mercy endureth for ever.  
And a thousand such like, by whose example, as( I haue said) we the church and children of God in general, and every one of us in particular, that are partakers of his mercy, and of all these hopes of rejoicing, may sing day and night to the praise of our God, as david teacheth us in the psalm, whereupon we began this treatise: I will magnify thee O Lord, for thou hast exalted me, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me. 
Psal. 30.1.11.12.  Thou hast turned my mourning into ioy, thou hast loosed my sack, and girded me with gladness: Therefore shall my tongue praise thee without ceasing: O Lord my God, I will give thankes unto thee for ever.  
The End of the Mornings joy.   

The kings rejoicing: WHEREIN IS SET forth THE duty of Subiects, towards GOD and the KING.  Matth. 22.21. 
give to Caesar, the things which are Caesars, and give unto God, the things which are Gods.  Prou. 20.2. 
The fear or wrath of the King, is like the roaring of a lion; he that provoketh him unto anger, sinneth against his own soul.  
LONDON Imprinted by John Windet, dwelling at Powles wharf, at the sign of the cross keys. 1603.   

To the right honourable Sir John Popham Knight, Lord chief Iustice of England, and one of the kings majesties most honourable privy counsel, R. M. wisheth all terrene and heavenly blessings, to be multiplied and continued.  
having very audaciously( though with all loyalty and religiously) consecrated the middle and next preceedent part of this poor Pamphlet, to the gracious protection of our Soueraignes most princely clemency, as his majesties most proper due; I haue now presumed vpon many reasons more then I mind to rehearse, to pray your Lordship to bee a protector of this latter part; not that I doubt, but that his majesty will also protect the same( as the former,& the whole with the part) but because I haue purposed with myself( though having no such president) to make a particular dedication of this book( suppose as little and unlearned as may be) according to the particular subject of every part.  
And that is one chief reason, why I haue chosen your honour, being a chief justicer in this land, at your best leisure, to consider of this same part, that particularly is appropriate unto your honourable place.  
By title I grant, this part is called, The Kings rejoicing, but therein is shewed that the ioy of the King, shal be the subiects obedience, and the subiects obedience, shall be chiefly by the means of your Lordships, and others of your Lordships associates, in the several seats of iudgement, the subiects well ordered government;& specially by the good execution of as many good laws, as ever had land, but how well executed in many places, or at least, how carelessly contemned of the vulgar sort eu●ry where, I doubt not, your honour knoweth, and the hearts of the godly lament it.  
I purpose not to be tedious, knowing your honours continual employment for your countries good; yet because I desire to be understood( and hard it is, and above my gross capacity, to be plain and brief) I therefore humbly pray your Lordship, to permit a few lines more to bee drawn out, for the unfolding of my mind, minding onely to make known, two or three contagious diseases abounding in our western commonweal, the like may be over all the land.  
The first is, that universal profaning of the sabbath, among the multitudes: but because herein I am much comforted, by means of the late religious Proclamation, published in part for the repressing thereof, therefore for that matter, I will stay my pen, in patiencie, and expectancy of the good that I pray may come thereof: and no doubt will come, if it be as well executed in the country, as it was right well intended from the Court. But here I may say of the body politic, as physicians use to say of the body natural: The extreemer parts are ever coldest, when the natural dispersed heat is drawn in, to comfort the heart: as contrary wise when the heart is sound, and full of strength, able to sand forth natural heat sufficient, then the extreme and external parts, are full of of comfort and courage. We therefore that inhabit the extremer parts of this country, are naturally subject to this infirmity: that the vigour and force of laws( bee they never so good) leave their best effect near where they first spring out, and cool ever in carriage, and decay in execution.  
But we are now in great hope( nature being in her best perfection, and in the spring of the year) the heat of that godly zeal, grounded vpon true knowledge, and hidden in the heart of our renowned king; will cause a dispersion of abundance of good juice to the cheering and refreshing of every good member, even the fingers and toes not excepted: but rather extraordinarily shall be comforted and regarded.  
The next sickness of sin, that swims in our country, is devilish drunkenness, which is daily increased by an insufferable sort of Alehouses( as our Country calls them) being always maintained by the meaner sort; who are nourished by that tippling trade in idleness, and by means of their poverty not powerable to free their houses from drunken Tossepots at any time, but when the drunkards please: neither can the tipplers keep any good order in their houses, as by law they are bound, neither any forfeiture can be taken from them, vpon their poor recognizances( having nothing to pay, and many times not bound at all) what coil or ill courses soever the drunkards keep, tossing the pots from morning to evening, and from evening to midnight, holy day and working day to them is all one.  
The seed of this sin, was first sown in cities and towns, but now multiplied among the Commons in every p●rish. And I know not how it should go further, except like a sea, it overflow the whole continent of this Country which is greatly to be feared; unless it be speedily and prudently repressed, and redressed.  
My pen cannot express, nor these Papers contain, the floods of mischiefs, that daily flow out of this Bacchalian Ocean. For, besides that it makes the drunkards senseless in their sins, poor in their purses, beggaring themselves and their posterity, to speak nothing of their raging, and railing in their drunkenness vpon the Magistrates, and Ministers at large, and I would we Ministers might be quiet from disturbances in our charges,& churches raised by them( to such an height of impiety are some of them come unto, by reason of so long impunity) Besides all this( I say) and many more inconveniences that I spare to speak of, there are two mischiefs and grievances, that flow out of this flood, more faster then they will be bayed back again in hast.  
The one is general, the other more particular. The general causeth corn and grain to grow to an excessive prise, a great deal more every year, then there is cause; and when God sendeth his blessing in abundance, for the good of many, it is turned to a grievous curse, by a sinful suffering of a few caitiffs, to misspend it, and wast it more by one drunkard in a day, then would well suffice twenty honest labouring people a whole week: yea sure I am I speak within compass, for I know more, that forty poor folkes living vpon their labour, do not drink so much good drink in a year( if at least they drink any other then water) as one Tospot doth drink in a week.  
