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2 Treason is a fearful and prodigious evil. Needs must the body of that Realm be in hazard, whose head is broken. They mean Israel no good that strike at the life of David. I confess that this evil is not so properly (in strict terms) a sickness as a danger. Yet as a man that hath ill humours in him, though by good diet & strength of nature they are kept from uniting their forces, and casting him down cannot be said in health, whiles those enemies remain within him, watching their time of mischief. So the Church, though it be not s•nsit us of the sever, which (such raw & undigested crudities as) traitors can put her into, till it be upon her, vet can the nor be perfectly well, till purged of such pernicious and malignant adversaries: were not the Faeux•s of that horrid treason a disease & burden to the stomach of the land, till it had spewed them •ut? did not those pray against her & prey ••other? Would they not as willingly have […], through the fire to than Moloe• of Rome the whole church, as those principal •llars of it, they plotted to blow up•t •y wanted not will but power ⟨p. 46⟩They would have swelled their vengeance, till it had run over the verges, and comprised in one work (Mille actus vetitos, & milie piacula) innumerable stratagems, the easiest whereof was the intention of murder; till they had made a Catholic end with an heretic church, as they call it: But the God of Jerusalem prevented the children of Edom: who is blessed for ever. It appears then Regicides are no less then Regnicides; for the ^tlife of a king contains a thousand thousand lives) and traitors make the land sick which they live in. This is the second dangerous blow of persecution.

2 Treason is a fearefull and prodigious euill. Needs must the body of that Realme be in hazard, whose head is broken. They meane Israel no good that strike at the life of Dauid. I confesse that this euill is not so properly (in strict termes) a sickenes as a danger. Yet as a man that hath ill humours in him, though by good diet & strength of nature they are kept from vniting their forces, and casting him down cannot be said in health, whiles those enemies emaine within him, watching their time of mischiefe. So the Church, though it bee not snsit us of the seuer, which (such raw & vndigested crudities as) traitors can put her into, til it be vpon her, vet can the nor be perfectly well, till purged of such pernicious and malignant aduersaries: were not the Faeuxs of that horrid treason a disease & burden to the stomacke of the land, till it had spewed them ut? did not those pray against her & prey other? Would they not as willingly haue , through the fire to than Moloe of Rome the whole church, as those principal llars of it, they plotted to blow vpt y wanted not wil but power