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A73135 Englands ioy, for suppressing the papists, and banishing the priests and Iesuites Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626. 1624 (1624) STC 22076; ESTC S100080 8,925 20

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but also would not suffer the Ammonites and Moabites to come into Gods Temple but enforced them to banishment out of Ierusalem For as you read how Iacob after his returne from Laban cleansed his house of the idols so did Nehemiah in despight of Eliashib the Priest who had allied himselfe to Tobiah a stranger and idolater put him from his lodging and cast out all the stuffe out of his chamber which in the text is likewise called cleansing and thus thankes be to God our great Nehemiah dealt with the Papists hee hath not onely thought them as prickes and thornes in the sides of good Christians but now found them as noysome and infectious weedes in the Common-wealth to choake and eate vp the sweeter Flowers and springing grasse and thus hath the Church of God example enough in Scripture to be an enemy to Gods enemies and fall to reformation with courage and magnamity Shall such a man as I flye sayth Nehemiah shall such a King as I sayth King Iames that haue been trayned vp from my infancy to deny Popery and for my Kingdome of Scotland a very nursery of zealous professors and mirrour of purity and piety suffer England to be defiled and contaminated with the poyson of superstition now I haue recollected my selfe shall I giue way to rotten and filthy policy to eate vpon the heart of true Religion or suffer priuate ends to thicken themselues like some obscure and dangerous cloud to stand as an interposition betweene the Sunny splendor of Gods word and the faire progresse of gouerment No No I will now be my selfe and therefore if either the Pope or Spaine deride me with Michol for dancing before the Arke and bringing it in into Gods house I will answere with Dauid I will yet bee more vilde and zealous for the Lord and as he told his wife that therefore God had taken the Kingdome from her father and inuested him with the Diadem so may King Iames answere Spaine that therefore God will make him mighty in his Prouinces in despight of malignant opposition and England shall not be only able to stand firme like an impregnable rocke in all honor riches and prosperity but of sufficiency to protect distressed neighbours and recouer vnfortunate and surrepted Prouinces Therefore away yee Priests and Iesuites packe hence for your liues and let me not heare any further of your daring impostures and you that will remaine Papists and with the Adder stoppe your eares that charme the Charmer neuer so cunningly hee shall not preuaile ro remoue you take heede and bee warned that you liue modestly in your wilfulnesse neither daring to breake our statutes against those Locusts of Rome nor to insult your selues or be offensiue to any ciuill conuersasion by the wrong defence and supportation of Romes corrupted Doctrine For I protest vnto you by the faith of a Religious King I take a pleasure in hearing what God sayd to Abraham For I know him that he will command his children Genesis 18.19 and his houshold after him and they shall keepe the way of the Lord to doe iustice and iudgment that the Lord may bring vpon Abraham that which hee hath spoken vnto him And therefore as I am Gods substitute in the supreame royalty so will I be his instrument in the practise of this reformation neither suffring any Papist whatsoeuer to haue the vse of Idolatrous masses nor to bring vp their owne Children in the eimerian darknesse of ignorance and diuelish deuotion For the Apostle tells vs plainely Colos 2. that the tormenting the body worshipping of Angells obseruing of Dayes and many foolish humiliations likewise denying of lawfull marriage and forbidding of meates and cellebrating of superstitious times are all the doctrines of the Diuell and is not this joy to England and how are our hearts cheered as you read of the Israelites that in the time of Salomon reioyced with one another and made merry eating and drinking vnder ther owne Vines Thus shall wee see the backes of our aduersaries and by Gods speciall fauour and grace the banishment of Priests and Iesuits But yee Maiestrates of the Common-wealth let them not immitate the Israelites in this Exod 40. to rob the Egyptians in their departure out of Egypt Let them not exporte our treasures nor enrich other Countries with our spoyles Let not your Ladies bestow their iewels and ornaments vpon them For though they could be contented to loue them with gratuities