multitude more condemned to the mettals and mines with other most cruell slauery In one word the histories of those times seeme to be written in blood of which those monsters of nature in the shape of men made such effusion as it seemeth true which was said in those times that no mâ—n could step with his foote in all Rome but he should tread vpon a Martyr Now to apply this note to our occasion and purpose This very spirit of cruelty is the spirit of Antichrist which raigneth in Popery at this day which one religion exceedeth and outstrippeth all other religions in barbarous blood-shead and cruelty not the Turkish excepted Long it were to recite and incredible to beleeue those horrible slaughters which might be induced to prooue this part there is neither writer that can bee so diligent or writing so exact as can make a sufficient relation of the barbarous butcheries made vpon the Saints by these enemies of God and nature But yet so much as may giue a generall view and as it were a glimmering light must be set downe for the euincing of this truth which so gladly they would auoid And first to begin with the Scriptures Who is it whom the holy Ghost stileth the sonne of perdition but the head of this Romish Apostasie which title is commonly taken passiuely for that he is appoynted destinated and borne to perdition in which sense it is besides this man of sinne onely giuen to Iudas whom Christ calleth the lost child because being reiected and destinated vnto destruction he could not be kept by Christ as the rest of the Disciples were But it is also fitly ascribed vnto this man of sinne actiuely in that he is a destroyer and an author of destruction vnto others not onely by seduction and infection but also by persecution wasting the Church of God with all his might If any man stand in doubt hereof let him further consider how the King of locusts is called Abâ—ddon and Apollyon that is A Destroyer from his effect Now it is made as cleare as the Sunne from the apt connexion of all the circumstances of the place that by these locusts are mâ—ant the Popish Clergie who are bred of ignorance heresie superstition and error which is the smoake of the bottomlesse pit out of which they ascend Thence come they by infinite numbers like locusts insomuch as that one sect of Franciscans offred out of their Order for an expedition against the Turke thirty thousand strong warriours which they might well spare without hinderance of their holy Obseruances And well might they so doe if that of Polydore Virgill be true that this one family of Franciscans suddainly filled the whole world no otherwise then locusts couer the face of the earth How can it then be other but that these locusts with all the other swarmes of Abbats Monks Fryars Priests and Iesuites must needs sodainly destroy eate vp the fruites of the earth not the grasse of God which hath the greennesse and moysture of grace nor the trees of righteousnesse which are the planting of the Lord for ouer such no power is giuen them but only ouer such as the heauenly Father neuer planted and whose names were neuer written in the booke of life But were this more obscure whither tend all those Prophesies and where were they euer accomplished if not in this man whereof the Reuelation is full It is said of the second Beast which rose out of the earth and had two hornes like a Lambe but spake like a Dragon that hee caused so many to be killed as would not receiue the image of the beast in their hands and in their foreheads This Beast can be no other but the Pope of Rome who riseth out of the earth that is out of most base beginnings and steppeth or riseth aboue the earth and all earthly power He hath hornes like the Lambe that is professeth the meekenesse and innocencie of Christ which the Turke neuer did but speaketh like the Dragon that is not with outward force and power but euen by his word and speech exerciseth all the power of the Dragon that is of the Emperour for not the greatest Emperours or Monarchs in all the world can translate and remooue Kings and Kingdomes by all the power they can make which hee can by his word alone The same is the Beast that commeth out of the bottomlesse pit and maketh warre against the two witnesses and ouercommeth and killeth them By which two witnesses whether we vnderstand the Scriptures in the two Testaments as some which are now ouercome in Popery and their owne Traditions made equall or rather set aboue them as triumphing ouer them or else we vnderstand the zealous and sincere Professours of the Word of God who both by their Doctrine and Conuersation giue witnesse vnto the truth of it it commeth all to one for the Beast that dare make warre vpon and professe hostility to the Scriptures will warre with ouercome and kill also the sincere louers of them and vpright liuers after them To conclude this point that one Prophecie may serue for all Reuel 17.6 where is affirmed of the great Whore with whom the Kings of the earth haue committed fornication c. that this woman was drunke with