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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95371	A commemoration, or A calling to minde of the great and eminent deliverance from the powder-plot. A mercie never to be forgotten by the people of God, who have been, still are, and ever will be, the greatest sharers in it, and the best imp[r]overs of it.	Turner, John, fl. 1654.	1654 (1654)	Wing T3322; Thomason E813_10; ESTC R207335	3,494	8

A COMMEMORATION OR A calling to minde of the great and Eminent DELIVERANCE From the Powder-Plot A Mercie never to be forgotten by the People of God who have been still are and ever will be the greatest sharers in it and the best Improvers of it Gen. 22. 14. In the Mount of the Lord it shall be seen Esay 54. 17. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper Psal 124. 6 7. Blessed be the Lord who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth our soul is escaped as a Bird out of the snare of the fowler the snare is broken and we are escaped Psal 9 16 The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands LONDON Printed by J. B. and are to be sold by John Collins dwelling in Little-Britain over against S. Buttolphs Church 1654. To the READER REader let not my plainness thee offend Your Charity be pleased to extend Vnto your serious thoughts I do commend A Mercie great this was and is my End Though all that 's said should want both wit and sense Yet much of goodness you may reade from hence If you consider well to whom and whence It was to us unmeet from Gods expence JOHN TURNER A Commemoration or a calling to minde of the great and eminent Deliverance from the POWDER-PLOT c. ENgland alas almost hath quite forgot The great deliverance from the Powder-plot Great mercies are when that they 're past and gon Laid aside and buried in oblivion Although the fruits of them are still enjoy'd They are not own'd as though they were conveigh'd From that which first of all in wombe did bear And afterwards to all men did appear The mercies all that now we do enjoy We owe unto the mercie of that day That day the which the Lord himself did make A day of joy when we were brought tostake And certainly had burned there if he Had not with haste stept in to set us free Our foes with their most cruel Powder-plot Would have no less then Religion for their shot Yea ancient Records of the Civill Law Must serve their hellish fire instead of straw How strangely did our Foes with one consent Combine to ruine King and Parliament They did so close their Enterprize conceal That none but God himself could it reveal Their actings all indeed were wrought so low That none but King of kings the same did know The way was strange by which he made it known Yet excellent because it was his own These men of blood for so I may them call In taking us themselves did catch the fall For he that did strictly observe their way With their own Coyn did he in justice pay Into their hands he put the bitter Cup And he the dregs of it did make them sup The God that 's just doth evermore delight To give to men according to their right For he the works of men doth search and try He 'l pay them while they live or when they die Unto his own he bear 's such great good will He loves them here and so will love them still His works for them doth everie day declare How lovely in his sight his people are England hath cause to stand still and admire That such a Brand should be kept from the fire Still have we cause from age to age to say The Lord alone hath been our strength and stay For had not he pleaded his peoples cause And delivered them from the cruel jawes Of them who did upon one day intend To make their Religion with their lives to end But now may sing because the snare is broke For we neither felt the fire nor saw the smoke Now have we cause to say and cry aloud The Lord is good who kept us from a cloud Which if it had once on high ascended Sure light should have been with darkness ended This smoke with the smoke of the bottomless pit Would have blinded mens eyes and have put them in it What did our adversaries think to finde That they so long and low did undermine How did they with the instruments of death Devise to take away the life and breath Of those that were and are to God most dear And he did shew himself not far but near What shall we think of this contrivance then Sure Devils were their counsellors not men This did in many things of weight excell Not any plot of men can parallel With this indeed the like was never heard All things consider'd well how they were bar'd For in the Mount the Lord himself was seen Betwixt us and fire he was the screen And so deliver'd us from the heat and flame For the great glory of his holy Name And for the sakes of them whom he doth prize Therefore he did defeat their enemies When they were most secure and void of fear Then he their treason made for to appear Here is great cause indeed why we should wonder Being saved from such a clap of thunder Which would have obstructed the airs light And brought in a darkness more dark then night A darkness to involve men in their sin By bringing of their Superstition in And so make men to grope but never finde Saving light to come into the minde Egyptian darkness nothing was to this This makes men eternal life to miss If that the mercie in it self be weigh'd How that the Lord came in unto our aid It cannot but affect the hardest heart Considering how foes did play their part They acted in a cruel work apace Like fierce and furious runners of a race They did not doubt but that they should effect The thing to which their actings did direct For they like theeves a time did prosper well Whilst that the power and policy of hell Could hide them in their actings they went on But when they came unto the top the stone Which they had lifted long began to role And fell upon them from a written scrole Which they had written to a friend but he Being appointed to keep others free By him who orders all things as he please He caus'd such hands on th' Letter for to seize That so they might it reade and then present The same to him who knew well what it meant Though it was dark it pieased God the thing For to reveal and shew it to the King And he unto the Nobles did declare The danger they were in and what great care They were to have in searching under ground For there the powder was for to be found This search being made directed they were And at the length found him for to appear With a dark-lanthorn standing at the door While darkness did hide he thought himself sure Thinking no eye was able to behold The heat intended before it was cold What did these wicked men intend that they Would burn so much fuel upon one day Sure they thought for to change the course o' th year Making Winter like Summer to appear Yea much more hotter by reason of heat By hot persecution to make men sweat Not water for health but neerest blood Would serve bloodie Hunters or do them good Faux who designed was to light the Match For to give wings unto a cruel hatch Which flying up unto and through the skie Might make the stars to fall and so to lie Upon and in the ground while they do boast Making great fires their flesh for to roast But he that did the cry of Sodom hear And made their fins with fire to appear And leading Lot his faithful Servant thence He kept him from the fire's violence So dealt our good and gracious God with us But hee may say Do you requite me thus Was the mercie I shewed you worth no more That you by it do set no greater store Sure we have cause for ever to remember The mercie shew'd the fifth day of November More cause then they who liv'd in Hesters time Who had a Gallows built for them to climbe The people of the Jews could fast and pray But we had not the use of such a key They being warn'd before had time and space To seek the presence of that loving face The face of whom its life for to enjoy When once enjoy'd what can the soul annoy Their Adversary unto them was known Who would if that he could have overthrown Not onely Mordecai the Jew but all Must by the plot of wicked Haman fall The Gallows which he did in wrath prepare For Mardecai was his allotted share The wicked works which he did once intend Together with the Actor's life did end God's people now being by him made free Do spend and end their days in liberty Rejoycing in the work of him who wrought Their deliverance but brought to naught Their enemies who did against them rise They ware with praise what they had gain'd by cries This mercie did engage both them and theirs Being set free from all their grief and fears Now they resolve and ever do intend To praise the Lord who did them succor send What shall the people of the Jews of old Remember long with joy how they were sold By their foe who did their death devise Thinking to make their blood a Sacrifice Shall they their freedom ever call to minde And shall we to the Lord be so unkinde As not with thankfulness from year to year With thoughts admiring God this mercie were This is the onely thing indeed which we Being alive and from a snare set free Should ever speak and sing unto his praise And live to God and walk in all his waies This will declare our joy for to be right When we walk as the children of the light Then Christians do indeed Mercies record When by their lives they praise their bounteons Lord. 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