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A52285	The cabinet of Hell unlocked, or, The late grand conspiracy emblazon'd with practical reflections thereon : in a sermon / preached at Havant April 16th 1696, being the publick day of thanksgiving, published at the importunity of the hearers by C.N. ...	Nicholets, Charles.	1696 (1696)	Wing N1085; ESTC R38116	25,348	31

Governments for the most Arbitrary Tyranny that is any where exercised in the World is so unaccountable and so ill resented by all sorts of People whatsoever that the greatest sufferings these Conspirators can undergo will hardly be pittied of any It would make a Niobe dry up her tears even for the Death of her nearest Relations engaged in such a cause as this and whoever has or shall suffer on this account will have the hard sate to be as little bewailed as Jehoiakim was Jerem. 22.18 19. Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Jehoiakim t●● son of Josiah King of Judah They shall not lament for him saying Ah my br●ther or ah sister They shall not lament for him saying Ah Lord or ah his Glory He shall be buryed with the buryal of an Ass drawn and cast forth beyond ●●gates of Jerusaelm So circumstanced will be the end of such Plotters a● these be Sixthly This is a strange Providential Conspiracy and calls for o● Adoration at the wonderful hand of God in it which brings to mind th●● of Baasha against Nadab son of Jereboam 1 Kings 15.27 And Baasha ●work● son of Ahijah of the house of Isacher Conspired against him and Baasha sm●●● him at Gibethon which belongeth to the Philistians for Nadab and all Isra●● laid sieg to Gibbethon and a little further we find the consequence of th●● Conspiracy was all the wicked house of Jereboam were cut off There ar● some doom'd of God to destruction for the iniquity of their Fore-Fathers and who knows but his Conspiracy may terminate in accomplishing God● will in rooting out the generation of some who are lothsome in his sight God does his work by strange ways and by terrible things in righteousness he many times answers his People and I am very apt to believe succeeding Ages may have cause to bless God for this Plot as being th● great occasion of delivering them from such Task-Masters as would alway have been oppressing of them And I believe many that were hankrin● after Egypt will be now more settled in their thoughts and more contented with and more praising God for what they do enjoy which perhap● they never had Grace to do before What the Goodness of some men cannot do the Wickedness of other men oftentimes have done This Pl●● has opened more eyes undeceiv'd more deluded ones than the Clemency and Mildness of the Government possibly could do And I question not but many are saying now with those of Old 1 Sam. 11.12 And the peop●● said unto Samuel Who is he that said shall Saul Regin over us Bring the Men that we may put them to Death Oh! how many trimming Jacobites are now upon Reverse and speaking in full of the Mouth Who will not have King William Reign Who is disaffected to him Who dares Plot against him Let him be Punished and let that Punishment extend even to Death it self 7thly This is an horrible Conspiracy such as has brought down Vengeance upon the Conspirators like that against Elah perpetrated by treacherous Zimri I Kings 16.9 And his Servant Zimri Captain of ●●lf his Chariots conspired against him as he was in Tirzah drinking himself drunk in ohe House of Arza Steward of his House in Tirzah And if you will read a little further you will see how soon Zimri was brought to condign Punishment for this his great Wickedness And is it ●ot so with these hatchers of Mischief What a sad state are they in What dreadful Calamity have they brought upon themselves Some already Executed others enclosed in strong Walls waiting their approaching Doom the rest roving up and down with Cain's Mark upon them fearing every one they see yea almost afraid of every Bird that flies being so loaded with Guilt and Shame that they know not where to put their Heads and Pashur's Destiny is now become theirs Jerem. 20.3 4. And it came to pass on the Morrow that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the Stocks Then said Jeremiah unto him The Lord ●●th not called thy Name Pashur but Magor-Missabib For thus saith the Lord Behold I will make thee a Terrour to thy self and to all thy Friends Oh what Fear are these miserable Creatures in and encompassed with Miseries on every side a guilty though perhaps an hardned Conscience within them desolate and destracted Relations about them and a doleful Eternity before them so that the pit they prepared for us they are fallen into it themselves and their violent Courses are come down upon their own Pates Verily God is known by the Judgments which he executes the Wicked are snared in the Works of their own Hands Higgaion Selah Oh consider with Trembling what is most deservedly come upon them 8thly This is a most detestable Conspiracy loathed and abhorred of all People that have any thing of Humanity or the least principle 〈◊〉 Morality swaying in them as Zimri's Plot but now mentioned ●●as 1 Kings ●6 16 And the People that were encamped heard say Zimri ●●●h Conspired and hath also slain the King Wherefore all Israel made Amri the Captain of the Host King over Israel that day in the Camp I am more than confident if these blackest of Hell-hounds had succeeded in their Villanous Attempt upon the Life of His Royal Majesty they had missed of their aim otherwise things would not have run in the Channel they designed them no no the People would have been too much incensed and regretted such an abominable Action at too high a rate to have let them had their Will And this they may plainly see in the late Vote of the Honourable House of Commons the Representative of the whole Land That if the King should come to an untimely End they will revenge his Death on the Papists and those dissaffected to the Government and this is the Sense of all the People of Sense throughout the Nation Then what have these vile Miscreants got by their Hellish Consultations And to what pass have they brought themselves to Why the very same that those accursed ones of the Lord did of whom we read Isa 66.24 And they shall go forth and look upon the Carcasses of the Men that have transgressed against me for their Worm shall not die neither shall their Fire be quenched and they shall be an abhorring unto all Flesh Oh! their Conscience is this Worm that will never die Oh! how have they made themselves liable to the most direful Vengeance of God and how are they become opprobrium Hominum et rejecta mentum plebis Every Body's Month is open against them and every Body's Teeth is gnashing at them So let it be with all thy Enemies and the Enemies of thy Anointed O Lord Amen Amen But 't is time to come to Application and to make some Improvement of this in a few Words First Then see the horrid Principles of the Popish Religion that allow of Killing and that by wholesale yea that account shedding the Blood of Innocence Meritorious Act. Truly if their

