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A33996	A word in season being a parallel between the intended bloody massacre of the people of the Jews, in the reign of King Ahasuerus and the hellish powder-'plot against the Protestants in the reign of King James : together with an account of some of the wicked principles and practises of the Church of Rome, demonstrated in their barbarous and cruel murders and massacres of the Protestants in the Netherlands, France, Ireland, Piedmont, the Albigenses, &c. : also shewing that the present Church of Rome is an apostate church ... / by H.C., a lover of true Protestants.	Care, Henry, 1646-1688.	1679 (1679)	Wing C537; ESTC R13082	42,613	54

A Word in Season BEING A Parallel between the intended Bloody Massacre of the People of the Jews in the Reign of King Ahasuerus and the Hellish Powder-Plot against the Protestants in the Reign of King James TOGETHER With an Account of some of the Wicked Principles and Practices of the Church of Rome Demonstrated in their Barbarous and Cruel Murders and Massacres of the Protestants in the Netherlands France Ireland Piedmont the Albigenses c. ALSO SHEWING That the present Church of Rome is an Apostate Church and so discovered to be that Mystery Babylon Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth mentioned in the Revelations By H. C. a Lover of true Protestants LONDON Printed for Francis Smith at the Elephant and Castle in Cornhill near the Royal-Exchange 1679. The Author to the READER Courteous Reader NOt because I envy the Person of any Man of any Persuasion so consequently not those of the Papal Church who at present I am concerned with but 't is their Capital Errors and Damnable Principles I aim at in this my Discourse knowing they are contrary and repugnant to the Word of Truth which is the Rule of Faith and Manners and having compassion on Souls which may be Ignorant lest they should fall into the Errors of the Wicked and especially young ones which are not aware of their Principles I have taken a little pains to gather up some of their Horrid Practices and Soul-destroying Principles into a narrow Compass that so in a little time any may perceive what kind of condition they shall be in that do taste touch or handle any of them therefore I beg of you all to whom this shall come to reade it considerately and compare their Principles and Practices with the Word of God and you will see that there is as much difference between them as between Light and Darkness Good and Evil Heaven and Hell God and the Devil And this is not my Opinion alone but the Opinion of almost all the Reformed Churches For that the Pope is Antichrist hath been put into most of the Confessions of Faith I shall only recite the Testimony of one whose incomparable Learning and Piety may make his Words received or mine at least not over-hastily condemned it is the Reverend Doctor Usher Arch-Bishop of Armagh who in his Catechise writ thus As Christ is the Head of the True Church so Antichrist is the Head of the Romish Church which is his Body Quest Who is that Antichrist Answ He is one who under a colour of being for Christ nd under Title of being his Vice-gerent exalteth himself above and against Christ opposing himself against all his Offices and Ordinances both in Church and Commonwealth bearing Authority over the Church of God ruling over that City with seven Hills which did bear Rule over the Nations and put our Lord to Death a Man of Sin a Child of Perdition a Destroyer establishing himself by Lying Miracles and False Wonders All which Marks do agree together to be none but the Pope of Rome Quest What is the use of all his Doctrine Answ That whosoever are partakers of the Sins of Rome are also under the same Curse Quest What further Answ That there can be no sound agreement between Popery and the Gospel no more than between Light and Darkness Falshood and Truth God and Belial and therefore no Reconciliation can be devised betwixt them For if the Antichrist shall be destroyed we cannot in any sort communicate with them in their Errors unless we will bear them company in their destruction also An Account of which Errors Heresies and wicked Practices this Book may give you light in which I had not concerned my self withal at this time but that I was stirred up from the consideration of their Damnable and Hellish Designs of late against England so that they may thank themselves for what I have done and a great many more who are no friends to Popery If these few Sheets shall do any good to the Establishing of those that have received the Truth as 't is in Jesus or informing the Ignorant animating the Spirits of any against those