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A57190	Vituli labiorum. Or, A thanksgiving sermon, in commemoration of our great deliverance from the horrid Powder-Plot, 1605 And also of Gods merciful discovery of a bloody conspiracy against His Majesties Person, and the Protestant religion, 1678. Both intended by the papists. Preached at St. Peter's, Exon, Nov. 5. 1678. In prosecution whereof the Churches persecutions, foreign and domestick, by the hands of popish votaries, ever since the Reformation, are briefly recapitulated. Their charge of novelty on our church and religion is retorted. The absurdity of many of their doctrines and principles, and how destructive unto civil government, is detected. By John Reynolds, M.A.	Reynolds, John, d. 1693?	1678 (1678)	Wing R1318; ESTC R219030	19,513	36

VITVLI LABIORVM OR A THANKSGIVING SERMON IN Commemoration of our Great Deliverance From the HORRID Powder-Plot 1605. And also of Gods Merciful Discovery of a Bloody Conspiracy against His Majesties Person and the Protestant Religion 1678. Both intended by the Papists Preached at St. Peter ' s Exon Nov. 5. 1678. In Prosecution whereof the Churches Persecutions Foreign and Domestick by the hands of Popish Votaries ever since the Reformation are briefly recapitulated Their charge of Novelty on our Church and Religion is retorted The absurdity of many of their Doctrines and Principles and how destructive unto Civil Government is detected By IOHN REYNOLDS M. A. London Printed for Tho. Cockeril at the Three Leggs in the Poultry And Walter Dight Bookseller in Exceter 1678. To the Right Worshipful Sir THOMAS CAREW Knight Judg of the Sessions for the County of Devon and Recorder of the City of Exceter Honoured Sir NO sooner could I make my thoughts to comply with the motion of publishing this Sermon which I presume for its seasonableness unto the present juncture of affairs more than from any intrinsick worth therein some that heard it were pleased favourably to estimate but it presently became the matter of a deliberation with my self what could discourage me from hoping but that your worthy Name might prove auspicious unto it by lending it something of a credit to pass out into the world I foresaw nothing that could check my pleasing aims herein but might arise either from the subject treated of in this Discourse or from the person whose it was and doth now present it unto your candid acceptance or from the defectiveness of the management and handling of it As to the first of these I did the more easily perswade my self that it could not offend you to see and read in this Sermon the deformities of a false Religion in any degree exposed who have your self zealously espoused and are so good a friend unto the true and best Religion in the world A Religion never sufficiently to be praised and commended for the certainty of its Rule which are those Books of Canonical Scripture of whose authority there was never any doubt in the Church for the compactedness of her Fundamentals determined and summed up in the Apostles Creed explained in those others which are called the Nicene and Athanasian for the simplicity of her Sacraments and all her Administrations managed in a language and performed with that decent plainness as may be understood by all that are concerned in them for the gravity and soundness of her Ordination and Ministry for the peaceableness of her Tenets in obedience to the Magistrate for her conformity to the Apostolick and Primitive pattern in all things so far as the looseness of this Age will bear for the undoubted assurance of finding Salvation by its Rules and Precepts if we continue in them and do them These and the like are the lineaments of our and your Religion which cannot be displeasing unto you to assert and therefore neither to oppugn the contrary But neither in the second place could I suppose any disrespect unto the person submitting those Papers unto your candor that should be able to create unto you any ill resentment of the Sermon it self In that what never had been I could easily hope must have a greater occasion than this to beget it For indeed it is a pleasure to me to let the world to know that under Him who is the giver of every good and perfect gift next unto the memory of my exeellent and worthy Patron deceased I owe most unto your care and providence for the comfort and bene esse of my being and Ministry in the place where I am whereby you have buoyed me up above the necessity of depending upon the precarious benevolence of a people which I wish no good or honest Minister were ever put to trust to A good part of my Books deservedly bear your honoured name upon them for their Donor The first and the most seasonable News-years gift I could possibly have received for the encouragement and assistance of my first studies in this your own Dwelling-parish You never yet denied me any request which notwithstanding have been very many that in consistency with your Honour and Power I durst move unto you nor ever spared to take any pains which yet have been very great whereof the success in prospect hath promised fairly on my behalf So sure hath been my happy interest in your ever valued respects that I never found it hitherto checked with the least change of countenance or carriage So noble and generous that whereas anothers kindnesses would have necessitated a man to the study of an Answerable Gratification you have always taken my Relation to you as your Minister for so sufficient a Supersedeas to such designs that I have never apprehended any adventure more hazardous of yours than only to attempt it I cannot really admit any diminutive account of your goodness to my self otherwise than by considering you in that larger sphere which God hath placed you in as a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a common good to your Country of which for me to say any thing would be altogether unnecessary forasmuch as there are every day so many mouths open to acknowledg it There being therefore no room for the scruple of a personal prejudice It remains in the third place that only the defectiveness and blemishes of my speaking unto this subject can render it unworthy of your acceptance and as to this I confess the charge and relye upon your known and experienced candor to excuse and lay your finger on the naevi of this Discourse Indeed it is a small and a slight thing in it self to have your Name prefixt unto but yet it is not unusual for Maps in single sheets to carry their Dedication on their forehead And as for the failances in the manner of handling it forasmuch as it is a time for every one of us to shew his zeal for his Religion the fear of smaller miscarriages that are frequently incident to zealous actings will no more dispense with their total neglect than it can warrantably prescind or supercede any other Moral or Religious duty in that we cannot acquit our selves therein with an absolute perfection Hoping therefore that upon the removal of those bars first supposed my way of access unto your favourable reception of these few Pages is plain and open I shall in gratitude for what I presume of your pleasing countenance reflecting on them and all other signal pledges of your kindness think my self now and ever obliged to pray That the father of mercies would still make good the multiplied effects of his infinite love and goodness for your temporal and eternal welfare That the generation rising may by an hundred-fold recompence unto the hopeful branches of your Family all the good that your self have been the instrument of unto the generation shining and that he who is now your humble

