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A13544	A mappe of Rome liuely exhibiting her mercilesse meeknesse, and cruell mercies to the Church of God: preached in fiue sermons, on occasion of the Gunpowder Treason, by T.T. and now published by W.I. minister. 1. The Romish furnace. 2. The Romish Edom. 3. The Romish fowler. 4. The Romish conception. To which is added, 5. The English gratulation.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.; Jemmat, William, 1596?-1678.	1620 (1620)	STC 23838; ESTC S118180	76,684	109

Great are the workes of God seene in the Creation and Gouernment of the world But the greatest workes of all hee doth for his Church 1. Hee hath chosen them to be his people and selected them from all nations of the earth to be a peculiar inheritance and his owne possession of all the earth 2. He hath made his residence and aboade with her as hee hath with no other society of men in the world 3. He hath made vnto her all his gracious promises and giuen the custody of his word to her and to no other people of the earth He hath not dealt so with euery nation neither haue they knowne his lawes Psal. 147.20 4. Hee hath taken vpon him the defence of his Church as of no other people to be as a shield or as a louing and carefull Husband of his deare and faithfull Spouse 5. He hath giuen her such experience of his prouidence and protection in many meruailous deliuerances both for soule and body as no people euer had the like to the perpetuall ouerthrow of all her aduersaries These and the like great workes in generall the Lord hath done for his Church Looke now vpon Israel who vtters the words of our Text what great things God hath done for them both in generall and in this speciall For the generall 1 Israel was Gods elect his sonne Exod. 4.22 his fi●st borne more loued more priuiledged than any his treasure his portion Deut. 32.8.9 To him belonged the adoption Rom. 9.4 and hee was not numbred among the nations Hee is select and chosen out of all the world Hee must haue the promises Of him are the Fathers and of him is Christ God blessed for euer 2. God dwelt in Israel Of Beniamin it is said that the Lord dwelt betweene his shoulders Deut. 33.12 With him was the Arke and the glory Rom. 9.4 and when that was taken the glory departed from Israel He dwelt at Salem and his Tabernacle was at Syon Psalm 76.2 God is present euery where but dwels onely in his Church Of Syon it was said There will I dwell 3. Their Lawes ordinances were meerely from God theirs was the Couenant Rom. 9.4 The Tables of the Couenant written with Gods owne hand and deliuered to them And the giuing of the Law that is their Statute-lawes Iudicials were not enacted by men but came from heauen In which respect no nation was so honoured Deut. 4.7.12 Was there euer any nation to whom God came so neere and spake out of the fire c. 4. Their preseruation and protection was a great worke of God as we shall see in some instances 1. Great was his care to send them into Egypt by reason of the famine that they might encrease in a fat land but he sent a man before euen Ioseph to prouide for them the fattest of the land Psalm 105.17 2. Great was his worke of preseruation in Egypt vnder that extreame tyrannie of Pharaoh and the Taske-maisters who could not worke wisely enough to keepe them vnder but the more they oppressed them to diminish them the more they encreased so as of seauenty soules in 220. yeares the encrease was 600000. men besides women and children Psal. 105.24 Hee encreased his people greatly and made them stronger than their enemies 3. Great was his worke in drawing them out of Egypt to which purpose hee sent Moses his seruant miraculously drawne out of the water and Aaron whom he had chosen vers 26. By whom he wrought those mighty signes and wonders vers 27. of darknesse blood frogges lyce haile caterpillers the death of their first borne c. Insomuch as the enemies loaded them with rich iewels and eare-rings and hastned them out of the Country God would not haue his seruants goe without their wages for so hard labour which the Egyptians had not considered Besides hee will haue them to haue somewhat away to bestow and conferre for the vse of the Temple And when Pharaoh pursued them so as they saw no way to escape him God gaue them a great deliuerance through the sea and him a great and miraculous ouerthrow Such a worke God neuer wrought for any people 4. Great was his prouidence and protection of them in the wildernesse where hee led them forty yeares first guiding them by a