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A13544	A mappe of Rome liuely 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.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.; Jemmat, William, 1596?-1678.	1620 (1620)	STC 23838; ESTC S118180	76,684	109

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

of Kings the tenne hornes shall fight against him Hee that out of his horrible ambition hath made mightie Princes hold his stirrop leade his horse become his footmen and foot-stoole shall one day be paid for all He that hath taken from them Imperiall Crownes Purple Scepters Kingdomes shall by them ere long I doubt not be left desolate and naked Hee that hath long ouerborne them with the bragge of his primacie and set himselfe aboue all that is called God shall by them be made to drinke of the cup of their Supremacie They that haue giuen the Saints blood to drink shall haue blood to drink herein like to old Edom Obad. 16. Edom drunke vpon mine holy mountaine and the heathen must drinke them vp and swallow them and they shall bee as though they had not been Pharaoh drownd the Israelites children and was drownd himselfe The same fire lickt in the enemies which they made so hot for the three children of God Humans gallowes catcht himselfe Catesby Rockwood Grant deuisers of the powder-plot by their owne powder were almost blowne vp yea made vnable for their own defence and the same day Catesby the first deuiser and P●rcy the chiefe actor were killed with one bullet shot with powder As I haue done said great Adoni-bezek so God hath done to me From all this it followes that all the balme in Gilead cannot heale them not the ten hornes or Kings not the seuen heads not his power and bloody war●es his Spanish Inquisition his Massacres his two trayterous Colleges his Buls and Excommunications his Councell of Trent his Order of Iesuites not his blacking of the liues and practices of his aduersaries not his iugling with Images his false miracles and legends his lies and equiuocations his falsifying of all authoritie and the like can still vphold his tottering state down he must for all his props he must dye in the midst of his Physicians we must expect it pray for it and reioyce in it Come out of her my people come out of her for it is a people ordained to destruction Reuel 18.4 Be not partakers of her sinnes lest yee partake in her plagues Come out in affection in action and in habitation both by spirituall and bodily departure God is carefull of his people he would not haue Lot destroyed with Sodome nor Israel in Babylon Iere. 51.45 nor the Iewes in Ierusalem at the destruction thereof A voyce was heard saith Iosephus to leaue the citie which many beleeued and sled into Pella and they that would not were al miserably destroyed Little Mice they say presaging the ruine of an house doe flie out before hand Let vs by diuine instinct be so wise for our owne safetie flie communion companie with Papists For Rome is called an habitation of diuels if a man would dwell among diuels let him dwell among Romanists And it is no schisme but Gods commandement Neuer heare such whisperings as speake of a reconciliation of our religions for that cannot be Yet hate not their persons but their sinnes and pray for the men It is dangerous to trauell among them much more to intertaine neere and intimate acquaintance with them Therefore feare to make or meddle with them leaue them to Gods iudgement which must needs be executed The end of the second Sermon THE ROMISH FOWLER Psalm 124.7 Our soule is escaped euen as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers the snare is broken and we are deliuered THE matter of this Psalme is gratulatory the occasion some great deliuerance of the Church from some deadly plot and imminent danger Or as some thinke Dauid recounteth and collecteth all those speciall deliuerances which God had wrought for Israel since their comming forth of Egypt till this time which being many and great he compiles this Psalme and giues the Lord the glory of them all In the words of my Text are two things considerable 1. A danger the extremity whereof is set downe by a similitude 2. A deliuerance in it 1. The meanes the snare is broken 2. The end wee are deliuered The danger is set out by comparison of a Fowler who hath layd his nets and hath caught a silly bird within the meashes of it of which himselfe and euery man else thinks he hath it sure enough Where the danger is amplified 1. By the Authors of it Fowlers 2. Their instruments nets and snares 3. The crafty laying of them so as they haue compassed the seely bird within the snare I. The Scriptures compare the enemies of the Church the seely Doue of Christ to Fowlers Fishers Hunters 1. In respect of their purpose which is to take and catch that they hunt for they intend to kill and destroy ere they returne This was Cains purpose against Abel if hee could get him alone Pharaohs against Israel Nero Dioclesian and the other Emperours against the Primitiue Church 2. The Fowler makes but a sport of taking his prey as also the Hunter So the enemies of the Church count it but a sport to destroy and waste the Church and people of God Yea as they feede vpon the seely birds they catch with delight so these feede on Gods people as on bread Psal. 14 4. 3. Fowlers are so cruell that they spare none young nor olde male nor female all goe together into the bagge And Popish Persecutors spare no age or sexe neither olde men nor children but haue pulled them out of the belly to the fire neither vnlearned nor learned but haue cut off Pastors Doctors Bishops Archbishops neither the liuing nor yet the dead Most barbarous inhumanity 4. Fowlers and Hunters will be at great cost to maintaine their game and count no paines painefull through frost and snow they will endure much hardnesse in hope of their prey So the enemies of the Church care not what cost and charge they be at what paines they take to waste and destroy the Church they cannot sleepe till they haue done euill their sleepe departs from them that is nothing else troubles them but to be disappointed Such great Fowlers of the Church in the olde Testament were the enemies on euery side On the East Ammonites Moabites Chaldeans Assyrians on the West the Philistims on the North the Syrians on the South Egyptians Arabians and Idumeans and the Church of God as a little bird in the midst of them all Haman hath ten thousand talents for the Kings treasurie i● all the Iewes may be vtterly rooted out Such great Fowlers of the Church in the new Testament haue beene the vassals of Antichrist and especially that great Nimrod of Rome who with his Popish Kings Tyrants and persecuting Bishops hath eaten vp the poore Saints of Christ in all Countries as did their Predecessors the ancient Tyrants Psal. 83.4 Come let vs cut them off from being a nation and let the name of Israel be no more in remembrance Our owne booke of Martyrs records that one of our