The particular grievance, which grows out of this general is, that there is no measure observed in selling of drink,& as ill order in the Country as may be for the assize of bread. Drink, the drunkards must needs haue, only fit f●r drunkards; and that is such dagger-Ale( as they call it) as almost no civil honest subject can abide to drink it; by reason it is so raw fulsome and heady; and no poor creature can usually buy much of it, by reason they use to sell with the most, but a pint for a penny; and so contrary to all law and conscience, in every two pence, the poor are robd of one penny; and no body enriched by it at the yeares end one half penny. This abuse in measure and maner of the drink, I grant is somewhat redressed in Cities& towns corporate, where there is any good government, but as common in country parishes as the Cartway. And when any poor complains of this abuse, they say( those whom I think might redress it otherways) complain to the S●ssions, when the poor people( God knows) haue not so much money as to bring themselves to that place: and if they had, perhaps they fear least they should bee put out of countenance, when they come thither by some constable, or some higher officer, that directly or indirectly, may bear good will to the offending party.  
The last, but not the least sin that I mind here to speak of, is that grievous blaspheming of the name of God, by cursed swearing and swearing curses; to speak nothing of perjury( seeing there is law to punish it, but too seldom executed) but as for swearing and cursing, rending and tearing the blessed body of Christ in pieces, and blaspheming of Gods most holy majesty, this land doth mourn, and the Church and children of God do groan for grief, that there are no stricter laws made, to punish so cursed and crying sins.  
God of his mercy move the hearts of all Magistrates, according to their place& callings, to be mindful of their duties herein,& zealous for Gods glory, more then for our Countries good: to whose grace I commend your honor, and all those that are dear unto you. Recommending also those poor complaints of mine made for Zions sake, and my Countries weal, to your honourable constructions, and gravest consideration, to seek and see the redress thereof, as the place whereunto you are called shall require, and according to the trust that is reposed in your honour by the king himself, in whose seat you in iudgement sit; so that his majesty may be eased, iustice equally balanced, the vicious punished, the virtuous supported, and every loyal subject cheered and comforted thereby: which he grant, that hath hitherunto graced your honor with so good report in this world,& will not leave you unrewarded in the world to come, if you continue constant in a true course of iustice, accompanied with that meek mistress of mercy, as the cause and occasion shall permit.  
Your Lordships right humbly affencted, and ever in the Lord to be commanded; Radford Mauericke. London. 20. of May. 1603.   

THE KINGS rejoicing. The third Treatise.  
IT remaineth now, that as hitherto wee haue spoken of the chief cause of our Euenings Sorrowing, and of the great and undoubted hopes, that by Gods goodness wee haue received of our Mornings Ioy; so also we should speak or entreat of such special duties, as wee are bound to perform, whereby wee may learn to requited again in some sort, these great hopes of rejoicing, by a certain reflecting, 
The duty of subiects.  or rebounding back again the like into his bosom, who under GOD, hath been preserved to bee the ground or beginning of these our hopes, and the continuer of the same wee trust, and hearty pray for.  
For as it is agreeable both with reason and nature, for all trees, herbs, and plants, with a sovereign kind of fruit and fragrancy, in time convenient ye●lded forth; to requited with a certain reciprocal retribution, the sweet and comfortable refreshing of the sun beams, and heavenly influences, whereby they are cheered and refreshed, being as it were dead before through cold, yea and their life and sap buried, in the very bowels of the earth.  
So likewise, it is agreeable both with grace and Religion, for the people and Subiects of any sovereign, for the joyful comfort and refreshing they are to receive, yea and daily do receive from the sunshine beams of his majesty, to yield back again some fruit of their refreshing, the sweetest kind whereof,& best pleasing to his taste, will be perfect obedience, and all loving loyalty: with the fragrancy whereof, I trust our King is already comforted: 
The applauditie of the people at the coming of our King.  seeing his majesties coming was, and is as joyfully and thankfully accepted of the greater and better sort of this land, as ever any King that was crwoned in christendom: and howe soever it bee thought or reported, that his majesty may haue some secret foes( as what Prince is without them) yet I doubt not to affirm it, his Grace shall haue as many loving and loyal hearts in england, 
As loyal and obedient subiects in England as in any nation in Christ●ndom.  as any other king or Prince in the world whatsoever, which cannot choose but bring great cause of rejoicing to his majesty.  
And to the end the number of thē may be daily increased, to Gods glory, and his majesties comfort and safety; I haue purposed by Gods grace, to proceed on with this third discourse, taking for the ground of my speech, that short but sweet and singular sentence of saint Peter. 
1. Pet. 2.17.   
{αβγδ}.  
Deum timete, Regem honorificate.  
fear God, honour the King.  
By which plain place of the Apostle, wee may note a difference between {αβγδ} and papa; as every child may see, and doth know, the difference between the King and the Pope. Therefore surely either S. Peter was deceived in commanding al subiects next unto God, to honour the king, or else the world hath been, and yet is, in a great and grievous error, in leaving their duty& allegiance unto the particular kings and Princes, of al christian countries and provinces: by means of which error and most devilish doctrine of popery, to teach people that the power of the Pope, that bloody bishop of Rome, and very Antichrist, is above the authority of all other kings and potentates in the world; yea many times commandeth subiects( as now they say a new edict lately is published for such a purpose) vpon pain of the Popes great curse, 
Killing of Princes more grievous then parricide.  to take arms and to rebel against their most loving and natural Prince( being a greater sin, then it is for a child to kill his father) I say this dangerous error and damnable doctrine, hath been a long time the greatest cause( if not the onely cause) of all the warres, that Christian Princes haue made one against the other, this many yeares in christendom.  