strange pillar of a cloud by day and of fire by night in all their iourneyes secondly feeding them with Mannah from heauen in which were a number of miracles and refreshing them with water out of a rocke thirdly couering their bodies with the same cloathes forty yeares together which did not teare by wearing not so much as their shooes fourthly fighting their battels for them suffering no man to do them harme but rebuking euen Kings for their sakes fiftly when hee had his people alone hee prescribes his whole worship concerning holy things holy persons places and times reareth vp a stately Tabernacle for his owne presence in it placeth a glorious Arke whence he immediately gaue answeres and directions by Vrim and Thummim and accepted sacrifices by fire immediately from heauen all testimonies of his immediate presence 5. As great was his care and prouidence in bringing them into the land of Canaan casting out all their enemies before them raising vp Ioshua to leade them in and a●ter him Iudges and Kings Sampson Deborah Dauid Salomon and their successors euen till their Captiuity in B●bilon He gaue them a goodly land and fat flowing with milke and hony In it were vineyards which they planted not and houses which they builded not Hee gaue them a city which was on earth as the sunne in heauen the eye of the world an earthly paradise the seat of their Princes and Metropolitan of Iudea containing an hundred fifty thousand men the inhabitants In it was a Temple the bewtye of the whole world and the glory of the earth Thither the tribes went vp twice in a yere to worship the Lord Psal. 122.4 In it were the Colleges of Priests at whose mouth they were to require the Law Mal. 2.7 In it the thrones of iustice were erected Psalme 122.5 In a word Great and glorious things are to bee spoken of this Citie of God Psal. 87.3 Thus the Church in Israell might well say The Lord hath done great things for vs. But she need not cast hir eyes so farre back Here is one great worke in steed of many great things as which indeed hath many great things in it on which while she fixeth her eyes she count● sh● hath matter enough of reioycing IV. For God hauing now reuenged the impiety of the Priests and Princes who had not only profaned his Land Temple and worship with Idols but had filled all the corners of the land with innocent blood by Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel called the scourge of God for the space of seuenty yeares It pleaseth him now to returne in mercy to his miserable people

powder flies in their owne face Obiect Antichrist must be destroyed with the sword of the Spirit and the breath of the Lords mouth not by carnall weapons Answ. The cleere shining of the Gospell shall detect the mysterie wherein Antichrist worketh and lay him naked and discouer his frauds by which hee gulls the world the truth shall warre and preuaile against his heresies But this hinders not but that the Princes of Europe seeing the infinite wrongs sustained by him shall ioyne to set the seate of Antichrist on fire considering the Scripture affirmes it so manifestly as euen the Papists themselues subscribe to the generall truth of it for these be the words of Ribera Romam non solùm ob pristinam impi●tatem sed propter ea quae postremis temporibus commissura est magno incendio perflagraturam adeo perspicuum est manifestum vt ne stultissimus quidem id negare possit And the text is plaine that the Kings Marriners and Merchants shall stand and see the smoake of her burning Reuel 18.9 Obiect But this seemes impossible for we see Kings and Princes sticke fast to support her as Spaine France and many Kings of Europe Answ. God can and will doe it who hath horses and chariots of fire to besiege her withall if meanes should faile But God will doe it by them Reuel 17.17 For he hath put into their hearts to fulfill his will And by many meanes God can effect it 1. Hee can soone conuert them from their Antichristian and Papisticall superstitions to the truth as sundrie of them are already 2. It may be that sundrie of them which yet retaine Romish idolatrie may for some other causes turne against the Pope and waste Rome as for his vniust claimes his horrible pride and tyrannie his treasonable practices against them pardons to kill them c. and thus by Charles the 8. and Lewis the 12. Kings of France was Rome sacked and spoyled and the Pope opposed as also by Charles the 5. his armie And is this vnlikely when not onely the Popes Agents and Priests shall giue the Sacrament and absolution to gunpowder-traytors