Principles and Practices or bring any out of that gross Egyptian Darkness and leading them into the path of Light and Life I shall have my desire and I desire you may give God the Glory Which that it may be so shall be the hearty prayers of him that is a lover of the true Protestant Religion H. C. A Parallel betwixt the Jews Deliverance from the intended Bloody Massacre in the Reign of Ahasuerus and our Deliverance from the Hellish Powder-Plot in the Reign of King James BEloved Friends and Country-Men I am this Day as God's Messenger to remind you of a very Signal but almost-forgotten Deliverance which England received in the Year 1605 from that hellish Powder-plot of the blood-thirsty Papists Which was not only a general Mercy then received but as it was a kindness to our Grand-Fathers and Fathers so also to us For had Popery then entred England which hath been yet is and I hope will be Emmanuel's Land what in all probability had we been at this time Now for as much as God delights to have his wonderful Works remembred Psal 111. 4. by those that are in the fruition and enjoyment of them and more especially considering the need we may have of as great a kindness as then received already through Grace begun to be shewed the Lord of his rich Mercy bring Ahitophel's Counsel to nought totally what cause have we to be praising God this day that so your Hearts may be animated and stirred up to the Work I shall in this my Discourse at this time run a Parallel between the wicked Conspiracy made against the Jews and People of God in the days of King Ahasuerus and the hellith Powder-Plot in the days of King James of happy Memory for defending the Protestant Religion and discountenancing the contrary and I hope by that time I have done you will see what great cause there is to bless God for his unspeakable Goodness and also see what Enemies Papists are to all true Protestants and so I shall now begin what I have to say 1. As in the days of Ahasuerus who Reigned from India even to Ethiopia over one hundred and seven and twenty Provinces Esther 1. 1. there was a Massacre designed upon all the Men Women and Children which were of the Nation of the Jews the Church of God Esther 3. 13. So in the days of King James 1605. about seventy three Years since there was a Powder-Plot against this Nation and all the People of God for there was thirty six Barrels of Gun powder in a Seller under the Parliament House And in stead of Shot they had laid upon the Powder Bars of Iron Logs of Timber massy Stones Iron Crows Pickaxes and all their working Tools and to cover all that the Plot might not be discovered they had laid great store of Billets and Faggots

drunk deep of the Blood of the Martyrs of Jesus and also because she sets at nought God 's holy Word therefore we cannot we will not bow to her Golden Image that she hath set up notwithstanding all her Threats As Nebuchadnezzar threatned the three Worthies with a burning fiery Furnace if they would not bow down to the Image of Gold which he had set up So this Mother of Harlots if you will not put your Necks under her Yoke then comes an Armada an Inquisition a Massacre a Powder-plot Fire Faggot Racks Assassinations Stranglings witness Justice Godfry Who for taking but an Examination which was his Place and Work and Sworn to it those Men of Blood could not sleep quietly till their malice was vented on his Body by strangling and other Tortures they put him to as is more than probable to protract his misery and after a considerable time thrust a Sword into his Body to make the World believe it was his own Act. Surely had he done it himself some Blood would have appeared on the Ground where he lay but the Sword being run into his Body some considerable time after Strangling the Blood being coagulated nothing appears but a black Water which usually followeth after the Bloods coagulating And that Act inhumane and horrid Act was done by the Papists is clear from their taking his Pocket Book where the Depositions and Examinations were which was that they wanted though not his Gold nor Silver 'T is true his great Lace Band he went out withal in the Morning was taken away the Gentleman being strangled doubtless the Band was torn in the Fray and to have let that gone would have told the Story too plainly But this Blood as well as the Blood of many millions more crieth for Vengeance That one instance in Ireland in that most inhumane Massacre in 1642 wherein were more than three hundred thousand in a few days put to Death some burnt some slain with the Sword some shot to Death some smothered some starved and pined to Death some killed with Staves some cut in pieces some hanged twice or thriee