And the Papists haue no greater nor better colour to shadow and cover their so gross error from the sight of the common people, yea from the understanding of kings and Princes, such as for the largeness of their dominions( if they knew their own authority, they haue given them under God) are and might bee, accounted among the Monarchs of the world. 
The Papists colour their treachery under the Popes supremacy.  I say, they counterfeit all this treachery and tyranny, as well over the bodies, as the souls and substances of christian people, onely with this cloak and colour( forsooth) That the Pope is Christ his Vicar here on earth, Saint Peters successor in the papal seat, and therefore must haue ( quo jure nescio, nisi jure diabolico) By no commandment that wee can read of, but of the divels, all the supremacy of, and over all Christian Kings and Princes whatsoever.  
Howbeit my meaning is not here, by showing the Pope not to bee Gods general Vicar of all the world, nor supreme head over kings and kingdoms, thereby any thing to diminish the honour and lawful authority that might bee given to the Bishop of Rome; if he onely contented himself with that ecclesiastical jurisdiction, to that Sea belonging; as the Fathers and bishops of that Church, long before the papal supremacy was bread, haue contented themselves, or as the learned and reverent Bishops in these our Churches, do content themselves with, of whom( together with the whole ministry) God himself hath a special regard, joining them in honour next unto kings, 
Psal. 105.26. 1. Sam. 12.5.6. 2. Kin 45.1. Psal. 105.15.  as Moyses and Aaron, Saul and Samuel, david and Nathan; And of them as of kings, giveth this commandment, Touch not mine annoynted, so do my Prophets and Ministers no harm; 
Exod. 20.12.  It is the very commandment of God to honour our Parents, as well of our souls, as of our bodies, and so much the more, by how much the soul is greater then the body: and this caution hath the more need to bee urged, because in the d●yes wherein we live, the reverent Pastors and Ministers of the Church, are every where contemned, and nothing reverenced and regarded as their calling doth require. And as touching the Popes general pretended supremacy, seeing God of his mercy hath opened our eyes, 
The English papists deceive ignorant people.  and by the light of his word hath caused us to see their juggling, wee may well say unto the urgers of this error, as Aristotle in his Ignorance, said of the Scriptures, multa dicunt, said quomodo probant: They say much, but the proof of all Scripture, and the authority of all the godly, learned, ancient fathers of any antiquity, are against them, as in the sundry writings of the rarest men of our age, are every where to bee seen, which here to repeat, is not my purpose, nor fitting for so little a work, as this Treatise is.  
Onely this may satisfy any sober and indifferent reader abundantly▪ nay may well make any papists whatsoever, to look into this thing more seriously, then happily heretofore they haue done, to see how contrary the Pope is to Saint Peter, whose successor he saith he is, 

The Pope and S. Peter contrary in doctrine, a● in m●ners and co●uersati●n.  
2 Thes. 13.  ( though to prove it soundly, may make the stoutest champion the Pope hath, to sweat lustily) The Pope as a God in earth( and as S Paul prophesied of him though he were Antichrist and the son of perdition: yet he should sit as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God) commandeth all kings to obey his unholy holinesse, and all subiects rebel against their kings and Princes, if they deny him that authority.  

The pope commandeth kings to obey him in his papacy,& subiects to rebel against their princes S Peter commandeth obedience to princes.  Saint Peter the Apostle of Christ, and a S. in heaven, commandeth all people in the world, next unto the fear of God, to honour and obey the king: Now as I said before, if {αβγδ} had been Papa, then not the King, but the Pope must haue been honoured, next unto God, but before wee beleeue their doctrine, either they must reprove S. Peter of great ignorance, in the tongue wherein he wrote; or else, that all the interpreters that haue translated this text, as well on their own side, as of ours, haue greatly deceived the world; for in all languages it is read in this sense, as we haue it in English, fear God, honor the king, not the Pope. But if Peter had been deceived in this place,( as God forbid we should think so, whose tongue and pen were governed by the holy Ghost) what say we then to that which goeth a little before in the same Chapter? Where he commandeth subiects to submit themselves in all obedience, to all maner of ordinances( that is to all rule and government, ordained by God) for the good of man for the Lords sake, {αβγδ}, saith Saint Peter, 
1. pet. 2 13.  Siue Regi, whether to the King, as unto the supreme governor( no Pope nor Prelate above him) or unto other Magistrates as unto them that are sent of him, for the punishments of evil doers, and for the praise of them that do well,  
again, what shall we say to S. Paul( who spake with more tongues then they all) he was not deceived I hope when so earnestly he called vpon the christians in his time, not onely to obey, but to pray for kings, I exhoxt therefore, saith the Apostle, that above all things, prayers, supplications, 
1. Ti. 2.1.2.  intercessions and giuing of thanks, be made for all {αβγδ}, pro regibus( saith the Apostle) for kings and al that are in authority, that we may lead and live under them( not under the Pope) a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.  
For this cause doth the same Apostle ex professo, command the christians that were at Rome; where now Antichrist dwelleth; That every soul, that is, 
Rom. 13.1.  that every singular person, of what degree soever endued with soul, Do submit himself to the authority of the higher powers, yielding the reason thereof, because there is no power but of God, because the powers that bee as Kings and princes on earth, are ordained of God:( per me regnant reges, saith the wisdom of God in Salomon) Therefore whosoever they be, though it bee Antichrist himself, that resisteth these powers, resisteth the ordinance of God, and they that resist procure unto themselves damnation. Therefore it must follow, that the Pope hath no soul, or else if he disobey Princes by the Apostles doctrine, he procureth to himself and all his adherents, that repent not betimes, for their disobedience and rebellion, condemnation; as oftentimes by due desert, and by the just iudgement of God in this life, and eternal condemnation both of body and soul, 
They that fear God will leave the Pope and honour the King.  in the world to come: Therefore whosoever will save his body from condemnation, and his soul from damnation, let him leave the Pope, learn to fear God, honour the King.  
