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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66585	A sermon on the gunpowder treason, with reflections on the late plot by Thomas Wilson ...	Wilson, Thomas, 17th cent.	1679 (1679)	Wing W2936; ESTC R8248	16,317	39

through fear some through flattery some for worldly gain some by example and some through custom and education fall away and multitudes by one means or other turn about presently though to their own destruction And therefore let me insert here my earnest request and exhortation in the Lord that all Protestants pray for our Protestant Governors and Government Now considering all this the secrecy of the Plot and the rage and malice and power and bloodiness of our enemies and their abominable doctrins and worship and the near approach of the execution of their intended villany we cannot but be sensible that our Danger was exceeding great Reflecting upon what hath been said I cannot but demand your judgment in one particular before I proceed and that is this whether these men that are so conversant in plots and conspiracies that plot and conspire the death and ruin of others that plot and conspire against their Prince and the supream Council of the land that plot and conspire after such a bloody and devilish manner that kill and destroy and exercise such barbarous and inhuman cruelties and all this against peaceable and quiet people and such as are more sound in the faith and more holy in their lives than themselves whether I say these men have the spirit of God and the power of holiness in their hearts whether they are Ministers of Iesus Christ Priests of God Priests of Righteousness whether their Head and Father the Pope that abets them in these practices and stirs them up to them be the Successor of Saint Peter whether Christ's Holy Vicar It seems to me and it is altogether true without contradiction that they are like the Beast in the Apocalyps that kills those that will not receive his mark in their foreheads nor worship his Image And that they are like that Babylon if not the very same the great Whore whom St. Iohn seeing things to follow afterward in the Church saw drunken with the blood of the Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus For I see them not so cruel to any as to Saints as to those that fear God and worship him purely according to his plain truth as it is recorded in the Scriptures I demand again whether these men like good Christians do according to St. Paul's admonition Study to be quiet and as much as lieth in you live peaceably with all And whether they observe his other like injunction Endeavour to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace And whether they are like our Saviour that came not to destroy mens lives but to save them and that rebuked his Disciples for desiring him that they might Command fire to come down from Heaven and consume the Samaritans because they did not receive him And in a word whether Bloody Iesuits and merciful Iesus are alike II. The Deliverance which we have set down in these words Our Soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers the snare is broken and we are escaped Alass the strength of a bird is as nothing to the breaking of the fowlers net so that if she get out thence and fly away it is a strange accident And no more was our strength to the extricating of our selves out of the net and gin and trap all the subtil devices and complicated intanglements and killing instruments of our enemies That we escaped then was a wonder and that the snare was broken whereby we did escape was the work of Gods own hand and is it not his doing when according as it is said again proud waves did not swallow us up when waters and a stream coming upon us did not overwhelm and drown us when kindled wrath did not consume us And in these words also we are shewed our Deliverance and whence it was The Lord did not give us as a prey to their teeth For he could have delivered us up into their hands and he might have done so with justice enough because of our sins and therefore as it was his Power so it was his Goodness that saved us And seeing that the combination was secret and the plot carried on with all subtilty we discern again that it was his Eye to which nothing is hid that discovered it And add we that the Deliverance was from death and murther from war and confusion from Popery which is stuffed with all that is naught with pride and avarice and luxury with lies and feigned miracles with wicked craft and treachery and dissimulation with rebellion and horrid cruelty with superstitions innumerable and abominable Idolatry And that the deliverance was of King and Parliament and a whole Realm and of those that deserved no such thing at their hands as they intended And finally that it was the deliverance of Gods own people that have abandoned the corruption of his Religion and that have embraced the truth as it was delivered to the World by his Servants the Prophets and Apostles of our Lord Iesus Christ and that desire to live in his fear and to serve him acceptably with pure worship according to his own will not mans that their Souls may be saved Considering all this I say the deliverance was wonderful and a good work and from God it came So that upon the whole we may justly say with the Psalmist If it had not been the Lord who was on our side when men rose up against us if it had not been the Lord who was on our side they had swallowed us up quick Our help was in the Name of the Lord who made Heaven and Earth And therefore unto him is due Praise and Blessing and Glory and Thanksgiving which is our next particular But before I enter upon it let me put in here one thing which is worthy of the Observation both of us and our adversaries and that is that as God hath delivered us so he will deliver us still if we still hold his Truth without corruption and keep our selves in innocence renounce error and false worship and live soberly righteously and godly For he will maintain his own Doctrine and defend them that profess it and that withal fear his Name and he will punish his Enemies and bring to nought their devices and dissolve the attempts of deceivers and bloody-minded men He is the Tower and strong Castle and the Rock and Mount of Israel he is their shield and defence We have seen by long experience that God hath defended his Saints and true worshippers every Age from the beginning of the world affording numerous instances hereof And not only so but we have his promise written down and an hundred times repeated in his Book that he will defend them Read a little Prov. xi 3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them V. 6. The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness V. 20 21. They that are