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A32794	Eben-ezer, a thankful memorial of God's mercy in preserving England from the gunpowder-treason, 1605 being a sermon on 1 Sam. 7:12, prepared for Novemb. 5th to be preacht at the cathedral, but preacht for the most part of it at the parish-church of Temple, in the city of Bristol, on the 6th of Novem. being the Lord's day / by John Chetwynd ...	Chetwynd, John, 1623-1692.	1682 (1682)	Wing C3796; ESTC R19751	30,602	46

nulla secuta est Peace and Religion setled and maintained in the same Condition Traffick and Trading Merchandizing and Manufacturage encouraged and by a setled peace with Spain which before was always dubious now enlarged to the exceeding Advantage of the English Nation The old enmity and fear of enmity from Scotland now quite removed by the uniting of the two Diadems in one Person who was what his Motto chosen by himself speaks him Vere Pacificus Learning encouraged under a most learned King then indeed were Musae regnantes and all things in a most flourishing and most prosperous estate Favour was equally according to Demerits extended unto the Catholick Nobility and Gentry Books written by Catholicks to perswade the Papists to a quiet submission unto their Princes peaceable Government when all things carried a fair prospect to a glorious and happy Estate even then Latet anguis in herba Then the implacable enmity of Satan against all that is good and lovely then the infatuated zeal of Priest-ridden Bygots set them on work to contrive that work of Darkness that hath no parallel as to all its Circumstances in any History which was invented by the Prince of Darkness carried on by Children of Darkness and laid in a place of Darkness which when if had taken light by Faux's Match would have proved the blackness of darkness and it is to be feared considering the general security and impenitency of prosperous Mankind would have sent many a shattered body to the darkness of Death and many a poor unprepared soul unto utter Darkness and would have been suitable to an Italian Revenge the Distruction of soul and body Tantum Religio poterat fundere malorum 3. Our danger could have no preparation against it for as Ignoti nulla Cupido so nullus Timor The Israelites knew and provided all possible means against their danger by Humiliation Reformation Fasting Prayers praying to Samuel to pray for them and their own valour but alas none of these could or were put in use or were thought upon in our case The Preparations for the Grandeur of the first days Session of Parliament had put away the thoughts of Humiliation Feasting excluded Fasting and Complements and Courtship of Salutations Prayer And for any endeavours of our own the nature of our danger prevented all so that we must say That our Deliverance was digitus Dei alone no Samuel to pray for us no Army to go forth against our enemies whom we knew not nor where to find and as for the way of their malice by Gun-powder no possible escaping so that we must still say Non nobis Domine Not unto us c. And If the Lord had not been on our side they had swallowed us up quick Ps 115. And let this be our encouragement still That God is and 124. will be on the side of his faithful penitent and praying people to defend and preserve them even when care is not or cannot be taken from all the Contrivances and mischievous Plots of the implacable enemies of our Religion Laws Lives Liberties Consciences for it is certain That howsoever God be not in the beginnings of evil enterprises to set them forward yet at the end he must be or no end will be for Domini sunt Prov. 21. v. 16. exitus The Horse may be prepared for the battel the Lot cast into the Lap the Counsel of Ashitophel may be taken Haman may obtain the Kings Letters to destroy the Jews the great Fleet at Ezion Geber may be prepared Sennacheribs mighty Army may be listed the Lords of the Philistines may be upon their march the Powder and Billets and Match may be all laid and a wicked Faux ready with his dark-Lanthorn to put fire to it and how near was our late Popish Plot ripe for execution when it was discovered Yet God defeats them all for Counsel may be in the heart of man and words at his Tongues end and Acts at his fingers end the Match laid to the Powder yet nothing shall be said or done or take effect except God will have it so he giveth and denieth success as hepleaseth And as for Samuels Prayers or our own endeavour our Case and Danger was such as could not admit either in particular But the daily Devotions of righteous persons that would have kept fire from Heaven from falling on Sodom and Gods infinite free Mercy prevented their fire from Hell from doing execution so that for the greatness of our deliverance manifested in the greatness of our Danger we must still say Not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name give Glory Ps 115. 1. for thy mercy and thy truths sake For had it not been the Lord who was on our side they had swallowed us up quick had their Fire been kindled it would Ps 11● 1. have made but one mouthful of King and Kingdom But blessed be the Lord who hath not given us as a prey to 6. their teeth Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the Fowler 7. the snare is broken or loosed and we are escaped Now as St. Austin observes a thing is loosed two ways either after we are snared or before so a Captivity may be said to be turned two ways by an after-deliverance or a forehand prevention The Grecians express by Prometheus and Epimetheus the Latins by anteverta and postverta the Schoolmen by praeveniendo subveniendo The first is best A good buckler to keep off the blow is better than a good Plaister to heal the hurt And such was our deliverance a prevention concerning which we may say That the Destruction intended was the Devils doing and it is monstrous in our eyes the deliverance was Gods doing and let it still be marvellous in our eyes that we may be thankful at present and in the eyes of our Posterity the memorial of it perpetuated from Generation to Generation which thankfulness was Samuels practice at the present and care for the Children of Israels future remembrance of it and comes in the last place to be spoken to 2. Samuels present thankfulness expressed in these words saying Hiterto hath God helped us He acknowledgeth that God had helped them and had always helped them And herein indeed consists the proper form and essence if I may so speak of our Thanksgiving viz. To recount to his Honour what he hath been to us and what he hath done for us Instances whereof we have in many of Davids Psalms The 136. throughout and 145. which I shall only point to In the two first verses he tells us That he will extol God his King and bless his Name for and ever every day he would bless God and praise his name for ever and ever And how he did we may see it in the following verses by declaring of Gods 1. Greatness v. 3 4 5 6. 2. Goodness v. 9. 3. His Works and Saints v 10 11 12. And having reckoned up from the

