Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

pieces gird your selues and ye shall bee broken to pieces If they would by rage and furye make quicke dispatch and swallow vp at once the people of God and eate them as bread behold themselues are neuer nearer destruction than when they are most violent The Aegyptians were not more readie to kill and slay than the waters were to drowne them 3 Misery That inexpected destruction comes when they expect the sweet fruit of all their labour when they looke for light behold darknesse Here this birth of wicked men is vnlike the trauell of women When the childe is borne the womans danger and paines are gone and ioy comes in the stead because a child is borne into the world and this makâ—s her forget her sorow But in this birth and afterward â—s the greatest danger and perill and but a beginning of sorows When they cry peace peace then comes a sudden destruction Balthasar was seased on euen in his cups where there was nothing but carowsing and iolity and Amnon in his brothers house at a feast when his heart was most merry was slaine by his brother which was the issue of his incest Little thought hee that that reckoning awaited him 4 Misery That the mischiefe plotted against their greatest enemies recoyles vpon themselues as a piece ouercharged and recoyling strikes downe the shooter not the party aimed at Prou. 11.8 The iust escapeth out of trouble and the wicked commeth in his stead and the wicked shall be a ransome for the iust Wicked men catching the godly at aduantage are mercilesse no pity may be vsed no ransome will be taken for their deliuâ—rance therefore God takes the matter in hand to pay a ransome for them body for body skin for skin life for life and the right owners of mischiefe shall enioy it There is little cause why Gods people should enuie the prosperity of their enemies or study for reuenge but rather pitty them and pray for them so many as are curable for their last dish will marre all the feast little do they know what they are doing They are twisting a cord to hang themselues They are digging a pit but the earth falles on them and pashes themselues to pieces The bread of afflâ—ction prepared for others themselues mâ—st eate They poore men are in trauell of a viper which must needs kill the parent and seeing they cannot bee stopped from sin they cannot be stopt from the punishment As little cause haue the enemies to glory in their conception Stay a while and behold the lineameâ—ts of the birth from top to toe and see a shamefull and ougly viâ—sage I come now to the application hereof to our present occasion This day is this text fulfilled in your eares Wherein giue me leaue a little to shew you how our owne sowers of winde haue reaped the whirlewinde and how those who trauelled with wickednesse haue brought foorth not onely a lye but an vntimely and mischieuous birth which no sooner saw the light but most iustly it depriued the parents of it This misshapen monster was the Gunpowder-treason a mother of treasons an vnmatchable store-â—ouse of villanies wherein grex cum regâ— arae cum focis Pietie and Iustice Peace and Plentie Religion and Honestie should all haue been buried in one graue and all consumed in one bonfire This conception pleased them well for it was meete that whence they receiued all their mischiefe namely the Parliament that very place should be designed for their punishment said Catesby to Winter who wondred at the fiâ—e conceit They beare not their conception without much labour and paines and care and cost Great care of secrecie that none be admitted into the Councell but by oath and the sacrament Great labouâ— in many painfull iourneys both beyond seas and on this side in digging the pit and the mine night and day many moneths together c. And as great cost Digby hath 1500. pounds Tressam 2000. Percy would bring 4000 and ten galloping horses though he robbed the Earle of Northumberland for it out of the rents of seuerall houses The charge of 36. barrels of powder wood coale iron in abundance and of victuals for so many labourers and diggers No lesse care in contriuing and forming this misshapen monster in the wombe and carrying it the due moneths And all this while they swell with conceit and dreame of nothing but disposing the kingdom and euery mans estate Euery thing both at home and abroad is so cunningly contriued they make themselues sure of all Why the Letter saith God and man hath concurred to punish the wickednesse of these times And to the Lord Retire your selfe into the countrey where you may expect the euent with safetie for though there be no appearance of any stirre yet I say they shall receiue a terrible blow this Parliament and the danger is past so soone as you haue burnt the letter And in the countrey the night before the day designed to be our doomes-day they boldly entred into a stable and tooke away great horses which they made account of as their owne by their owne Law now the Lawes were blowne vp And Sir Nimrod Digby appoynts his hunting match that day to surprise the Lady They haue their Proclamations readie and all cocksure Thus haue they conceiued mischiefe and these Digbyes and diggers haue digged a pit with a mouth as wide as hell to swallow vp three great kingdomes at one morsell and haue carried the conception the full moneths Now to the Birth For what saith Percy shall we alwaies talke Gentlemen and neuer doe any thing But what doe they They bring foorth a lye a vaine worke they haue in hand God scatters their deuice They plot destruction against all the godly in the land they cannot hurt one of their haires Nay worse than so the pit they haue digged falls on themselues These hunters hunt the liues of others themselues are hunted and taken The powder they lay for others blowes vp themselues And this is worth the obseruing that Catesby first deuiseth the powder-plot and his owne powder first burnes himselfe he first smarted and was maimed and after killed together with Percy by one bullet shot with powder Others consenting were many slaine with shot and powder yea euen those whose liues were desired to be spared for further vse yet Gods iustice brought their owne deâ—iâ—e on their heads One of them as Faux was sorrie he could not blow vp himselfe he would haue thought it a benefit if it had been no worse with him than he had intended to others Another as Winter seeing the vglinesse of this monster was so confounded as he professed that his fault for the temporall part was greater than could be forgiuen and confessed hee saw too late that such courses please not almightie God All of them in case it had been done purposed to disauow it for the foulenesse of it till they had power enough to make their partie