If this were not sure and sound doctrine, the king of kings Christ Iesus the son of God would never haue said. 
Mat. 22.21.  give ye to God the things that are Gods, and give unto Caesar, that is, unto Emperours& kings the things that are Caesar. He would never haue suffered Herod and his souldiers, so spitefully to haue mocked him, nor Pilate having his authority from the Emperour, so unjustly to haue condemned him, nor the Centurion so cruelly to crucify him, nor never would haue rebuked Peter( being a private man) to fight in his Masters quarrel, 
Math. 26.52.  against public authority as he did. again, if this doctrine to reverence and honour kings( not Popes) were not authentical; al the Patriarkes Priestes and Prophets in the old law, were either very lowly, in so reverencing their kings and princes, or much deceived in obeying them as they did: Abraham though the fathers of the faithful, and as a prince of God, reverenced the kings of Gerar, called Abi-melch, which was a word of great honour, Father King, because kings are the fathers& defenders of their country& subiects. isaac, and the rest of the Patriarkes did the like, 
Gen. 26.30.  both there and in Egypt. So did all the Priestes and Prophets, which were far above all Popes in dignity and authority, honor the kings of judah, and Israell, Nathan the Prophet, 
1. Kin. 1.23.  when he came with Bethsheba to david, bowed his face to the ground before the king. Which example of Nathan I note the rather, because it proveth that civil honour( which this country yeeldeth to their kings, more then other Countries) is not a fault in us, who haue such warrant for it, but rather a fault in other Countries; who give not their kings such due honour and reverence, as Gods word alloweth; not that we make our King a God( for we admit no idolatry) but aclowledge him for Gods Lieutenant over us, to whom we owe all honour next unto God, and therefore show it withall outward reverence, that we can possibly. Samuel also honoured Saule, though he were a wicked king, and Iehoida that good High Priest, not onely honoured, but carefully preserved joash the younger king of judah, when wicked Attaliath killed almost all of the kings seed besides him.  
These and infinite like examples, wee haue of Christ himself, his Apostles, Patriarkes, Priests,& Prophets, to warrant and confirm this doctrine of ours, against the Pope and Papists; that kings( yea though they be tyrants as Nero was) are to bee obeied and prayed for, by yielding our bodies unto their government,( though our souls bee free and not to bee constrained to do any thing contrary( especially in Religion) unto Gods commandment, 
Act. 4.19.  for then we haue a rule; Better to obey God then man, notwithstanding, by no means( I say) may Subiectes resist or rebel against the authority, which kings haue immediately from God, and to whom onely they are to give account of their godly or careless regiment: but rather wee must yield our bodies to the Tormentors, and so lay down our lives meekly and quietly, 
We ought rather to lay down our lives quietly then to disobey the princes authority.  for the comfession of the truth; if by the authority of the supreme king of any country it be persecuted and contradicted, as the holy Martyrs and Saints of God in all ages haue taught us plainly in al their sufferings, wherein they are made conformable, as S. paul saith, unto the son of God. And therefore whosoever they be, that impugn this doctrine of honouring and obeying of Princes, they are not conformable, but clean contrary to God and his son; and who so is contrary to Christ the son of God, must needs be Antichrist, and not the true Vicar of Christ, nor the successor of Peter, who hath taught us above all things, next unto the fear and service of God, to honor the king.  

divine worship due to God. civil honor to kings  To God we owe all divine worship and service; To kings all civil honour and obedience. And this we may be assured of, where God( who is king of heaven) is not rightly worshipped and served; there the king( who is God on earth) is not honoured: as on the contrary, where the king( who is God his Vicegerent here on earth) is not honoured and obeied, their God( who placed him in that authority) cannot be served; for this cause is it, that S. Peter exhorteth us to both these duties, with one breath, and in two words, in saying; fear God, 
A true Method in teaching.  honor the King; observing also a true method, and order in his teaching putting the best and chiefest duty which is to fear God in the first place; 
psal. 111.10.  for the fear of God( saith david) is the beginning of wisdom, a good understanding haue all they that do thereafter, the praise of it endureth for ever.  
The fear of God( saith Salomon) is the end of al things: 
Eccle. 12.13.  hear the end of all, fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man: the reason, because all other duties to our king, to our country; to ourselves, to our neighbours, are included in the same: The fear of the Lord,( saith the son of mirach) is glory and gladness, and rejoicing, and a joyful crown.  
The fear of the Lord, maketh a merry heart, 
Eccle. 1.11.12.  and giveth gladness and ioy, and long life: Who so feareth the Lord it shall go well with him at the last,& he shall find favour in the day of his death. This fear of the lord, whosoever hath rooted in his heart, will never rebel against his Prince& country: but will pray and praise God for his kings good government; will obey all good and godly laws, not onely for fear, but for conscience sake very carefully; will with like care and conscience, pay all tenths and taxes duly, and cheerfully, for God loveth a cheerful giver: contrariwise, who so feareth the Lord, will never think evil of the King in his heart,( as Salomon saith) will never speak evil of him, 

Ecclesiastes 10 20.  
We may not think or speak evil of the King.   no not in his privy chamber, least the birds of the air bewray him, lastly, will never with purse, hand, tongue, or heart, help them, succour or relieve them, that are enemies to their king and country; seeing the healer oftimes is worse then the stealer, but rather detect them and reveal them, according to his oath and allegiance.  
These things, if we carefully observe, we shal not need to fear the sword of the Magistrate, for as paul saieth; 
Rom. 3. 3●  Princes are not to be feared for well doing, but for evil; wilt thou be without fear of the power? do well then, so shalt thou haue praise for the same, for he is the Minister of God for thy wealth; but if thou do evil, then fear, for he beareth not the sword for nought, for he is the Minister of God, to take vengeance on him that doth evil.  