the blood of the Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Iesus By this woman the Iesuites themselues will they â—ill they confesse is meant their Rome but olde Rome say they such as it was vnder the Heathen Emperours But where are the scarlet coloured Fathers but in the present Rome In whose forehead is the name mysterie written but in the present Romish Babylon The Heathenish Emperours proclaimed open warre against Christianity and carried not their enmity in secret and in a mysterie These with sundry other circumstances in the Text will perhaps draw them one step further one day and force them to a free confession of the whole trueth when they can no longer withstand it And thus hauing briefely propounded the Prophecies of this Antichrâ—stian cruelty let vs in as few words see it in the accomplishment of them Which if out of most approued Histories we should enlarge as wee might it would easily appeare to be most matchlesse and that no Scythian cruelty was euer comparable vnto it But I must keepe a measure and giue but a taste of that cup filled and running ouer with blood which the Saints of God in all Countries haue drunke vp to the bottome The Romish History teacheth vs that Romulus layde the foundations of the Citie of Rome in the blood of his brother Rhemus And as the foundation was layd by him so hath the frame been vpheld by his bloody brood vntill this day Whence were the Emperours who shed so much Christian blood in the first 300. yeares after Christ were they not Romane Whence hath almost all the blood that hath beene shed vpon the earth since
thee This Daniel one of the children of the captiuitie regards not thee nor thy decree They proclaime him seditious rebellious and a traitor that hath no respect either of King or law but despiseth authoritie and edicts well and wisely deuised and published These are ordinarie nets laid against godly men by vngodly Then must the law of the Medes and Persians sealed with the Kings signet be executed vpon him He is cast into the denne They haue him in their net But they cannot hold him Nor can he be deliuered but with the destruction of them all by the lions Here by plausible speeches what did they but make their owne rods And so was it in our owne instance in whom Gods iustice shined most eminently All the while they digged a pit for themselues and fell into the pit they had digged for others according to that of the Psalmist He hath digged a pit and is fallen into the pit hee hath made his mischiefe shall returne vpon his head and his crueltie vpon his owne pate As their heads and pates vpon stakes are still eye-witnesses 3. Gods iustice is herein manifest that for the deliuerie of his Church hee not onely breakes their nets but makes them breake their owne nets and neckes And this is the greater confusion when the authors of sin are made the authors of their own punishment For example Such is their thirst after the ouerthrow of the Church and godly that they still call in more company and take in more partners that if one misse another may hit and all may be sure not to faile But Gods hand now ouerruleth the matter and makes their owne carnall counsell their confusion that whereas one could keepe counsell company shall reueale it As in the many conspirators about the powder-plot in which one of them furthered the punishment of another but not the performance This shewes vnto vs that the Church is altogether inuincible no net shall long hold it but it shall breake thorow all nets It may bee pressed not oppressed oppugned not expugned It is an heauie stone to heaue against Zach. 12.3 For 1. The enemies cannot worke wisely enough to preuaile but as the more the Egyptians oppressed Israel the more they incresed so is it here 2. Though the godly be in themselues fewer weaker more simple more shiftlesse yet are they strangely and strongly preserued and may say with the Prophet there be more with them than against them 3. The Church stands vpon two sure pillars like Boaz and Iachin first Gods promise which is that the gates of hell shall not preuaile against her Secondly her foundation is on a rocke against which if the floods beate and the windes blow it shall surely stand Matth. 7.25 Why then doe the Pope and Papists and that Antichristian league still trauell with wickednesse and conceiue mischiefe to bring foorth a lye What doe yee imagaine against the Lord Nahum 1.9 This is a ground of comfort for vs when wee see enemies leaguing themselues against Gods people that they make no spare of destroying either by secret meanes or open Gods helpe and deliuerance will shew it selfe in due season he is a present helpe in trouble Is he a God a farre off and not at hand on the mountaines and not in the vallies Doth he heare his people before he call and not when they call No the Church is neuer so neere some great deliuerance as when her enemies are at the top of their pride and rage For when they will roote out the name of Israel and destroy the law then is it high time for the Lord to