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

Sinners and God has left them to blindness of heart that they might be consumed out of the Earth they were wicked above measure and therefore he has filled them with the devices of their own way that they might be no more Secondly This was a Conspiracy countermined by God's great Wisdom near a kin to that 2 Kings 14.19 Now they made a Conspiracy against him in Jerusalem and he fled to Lachish but they sent after him to Lachish and slew him there But this policy of the Conspirators did them no great kindness for Azariah his son was King after him and he built Elath and restored it to Judah And pray what has all the cunning stratagems and contrivances of our Jesuitical gang availed them no doubt they were cock-sure in succeeding and boasted before hand of the event As Pharoah when he vainly and triumphantly cryed out I will pursue I will overtake I will divide the spoil my Lust shall be satisfied upon them I will draw ●●e Sword my hand shall destroy them Well what was the end of this vain-glorious flourish why Moses tells us in the next words Thou didst play with thy wind the Sea covered them they sank as lead in the mighty waters so did our Enemies rant and boast before hand and so did our God appear to dash them in pieces according to that word I sa● 94.25 That frustrateth the Tokens of Lyers that maketh Diviner● mad he turneth wise men backward and maketh their knowledge foolishness Truly God had fulfilled his word with respect to this Conspiracy They agreed to strengthen one anothers hand and encourage one another in this Cursed Attempt as confident of success which they thought they had good ground enough for But God has frustrated these vipers and made them even mad with rage and anger and now they are turned backward so backward as 't is to be hoped they w●ll never be able to set forward any more Thirdly In this Conspiracy we may see the just hand of God and what our Sins deserve the cause of the last Conspiracy seems to be assigned 2 Cron. 25.27 Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away fro● from following the Lord they made a Conspiracy against him in Jerusalem Oh how many times have we turned aside from following the Lord notwithstanding he hath done so much for us and heaped so many favours upon us How have we requited him a great deal of evil for a great deal of good He has delivered us from the claw of the Lyon and the paw of the Bear He has rescued us from the pit of Popery and Slavery when we were so near falling into it He hath restored us judges as at the first and our Counsellors as at the beginning He has hedged us about with manifold Mercies and followed us with the due of Heavenly Blessings and when he expected and that justly that we should bring forth Grapes that is fruit meet for Repentance behold nothing but the wild grapes of Hipocrisie Laciviousness and all manner of Debaucheries so that our Land is become even a Sodom and the Inhabitants a Gomorrah No wonder then that God has suffered those Shemies to Curse and these sons of Belial to Plot against us But oh notwithstanding Provocation in the midst of Judgment he has remembred Mercy and steped in between us and our designed Destruction so that we may now apply these words to our selves Psalm 7● v. 58 to 66. For they provoked him to anger with their High Places and moved him to jealousie with their graven Images When God heard this he was wroth and greatly abborred Israel So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh the tent which he placed among men And delivered his strength into Captivity and his Glory into the Enemi●s hand He gave his People over also unto the Sword and was wroth with his Inheritance The fire consumed their young men and their Maidens were not given to Marriage Their Priests fell by the Sword and their Widows made no lamentation Then the Lord awaked as one out of Sleep and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of Wine And he smote his Enemies in the hinder parts he put them to a perpetual reproach Oh! Blessed be the Lord our God it has been just so with us Fourthly This is a foolish ridic●lous Conspiracy and shews the author to have as little sense as Grace as Saul said to the Benj mites 1 Sam. 22 7 8. Then Saul said unto his Servants that stood about him Hear now ye Benjamites will the son of Jesse give every one of you Fields and Vineards and make you all Captains of Thousands and Captains of Hundreds that all of you have Conspired against me So observing the same Antonomasia give me leave ro expostulate Oh ye Promoters and Managers of this Conspiracy Would the Papists would the French let you live in so much plenty ease and Liberty that you have been thus endeavouring to make them Masters of this Land So God upbraided the folly of his People of old Jer. 2. 10 11. For pass over the Isles of Chittim and see and send unto Kedar and consider diligently and see if there be such a thing Hath a Nation changed their Gods which are yet no Gods but my People have changed their Glory for that which doth not profit Truly I think all circumstances weighed such a piece of ridiculousness as our Conspirators are eminently guilty of in this design can hardly be matched in this or any other Age. Fifthly This is a Conspiracy beyond the sphere of reason such as the the wit of man cannot give a good account of or render a tollerable reason for as Saul demanded of Ahitub 1 Sam. 22.13 And Saul said unto him Why have ye Conspired against me thou and the son of Jesse in that thou hast given him Bread and a Sword and hast enquired of God for him that he should rise against me to lie in wait as at this day Upon much clearer Topicks of Reason and Sense we may argue the case and expostulate with these rash and unadvised Conspirators Why O Why have ye undertaken an enterprize that cannot be proped up with one Argument Why have ye engaged in a cause that cannot abide the test of the least rationallity Is the constitution of the English Government of no more worth Are the Liberties and Franchies we enjoy of no more value than to be sacrificed to a French Tyranny Did you think the distance between England and France so great that 't was hard for people to know the disproportion of the one and the others Government Verily you are much mistaken I am perswa●ed that scarce the meanest Plow-man in England but knows so much the difference between English Liberty and the slavery of the poor Vassals in France that he had rather be hang'd out of the way than ever suffer a French power to be uppermost in the Land therefore your striving to alter the best and the easiest of