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A04851	A sermon preached in Oxon: the 5. of November. 1607. By John Kinge Doctor of Divinity, Deane of Christ Church, and Vicechancellor of the Vniversity	King, John, 1559?-1621.	1607 (1607)	STC 14985; ESTC S108045	19,773	38

forgetfulnes more thē this if his works were quite contrarie as wee might conceaue to his works of mercie not diuersa but aduersa which the Prophet calleth opera peregrina strange and vnproper workes aliene almost from his nature I meane of troubling and afflicting his people so farr forth that the verie heathen should say of vs where is now their God Yet should we liue by our faith and possesse our soules in patience and waite for the time when the vision should speake for it shal certainelie speake and shal not lie vnto vs. But there are that beleeue not vnlesse they may see plus oculo quàm oraculo Non videmus signa An adulterous and wicked generation carnal at least seeketh a signe Vnlesse wee maie see with our eies saie they and handle with our hands thrust our very fingers and nailes into the prints of Gods works wee wil not beleeue it must be brachium reuelatum demonstrated to sense or it cannot moue them For the satisfaction therfore of them and the whole world they ioine potentèr patentèr togither the works and the euidēce of thē Venite videte opera Come behold his works wee feed you not with deceaueable fables Sensus assensus sunt See them touch them handle them they are not spirits fansies speculations they are true bodies and haue the flesh bones of real acted accomplished workes It is iustlie that answere that Philip shaped to Nathanael 1. Iohn when he asked him commeth there anie good thing out of Nazareth Come and see Let thy foote bring thine eie to behold that which thou beleeuest not Yea our blessed Sauiour himselfe vouchsafed to perswade with this argument ●o Iohn If you beleeue not me beleeue my works opera testantur de me for my works beare witnesse of mee Now though the noblest demonstration of things bee from their causes and principles yet the nearest to vs warde and most apprehensible is from effects and performances But what are the works they tel vs of The workes of God are without number if wee saile in the maine Ocean of them put not in into some special arme or creeke we shal neuer find an end 104. Psal. Quàm magnificata o how manifold are thy works o Lord In wisdome hast thou made them al. The earth is ful of thy goodnes So is the great and wide sea wherin are things creeping innumerable both great and smale beasts c. Manifold are they and maruaillous from the huge Leuiathan to the little worme Omnia in sapientia But that as St Austin speaketh Consuetudinis perseuerantia amisit admirationem we maruaile not because they are common The like Tertullian Semper abundantia contumelio sain semetipsam est Of fulnes commeth lothing at least neglect VVee see nothinge but this Man Assiduitate oculorum saith Tully assues cunt animi It is vse that beguileth vs and it is not magnitudo but nouitas the greatnes but newnes of the thing that draweth vs after it Otherwise to goe noe farther how admirable are the works of God euē vpon ourselues It is hee that hath made vs wonderfully in our mothers wombes tooke vs forth of our mothers bellies and when father and mother forsook vs tooke vs vp that giueth vs our dailie breade to feede vs and our dailie breath to quicken vs with many the like blessings Al which shew that hee is not far of frō every one of vs Act. 15. but watcheth continuallie ouer vs with his heauenlie and fatherlie prouidence But of the works of God there is noe end if we thinke to take a view of the whole sūme of thē Come therfore to some particular The holie Ghost teacheth mee to distribute the workes of God into 2. sorts One of which sorts is exprest in my Text Solitudines desolations Some reade mirabilia wonders not ordinarie workes some prodigia prodiges not ordinarie wōders The most solitudines So then by the light of my Text J perceaue the workes of God are two fold 1 Sōe of position cōstitution creatiō in the beginning God made heauen and earth quicquid me diū cum ipsis finibus exortum est al things contained with in them of supportation and gouernment 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Heb. He carrieth althings with the word of his power of redemption purchase reconciliation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Cor 5. 10. of restitution reparation renouation 3. Act. 20. there shal be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 times of the restauratiō of al things These bee his positiue works 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whatsoeuer I meane either giueth or maintaineth or bettereth and amendeth the beeing of things of which we maie read plētifully the mean time in the book of nature more happily in the bookes of grace but hereafter most blessedlie contentedlie in the lardge volumes of glorie 2 Other are his workes of corruption dissolution as my text calleth them desolation The Scripture testifieth of both viuifico occido I quicken I kill Creans lucem formans tenebras Creating the light and forming darknes These workes of desolation are not such the onlie end wherof without farther good is to marre destroie depriue of beeing as the drowning of the old worlde the burning of Sodome with hir sisters the sacking of Ierusalem where the scope proposed to God was to overturne ouerturne overturne without sparing they are desolations to our enimies but consolations to vs ruins to them to vs resurrections they are falen downe saith the Psalme wee stande vpright corruptions to them generations creations recreations to vs. And without these corruptiue destructiue works of God to let passe the other mēber we could not bee or at least wise not so happie Take for example God neuer made death Inuidia diaboli intrauit 2. Wis. through the enuie of the deuill it entred into the world through sinne the inspiratiō of the deuil 5. Rom. not onlie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 entred but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wēt ouer al as a gangraine and infection more thē that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Alexander the great a triumphant conquerour peruenimus ad solis ortum occasum reigned ouer al the sonns of Adam Now vnder this accursed brat thus entring borne by equiuocal and spurious generation vnder this epidemical oecumenical contagion possessing al the corners of the earth and not a King but a tyrant vsurping bearing swaie ouer al flesh what flesh could euer haue beene saued for what man had liued and not sinned or sinned and should haue liued not died the second death but for a worke of desolation comming betweene to desolate and disapoint the works of death Of this worke you maie read I. Ioh. 3. 8. To this end was the sonne of God manifested 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that he might dissolue the works of the deuil that is to saie sinne and death 2. Heb. 14. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that