put to his hand When they haue power in their hand and no arme of flesh to represse them when none will offer himselfe in the cause of God then the Lords owne arme shall saue it but so as wee be found in the way of deliuerance carrying our selues in this affliction as children when they see the father hath taken vp the rod runne vnto our father confesse our sins bewaile them begge mercie and sue for it as for life and death This is the way to stay our fathers blow to obtaine compassion and cause him to throw his rod into the fire as the Prophet brings him in relenting for his people Hos. 11.8 How shall I giue thee vp O Ephraim how shall I deliuer thee O Israel how shall I make thee as Admah how shall I set thee as Zeboim Mine heart is turned within me my repentings are rowled together For this is the condition 2. Chron. 7.14 If my people among whom my Name is called vpon doe humble themselues and pray and seeke my presence and turne from their wicked wayes then will I heare out of heauen and be mercifull to their sinne and will heale their land When we haue receiued such a seasonable deliuerance it becommeth vs to breake out into the praise of God and perpetuate the memory of it and prouoke our selues vnto thankfulnesse So doth our holy Prophet in this Psalme he sings out the praise of God to all posterity for so great a deliuerance in so present a danger Motiues heereunto 1. How many monuments hath the Lord himselfe erected from time to time to preserue in memory speciall mercies bestowed on his people 2. Hath he not taken order to write them in his booke of mercies and monuments Psalm 102.18 This shall be written for the generations to come and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord. 3. Hath he not established and appointed speciall dayes for the memorie of speciall mercies most worthy to be had in euerlasting remembrance And surely my brethren if Moses and Israel had cause to compile a song for their so strange a deliuerance and the ouerthrow of their enemies as Exod. 15.1 If Deborah had cause to praise the Lord with voyces and instruments for the ouerthrow of the Canaanites and victory ouer Sisera as Iudg. 5.1 If the good women came with Timbrels and dances to praise the Lord when the Lord brought an horrible slaughter vpon the Philistians and their chiefe Champion Goliah who defied the hoast of Israel and railed vpon the God of Israel and so saued Israel that day as 1. Sam. 18.6.7 If that day were a day of ioy and gladnesse of light and reioycing wherein the Iewes preuailed against their enemies and saw the ruine of their chiefe aduersary Haman that cursed Amalekite as Hest. 9.17 Then surely haue we iust cause to sing out and declare abroad and reioyce both in Gods house and in our owne houses for the great things that the Lord hath done for vs in our admirable deliuerance out of a more admirable red sea not of water but of fire and brimstone and from the hands of those furious Champions of Antichrist those Romish Siseraes Goliahs that defied the hoast of British Israel and those cursed Amalekites against whom the sentence is passed that the name of Amalek shall
A MAPPE OF ROME LIVELY EXHIBITING HER MERCILESSE MEEKNESSE and cruell mercies to the Church of God Preached in fiue Sermons on occasion of the Gunpowder Treason by T. T. and now published by W. I. Minister 1. The Romish Furnace 2. The Romish Edom. 3. The Romish Fowler 4. The Romish Conception To which is added 5. The English Gratulation APOC. 17.6 I saw the Woman drunken with the blood of Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Iesus AT LONDON Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Iohn Bartlet and are to be sould at signe of the Talbot in Pater-noster Row 1620. TO ALL THAT WISH WELL TO OVR SYON HEARTILY AND VNfainedly Grace be multiplied and peace in our Lord Iesus Christ. BRethren beloued in the Lord You see by the Title what you may expect in the booke following I hope what it promiseth shall be indeede performed I wish it were more complete and accurate for your sakes as it might haue beene if the graue and diligent Author could himselfe haue set it forth but blessed be God that his weightier employments doe not giue him leaue or leasure I am glad I haue it for you as it is through my earnest request to him whose modesty thought it vnworthy the publication and my paines in writing it Reasons of this my request and paines I can giue you many First I thinke it necessary that our God our gracious and louing God may haue the praise of all his mercies and namely that of this day still reserued to himselfe wholly His workes are glorious and the benefit of them not confined to a scantling of time Therefore these Gratulations cannot be lesse seasonable now than they were at the day of Deliuerance Secondly this I hoped might be a meanes to restraine our declining times from gazing and doting on that pompous Harlot the Church of Rome For when our nation shall see and consider a fresh how insatiable she hath alwaies beene of blood and English