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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

powder flies in their owne face Obiect Antichrist must be destroyed with the sword of the Spirit and the breath of the Lords mouth not by carnall weapons Answ. The cleere shining of the Gospell shall detect the mysterie wherein Antichrist worketh and lay him naked and discouer his frauds by which hee gulls the world the truth shall warre and preuaile against his heresies But this hinders not but that the Princes of Europe seeing the infinite wrongs sustained by him shall ioyne to set the seate of Antichrist on fire considering the Scripture affirmes it so manifestly as euen the Papists themselues subscribe to the generall truth of it for these be the words of Ribera Romam non solùm ob pristinam impi●tatem sed propter ea quae postremis temporibus commissura est magno incendio perflagraturam adeo perspicuum est manifestum vt ne stultissimus quidem id negare possit And the text is plaine that the Kings Marriners and Merchants shall stand and see the smoake of her burning Reuel 18.9 Obiect But this seemes impossible for we see Kings and Princes sticke fast to support her as Spaine France and many Kings of Europe Answ. God can and will doe it who hath horses and chariots of fire to besiege her withall if meanes should faile But God will doe it by them Reuel 17.17 For he hath put into their hearts to fulfill his will And by many meanes God can effect it 1. Hee can soone conuert them from their Antichristian and Papisticall superstitions to the truth as sundrie of them are already 2. It may be that sundrie of them which yet retaine Romish idolatrie may for some other causes turne against the Pope and waste Rome as for his vniust claimes his horrible pride and tyrannie his treasonable practices against them pardons to kill them c. and thus by Charles the 8. and Lewis the 12. Kings of France was Rome sacked and spoyled and the Pope opposed as also by Charles the 5. his armie And is this vnlikely when not onely the Popes Agents and Priests shall giue the Sacrament and absolution to gunpowder-traytors but Iesuites teach it lawfull yea meritorious to kill Christian princes nay Popes themselues so proclaime it as Sixtus Quintus of the villaine that murthered Henry the 3. of France Obiect But then this prophecie may seeme to be in part fulfilled Answ. No this fire of Edom must be a deuouring fire which is the other part of the similitude that must quite consume Teman the Metropolis so this first against Rome must be as a fore-runner of the fire of hell it must be vnquenchable and agreeing with that fire of the Syrian Edom Obad. 18. A fire shall be kindled in Edom and deuoure them and there shall be no remnant of the house of Esau for the Lord hath spoken it This ruine of Rome shall be like the ruine of Iericho which can neuer bee re-edified and is notably shadowed in Reuel 18.21 by the casting of a milstone into the sea noting both the swiftnesse and irrecouerablenesse of their estate no more to be raised againe than a milstone can rise out of the bottome of the sea and float againe Yea the eternall desolation of Rome is noted by denying such things to be euer any more in her which a citie cannot be without viz. A milstone shall not be heard in her nor the light of a candle seene nor any crafts-man nor any voyce of ioy nor any bridegroome or marriage or procreation A poore citie it is or none at all where none of these are Obiect But the state of Rome is the strongest state in the world for wisedome wealth strength and many of our great ones goe backe to them so as you speake vnlikely things Answ. 1. God will honour himselfe by eff●cting his will in vnexpected and vnconceiuable meanes Hee is wise of heart to lay vnknowne pipes and meanes for his purposes And herein it shall be like Edom Obad. 8.9 In that day I will destroy the wise men out of Edom and vnderstanding from the mount of Esau and thy strong men O Teman shall be afraid neither is there wisdome or strength that shall helpe against the Lord. 2. God by themselues if others be sla●ke can hasten their destruction as it was with Edom Obad. 7. The men of thy confederacie and they that were at peace with thee deceiued thee So our late Edomites were detected by themselues euen by their owne confederacie 3. What if some go to thē and giue them a little lightning before their death See we not such infamie cast vpon them all by their daily practices and plots as all the water in the sea can neuer wash away Yes we see with our eyes that they gaine not but fall notwithstanding all their supplies of succours To comfort the poore Church of God in that when the enemie marcheth furiously like Iehu God sets in and prouides for his safetie Reuel 10.10 Iohn hauing before prophecied of many mischiefes to befall the Church by Antichrist and the Turkes both conspiring against it in this Chapter brings Christ in a vision for the comfort of the Church thus described An Angell namely of the Couenant our great Mediatour comming from heauen to make himselfe better knowne and neerer to his Church clothed with a cloud not onely in our humane nature clouding vailing his Deity but still obscured by the world with a rain-bow on his head a signe of reconciliation an assurance that he will remember his couenant as Genesis 9.15 and a token that although stormes and tempests be vpon the Church yet Christ at length will driue them away and reduce the calme of it and a faire season his face as the Sunne shining as in his transfiguration to his Church his feete as pillars for strength of fire because of his efficacie and force to ouercome all difficulties He is a constant stander as a pillar and fierce for his Churches good A sweete meditation against all fierie furious and sulphurious plots of the enemies of the Church He hath the Rain-bow on his head his feete are pillars of fire and further he sets his foote on the sea and earth to note the subiection of the sea and earth and all the creatures and all the world vnto him The iustice of God shall one day magnifie it selfe against that bloodie seate citie and kingdome of Antichrist for 1. He that is the vnmercifull maintainer of all treasons and supreme head of all heretikes must needes be fearefully destroyed 2. He that is concluded to be more merciful than Christ because Christ deliuered none out of Purgatorie and more powerfull than God because God makes but creatures he makes the Creator shall dearely buy that and other such blasphemies 3. Pride wee say must haue a fall and the higher the pride the lower the fall He that hath fought against the Kings of the earth yea against Christ the King