Popish Bishops was so violent a fowler to furnish his Maisters dishes that himselfe in fiue yeares space tooke and rosted 300. seely Martyrs most of them in his owne walke and dioces Such were our Fauxes and Fawkners who made sure account of such a prey as was neuer before layd for namely for three whole Kingdomes at once which would haue filled all their nets For God and man concurred to punish the iniquity of this time said the Letter to L. Mounteagle for the obtaining whereof they despised all danger and all labour is thought little in digging halfe a yeare together through hard foundations they will bestow any cost whatsoeuer of their owne and other mens Digby promised 1500. pounds Tressam 2000. Percy all that he could get of the Earle of Northumberlands rents besides tenne galloping Horses And nothing troubled Faux but that he was disappointed II. The Scripture both here and else where compares their meanes and instruments to snares nets and ginnes which are set in the wayes of Gods Saints to take them And that for two causes 1. It notes the secrecie of the danger which makes it farre more dangerous and ineuitable for nets and snares vse to be layd in secret and out of sight In vaine were the net layd before the eyes of all that hath wings Prou. 1.17 As therfore the fowlers or fishers go about their matters craftily and subtilly they will stand priuily behinde a tree they dissemble all they will lay meate as though they intended to feed the seely bird which they meane to feed vpon they haue a Lure or Call as if they were friends and birds themselues but the end is to kill and destroy So doe the Fowlers of Gods Church Psal. 83.3 They haue taken crafty counsell against thy people and haue consulted against thy secret ones So euer haue done the Romish Antichristian Fowlers who haue beene taught by their great Nim●od leoninae pelli assuere vulpinam Alwayes to match together the Lyon and the Foxe Iulius the 2. can turne him either way to Peters keyes or Pauls sword What they cannot doe by open force they can doe by secret fraud wherein oftentimes there lyes more strength than in the former The Syrian Antiochus Epiphanes was a liuely type of the Romish Antiochus of whom it is sayd Dan. 8.24.25 His power shall be mighty but not in his strength he shall destroy wonderfully and shall prosper and practise and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people and by his policie shall cause craft to prosper in his hand A liuely description of the Romish Antiochus or Antichrist that beast arising out of the sea hauing as well the hornes of the Lambe as the speech of the Dragon He intrudes himselfe as the head and husband of the Church while he robs and wastes it He professeth himselfe a seruant of seruants while he sets himselfe aboue all Kings and Commanders as Boniface the 8. in the yeare of Christ 1300. before a great concourse in a solemne Iubilee one day shewed himselfe in his Priestly Pontificals with the crosse carried before him the next day in an Emperours roabes with a naked sword before him and this title proclaimed Ego sum Pontifex Imperator terrestre ac coeleste imperium habeo All this is mine and to whomsoeuer I will I giue it What is the whole religion of Rome but a mysterie of iniquity a bundle of policie which by secret conueyances and t●●ines both brought and held all the Kingdomes and Countries in Europe within the snare and bondage of a silly Fryar by sembled sanctity lying myracles false donations forged writings and the like and thus hath ensnared mens bodies goods liues and consciences Neuer saw the world so cunning a fowler Are his emissaries and such as he sends out of better disposition than himselfe No witnesse Gregory the great As Christ sent out simple and seely plaine men to raise vp his Kingdome so shall Antichrist make choise of crafty and double and deceitfull persons for his businesse How subtilly did these two friars Clemēt and his Associate lay their snares when they flew the French King Henry the 3. pretending great good businesse for the Church and State When the Papists in France could not by open force oppresse the Prince of Condy and Casper Colignius the Admirall of France they could by fraude and cunning as by a lure pretending peace and nuptiall solemnity raise a sudden Massacre by which thirty thousand Protestants fell into their snare who most perfidiously were slaine against all laws of God nature and nations not much without the space of one moneth What Potentate euer layd the foundation of obedience in conscience or could ouercome his enimies without warre by a parchment Bull or maintaine himselfe and his pompe at all mens costs and deuotions or conquer opposite Princes by their owne subiects or stabl●sh himselfe by dispensing with vnlawfull marriages and lawfull oaths or mainetaine so many Intelligences by Confession or pleasure all men in their humours by wealth pouertie austerity voluptousnesse What a notable combination of knaueries is there in that religion wherein all these things and many more are most eminent most vsuall To come to our owne Country what did those trayterous bandits and emissaries All●n Harding Sanders Parsons Campion and others but by writing and speaking pretend singular loue Instruction and care ouer their Country-men whose religion they left yet indeed what intended they but destruction of Prince and State being trumpets to rebellion raising vp armes some out of Spaine some out of Ireland some desperate cut-throts at home to take away the life of that blessed Lady Elizabeth of eternall happy memory What a number haue they snared vnder the pretext of peace truce and friendship as Duke Alba in the Low Countries and as the King of Spaine in 88. while he was prouiding that invincible nauy against our Prince and Country he sent the Duke of Parma to intreat of peace as if it were honesty in Catholikes whome they cannot kill by warre to delude and spoile them vnder the name of peace not without villany and per●ury How secretly did our late foolish fowlers lay their nets and traines with what faire pretences It was meerely and only for religion sayd Faux and he was bound inconscience to do it because the King was an heriticke he was sent by the name of Iohn Ionson to Percy to conferre for releefe of the Catholike cause All of them tooke an oath for secrecy yea heard Masses and tooke the Sacrament neuer to reueale any thing Now to the laying of snares as deep as hell 36 barrels of gunpouder are prouided numbers of iron bars to blow vp with one deadly blow in time of peace in time of Parliament●al England Scotland and Ireland in their King and posterity in their lawes and gouernments in their Church and Religion in their Common welths and Iustice in