blood I cannot thinke we can be so inconsiderate as to dreame of any toleration much lesse any sound reconcilement with so implacable an enemie Thirdly I thought it not altogether impossible hereby to stop the slanderous mouthes of misse-conceiuing persons scattered abroade through all the Country yet pleasing themselues in the common error who seeing in some good men a difference of iudgement in some small matters presently conclude them enemies of the State c. For this I will say of the Author and I say the truth in Christ I lie not my conscience bearing me witnesse in the holy Ghost that hauing beene partaker of his Ministery some hundreds of times I neuer heard him more earnest or more faithfull than in this Argument And the whole Towne of Reding will testifie with me of his holinesse lowlinesse peaceablenesse vnweariable painfulnesse and other graces beseeming his calling which no ill-willer could euer yet impeach Fourthly and lastly my intent is hereby to stirre vp our drowsie and forgetfull hearts to due thankfulnesse for so great a Deliuerance And this me thinks is more than necessary For when I behold the generall view of the Land and the quality of peoples manners the memory of that wonderfull day seemes vnto me quite blotted out And I know not whoÌ„ better to resemble our selues vnto than those of whoÌ„ the Psalmist speakes Psalm 106.11.12.13.14 The waters couered their enemies there was not one of them left Then beleeued they his words they sang his praise But they soone forgat his workes they waited not for his counsell but lusted exceedingly in the wildernesse and tempted God in the Desert Doe we not so euen in our Canaan a Land flowing with milke and hony What horrible prouocations are there daily and hourely amongst vs in all places in euery corner Who can complaine sufficiently of the grieuous temptings and out-brauings of God which our eyes doe see Who would iudge by our strange demeanours that God had euer done any thing for vs either by sea or land either against water-workes or fire-workes Ah sinfull nation laden with iniquity Doe we thus requite the Lord for his louing kindnesse Is this his reward for so great fauours Hearken ye children of Syon and consider Though Israel play the harlot yet let not Iudah transgresse Though carnall persons who haue no true sence of the grace of Christ set themselues out in their colours and fashions and Epicurisme and Heathenisme yet let it not be so with them that professe the feare of God Though others loathe the word and the meanes of saluation yet let not Professors loathe them Let it neuer be said that Professors are proud earthly contentious vaine fantasticall or willingly sweruing from the Rule of Piety You are his peculiar people and if hee lose his honour in you also he loseth it altogether Therefore consider you the workes of the Lord and his intent in them Stirre vp your hearts and frame your liues to a reall thankfulnesse Let your moderation and discretion be quickned by zeale and let your zeale be bounded by discretion You shall perhaps meeâ—e with shame that is reproches and ignominies despise these You shall meet also with the crosse that is persecutions and dammages these endure Here is patience and magnamity Let your patient minde be knowne to all men yet let it be valorous in the causes of your God saint not neither be afraid You may well take occasion to grow the faster by this Antiperistasis and vnite your forces the more strongly Are you so spighted and maligned on euery side by profane Ismaelites then let your loue toward one another encrease the more solidly and abound toward your selues mutually in the fulnesse of the blessing of the Gospell Liue fruitfully and peaceably in the Communion of Saints here the Lord hath appointed the blessing and life for euermore Watch against Satan and his eldest sonne that Antichrist pray for the dissolution of their Kingdome especially see it be vtterly defaced in your selues and yours Giue all diligence to leaue an holy seede behinde you which shall praise the Lord in earth while your selues praise him in heauen A disgrace it is to godly Parents to haue vngodly children especially by their owne default Make your houses houses of God by setting vp and then establishing his pure worship therein Cast vp your accounts before-hand and prepare for the comming of Christ in the clouds Accept my endeauours for your good and helpe me with your prayers Reding Oct. 12. 1619. Your seruant in the Gospell of Christ WILLIAM IEMMAT The Authors Apologie CHristian Reader as I esteemed not the Sermons following sit for so publique a â—iew so neither meant I to purcâ—ase to my selfe so much enuie wrath from the â—atholiques as these Sermons may perhaps bring vpon me But the opportunity of the Publisher who hath taken paines in them and of some others desirous of them drew out at last my consent to their request If any phrases may seeme