and presents yet must the Common-wealth reserue some secrets of State not to be impouerished by the lauish gifts of those that vnderstand not the Mistery of carying wealth out of the Land or consuming our siluer in trifles let none of their houses bee furnished with those remnants of gew-gawes wherein the ancient idolaters excelled them in be decking their idols I meane their meduies crucifixes relickes of saints the wood of the Crosse the milke of our Lady and a thousand such like trumperies fit for nothing but toyes to play with all as Apes do with Nut-shells For as you read how the children of Israel were tainted with the grosse superstition of Egypt so must needes the tender hearts of your women be captiuated with the reseruation of these things Let your Purseuants and Officers a Gods name be the researchers of suspected places that the very children which as yet know no harme may be sent to the Schooles of the children of the Prophets and by that meanes learne to liue in the feare of God and dye in his fauour Let the potent men be disarmed a Gods name not to giue them cause to thinke the better of themselues as if they were to be feared or reputed dangerous and polliticke but as you take kniues and other hurtfull things from madde men to preuent mischiefe that they neither endanger others nor themselues In a word let all good orders be obserued and a fashionable body of a religious Common-Wealth erected that his Maiesties person may bee secured the Prince and his Sister protected and pleased the honest neighbours subtenated with care and dilligence out owne Country flourishing with prosperity and confidence the poore releeued the trades restored the City repayred the Merchant countenanced the souldiers esteemed the Clergy-man beloued the well deserued reuerenced the weake supported the obstinate sinner punished the offender through frailty remitted and all iustifiable actions practised to the glory of God and comfort of our own soules Then if there be cause of warre Exodus 15.1 and so successe fallen Moses and Israel shall sing a song of Triumph to the Lord and Miriam the Prophetesse shall take a Timbrell in her hand and all the women goe after her with Timbrels and Dances Then if there be the flourishes of peace and that Salomon hath finished the Temple of God and his owne house he will present himselfe before the Lord 1 Kings 8.22.9 and kneele to his prayers spredding foorth his hands toward Heauen And then to conclude
ENGLANDS IOY FOR SVPPRESSING the Papists and banishing the Priests and Iesuites 1 KING 18.21 How long hault yee betweene two opinions If the Lord be God then follow him if Ball then follow him 2 KING 17.24 25. And the King of Assyria brought men from Babylon and s●ow Cuthah and from Aua and from Ha●●● and from Sepharuaim and placed them in the Cities of Samaria in stead of the children of Israel and they possessed Samaria and dwelt in the Cities thereof And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there that they feared not the Lord Therefore the Lord sent Lyons among them which slew some of them Printed M.DC.XXIV ENGLANDS IOY FOR SVPPRESSING of Papistry and banishing the Priests and Iesuites I Confesse that prayer is so forcible that it openeth the gates of heauen and as you read how the holy Ghost descended vpon the Apostles in the forme of fiery tongues so through the enforcement of Prayer all blessings spirituall and temporall are let downe amongst the children of God like Peters sheete Who would not then aske to obtaine seeke to finde knocke to haue it opened and importune the father of mercy to haue no deniall considering the Parable tells vs That the wicked Iudge who neither feared God nor man granted the widowes Petition to be deliuered from her clamors and ouer troublesome attendancy and thus are wee beholding to our God But now to make God beholding vnto vs were a secret out of the Treasure-house of heauen indeed wherein I will be bould to tell you how you may be proficient and inuite you to wisdomes schoole to learne a cunning which the heart of the naturall man is vncapable of and this is to retribute thankes to God to giue his glorious name the praise to bee gratefull vnto him and to reioyce in hymnes and spirituall Songs when a benefit is imparted and our soules are comforted What a story is the story of the Iewes being deliuered from Hamans cruelty and persecution for the purpose in hand Hester 9.17 18 The Text saith That they rested the same day and made it a day of feasting and gladnesse a good day and sent portions and presents one to another but wherefore was all this For sauing their liues and preuailing