Great Brittans little calendar: or, Triple diarie, in remembrance of three daies Diuided into three treatises. 1. Britanniæ vota: or God saue the King: for the 24. day of March, the day of his Maiesties happy proclamation. 2. Cæsaris hostes: or, the tragedy of traytors: for the fift of August: the day of the bloudy Gowries treason, and of his Highnes blessed preseruation. 3. Amphitheatrum scelerum: or, the transcendent of treason: the day of a most admirable deliuerance of our King ... from that most horrible and hellish proiect of the Gun-Powder Treason Nouemb. 5. Whereunto is annexed a short disswasiue from poperie. By Samuel Garey, preacher of Gods Word at Wynfarthing in Norff.

CHAP. IX.

First Corporally.

AND if euer Praiers needfull in this kinde, now is the time; Nolite tangere, abhorred * 1.1 of Heathens, is now applauded and defen∣ded of false Christians. Religion and su∣perstition now comes forth with her knife, ready to cut Kings throats, it beeing the generall rule of them, Occide haereticum, Kill an hereticke, make away with him, giue him an Italian posset, poyson him though it be in the Sacrament, a 1.2 as Henry the seuenth, Emperour, poysoned in Sacramentall bread; Ʋictor the third, Pope, in the Sacramentall cup; and yet they say that Christs bloud is really in the wine, how then comes that poyson of death mixed with that sacred substance of life?

The Patrons and Proctors to plead for King-killers, I meane the Iesuites with their adherents, make this for a conclusion; That any priuate man may be an executioner of a King excommunicated and deposed by the Pope: and b 1.3 Caesar Baronius alledges & commends out of Iuo a breue of Pope Ʋrban the second, wherein it is pronounced, that they are no homicides who kill such as are excommuni∣cate; for wee doe not iudge them to bee murtherers, who burning with the zeale of their Catholike mother, against such as are excommunicate, happen to haue killed any of them. And so c 1.4 Suarez the Iesuite in his last booke against

our King writes, After sentence condemnatory is giuen of the King, &c. then hee that hath pronounced the sentence, or he to whom it is committed, may depriue the King of his kingdome, euen by killing him if hee cannot doe it o∣therwise; and the very Cannibals are not more thirsty of bloud then these false Catholickes, commending & com∣manding murther, the murther of Gods Anointed Kings, (which any heart, not stupified with Atheisme, or repro∣bate sence, would tremble at it) and appropriate the do∣ing of that deed onely to Papists; for so d 1.5 Suarez saith, If his lawfull successor be a Catholike, and so that hee be a Catholike that succeedes in the right, challenging the right of committing so execrable villany, to appertaine to none but onely to Romish Catholikes; disdaining that any should haue an hand in so horrible and hellish mischiefes against the King, but onely a friend and follower of the Popes religion; true-borne children of their bloudy Mo∣ther the whore of Babilon, the mother of murder, e 1.6 drun∣ken with the bloud of Saints, and with the bloud of the Martyrs of Christ Iesus. If the Pope cries against any King, with the f 1.7 Citizens in that parable, Nolumus hunc regnare, Wee will not haue this man to reigne; presently pollicie, villany, mischiefe, and murder, fraud and deceit, * 1.8 all shall conspire to accomplish the Popes desire: If poy∣son and policie faile, power shall ••reuaile: like to him when intreaty could not moue, laid his hand on his sword g 1.9 saying, At hic faciet, but this shall doe it; if Mercurie be too weake, Mars shall second him, then leaue Apolloes harpe, and take Hercules club; both pens and pikes, heads, hearts, and hands are too nimble to hurt Kings:

Sanguiuolenta est mens, Sanguinolenta manus:

A bloudy heart must haue a bloudy hand.

How many Princes of Christendome hath that Sea of Rome swallowed and deuoured? A Sea indeede, nay a red Sea of bloud, or Mare mortuum, wherein that * 1.10 Leuia∣than makes his Sea, (as the Lord tells Iob) like a potte of oyntment: Sed mors in illa ella, Death is in the pot. Out of this Sea creepe those Crocodiles, I meane Iesuites, Semi∣naries,

and men vsually troubled with the Kings euill, Treason: These Romish rats creepe into regall Pallaces, at last take and taske their owne bane, like the spirits of De∣uils (of whom S. Iohn) i 1.11 worke myracles to goe vnto the Kings of the earth, and those whom they cannot draw by their collusion, they would deuoure by effusion. I may * 1.12 say of them as Polymnestor speakes in the Tragedie of He∣cuba, Hastifera, armata, equestris, Marti obnoxiagens, They are well weaponed people, dagges and daggers, charmes, poysons, powder, all tragicall and traiterous engines and instruments they haue to touch Gods Anointed, the Kings of the earth corporally. In olde time scarce any treason without a Priest, in our time scarce any without a Iesuite: As Iudas was the antesignanus of traytors (chiefe Captain of the cursed crue) so since him the false stiled Iesuits, but the true Iudaites, are the cheefe Shibas, to blow aloud the trumpet of rebellion. And there was a wicked man na∣med Sheba, the sonne of Bicri, a man of Iemini and hee blew the Trumpet and said, We haue no part in Dauid, nor inheritance in the sonne of Ishai. Euery man to his tents O Israel, 2 Sam. 20. 1. And there are many of Israel that follow these Shebas, but k 1.13 the men of Iudah claue fast vnto their King, from Iordan euen to Ierusalem. All good sub∣iects will cleaue with the men of Iudah faithfully to their King, and will goe with Ioab to pursue these Shebas, * 1.14 vntill their heads be cut off and throwne to them ouer the wall. These Shebas make Kings the markes of their mur∣ther; saying with treacherous l 1.15 Achitophel, I will smite the King onely: or with the King of Aram, m 1.16 Fight ney∣ther against small or great, saue onely against the King of Israel. Feriunt summos fulmina montes. The highest moun∣taines most exposed to Thunders: And to perpetrate such crying and capitall murders, they will hazard the pe∣rill of their liues, and losse of their soules: and (but n 1.17 that the Lord hath giuen his Angels a charge ouer his Anoin∣ted to keepe them in all his waies) the attempts of such de∣sperate miscreants were deadly dangerous: for as Seneca, Ʋitae tuae dominus est, quisquis suam contempsit, He is Master