For he neuer striketh but withal prouides a remedy alwaies in iudgment remembring mercy And in this theâ— Returne there was great cause of ioy being so great a work of Gods mercy For 1. God seemed now to forget the causes of their Captiuity their idolatry their contempt of his Ministers with other hainous and foule sinnes which brake out so farre that there was no remedy 2. Cron. 36.15 But now he graciously returneth therefore certainly those sinnes are forgiuen them 2. They had now a long time beene exposed to all the enemies wrath who had vnmercifully oppressed and slaine them and cruelly dasht their infants braines against the stones carried them farre from house and home among heathens and strangers to them and to the Couenant strangely vsed them not suffering them any house or harbour but let them spend their time in weeping by the waters side exposed to all iniury of winde and wether of men and beasts But now as health is sweet after a long disease so is liberty after a long bondage Here is great cause to reioyce for temporall freedome from corporall misery 3. Their shame and reproch in captiuity was infinite the Aduersaries on one hand insult and call for their Hebrew songs on the other hand their Citie Babel whither they weâ—e carryed being the Metropolitan and head of the Monarchy at that time all the people of the knowne world resorted thither and carryed into all Countries the Iewes reproch But now the Lord hath remoued their shame and published from thence to all the world their glorious deliuerance 4. In Captiuity they were but ciues mundi men of the world but now they are ciuâ—s ecclesiae members of the Church that Country being a testimony to the godly that they belonged to Gods Couenant and to that heauenly Canaan of which that was a type Now their Captiuity was an abdication from the familie of God and being spoyled of these good things how could they thinke but that they were cast out from God from the Couenant from heauenly Canaan aswel as earthly But now they are receiued againe into the family and people and Country of God their title to heauenly Canaan is renewed and for this they reioyce 5. Whereas the Babylonians had robbed the Citie but especially had defaced and burned the Temple profaned both it and all holy things and set vp the abomination of desolation in stead thereof that now where God was worshipped of his owne people according to his will the diuell was worshipped by Heathens and Infidels Now the Lord hauing raised Syon out of the dust hee hath reared his Temple and his Worship againe hee hath cast out the filth and pollution by which they defiled his Temple hee hath set vp againe the shining lights in the Temple standing vp in golden Candlestickes hee hath set the sweet-bread on his Table the booke of the Law is restored againe and the holinesse of the Lord shines againe in all his ordinances God enioyes his worship and glory They enioy their land and peace and sit safe vnder his protection as in times past And these are the great things whereof they now reioyce Now to the application This day are these things performed in our eares who may truly say with the Church of Israel The Lord hath done great things for vs whereof we reioyce We will not goe so farre backward as if time would giue leaue we might to compare the Lords generall mercies to vs with theirs wherein we are not inferiour giuing vs a land as rich more large peace more stable Kings and Princes as Sauiours and Iudges leading vs along to Canaan the couenant of grace as peculiar more sure to vs than to them What Oracles had they which we haue not yet we haue what they had not Had they worship in shadowes we haue it in substance Had they good things in promise and expectation we in the very thing and full accomplishment Christ was to come of them but he is come vnto vs. I will only speak of our deliuerance froÌ„ Babylon of which the Church here speaketh That Rome is Babylon the learned Iesuites themselues coÌ„fesse And if they did not we could easily shew that one egge is not liker another than Rome is to Babylon As in this Collation 1. Babel was the great Citie that must rule ouer all nations Gen. 10.10 And Rome is the great Citie that must rule ouer all Cities and Churches her Bishop must be Head and Monarch of the Church and set himselfe aboue all that is called God 2. At Babel was the first confusion of tongues Gen. 11.7 In and from Rome is the confusion of tongues and of errors one not vnderstanding another in the word or sacraments or other their seruices All is in a strange language to them 3. At Babel was horrible superstition and wickednesse in Priests and people and thence it spread all abroad Rome is a sinke of superstition and filthinesse and all nations haue drunke of her cup and beene made drunke with her horrible enchantments and wickednesse 4. Babel held the Church in slauery seauenty yeares so the Church of Christ hath beene oppressed a long time vnder the tyrannie of the Romish Church 5. Babel robbed and spoyled the Church of her treasures and the Temple of God and horribly polluted it Rome hath robbed the Christian world of infinite treasures by fraud and deceit selling for millions that which was not worth the dust of mens feet And the Church by her hath beene robbed of the word the Sacraments the offices of Christ and most comfortable doctrines the chiefe dowry and reuenew that Christ her Head gaue her 6. Babel most miserably intreated the Church Psalm 137.1 Her eyes did nothing but drop downe teares day and night And she prouided a furnace to cast such in as would not worship the image Dan. 3.6 All bookes and writings of the Church are full of the bloody cruelty by all instruments of cruelty and all plots of cruelty in the Romane Church both the head and the members Now that our deliuerance from Romish power and plots is as great a work to reioyce in as this of Israel from their captiuitie is easily proued 1. God hath broke the yoke of the King of Babel the Romish Nebuchadnezzar from off our neckes when we lay among the pots by that great Cyrus King Henry the 8. who thrust out the Pope and Papall power cut the sinewes of their strength cast out the Canaanites that were in the land pulled downe the dens of theeues and robbers and set his people to build an house for the Lord God of Israel As great a worke as euer the people of this nation saw either attempted or executed All the Kings before him durst not meddle well they might mourne vnder their bondage and murmure at the Oppressor but did nothing because they durst not 2. When Cyrus had begun the worke Darius commanded

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