Wherefore ye must be subject( saith the same Apostle) not because of wrath onely, 
v. 6.7.  but also for conscience sake,& for this cause pay ye also tribute for they are Gods ministers, applying themselves for the same thing. give to al men therfore their duty, tribute to whom ye owe tribute, custom to whom ye owe custom, fear to whom ye owe fear,( as unto God) honor to whom ye owe honor( as unto the king) according to S. Peters former saying: Fear God, honor the King, so shall God bless his people, and the king take ioy and comfort in his Subiectes.  

God the supreme Monarch of heaven& earth.  Another reason why God must be feared and served, is because God is onely king of heaven and of earth, the supreme monarch, to whom all other kings& Princes owe homage, and from whom all kingdoms are held in Capite under him.  
The Lord is King( saith david) the earth may bee glad thereof, 
Psal. 8.87.  yea the whole multitude of the Iles may rejoice thereof: again, the Lord is king, be the people never so impatient, he sitteth between the Cherubims, 
Psal. 89.1.  be the earth never so unquiet. again, The Lord is King of old, the help and succour that cometh unto particular nations by their several kings and gouernours cometh from him, who disposeth of kings and Princes at his pleasure, granting either in his mercy, or iustice, such kind of government, or governors, as best pleaseth him.  
Hence cometh it to pass, 
Diuers governments in sund●y common weals.  that there are so many sundry regiments and governments in the world under sundry kings and gouernours; yet all haue but one supreme king and governor to direct thē. There are usually three kinds of government spoken of among the learned, whereof some dispute whither of them is the better: The first, is a government of a multitude, which by no means can bee beneficial for the common weal, 
A democracy or popular government.  nor bring any quiet security to themselves, by reason of the multiplicity of mindes, which can never agree, according to the saying, Quot capita, tot sententiae: This kind is near that which the Greekes called Democratia, the latins popularis potentia, a government as I haue said of too many, and very hurtful to the common weal.  
The second is a kind of government of many, but not of so many as the former, but a more higher kind of government, as might be the Nobility of the land; but how dangerous such a government is, not onely to the whole Country, but even to themselves, by reason of envy and ambition: This Country of ours, who haue had seven Dukes or kings at one time can testify;& wee that never prove it, cannot imagine the woe and calamity it bringeth with it. This kind of government is like unto that which the Greekes call Aristocratia the latins Optimorum potentia, 
An aristocracy, or government of the Nobility.  a government as I haue said of the Nobility and peers of the realm.  
The third sort or kind of government, is that which the Greekes call Monarchia; the latins, unius principatus, 
A monarchy which of all other is the best government.  that is, as we call it: monarchy or sole government, of one onely King or Queen, as it shall please God to appoint, which sole governor or governess, because the government may be the better managed and ruled, choose evermore and take into their privy council, so many of the noblest, 
Noble Councelors an ornament to the king, a great benefit to the Country.  wisest, learnedst and gravest persons in their realm, as shall be thought fit and convenient, to help in that their alone or sole government. And of all kind of governments in the world, when every other kind of government is debated of at large, This onely and sole government of one onely king and chief governor( that may command all the rest) is of all governments the wost excellentest for authority, as coming nearest to the divine government, and most sweetest to the commonalty, for the preserving of order, and conserving of all peace and happy tranquilitie.  
This government to be the best of all other is not onely proved& sound true by experience, but by invincible reasons, drawn from God and his Creatures; as, because there is but one God, 
One God one government.  and therefore an order and unity of government observed in the diversity of all things; therefore there should be but one king, and sole commander in a Country, least if there be more then one, there may be contrariety in commandements, and so no certainty in observance.  
So likewise as there is but one sun in the firmament, 
One Sun, one sole governor.  yet all the stars and planets in the heauens are lighted by it, and all other inferior bodies are chered and comforted with it.  
So though there be but one sole governor in a Country, yet all the Nobility which may bee compared to the stars, are enlightened with it, and all the commons are very greatly comforted thereby. again, 
One soul in one body, one King in one Country.  as there is but one soul in mans body, and in the soul reason sitteth as a King to rule the whole communality of affections that are in a man, so should there bee but one sole governor in a common weal, by whose authority only all disorders should be oppressed, and all peace and prosperity maintained.  
This kind of a sole& monarchial government, is also prescribed unto us by brute beasts,& void of reason. The Bees as the Poet well noteth, haue onely one king or governor in every several hive 
The Bees haue b●t one governor in one hive.  or commonweal, which follow their Captaines leading and direction continually: and as their common weals are increased, so new kings are crwoned with sound of Trumpet( as it were) the night before they take their leaves from their old hives.  

beasts follow one leader.  The herds of tame beasts( both sheep and cattle) are well pleased to haue one of the best of thē all with a bell to go before them.  
The Lion likewise is acknowledged to bee a king, as it were over all wild beasts in the earth, and the Whale above all fishes in the sea.  

birds observe like order.  The birds also of the heauens are seen to observe the like order, as among the Cranes, and goose one among all the rest, ietteth,& as it were marcheth on statele before them all.  
This secret force of nature, in unreasonable creatures, teacheth us that haue reason, that a monarchy or sole government in one kingdom, such a government as we haue in this land, is of all other the best,& that none other government whatsoever is comparable thereunto.  
These things( with leave of the learned) I haue the rather noted to this end, that the common sort for whose sake this Treatise is intended, seeing the happy estate wherein they stand,& the blessed government under which they haue lived these many yeares, and now by Gods special grace and providence like to be continued, may rest thankful unto God, and dutiful to our king, that with ioy he may govern us, and we with all peace and prosperity, both in Church and common weal, all factious innovations and rebellions, either in Church or common weal avoided, may long and long under his Graces reign enjoy the light of the gospel, and the ancient liberties of our Church and country, wherein we live: which thing wee can never enjoy if the Pope or Papist( which God forbid, as I hope he will) should either by home-bred contentions, or foreign invasions bring us, our land& religion unto their subiection.  