against their enemies But oh thou God of heauen that ridest vpon the wings of the winde and holdest the reynes of the kingdomes of the world in thy hand to let loose or restraine at thy pleasure Thou knowest that we haue more causes to reioyce and bee glad then the Iewes in their Parim For if wee may compare the lesse with the greater they had but the preseruation of their bodies and a slight tryumph against their corporall enemies we are in the way to saue our soules and put our spirituall aduersaries to flight the Flesh the World and the Diuell What Papistrie to be suppressed The Priests and Iesuites to be banished And the Gospell of Iesus Christ to flourish Psalme 45. My soule leapes for joy and my heart is enditing a good matter I speake of the things which I haue made touching the King my tongue is the pen of a ready writer Oh blessed be God for this alteration Doth not Ieremy tell vs that In Ramah there was a voyce heard Ieremy 31. Math. 2. lamentation and weeping and great mourning Rachell weeping for her children and would not be comforted because they were not Did not al England wring their hands for sorrow and begin to mourne and be affrighted when they saw the Papists so arrogantly mischieuous to insult in euery towne and shire and mocke vs to our faces as if Sandolet and Tobiah were to scoffe and deride the Iewes when Nehemiah came to re-edifie the Temple And hath not God put into the Kings heart to dam vp this inundation and to keepe the raging Sea within limitation that it doe not ouerflow the lower and fruitfull grounds Marke but the progression of businesse tell it to your Children and write it in the Philacteries of your garments Did not we determin to match with Spaine And did not Spaine resolue to ouermatch vs in the contract Did he not resemble an vnmannerly and impudent Guest who inuited to some neighbourly meeting would not onely come himselfe but brought a whole rablement of Cormorants with him so Spaine must not only condition for a daughter but the Papists through the Kingdome haue liberty of Conscience Masse in their houses Priests within their doores penalties remitted and the Purseuants and Officers restrained from their priuy searches whereby the Spanish Ambassadour presumed on his meritorious seruice and some Papists triumphed as if the wiser sort knew they were in the right And was not this a fearefull beginning and who knowes with what strength the strong man would haue encreased in keeping his possession But was this all No no the seuerall shiers of England worse then the Iewes that poysoned the springs of sweet water in these daies had malitious instruments to corrupt the youth of the Countrey and the Priests Iesuites and Friers ranne from house to house and made them all amazed with crying out Great is Diana of the Ephesians But now Papistry shall be suppressed and the Priests and Iesuites banished Oh blessed alteration oh blessed King oh blessed Parliament The Ambassadors houses were so many hiues to which the drones resorted who not onely fed vpon the hony of the Bees but presumed to kill and beat them away which preserued them Thus these vnconstant people not onely despised the Pastors of their own Congregations and vnder protection of the Prerogatiue of Kings rayled on the Lord and his annointed The Streets swarmed with ruffianly apparitions Priests in disguised apparell and Iesuites in Courtly vestments And what did they Not only watch the outward behauiour of men and gouernment of the City but tooke aduantage of the weak carnall Gospeller and set vpon them with the outward glory of a vissible Church The Cathedrall of Paules had her walkes mingled with a number of peremptory and audatious Romanists who not onely brandeth vs for lukewarmness and vniustifiable actions but boasted both of and in their disputations that they had put the true and learned seruants of God to silence as if Zedchiah should strike Michaiah on the face and peremptorily aske him when the Spirit of God departed from him to bee infused into such an vnderling The Court hath not onely euery corner but publicke walkes filled with Papists and Hispaniolized temporisers And what did they appeare in seuerall disguised formes and their corrupt hearts taught their tongues to vent forth blasphemy and notori-abuses For as you read how Ieremy was taken by his enemies and brought before the Princes and Priests for weakning the hands of the men of warre and daunted their hearts that wished well to the peace of Zion So played these imposturing spirits charming all men with such subtilties What the house Austria to be checked and the Emperour of Germany to