many thousands drowned at Portendown-Bridg And when the poor Souls came swimming by the River side to save their Lives the Papists knockt them on the head with the But-end of their Musquets But the Instance I mind is that at Portendown-Bridg a Woman was seen to rise Brest-high out of the River her Hair hanging down with Skin as white as Snow often crying out Revenge Revenge Revenge which made the Persons much amazed that saw and heard it This was attested by one Elizabeth Price whose Husband was thrown into that River before the Commissioners appointed for that purpose with many more that might be named 4. Sudden Death was designed by wicked Haman after one Years provision and preparation for the Work as the Spanish Invasion was five Years before compleated so there was to be one Year For on the 13th day of the first Month the King's Scribes were called to make the Writings and on the 11th day of the twelfth Month the month Adar the Massacre was appointed and then nothing but sudden Death in one day Saith the Word They were to Destroy Kill and to cause to Perish all Jews both young and old little Children and Women in one day Esther 3. 12 13. So in like manner Sudden Death was like to be the portion of the Protestants in England Time for Repentance would have been reckoned too good for an Heretick To kill them and send them to Hell speedily is an act meritorious and cause of Triumph when there was near one hundred thousand lives in three days time taken away in France which it seems no less could quench the thirst of that unsatiable Whore and Harlot his Holiness at Rome at the same time made Bonfires rings his Bells shoots off his Guns and sang O horrid Blasphemy Te deum Laudamus We praise thee O God As if he would draw in the most Gracious God to be accessary to his Murders and an accomplisher of his Bloody and Abominable Impieties Sudden death is that they delight in when so many Barrels of Gun-powder were under the Parliament House and Chair of State Thirty six Barrels would soon have dispatcht the King Princes Clergie Nobles Knights and Burgesses the very confluence of the Flower of Glory Learning Prudence and Authority in the Land Fathers Sons and Brothers Foes Papists Protestants all at one blast and after that had been done then a sudden Massacre throughout the Nation and so would have altered Religion and Government and brought in a Foraign Power But our good God hath prevented them hitherto praised be his holy Name O what a settled Detestation and fixed Opposition should we have against that Religion whose Faith is Faction whose Promises are Equivocations whose Worship is Idolatry whose Principles are high Treason whose Mercies are Cruelties whose practices are Stabbing Strangling and poysoning of Kings whose frame of Government is a politick design to enslave the World and to bring the Necks of Princes under their Iron Yoke and whose God is a pretty little tiny thing which the Priests first create with a Charm of four Words long and then worship the Works of their own Hands and when they have done chop him up at a bit and make no Bones of him 5. Much Deceit and Hypocrisy was acted by wicked Haman when he intended to have the Jews Massacred For he pretended to the King Ahasuerus that this People had Laws diverse from the King's Laws and that they kept not the Laws of the King and besides that it was not for the Kings profit to suffer such People Est 3. 8. This he pretends to the King as the great reason why he would have them destroyed when indeed it was not out of love he had to the King's Honour but his own through the pride of his own Heart All the reason was because Mordecai would not bow to him Esther 3. 5. As hypocritical and deceitful hath Rome been in bringing about her wicked Designs at all times for concerning this Powder-plot the better to bring about her design Mr. Percy takes some Rooms of one Mr. Winyard which Rooms served for withdrawing Rooms in Parliament-time for the Lords for these Rooms adjoyned to the Wall of the Parliament-House and Percy took Fauks under pretence to be his Man who changed his name into Johnson he had the Keys and keeping of the Rooms and these Rooms were taken for Lodging Rooms They took also another House and a Seller just under the Parliament House under pretence to keep Coals and Wood which was to make the Serpents Nest in thus their deceit appears Yea further When they wanted to bring the Plot upon the Protestants for that they would have done one of the Conspirators Mr. Keys a Relation of Mr. Pickring of Tichmarsh Grove in Northamptonshire which Pickring was a Protestant and a great Favourite of King James's who had a very choice Horse This