theirs Deut. 32.6 Do you thus requite the Lord Oh! Foolish People and Vnwise is he not thy Father that bought thee hath he not made thee and established thee He speaks not here of their first Creation as Kimhi well observes for that is common to all but of that special Favour vouchsafed unto them in making them his People distinct from the rest of the world and Moses calleth them foolish noting them to be the worst of Men So do you thus requite the Lord ye sons of Belial ye monsters of Nature ye Generation of Vipers Is he not a King of the greatest Goodness the most Innocent Life and of the most publick use that ever swayed the English Scepter Hath he not retrieved the Land from Destruction And must he be brought to Destruction himself for his so doing O unparalel'd Igratitude Fifhly This was a Linsy Woolsey Conspiracy a strange mixture of Nations and Parties united together though otherways of Sentiments differing enough to oppose the Wellfare of our Zion of the same mould with that we meet with Neh. 4.7 8. But it came to pass that when Sanballet Tobiah the Arrabians and the Ammonites the Ashbodites heard that the Walls of Jerusalem were made up and the breaches began to be stopped then they were very wroth and conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem and to hinder it Great and wide was the breach in the late Reigns between the Church of England and those of the Dissenting way but by the Prudence Good Will and Gracious Inclination of the Governours of our Judah this breach is competently made up the Dissenters have their Liberty not only granted but secured and made firm by a Law and the moderate and sober part of the Church of England are therewith well satisfied but there are others that are raging mad at this happy composure as for instance Sanballat and Tobiah that is the Devil and the French the Arabians that is the wild Debauches and prophane Athiestical Persons of the Age the Ammonite that is the sly and subtil Papists the Ashdodites that is the furious hot spurr'd Church Predicants with a swarm of Priest-Ridden and Bigotted Fools O these are very wrath and even foam at the mouth because the Dissenters are permitted to live in quiet and have therefore all agreed together as one man though we must give the right hand of Fellowship to the Jesuits as the chief Ingineer to fight against our Jerusalem to open the Trenches again to make way for Constables and Informers to plunder mens Goods and haul their persons out of their habitations and cast them into Prisons for Worshiping God according to his Word Here now you have the foundation of the Plot and the true cause of it O King William King William If thou hadst refused to sign the Bill of Indulgence if thou hadst let loose the reins of the Law against thy peaceble Dissenting Subjects Hoc Ithacu velit et magno mercentur Atridae Thou wouldest have pleased all the aforementioned Parties and there would have been no Ploting against thee but because and only because thou art a Friend to our Jerusalem they are sworn Enemies to thee and vowed thy destruction But hark What voice is that I hear O! what melodious musick like the chiming of Aaron's golden bells Isa 29.8 It shall even be as when a hungry man dreameth and behold he eateth but he awaketh and his Soul is empty or as when a Thirsty man dreameth and behold he drinketh but he awaketh and behold he is faint and his soul hath appetite So shall the multitude of all the Nations be that fight against Mount Zion O Hallilujah Blessed be God we find it so this day Sixthly This is a Conspiracy grounded upon a false bottom supported with lies deceit viz. That our King supplanted the late King James and Usurped his Kingdoms this the Conspirators make their great plea for all their attempts against the Government thus we we find the Prophet falsly tax'd by Amaziah Amoz 7.10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jereboam King of Israel saying Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel the Land is not able to bear all his words Now I think it not impertinent to the work of this day to give you a short Narrative of the whole matter and then let the world judge whether this be a just charge upon the King His Majesty coming over at the Invitation of many of the Nobility and Gentry to give a check to the growth of Popery which they were not a little apprehensive would soon overwhelm the Land and to restore our Laws which were strangely perverted by the Arbitrary Gentlemen then in power and God Blessing him with wonderful success for all the Nation flocked to him and every thing concurr'd to the succeeding Revolution in His Glorious march to London he sent the late Marquess of Hallifax the Lord Delameer and another to the late King advising him to retire to Ham House for the safety of his Person now any body knows that was not the way to France his going to Rochester was purely his own desire and without doubt to get away as fast as he could upon which the Convention when they sat Voted King James had Abdicated himself and the Throne thereby became Vacant Now I appeal to all the World What should the Nation do Would they have had us been as those of old when there was no King in Israel and every man did that which was right in their own eyes the case is too plain to be long insisted on and therefore O ye Jacobites if you will revenge King James's loss revenge it on the Pryers and Priests who gave him such pernicious Counsel and revenge it on his Court Parasites who left him in his Adversity of whom we may say in the words of David to Abner 1 Sam. 26.16 This thing is not good that thou hast done as the Lord liveth ye are worthy to dye because you have not kept your Master the Lords Anointed In a word revenge it upon the cowardly Officers who fled when they should have fought but let our Innocent King and guiltless Kingdom alone Seventhly This was a Bloody Barbarous Conspiracy such an one as Hoshea made against Pekah 2 Kings 15.30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a Conspiracy against Pekah the son of Ramaliah and smote him and slew him and Reigned in his stead The Conspiracy was not only against his Kingdom but against his Life These Conspirators designed to wade through an ocean of Blood to their wished Haven The Blood of the King the Blood of his Guards and then the Blood of his Nobles and the Blood of his Subjects must be poured out like water to quench the burning rage of their Inveterate Mallice Oh! Cursed be their Anger for it was fierce and their wrath for it was cruel like the Ofspring of Manassah that Bloody King