in gratuitâ—es and large gifts to those that brought the newes of it insomuch as the History reporteth that the Cardinall of Loraine gaue him a thousand crownes that first brought him the tydings of it And as these barbarous Butcheries were committed by secret fraud and conspiracie so haue they by open hostility and professed warre made waste of Gods people powring out the blood of Protestants as waters on the earth and that with such fierce assaults as they haue slaine in one battell an hundred thousand and made their glory of it How many fewer had tasted of the same cup in England if their inuincible nauie in 88. had not beene broken by God and in England Scotland and Ireland how many aboue that number if their fire-works had preuailed in 1605. That 5. of Nouember shold haue beene Englands dismall and doomes day a fearefull and terrible day like the day of the Lord which shall burne like an Ouen wherein our very Sunne should haue been turned into blood and the whole land should haue beene drunke with the blood of the Inhabitants I would passe this point of their insatiable thirst after blood but that I cannot omit to adde a word or two of that infinite effusion of blood which the Popish Spaniards haue made among the poore Indians vnder pretence of conuerting them to the faith and that confirmed by their owne writers who report that neuer since the beginning of the world was there made such an hauock of people as the Spaniards haue made there That of two thousand thousand persons inhabiting one country Hispaniola in the yeare 1580. are not left aboue 500. or an hundred and fifty That more then tenne Realmes greater then all Spaine with Arragon and Portugall and those swarming with multitudes of people as Emmeâ—s on an Emmet hill are all turned to a Wildernesse That within the space of forty yeares seauen and twenty millions of people are destroyed in Hispaniola three millions in another Country fiue millions in fifteene yeares in another fiue millions in Perne foure millions in fiue small Iles fiue hundred thousand They haue throwne downe from the top of a steepe mountaine 700 men together and dashed them all to pieces In three moneths they famished 7000. children At one time they massacred 2000. Gentlemen that were the slower of all the Nobility of that Country And all this with such cruelties as were neuâ—r heard of before Which to auoid the poore men would hang themselues with their wiues and children the women did destroy their conceptions and in griefe and despaire dash their owne childrens braines against the stones lest they should come into the Spaniards hands Some of them professed that if the Spaniards went to heauen when they were dead they would neuer come there that they did carie themselues neither like Christians nor men but like diuels and that it had beene better the Indies had beene giuen to the diuels of hell than to the Spaniards All which are the words of their owne Writers and confirmeth the point in hand that the Romish Woolues are neuer satisfied with blood nor can be seeing they must bee nourished of that whereof they are ingendred Secondly their cruelty is not onely euident in such direfull and tragicall outrages in all Countries nor onely in that like rough Esaus their hand is against euery man but also in their cruell and barbarous manner and minde in effecting their bloody proiects Farnesius hee voweth to ride his horse to the saddle in the blood of the Lutheranes Here nothing but a sea of blood can quench his blood-thirstinesse Minerius being intreated for some poore Merindolians who had left him their Citie houses and goods and had escaped onely in their shirts to couer their nakednesse sternly answered that he knew what he had to doe and that not one of them should escape his hands but he would send them to hell to dwell among the diuels Here was a more eager thirst not onely for the blood of their bodies but of their soules too the death of these poore Christians was a small thing in his eyes vnlesse it be accompanied with their damnation Adde hereunto the exquisitenesse of the torments and the vnnaturalnesse of the tortures by which they held men in death so long as possibly they could arguing that if they could inflict a thousand deaths on them or could hold them in dying a thousand yeares they would Hence commeth their burning by piece-meale and that not with fire onely but with fat Brimstone Pitch and Tarre also dropping on their heads And thus was that meeke and innocent Martyr George Marsh burned with a barrell of Pitch and Tarre dropping vpon his head neither when hee was thus tormented and dead was it thought sufficient vnlesse the Bishop should solemnly in a Sermon affirme that hee was now a fire-brand in hell Iohannes de Roma a Monke his name tels vs what house he was of got a Commission to examine the Lutherans and before any conuiction he vsed this torment to force them to accuse themselues Hee vsed to fill Boots with boyling grease and put them on the legges of whom hee suspected or listed and tying them backward to a Forme with their legges hanging downe ouer a soft fire so he examined them In the History of the