restraint but they wil euade thee Dij talem terris auertite pestem Nec louis imperium nec Phlegetonta timent And therfore as they said in Rome Exeat ex vrbe Catilina Catiline must bee spewed out before the Citie could haue quiet so maie we saie if we wish peace to the Kingdomes and Countries of the earth Exe at ex vrbe and ex orbe Iesuita from whom there is noe peace but rebus sic stantibus and dum vires suppetunt til they be able to make their partes good Sed tua praecipuè non intret limina qui squam Frater vel monachus vel quâvis lege sacerdos And aboue al things take heed that you admit neither Preist nor Iesuite nor Iesuited busy Papist within your houses Of these there were sundrie in this bloudy attempt Some of them fixed as it were in their orbes staple Legier Iesuites like principal bad angels set ouer provinces Baldwin ouer Flanders Creswel ouer Spaine Garnet ouer England other planetory cursorie moueable from place to place as Gerard Tesmond Hammōd Hal with the like Their offices were to animate authorize warrāt absolue sacrifice pray yea prophecie too You remēber their psalmodie The memorie of nouelties shal perish with a CRACK and hee shall come as a flame that bursteth out beyond the fornace and his furie shal flie forth as a thunder in a moment shall hee crush their bones that when it had come to passe according to these predictions they might haue said dixit dominus os domini loquutum est The Lorde hath said it the mouth of the Lord foretold it There wanteth yet a third sort for execution Vlysses maie perswade but Diomedes must through with it There must bee hands as wel as heads Behold a number of Gentlemen with others their followers some of noble and worthie descent sed quantae tenebrae a quo fulmine al our countriemen and patriotes all fed with the fat of the land but a viperous generation not sparing the bowels of their mother that breed them some that are the salt of the pallace and beheld the face of the King in place of neare attendance al drūck with the dregges of the cup of Babylon and ful as the spider with Iesuitical poyson they ouerflow with the gal of bitternes and want but meanes matter wherin to disgordg thēselues to the attaining wherof they lay their heads together and according to the worde of the Psalme scrutati sunt iniquitates defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio they beate wearie their brains to devise to some purpose At length they draw together into a knot as an impostume to an head close like the skales of Leuiathan that the breath cannot get betweene they take oath of secresie and persistance was euer the name of God so fowlie dishonoured they confirme it with the blessed sacrament o more then Iewish impietie they vowed they would neither eate nor drinke at their common tables till they had the head of Paul they would fast it out These eate drinke at the table of the Lord the bodie and bloud of our blessed Sauiour vpon a bargaine of bloud to haue the heads both of head and members and to make a poole a floud a whole red sea of bloud with the slaughter of manie thousands Busirides arae clementes Are these their sacrifices these their sacramēts In a word they vndertake they resolue they sweare they deuouer and execrate themselues with that tragick instigation Excede pietas awaie yee bowells of compassion natural affection begone thoughts of humanitie prickles of conscience sparkes of reason barrs of religiō feare of God reuerence of men difference of persons high low old yong nocent innocent al depart Sic sic iuvat ire our harts are fixed our harts are fixed to vndergoe a worke opus solitudinis a work of desolation opus mirabilitèr singulare singularitèr mirabile a work which whosoeuer heareth of his two eares shal tingle and his hart-strings shal tremble one for al a worke that containeth in it mille actus vetitos mille piacula to become paricides Reginides Regnicides at once with on catholike that is vniuersal blow to cut of all the heads of the land as it were vpon one the same shoulders The kind of desolation that Dauid giueth instance in is auferens bella he maketh VVarrs to cease Ours is not species but monstrum cannot be defined within anie kind Their first proiect was warre whilst our Debora was yet liuing to that purpose they had a treatie with Spaine for an other inuasion But then we would haue buckled our armour vnto vs and haue girt our swords vpon our thighes we would haue brought into the field pares aquilas alike forces and haue opposed bow vnto bow speare vnto speare chariot vnto chariot But maior mihi metus ex leone quam ex vulpe I euer feared their fraudes more then forces their warrs neuer did neuer could anoy vs Astus polenti or armis Their trust is in stratagemes and trecheries Insidiantur in abscondito quasi leones in spelunca sua They lie in waite in their the euish corners as a lion lurketh in his den They saie to the ground couer vs and to a subterraneous vault keep vs close Vt sagittent in occultis immaculatum that they may shoot at the innocent in secret and if their occultum speed it followeth in the Psalme subito sagittabunt eum they wil also do it suddenly They shal receaue a terrible blow and not see who hurt them They begin their worke with a mine vnder ground Romish pioners Antichistiā molewarps hellish Tenebrios and with improbitie of labour to speed the impietie of their harts half dig through a wale of three yards in thicknes Cursed bee their rage for it was cruel and their malice for it was verie painful They might haue plowed vpō the rock as wel Frō the mine to a cellar as fit for a dē of theeus as the mine was iust vnder the Capitol the higher house of Parliament that where the lawes had beene made said they there the lawmakers might receaue their punishment This cellar they store with 36. barrels great and smal of gunpowder the inuention of a Monke a deuill the daughter of salt and sulphure mother of the first borne of death nothing maketh a quicker end together with billets and fagots and peeces of timber and barres of iron and massie stones al deadlie and murthering artillerie and are now euen readie with match touchwood in the hād of FAVX a firebrand indeed against the 5. of Nouēber was two yeare at what time these smokie Locustes out of their mercilesse pit of more then Neronian Catilinarie dispositions crying 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and incendium ruina extinguam let heauē and earth burne and let nothing quench the fire but the ruine and downfal of al these audacious Phäetōs running a desperat dreadful course meant to haue made