And here wee cannot give sufficient thanks unto the goodness of our God, 
God is chiefly to be praised for this good work begun; and to bee prayed unto, for the full effecting therof.  not onely for that he hath begun this good work, but thus far effected it, and we trust will finish it, for his own glory in such a calm of quietness: so that no tumults, commotions, insurrections, or rebellions, haue been at all raised in our land, either by idle rogues, whereof this land is yet to fall,( which need not bee, if these wholesome laws, with so great care and hope established in the two last parliaments of our late majesties reign, for the suppressing of them, were so well executed as they ought, and as it was well intended) neither by any ill disposed persons, as Bankruptes or drunkards, which buzz into the brains of poor distressed people, that between the changing of kings, there is no government in the kingdom, but that all things are common, and every man may do what he list: which how pestilent and devilish a dotage it is, I would haue every christian subject well to consider: and withal to know, that the death of one Prince, is the life of another, and that by the death of any Prince or king, the laws of the land do not die; as a body politic, is every living: but the laws are ever of force unto succeeding ages, until by another act of the same force they be repealed: look then, whatsoever offence is committed against the common law of the land, is in due time to be punished by the force of the same law,( though it be not any private Subiects duty in this case to discuss, who shal punish, but to take heed none do offend) and the ignorance of any shall not excuse any offender whatsoever, seeing all persons are bound to their perils, to take notice of the laws and good orders of the country: yea I am sure every man is bound to maintain the peace of the land; nay, this warning may be given, that an offence, that may soon bee pardonned, during the reign of a merciful Prince, being wilfully committed during the change of a Prince, is to bee punished with more rigor and severity then before, specially if it tend to the stirring up of any strife or tumults among the multitude; which being once flocked together, though but by a few at the first, to work any mischief, is like the raging of the sea; and being once kindled and stirred to work their will, 
The raging of the multitude like fire and water breaking out of order.  are like unto fire that breaks out at the Chimley top, and not to be quenched with water, till it haue burned and consumed whole houses, towns and cities: therefore it is truly said, fire and water are good servitors, but cruel commanders: so the multitude of a common weal, are very profitable for the same; for a King cannot be without Subiectes, so long as they are ruled and kept under by order and government; but if they once break loose with the rains on their necks, they presently fall into all kind of out-rage and riot, into all mischievous practices and villainies, so that no pestilence for killing, spreading abroad, and infection, may be compared unto it, according to the saying, Pessima Pestis seditio, of all plagues sedition and civil dissension is the worst; yea far better is the government of a tyrant, though never so full of cruelty, 
A Tyrant governing better then the rage of the multitude.  then this lawless outrage of the communality; for a tyrant hath but one will, though never so wilful,& sometimes he may think on the rage and spoil he hath done; but the miserable multitude, as they are many men, knowing not one anothers mind, no nor many times their own; so they know not what they would haue, nor what to do, nor whether they run; till at length, like unruly colts, they run themselves out of breath, and like wild Deere that are chased by the King, and wounded in their consciences, fall down in every bush, lamenting their folly and fury; 
The miserable condition of Rebels.  their wives and children, crying out at home, and wailing for their misery, that they haue lost their husbands, their Fathers, their goods, their lands, their lives, and their livings, with a thousand such like calamities, that no tongue can express, or pen writ of sufficiently.  
Whereof there are but too many most lamentable and tragical examples, in the Chronicles of all nations and ages, al which mischiefs& miseries as I haue say before, are many times set a broach by one or two brainsick heads, and graceless persons of the very vilde and rascaller sort, such as was jack straw( for they take pleasure to make their names to agree with their manners and bringing up) or Wat tiler, whom the Maior or burgess of London slew, to the everlasting praise of that city) in the reign of king Richard the second: such as jack Cade, 
jack Cade the like.  who was slain at Hothfielde, and brought to London in a cart, where he was beheaded, in the reign of king henry the sixth: such as was Perken warbeck, that vilde wretch, 
Perkin warbeck a vilde wretch.  who feigned himself at the first to bee of the royal blood, but afterward openly confessed his villainy, where he was born, and by whom set a work, in the beginning of the reign of king henry the seventh: 
Ket a great rebel in Kent.  Such an other was cursed Ket the Commotioner in Kent, in good king Edwarde the sixth his dayes, at what time( with grief I must speak and pen it, because it is to the shane of my native country, though done ten yeares before I was born) these cruel Commotions were here in devonshire, 
Commotions in the west country  raised first by a rascall at Stamford, strengthened and encouraged by the Cornishmen, and most valiantly resisted by the city of exeter( worthy of all praise for the same) being very straightly and hardly besieged five Weekes together, until the kings power came down into that country, under the conducting of the lord russel, and the lord Gray, who most honourably and valiantly repressed those Rebels, and put many of the Ringleaders of that rout, to death for examples sake, to take heed howe they take arms against their king, and stir up tumults and Commotions in their native country, bringing a perpetual blot of infamy unto their posterity( though they were Gentlemen some of the aiders of these Rebels of good account in their country) never to be razed out, so long as there is Paper and printing continued in the world. From such like tumults, commotions, and miseries, the Lord( I say) and to his glory bee it spoken, hath of his tender love and mercy towards us, hitherto preserved this country, while this great and glorious business hath been a working, to the endless renown of those our worthy nobles, 
The wisdom of worthy nobles and councellors of this land.  and most noble Councellors, who haue not done this work of the Lord, and for the king negligently, but with al godly wisdom and prudent policy, watching and waking while we slept, for the quiet of our country,& therein for the good of us all, busying their brains with continual care, at that time when multitudes of careless people, tossed their pots, and past over the time in all filthiness of sin, and most fearful security; not knowing, less fearing, the imminent danger hanging over their heads, if God of his mercy did not withstand it.  