Andrognians wee reade of one Odul Gâ—met a man of 60. yeares of age for whom they deuised a strange kinde of death and torment after this manner When they had taken and fitly bound him they tooke a kinde of vermine which breedeth in horse-dung and put them vpon his nauell couering them there with a dish which within short space pierced into his belly and killed him But what had these men done Had they killed their Kings or blowne vp whole Parliament houses Surely either their facts were haynous or the furie of their aduersaries ridiculous As cruelty neuer wanted cause of putting forth it selfe so here were no small causes pretended The most horrible torments that any Protestant suffered among them was for casting downe an Idoll not able to defend it selfe as in the examples of Betrand and Atkins others put to most cruell death for not acknowledging more Christs then one which was the first of those sixe bloody Articles whereby it was capitall not to professe that either there were not so many Christs or that one Christ should not be according to his body in so many places as there were seuerall hoasts distributed through the world Others were murthered for marrying a wife according to the examples of the Apostles many for reading the Scriptures sundry for hauing them or some small parts of them in the English tongue as Robert Silkeb and one Mistresse Smith at Couentry onely because they had the Lords prayer the Creed and tenne Commandements found about them Some put to death for selling bookes of Scriptures although it was a branch of their calling as a godly booke-seller in Auinion
it to be finished and performed Ezra 6.1 Euen so what King Henry had begun young Daâ—ius Edward the 6. as another Iosiah finished to good purpose For as Darius made a decree for the house of God in Ierusalem both for the building of it and for the rendring of the vessels of the house of God of gold and siluer which Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the house of God vers 3.5 So this Edward of blessed memorie imitating Darius in the first yeere of his raigne proclaimed the aduancement and building vp of the worship of the true God in a true manner and brought in the vessels of gold and siluer which Romish Nebuchadnezzar had taken away He set the lights in the Temple againe in many shining candlestickes The Sweet-bread was set againe on the Table of the Lord and the Cup of Christ his precious blood which had been stollen away by those theeues was now found and comfortably restored to the owners The booke of the Law was found and restored againe into a knowne tongue as in Iosiahs time by Hilkiah the Priest The sweete siluer sounding Trumpets sound continually in our eares in daily preaching the blessed word of God The holy Arke a signe of Gods presence dwels againe among vs and Dagon is fallen before it the house of Baal and his vestrie destroyed his groues cut downe and grubbed vp Are not these great workes which the Lord hath done for vs wherein wee must reioyce 3. After this for the vnthankfulnesse of this land as the building of the Temple was hindred for a while by Sanballat and Tobiah so in the daies of Queene Mary this great work of God was interrupted in which time what the Babylonians could not conquer by Scripture they could subdue by torture and now fire and sword was the Catholike and inuincible argument that the new Romanists might not degenerate from the old bloody Romans their fore-fathers whose measure they filled to the full For in lesse than fiue yeeres three hundred of the faithfull seruants of Christ without respect of Nobilitie degree learning grauitie sexe age or naturall humanitie were in our Countrey burned to ashes But God had no delight in that bloody Religion It is as great a worke of mercie as any of the former that he made it as short as bloody For if violent things and times should continue the world could not And behold a greater worke which the Lord hath done for vs whereof wee reioyce in raising vs vp our ancient Deborah of England neuer-dying Elizabeth the wonder of the world and mirrour of nations who quickly quenched those hot and furious fires and her selfe being brought from a prisoner to a mightie Prince opened the prison-doores and deliuered them that were appoynted to death Now were the castles of their superstitions and hopes cast downe again and made euen with the ground What great workes God did for her and vs in her time were too long to recite how she out-stood the curses and Bulls of the Romish Nebuchadnezzar and saw in her time seuen of themselues tumbled out of their pretended chaire of S. Peter how wonderfull her many deliuerances were from many hellish treasons deuised by the armie of Priests sent from the King of pride and attempted by the Romish Captaines of that great Nebuchadnezzar How the Lord went out before our Armies and as in the daies of Israels Deborah so of Englands Deborah hee mâ—de the sea and windes fight for vs and by his owne right hand got vs the victorie that memorable yeere and