of thy life, who contemnes his owne. Cato when hee had got a sword, (though therewith to kill himselfe) cried out, Now am I my owne man. So these desperate villaines who runne with desire to their owne deaths, are their owne men to act murder: but God doth bring to nought their desires and deuices, and raiseth vp for his seruants in extraordinary dangers, extraordinary deliuerances. The * 1.18 imminent danger of King Croesus, yet a Heathen King, o∣pened the mouth of his dumbe sonne to tell it. * 1.19 Bessus his parricide discouered by the chattering of Swallowes; ve∣rifying Salomons p 1.20 wordes, The fowles of the ayre carrie that voice; God can cause euery fowle of heauen, and euery creature on earth to finde a tongue to tell treason, to deli∣uer his Anointed. Our gracious King is a speaking mappe of many wonderfull deliuerances in extraordinary dan∣gers; still we cry and craue with Dauid, q 1.21 Domine saluum fae Regem, Lord saue the King, cloath r 1.22 all his enemies with shame, and breake them in peeces like a Potters ves∣sell: Let thy hands O Lord, finde out all that hate him; make them like a fiery ouen in the time of thine anger, and * 1.23 destroy them in thy wrath: Deliuer his soule from the * 1.24 sword, and saue him from the Lions mouthes: confound all Shebas that would stirre vp Israel against Dauid, and all Adoniahs that gape to take the kingdome from our Salomon; all like them, let them perish like them. Then will all loyall subiects reioyce when they see the venge∣ance, they shall wash their feet in the bloud of the wicked. Let our feruent prayers be daily powred forth vnto God, to defend him from all Traytors, to reueale their plots and reuenge their purposes, that they

—qui volunt occidere regem, posse nolunt:

That they who would kill a King, may neuer haue power to performe it: that no danger may assault him, no trea∣chery may endanger him, giue thine Angels charge O Lord to sentinell ouer him: make his chamber like the tower of s 1.25 Dauid, built for defence; a thousand shields hang therein, and all the targets of the strong men; and his bed t 1.26 like Salomons, threescore strong men round about it

of the valiant men of Israel, they all handle the sword, and are expert in warre; euery one hath his sword vpon his thigh, for the feare by night, that so no enemy may op∣presse him, nor the wicked approach to hurt him; to de∣stroy his foes before his face, and plague them that hate * 1.27 him; his seed long to endure, and his daies as the daies of heauen. So shall the Lord be gracious to his Seruant, and mercifull to vs his people who continually pray, God saue the King, Corporally.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Non solum iure, sed cū laude & gloria perimi possunt, &c Marian. de Instit: reg pag. 61. Quid interest fer∣ro, an veneno peri∣mas? Veneno∣quod fit, minori periculo, & maiori spe impunitatis. Marian: p. 65. 67.
• a 1.2

  Stella fasicul. tempor: Naucler. Genebrand. vid: Westō lib. 3. de Tri: hom: offic.
• b 1.3

  Anno 1089. n. 12
• c 1.4

  Defens. fid: Cath: adu: Angl: sect. er∣ro: lib. 6. c. 4. n. 18.
• d 1.5

  Suarez vbi supr:
• e 1.6

  Reu. 17. 6.
• f 1.7

  Luke 19. 14.
• * 1.8

  Armata impietas: arte pellere, vt marte tollere.
• g 1.9

  Conn: Julian ex hist. hisp. Diffidens clauo Pe∣tri, arripit clauā Herculis.
• * 1.10

  Iob 41. 22.
• i 1.11

  Reu. 16. 14.
• * 1.12

  Hoc discunt nostri ante Alpha & Beta, Papistae.
• k 1.13

  2 Sam. 20. 2.
• * 1.14

  13. 22.
• l 1.15

  2 Sam. 17. 2.
• m 1.16

  1 Kings 22. 31.
• n 1.17

  Psal. 91. 11.
• * 1.18

  Herodotas.
• * 1.19

  Plutarch.
• p 1.20

  Eccl. 10. 20.
• q 1.21

  Psal. 20. 9.
• r 1.22

  Psal. 132. 18. Psal. 2. 9.
• * 1.23

  Psalm 21. 9.
• * 1.24

  Psalm 22. 20. 21.
• s 1.25

  Cant. 4. 4.
• t 1.26

  Cant. 3. 7, 8.
• * 1.27

  Psal. 89. 22. 23.