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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45550	Justice triumphing, or, The spoylers spoyled laid forth in a gratulatory sermon for the miraculous discovery of, and our glorious delivery from the barbarous powder-plot / preached at Pauls, November the 5th, 1646 by Nathanael Hardy ...	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1648 (1648)	Wing H726; ESTC R32477	29,197	42

JVSTICE TRIUMPHING OR The SPOYLERS SPOYLED Laid forth in a Gratulatory SERMON For the Miraculous Discovery of and our Glorious Delivery from the Barbarous POWDER-PLOT PREACHED At PAULS November the 5th 1646. By NATHANAEL HARDY Master of Arts and Preacher to the Parish of Dionis Back-Church Woe unto the wicked it shall be ill with him for the reward of his hands shall be given him Isa. 3.11 Who so diggeth a Pit shall fall therein and he that rolleth a stone it will returne upon him Prov. 26.21 Deus non solum est in praestando benignissimms sed etiam in vindicando justissimus Aug. l. 2. de lib. Arb. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Chrysost. in Ps. 7.15 LONDON Printed by R. L. for Nathanael Webb and William Grantham at their Shop the Greyhound in Pauls Church-yard 1648. To the Right HONORABLE Sir JOHN GAYR Knight LORD MAJOR The Right Worshipfull the Sheriffs and the rest of the Aldermen Together with the Worshipfull Societies of this Ancient and most Renowmed City of LONDON Right Honorable Right Worshipfull Worshipfull I Should have been well pleased to have kept this scarce plumed Bird in my private Cage had not the noyse of some virulent Fowlers shot forced her to flye abroad for Refuge where to build her Nest better she knew not then in the secure clefts of your favourable protection In your eares she first sounded her notes which though harsh and broken were attentively heard by many among you and I hope will now be entertained no lesse acceptably True it is she is no soaring Eagle in cloudy Notions nor gaudy Peacock beautified with the Feathers of affected Eloquence onely thus much I may safely say shee is an harmless Dove free from the Gall of Malicious Bitterness bringing in her mouth like that of NOAHS the Olive Branch of peacefull Vnity To the effecting and establishing whereof that shee may prove in some measure subservient is the hearty desire and unfeigned prayer of him who is A constant Petitioner at the Throne of Grace for yours and the Churches safety Nathanael Hardy To the READER I Never so much prized my rude conceptions as to judge them worthy of a publication and the just diffidence of my immature yeares and shallow judgement hath often caused me to withstand friends importunacy I well know to use Ruffinus his expression non esse absque periculo multorum judiciis ingenium tenue exile committere it were far more safe for my slender Shallop to be confined within the narrow River of a private Auditory then to launch out into the Worlds main Ocean Besides I sadly observe the curiosity of the times the variety of mens humours what one approveth another rejects one thinks it is too facile another too obscure one sayth it is too loose another too elaborare And which is yet worse such is the perversness of this Age that novell fancies jangling controversies which like Rebecca's Twins cause a sore strugling in the wombe of our Church nay horrid Blasphemies finde more acceptance then solid and sacred Verities So that might this Sermon have died the common death of others it should have been buried out of sight But considering how slanderous tongues sharp as swords that wound neer hand yea as Spears and Arrows that hurt further off have sought to put it to a violent and ignominious death I am enforced to revive it that innocencies plea may reach as far as Envies accusation The Adversaries of these weak labours stand both on the right and left to wit furious Novelists and fiery Papists As for the former I wonder not that they contemne them Since here are neither known truths clothed in uncouth phrases nor which is viler old errours in a new dresse the only fashions that Sectaries are enamoured with As for the latter I lesse marvell that they should traduce them the very subject and occasion of them being their shame and anguish Illis siquidem pudor est audiendi quae faciunt Nullus faciendi quae erubescant They are unwilling to heare what they were desirous to have acted it is their common cry what nothing but the POWDER-TREASON But surely Gods undeserved favour to us and his deserved punishment of them may well challenge a Marble Monument and fit it is our Pens as well as Tongues should annually commemorate this deliverance Let then the Papist read and fret the Novelist read and scoff I doubt not but the moderate sober-minded Christian will read and accept at least pardon Such I hope thou art let but this well meant though mean discourse finde thee charitable and thou mayst perhaps finde it profitable which is his paayer who is Thine in the Lord Jesus Nath Hardy THE INTRODUCTION I Am ascended this sacred Mount with joy and feare Joy in that blest occasion of this solemne meeting feare of my too too unfit abilities for this weighty service Indeed which way soever I looke just causes of solicitous feare present me so that I may use Jacobs words concerning Bethel How dreadfull is this place If forward on the difficulty of the businesse in hand I feare least through my steril invention and stammering tongue the worke should miscarry and prove abortive If round about on this numerous Assembly judicious Auditory I feare as knowing my empty notions cannot satisfie your solid apprehensions If backward to those Silver Trumpets which have formerly proclaimed the praises of God in this Sanctuary I may well be afraid to sound my crack'd pipe and bruised reed Last if upward to that awfull Majesty in whose place I stand I desire most of all to fear and tremble lest either through my dulness or unfaithfulnesse I should betray my Masters message Yet on this last object I fix my eye It was his providence not my desert or desire called me hither It is his glory not my own honour I set before me in his not my own strength I shall endeavour to performe my taske not medling with matters of State but only the state of the matter for which purpose I shall intreat you to turne your eyes to that sage Apothegme of the Kingly Prophet David and lend your eares to that sacred Ditty of that sweet singer of Israel as you shall finde it pen'd upon record in The Text PSALM 9.16 The Lord is known by the Judgement which he executeth the wicked is snar'd in the work of his own hands Higgaion Selah A Gratefull Commemoration is the worke of this day a miraculous discovery the subject of this Commemoration an eminent deliverance the fruit of that discovery a remarkable judgement the attendant of that deliverance and this Scripture a fit parallel of that judgement Never did story more exactly demonstrate the truth of this Text nor can any Text more pithily lay open the marrow of this story so that whosoever rightly considers the fulnesse of Gods dispensation in the worke must needs acknowledge the fitnesse of Davids acknowledgement in the words If