ouerthrow of 88 shall be a perpetuall witnesse so long as the world standeth how God himselfe fights against that Religion which so furiously fights against him How she iudged and ruled in peace honour and happinesse fiue and fortie yeeres to the honour of God and his Gospell and terror of all enemies and in the same peace and happinesse exchanged her earthlie with an heauenly and euerlasting crowne of glory 4. A great worke of God it was for vs to reioyce in when at her decease the enemies who had long looked for a day found it the day of their greatest disappoyntment whilest the Lord setting himselfe for our good in our gracious King and the fruitfull plants renewed all our prosperitie gaue vs a new tenure of the Gospell and a new hold of our peace and liberties of whom we may say as was said of Dauid He is the light of Israel and of Iosiah the breath of our nostrils who by his power and pen hath shewed himselfe a Defender of the true Faith 5. To come to the great workes of this day That these Babylonians might keepe their hands in vre what foule and desperate designes haue they attempted against the life of the Kings Maiestie our gracious Soueraigne For while this light of Israel remaineth impossible they thinke it is for their kingdome of darknesse to preuaile Among other deuises that shame of Popish Religion that hideous gunpowder-treason shall neuer be put out from vnder heauen In which were many great workes of God for vs Englishmen whether wee consider the greatnesse of the danger or the greatnesse of the deliuerance First consider the greatnesse of the plot the greatest mischiefe that euer was wanting a fit name to expresse it vnlesse you will call it a Catholike villanie a plot of greatest and vniuersall danger to vs of greatest triumph to the Aduersarie Here the head and taile branch and root one and other Prince and people Nobles and Gentrie old and young Papists and Protestants should haue been destroyed together For as Duke Medina said his sword knew no difference betweene Catholikes and Heretikes no more should this hellish or hell-fire which it was a sparke of Besides the secret carriage and contriuing of it made it most dangerous more dangerous than the Babylonish captiuitie for the Babylonians dealt aperto marte there was some hope of safetie either by prayer or power or truce or preparing against them there a man knew his aduersarie but here is a crueltie digged out of the depth of darknesse all of them sworne to secrecie yea the Sacrament was a seale of their wickednesse sworne brethren in euill at league among themselues but no more league for vs to be expected than from hell it selfe Here we might say as Hanniball sometime said of two Romane Captaines one working by power the other by policie Magis se a non pugnante Fabio quà m à pugnante Marcello sibi metuere Wee are more afraid of slie and quiet Papists than of boysterous armed Turkes How these plotters would haue triumphed in the fact as the Babylonians ouer Israel Sing vs now one of the songs of Syon we may well perceiue by their glorying in the hopes of it God and man saith the Letter haue concurred to punish the iniquity of the time and The danger is past so soone as you haue burnt the letter and They shall receiue a terrible blow this Parliament
heard Winter himselfe fore-telling Therefore let vs reioyce in this great worke of God as his ancient people in this place For why The greatest rage of the enemie is turned to his greatest praise Psal. 76.10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee both in his glorie and his Churches deliuerance And what is the end of all Gods great deliuerances but to praise his name and glorie in his praise Psal. 106.47 Is not ours the benefit Haue not wicked men seene and felt that God hauing chosen our land to dwell in will not easâ—y be cast out of his lodging and will not this coole their blood and daunt their spirits from the like enterprises for time to come Doth not this hazard thus happily diuerted make addition to our strength and peace Oh blessed be God euen the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who for his owne sake by his owne hand hath heaped vp our happinesse He that is mightie hath done great things for vs and holy is his Name Oh praise we the Lord for he is good for his mercie endureth for euer Holy Father knit our hearts vnto thee that wee may feare thy great and dreadfull Name Teach vs to be truly and vnfainedly thankfull to thy holy Maiestie for this daies mercies and all heretofore that so we may receiue the continuance of thy fauours to our euerlasting comfort and euermore reioyce in thy great saluation Blessed be God FINIS Româ— 1 Hos. 4.15 Exod. 19.5 Heb. 12.2 Rom. 15.29 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vers. 3. Regis ad exemplum totus componitur orbis See chap. 2 49. â—ra furor brâ—uis est Diuision of the Text. Affinity between Romish and Babylonish Nabuchadnezzar * Moulded first in the Laterane Councell vnder Pope Innocent the third Popish Priests worse than Iudas who valued Châ—ist at thirty pence for they buy 40. cakes euery one of which is Christs body for one halfe-penny This was preached Nouemb. 