Howbeit, as we cannot but withall thankfulness aclowledge these businesses to bee so quietly accomplished, and the headiness of the people stayed by the good care of the Nobles and council; 
The preaching of the gospel, a hindrance to rebellion.  so yet we must ascend to some higher cause, yet still under God, which no doubt, is the public preaching of the gospel, from time to time instructed, and persuaded the people unto loyalty and obedience, showing them by many examples the commodity or discommodity thereof.  
And this note I remember the rather, for that it is recorded in our Chronicles( by a man of good iudgement and sound religion) that the chiefest cause of all the Commotions in the dayes of King Edwarde the sixth, as at other times, was( as he thought) for want of good Preachers in every Parish, that might by the word of God dissuade the people from such great outrages, 
The causes of former commotions for want of good instructions.  and frame their hearts unto true Religion, and so consequently unto obedience.  
It was not therefore the true Preachers of the gospel in King Edwards dayes, that troubled Israel( as they were slandered) but rather the want of godly preachers, by reason of the ignorance of former times, and the multitude of Baalams Priests yet remaining, 
2. King. 19.  who never were called to Iehues sacrifice, as they deserved) that enticed and encouraged the people unto Rebellion; who if they had been as well promoted for their pains( as the Parish Priest of Saint Thomas near exeter was, 
A rebel well rewarded.  being hanged for a rebel in chains vpon the top of the Tower by the commandment of the Lord russel, who was Lord and patron of that parish) many other happily by their example, would haue taken breath, before they did ever adventure to take such another like enterprise in hand: no, no, it was not the preachers nor the preaching of the gospel, that was any cause of those rebellions, no more then Tenterton Steeple( as good Master Latimer then preached before the king) was the cause of stoping of sandwich haven: but it was the peoples contempt of Gods word, and that good government which was begun. And also their crying for the mass again, which made the lord in his wrath to punish this land, with such cruel dissensions, and at length to take away that noble King, 
The peoples great contempt of the gospel a chief cause that God took away good king Edward so quickly from vs.  that young josiah, in the prime of his dayes; whereupon followed an alteration in Religion, and after that a most hote and grievous persecution. If therefore there should yet follow,( as God forbid it) any hurly burly, or rising before or after our king is established in this kingdom, it will not bee caused, by the Preachers and Ministers of the gospel,( who ever since they heard of the news proclaimed, 
The desire of the faithful.  haue not ceased earnestly by preaching and instructing the people, and continually by praying as all the faithful besides haue done) both publicly and privately, that the Lord would prosper and finish this his own work, so well begun, to the glory of his own name, to the great comfort of our king, to the continuance of the Gospel,& to the confirming and establishing of all peace and tranquilitie to our Country: if therefore( I say again) we haue any disorder or trouble now while this business is a working, it will surely be caused by them that either use or cry daily for the mass, or by them whereof I haue lately spoken, that care neither for mass, nor matins, for God nor man, so they might be at liberty, and take their swinge in sin without controlment.  
And here I cannot but marvel what persuasion, should beewitch some professed Papists of our realm, 
A vain imagination of catholics.  to think or imagine, that if there bee an uproar or private dissension in our country, whereby the public enemy should also take footing, that they should bee freer from the rage of the rascall souldiers, and rude people, rather then the professors of the gospel, whereof I doubt not there are twenty, if not a hundred, for one professed papist; surely, if they look for any safety, except they join with us in defence of our country; as by nature they are bound( though they love not our religion) they will bee as greatly deceived as the Picts, 
Picts deceived.  a barbarous people in Scotland were long ago, at the first coming of the Scotish nation into that country, were deceived and like to bee destroyed too, as well as the Scots their neighbours and confederates; by the politic persuasion of the old Brytaynes of this land: who cunningly counseled( as the Scotish chronicles report) these foresaid Picts, who before had made a league with the Scots, and married their daughters( being all inhabitants, as yet they are of the same country) to pike quarrels, and so to make war with the Scots, that were newly come out of Ireland, and now in league with thē; that so while they both( as indeed they were) being at war among themselves, and their forces weakened, the Brytaynes might the sooner overrun them both, and so conquer and overcome their country, as by war they began to procure.  
But when this policy of the Brytaines, nothing good for the Picts or Scots, was( as the story saith) revealed by some that broke from the british camp unto the Picts, the Picts were very sorry, that they had so highly offended the Scots, 
Vnnarural war.  their allies and neighbours; both by making many cruel bickerings among themselves, as also by yielding, nay desiring privily the old Brytaines, to come to aid them, in their warres against their friends, their wives, fathers, kinse-folke, and brothers the Scots: also their wives and children came unto them with most lamentable cries, requesting that they should not fight against their friends, nor yet join with the Brytains because now they knew them to bee their greatest foes: thus being in a most miserable case, as having the Scots who were the stronger, and greater number in present fight with them; and the Brytaines with a great army hovering( as the kite did over the fighting frog and the mouse) and hiding themselves in the mountaines, neither aiding the picts, as they promised, nor fighting against them, till the Scots had more weakened them( that so they might fall vpon both of them at one time) they picts( I say) being in this sore distress; fall to entreat their old friends( who are ever better then new) the Scots to pardon their error, seeing they were deceived by the Brytaines; also to consider of both their dangers, and that a new league might be confirmed between them; whereunto the Scots soon assented( as being best for them) and so joining both their forces together, with much ado they expelled their common enemies, which if they had continued divided, would surely haue overcome them speedily.  