and Providence over her than when the exigency and necessity of her condition drives her to lay hold on him As the Stars shine brightest in the night so in the blackest night of the Churches troubles and adversities kind Heaven opens so many the more eyes to watch over her and guard her In respect of those Spiritual and blessed ends and advantage of the griefs and troubles of the Church we may well say with St. Augustine Infaelix Ecclesiae faelicitas the outward felicity and prosperity of the Church would be one of her greatest infelicities as that which would rob her of much of her best interest And yet this will not in the least excuse or extenuate the crying guilt of those who are the Instruments of the Churches Persecution and bloodshed No let them look to it if the fire of Persecution be permitted to try the Gold surely the fire of Hell it self shall burn up the dross If the green tree that hath both his sap and fruit may sometimes be roughly shaken with a violent storm what shall be done in the dry If the Saints must drink of the bitter cup of affliction surely the unjust tormenters of the Saints may expect a cup of the Wine of astonishment and that they should have the dregs thereof wrung out unto them yea that this Cup should be compounded with so many the more bitter Ingredients of wrath by how much the oftner they have afflicted Gods Israel Which brings us to the second Branch 2. And that is the frequency of the Enemies inflicting trouble and persecution on the Church Many a time have they afflicted me We are to look for afflictions and troubles as familiarly as for our bread for as we are taught to pray for our daily bread so we are taught to buckle to our daily Cross too Luk. 9. 23. Had our Reformed Church of England no other Enemies in Hell or upon Earth besides the Papacy their incessant rage like a fiery Aetna continually belching out new flames and smothering exhalations out of its bowels against us were enough to warrant our ingeminated moans and complaints unto God and man with a MANY MANY a time have they afflicted me Did they ever forbear to strike when they had their opportunity Not to trace their bloody footsteps in foreign Countries in their Butcheries committed upon the poor Waldenses whom they so hotly pursued for many years together with Fire and Sword and all kinds of Hostility as that they reduced them to their Master 's own forelorn case not to have any corner or hole in the whole world granted them where to lay their heads Not to mention how many thousands have been swallowed up in that gulf of cruelty that Hell upon Earth the INQUISITION To say nothing of the outragious Inhumanity of the Duke of Alva in the Netherlands Nor with what prodigious Massacres the Protestants have been surprized in Germany Paris Lyons Piedmont and many other places what criticisms of Cruelty have been invented and exercised and all upon the quarrel of the Reformed Religion I say not to lead you any farther by the way of this Red Sea let us a little consider what Tragedies have been acted and what Desolations threatened and endeavoured by the same sort of men nearer home in our own Israel No sooner had King Henry the Eighth allowed the Bible to be read in English and enjoined the Lords Prayer the Decalogue and the Articles of the Christian Faith to be Translated into English and taught the People but as if those things had had the force and power of a Conjuration to raise evil spirits by presently hereupon the Monks in Lincolnshire blow the Trumpet to Rebellion Insurrections are made in divers other parts of the Nation to the number of Twenty thousand and Forty thousand in bodies no less than six or seven such swelling waves of the multitude fell in one upon the neck of another enough to have utterly ingulphed and swallowed up the little Ark of Gods Church amongst us had not the Heavenly Pylot lent it his Steerage In the Reign of King Edward the Sixth the Religious Iosiah of our Israel besides the Rebellion that brake out in several other Counties instigated by Popish Priests and Friers for the setting up of their fond Idol of the Mass again This very City hath a Reckoning with the Papists not yet fully satisfied for for the long distress of Siege and Famine by Arundel and his Confederates wherein besides the eating of Horse-flesh the Inhabitants were forced to make bread of coarse Bran moulded in rags or clothes because it would not otherwise knead together as our Chronicles report The Reign of Queen Mary was such a continued Bonefire not of dead mens bones as were the Bonefires of old but of living Saints and Protestants that one would think the memory of her flames should still enkindle and heat our spirits with indignation against the name of Popery For in her short reign the shortest of any since William the Conquerour except that of Richard the Tyrant no less than two hundred seventy-seven suffered Martyrdom upon the cause of Religion In the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Pope Pius the Fifth Excommunicated the Queen absolved her Subjects from their Allegiance and Oath of Fidelity and gave away her Kingdoms unto the Spaniard In pursuance of which High-way title that which they called the Invincible Armada was set out with the Popes Benediction to invade this poor Nation At which time they boasted that they would carry away our Land in Turfs an arrogant flaunt Much like that of Benhadad and followed with much alike success and event who swore 1 King 20. 10. that the dust of Samaria should not suffice for handfuls for all the people that were to follow him Almost innumerable other were the Plots attempted against her state and person by Popish Votaries and Adherents In King Iames his Reign the Conspiracy of the Gun-Powder Villany will be enough to brand the damned principles of this kind of men with everlasting odium and infamy in the account of all true Gospellers If Religion can produce or hallow such hideous projects one may certainly expect Religion among Devils In the Reign of King Charles the First who but this miscreant brood contrived and acted the Massacre in Ireland wherein about Three hundred thousand were starved pined and murthered And without doubt although men of other Professions too shamefully imbrued their hands in the execrable murther of King Charles the First yet the Iesuits and other Papists also needed more than a sprinkling to clear them from being partakers in that crying guilt Neither do I question but that the unhappy Toleration was an Egg of their laying and that these Furies spit forth the sparks that fired the famous City of London and turned it into a kind of dismal Colepit Although but one French Papist were at that time executed upon that tremendous occasion yet perhaps more of