5. 1612. Romish cruelty surmounts the Babylonâ—sh 3. wayes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Idolatry and cruelty alwayes coupled together Exod. 5.2 Chap. 1.17 Vers. 22. Hâ—st 3.6 Vers. 13. 2. King 21.3 See 1. Mach. 1. Iosephus de bello Iud. lib. 1. cap. 1. Nequâ— tantae caedes satis fuêre sed Iudaeos cogere coepit vt abrogato more patrio nec infantes suos circumciderent porcósque super aram immolarent quibus omnes quidem aduersabantur optimus verò quisque propterea truâ—cidabatur Hadrian Rome Christian as cruell as Heathen Rome 2. Thes. 2.3 Ioh. 17.12 Reuel 9.11 Triginâ—a bellatorum millâ—a qui bellica munera guauiter â—bire possent nihil interpellato sacrorum cultu Sabell Enead 9. lib. 6. Pulchra prosecto pullitiâ—s aulae Antichristianae decora familia Grass reg p. 34. B. Vers. 4. Reuel 13.11 Reuel 11.7 AntiChrist an enemie both to Scriptures and Scripture-men Ribâ—ra Bellarm. Testantur hoc Iac. Brocardus Venetus in Apoc. et monachus quidam Celestinâ—s Prophecies of Romish cruelty accomplished to the full Pandolph Colonutius ex Aenea Sylu. hist. Austr et Nicol. Machiauel Rom. 1.32 Ex Hermanno Mutio. Innocentius 3. anno 1212. See this story at large in the booke of Martyrs pag. 868. Out of which booke I haue picked some choise examples that our common people hauing the booke by them may see I belye them not in the things which seeme most incredible Foeminea in pugna victoria nulla est Acts Mon. pag. 859. 2. Tim. 4.17 Gathered out of Ianus August Thuanus President of the Parliament of Paris Mal. 4.1 * Metellus Sequanus Bartholomaeus Casas a Bishop that liued in that Country This booke written in Latine is wel worth translating but these with a number more insâ—ances of their hellish cruelty are oâ—â—racted by M. White in his way to the Church the 50. digression where the Reader may further acquaint himselfe with the Spanish conuersion or rather vtter subuersion of the Indies The Prince of the I le Cuba so answered the Fryar that came to shrine him at the slake Satia te sanguine quem sit isti cuius semper insacrabilis fuisti Thomyris de Cyri capite in vâ—re sang Minerius the diuels Proctor or Factor Acts and Mon. pag. 869. See another history of like cruelty p. 805. â— Pag. â—60 See the exquisite torments deuised and suffered by Bertrand p. 817. and by Rich. Atkins p. 1948. Marriage punished among Papists whoredome escapeth Pag. 887. Pag. 863. â—ag 831. Iam. 2.13 Acts and Mon. pag 814. Pag. 874. Pag. 751. Pag. 710. Pag. 766. A woman forced to kill her husband by Papists Acts and Mon. pag. 1951. No plea sufficient against the cruelty of Romanists Acts and Mon. pag. 1864. Felâ—yes childe Dauies Boy vnder 12. yeares condemned for the 6. articles p. 1879. Pag. 1035. Pag. 816. Pag. 1780. Pag. 739. Pag. 1785. Pag. 1556. Prou. 12.10 Gal. 5.22 Math. 11.29 Mans extremity Gods opportunity Vse 1. Vse 2. Man purposeth God disposeth Psal. 2 1.2 Psal. 7.15 Hest. 9.25 Vse Sanguis Martyrum semen ecclesiâ—e Foecundi sunt Martyrum ciâ—eres Hest. 9.26 Haue nothing to doâ— against that iust man Zach. 12.3 Gods people gâ—yners by fiery trials 1. Pet. 1.7 Vse Math. 8 â—7 Acts 9.5 Psal. 33.1 Diuision of the text Exposition Numerus septenarius iuxta aliquos est numerus â—â—rfâ—ctus Iob. 33.14 Nâ— hamâ—n Gal. 4.29 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Antichrist resembled by Edom. Antichrist and Edom like in their persons foure waies Gen. 25.23 Verse 30. Lagnat Acts 24.14 Nâ—n obstante â—â—tichrist and Edom like in their sinnes 1. Prophanenesse Quid non regina pecuma donat 2. Idolatrie 3. Merits 4. Crueltie Crueltie of our Edomites and old Edomites compared Iosephus Obad. 14. Yong Edomites with vs farre surpasse the old in crueltie fiue arguments The powder-plot a villany without name The Popes leadden Bull sets all mischiefe on worke Vse 1 That religion good which Antichrist persecutes Vse 2. Bloody religion wicked religion Luk. 9.54.55 Vse 3. 1. Sam. 4.21 Gen. 32.28 Acts 13.50 Antichrist and Edom like in their punishment 1. For certainty Rome termed Babylon why 2. For seuerity Most probable that Româ— shall be destroyed with materiall fire for fiue reasons Ierem. 51.9 Obadi 15. Reuel 18.6 2. Thess. 2. â— Antichrist to be ouerthrowne with the sword temporall as well as spirituall Euen by Kings that are or were his friends Ouerthrow of Rome not partiall but totall Magnificence of Rome no whit secureth it Zach. 4.2 Vse 1 Comfort for the Church of God Vsâ— 2. Terror for the Church of Rome Reuel 19.16 Iudg. 17. Vse 3. All deuices of Papists insufficient to susteine their bloody monarchy Vse 4 Separate from them spiritually and corporally Reuel 18.2 Diuision of the Text. Enemies of the Church compared to Fowlers in 4. respects Prou. 4.16 〈…〉 9. Romish Nimrod a mighty Hunter of the Lords flocke Bonner a Bonfire Great labour and cost for the powder-treason Foure thousand pounds Practises of the wicked