but Iesuites teach it lawfull yea meritorious to kill Christian princes nay Popes themselues so proclaime it as Sixtus Quintus of the villaine that murthered Henry the 3. of France Obiect But then this prophecie may seeme to be in part fulfilled Answ. No this fire of Edom must be a deuouring fire which is the other part of the similitude that must quite consume Teman the Metropolis so this first against Rome must be as a fore-runner of the fire of hell it must be vnquenchable and agreeing with that fire of the Syrian Edom Obad. 18. A fire shall be kindled in Edom and deuoure them and there shall be no remnant of the house of Esau for the Lord hath spoken it This ruine of Rome shall be like the ruine of Iericho which can neuer bee re-edified and is notably shadowed in Reuel 18.21 by the casting of a milstone into the sea noting both the swiftnesse and irrecouerablenesse of their estate no more to be raised againe than a milstone can rise out of the bottome of the sea and float againe Yea the eternall desolation of Rome is noted by denying such things to be euer any more in her which a citie cannot be without viz. A milstone shall not be heard in her nor the light of a candle seene nor any crafts-man nor any voyce of ioy nor any bridegroome or marriage or procreation A poore citie it is or none at all where none of these are Obiect But the state of Rome is the strongest state in the world for wisedome wealth strength and many of our great ones goe backe to them so as you speake vnlikely things Answ. 1. God will honour himselfe by eff●cting his will in vnexpected and vnconceiuable meanes Hee is wise of heart to lay vnknowne pipes and meanes for his purposes And herein it shall be like Edom Obad. 8.9 In that day I will destroy the wise men out of Edom and vnderstanding from the mount of Esau and thy strong men O Teman shall be afraid neither is there wisdome or strength that shall helpe against the Lord. 2. God by themselues if others be sla●ke can hasten their destruction as it was with Edom Obad. 7. The men of thy confederacie and they that were at peace with thee deceiued thee So our late Edomites were detected by themselues euen by their owne confederacie 3. What if some go to thē and giue them a little lightning before their death See we not such infamie cast vpon them all by their daily practices and plots as all the water in the sea can neuer wash away Yes we see with our eyes that they gaine not but fall notwithstanding all their supplies of succours To comfort the poore Church of God in that when the enemie marcheth furiously like Iehu God sets in and prouides for his safetie Reuel 10.10 Iohn hauing before prophecied of many mischiefes to befall the Church by Antichrist and the Turkes both conspiring against it in this Chapter brings Christ in a vision for the comfort of the Church thus described An Angell namely of the Couenant our great Mediatour comming from heauen to make himselfe better knowne and neerer to his Church clothed with a cloud not onely in our humane nature clouding vailing his Deity but still obscured by the world with a rain-bow on his head a signe of reconciliation an assurance that he will remember his couenant as Genesis 9.15 and a token that although stormes and tempests be vpon the Church yet Christ at length will driue them away and reduce the calme of it and a faire season his face as the Sunne shining as in his transfiguration to his Church his feete as pillars for strength of fire because of his efficacie and force to ouercome all difficulties He is a constant stander as a pillar and fierce for his Churches good A sweete meditation against all fierie furious and sulphurious plots of the enemies of the Church He hath the Rain-bow on his head his feete are pillars of fire and further he sets his foote on the sea and earth to note the subiection of the sea and earth and all the creatures and all the world vnto him The iustice of God shall one day magnifie it selfe against that bloodie seate citie and kingdome of Antichrist for 1. He that is the vnmercifull maintainer of all treasons and supreme head of all heretikes must needes be fearefully destroyed 2. He that is concluded to be more merciful than Christ because Christ deliuered none out of Purgatorie and more powerfull than God because God makes but creatures he makes the Creator shall dearely buy that and other such blasphemies 3. Pride wee say must haue a fall and the higher the pride the lower the fall He that hath fought against the Kings of the earth yea against Christ the King