I would to God the papists of our country, these I mean, 
The Papists may be warned by the Picts.  that haue promised and determined to hold with the catholics( as they call them) when they come to fight against this land, for I persuade myself, their may be many papists in opinion that are not of that mind to fight with our enemies, but who so is, I say( I pray God there bee none of them) my desire is that they would, easing my pen of this labour, which beginneth now to grow heavy towards the end of his task, like a tired horse too fast ridden towards the end of his journey; they would, I say, but take so much pains as to particulize this pretty story of the Picts; who lived with the Scots, as the papists do with us; who are bound by the lawe of nature to us, as the Picts were to the Scots; who haue matched with our daughters; and our children haue matched with theirs; who haue been first persuaded by the catholics, as the Picts were by the Brytaines; and haue since entreated the catholics, as the Picts did the Brytains, to bring their forces to fight against us; and in the end if they should haue their desire, as I hope never they shall, they shall be assured to be aswell deceived by the catholics, as ever the picts were by the Brytains; seeing the Pope& Spaniards purpose, was not so much to help our Papists, but to haue the Papists& Protestants( if possible they could) together by the ears, that so they might haue the vantage of us both, to our utter confusion.  
My earnest desire therefore, I say again is, that the Papists by particular applying this fitting story unto themselves; would but imagine how fearful their state would be, if they should haue their desires; how lamentably their wives and children( our sisters and daughters) would cry unto them, when they should see them begin to take arms against their fathers that begot them, and against their mothers that bare them in their wombs, 
A meditation for Papists.  against their brothers, and sisters that lay in one belly, against their loving nephews,& nieces, that never thought them harm. When they shall not see, but feel themselves fool deceived by those catholics, whom they best trusted, when they shall most bitterly entreat us Protestants( which are far the greater number, and whom God I trust will defend for his Gospels sake) to take pity vpon their distressed estate, being either killed or left destitute of the Romish catholics, and unworthy of any mercy at the hands of the Protestants, whose lives they hunted after these many years, and whose country they haue betrayed or sought to betray, into their enemies hands? Let them in Christ( I beseech them) but meditate a while vpon this matter, seriously( and as in such a case they ought to do) and then let them tell me, or their private friends, how this little medicine hath wrought in their stomachs.  
If this cannot persuade them to consider of their cursed courses, I know not in the world what course any man shall take with them to do them good.  
They might also call to remembrance that fearful history( for I know they read histories) of the first original and setting up of the Turkes army in christendom, 
The original of the Turkes  being a great number of souldiers; first hired to the warres by Christians, that waged battle one with another, but in continuance of time by the just iudgement of God also, these Turkes or saracens, but rather Hagarens grew so populous& mighty, that they conquered the country( whereunto they were first hired, and entreated, as the catholics are entreated to come hither, by our Iesuites, Seminaries, and recusants) by means whereof the third part of christendom as we too well know haue been overcome by the said turk, who is a terror to Nations, and Gods scourge vpon the world, specially vpon these countries that haue inclined unto Popery.  
My duty to my countrymen, though they be Papists; my love to their children and posterity, that are many of them no doubt good Protestants, and good members in the Church and commonweal; and my zeal for Gods glory( which I chiefly respect)& no private affection or grudge, to any person living( as God knoweth my hart) hath caused me as it were a little to digress( though not altogether from the purpose) and with a wearied hand, to stretch out these lines much longer, then at the beginning I thought of, and therefore will now return back to conclude this discourse, with that which I intended( for I haue not lost myself in seeking and striving to the uttermost of my poor power to save other) desiring also from my soul that God will give them repentance, 
2. Tim. 2.26.  and that they may Come to amendment out of these subtle snares of the devil and Antichrist, by whom they are held captives in the deep dungeon of darkness, till God of his mercy cause light to shine out of darkness unto them, in the face of Iesus Christ.  
The last main point that we pursued, was to stir up ourselves and souls, to all kind of thankfulness: for that God hath yet been so merciful unto us, and this land, to bring so great a work to pass, for the good of this our Church and country wherein we live, with so great peace and quietness,& without any tumults or domestical troubles. The cause of which happiness, next under God, we ascribed( for his glory also) to the faithful publishing of the gospel: The next to the careful regard and prudent policy of the counsel and Nobility.  
The third that I haue thought on, I will speak of in a word, and so conclude this little and unlearned Treatise,& that is, 
The diligence and godly care of the Magistrates both of Church and common weal in each several shire worthy to be remembered.  of the exceeding diligence of the wise and worthy Gentlemen and magistrates of each several shire and City, joined with the heedful and painful employments of the reverent Bishops of each dioces, that slackt not the time, but with all speedy expedition,( setting their souls in all love and loyalty, as well as their hands and bodies to this labour) publishing and causing our King to be proclaimed in every public place, according to the proclamation, before there was any certain news among the multitude of the death of our late sovereign: at which news of a new king, 
The good news of our King expelled the sorrow for our late dread sovereign.  the hearts of the commons were so settled, and at the news of that king, are and were so cheered, and their minds so confirmed in the right of his title, and in love of his religion; that it booted not for a few private men, or for many( though they had had never so great a purpose) once to haue moved, to haue made any muttering or rebellions, for the stoping or hindering of so godly a purpose. This beloved, surely was the Lords doing( though every one that followed and furthered the same, may not bee deprived of their due and deserved praise) whereby such a heavenly flash of light and ioy, hath expelled and dispersed that dark cloud of heaviness( which on a sudden was fallen vpon every loyal subject, for the late decease of so sweet a sovereign) that in consideration thereof( and God grant we may long consider of it, and so be thankful to God for it) we may well say, and conclude as we began in the first Treatise, Weeping endureth at night, but ioy cometh in the morning. Now to God the giver and finisher of this ioy, and to Christ Iesus his son( for whose Gospels sake this ioy is increased,) and to God the holy Ghost( whose Spirit seal the same in our hearts) to God( I say) immortal, invisible, and onely wise, be praise in the Church and congregation of his Saints, from this time forth and for ever, Amen.  
FINIS LIBRI.  
Citiùs vereor, quàm been. Laus Deo. vivat Rex.