from their seed Thus it was with the Jews And have not we as much cause to remember with thankful rejoycing the great deliverance vouchsafed our Fathers and in them of us Certainly we have and therefore God having by a Miracle of Mercy prevented the barbarous and inhumane Design of the Papists the implacable enemy of all Protestants especially of English Protestants it was then lookt upon as a principal part of their thankful resentment by King James of famous memory and the then sitting-Parliament To enact the observation of one day viz. the fifth of November yearly to be observed as a thankful memorial of that wonderful Mercy Now God having by his Providence so ordered that this present year his day the Lords day the day which he hath made for the Remembrance of Christs Resurrection and all the Blessings that accrue by him and all we enjoy whether spiritual or external temporal or eternal are all from him deliverance from Hell Death and Damnation of soul and body deliverance from slavery and bondage and all external pressures are all from him and it being the principal work of this day Gods Holy Rev 1 day the Lords Holy-day to celebrate the thankful memorial of his Mercies And this day of Gods appointing immediately succeeding the day of the Kings appointment I have not thought it unfit nor any way inproper to lay before you what was prepared for yesterdays Solemnity in another place That so though the outward Pomp a necessary circumstance in that day may be left Yet the reality of our thankfulness might be expressed in this more private Assembly and we all put in mind and be stirred up as the Jews by the two days of Purim so we of England and we now present by the Solemnity yesterday according to the Law of Man and by what shall be now spoken on this day the day of our Rest and Rejoycing according to the Law of God may be stirred up to rejoyceful thankfulness for Gods goodness vouchsafed to us And indeed the remembring declaring and rejoycing in Gods wonderful works of Creation and providence as well as of Redemption are to have a principal part in the due Sanctification of our Christian Sabbath For the helping you wherein I shall lay before you what the Text first read presents us with Having first shewn you That we of England have as much reason and as great cause to celebrate two days yearly in the memorial of our deliverance from the Powder Treason as the Jews have for their deliverance from Haman The design of Haman and prosecution of it against the Jews was not so dangerous and mischievous as this Conspiracy of the Papists was against the English and Protestant Religion as will appear by many particulars parallel Circumstances in their Purim and our Powder Treason And indeed ours may be called Purim from the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies fire as that from the Hebrew word Pur that signifies a Lot 1. Theirs by the sword from whence some might have escaped Ours by a blast of fire that would have spared none 2 Theirs would have destroyed Queen Esther and her people ours King James Queen Prince Lords Commons the whole Flower of the English Nation met in Parlament 3. They had a set day which all knew ours uncertain secret known to none but themselves 4. Theirs was but an ordinary day ours a most magnificent day when the Kings Majesty and all the great States would have been in their Robes and greatest Glory 5. They poor captive Jews scattered and dispersed without power or policy living in subjection We a most flourishing Kingdom for wealthl power and policy under a most magnificent King Illustrious Nobles Reverend Prelates Honourable and worshipful and wealthy Knights Citizens and Burgesses even the Cream and Flower of the whole Nation 6. Consider the parties by whom their enemy was but one Haman a stranger by Nation a stranger in Religion an heathen Idolater ours no strangers by Nation all English men no strangers in Religion professing the same Christianity not Turks nor Pagans Infidels Moors or Indians though indeed much worse but Christians and such as would be thought true Catholicks yea the only Catholick Christians yea some of them which is among them more than Christians Jesuits Haman was wicked that is his title but these exceeded him in wickedness Haman was a declared enemy but these secret Vipers that eat through the bowels of their own Mother The malice of all men calling to it all the malice of the Devil did never invent the like in all ill Circumstances A degenerate Christian is the worst of men and the worst of men is the worst of Creatures and it 's grown into a Proverb amongst other Nations and these cruel treacherous Powder-Traytors gave too much ground for it An Englishman Italianate is a Devil incarnate 7. Consider we the colour and the cause of both Designs As all evil things usually have one thing for their colour and other for their cause In Haman the cause was Mordicai his not bowing The colour was they were of a different Law Hereticks They were not for the Kings profit In ours the Cause is not bowing to one viz. The Old Gentleman at Rome one prouder than Haman who have had Emperors to hold their Stirrups Kings to lead their Horses and kiss their feet The Colour pretended is zeal for Religion we were and still are in their accounts Hereticks and therefore must be kill'd blown up destroyed and they think they have St. Pauls Warrant for it for so it hath been urged Hereticum devita which we make but one word and that a Verb which we rightly translate avoid and they two words viz. a Noun and Preposition and so would have it signifie to kill De vita to take from life They consulted their Oracle the Provincial who answered them as Ahasuerus did Haman De populo fac quod libet Do with them as it seemeth good unto thee Esth 3. 11. 8. Consider we the event The Jews delivered Haman hang'd we preserved the Traytors suffered God was otherwise minded than Haman he would have destroyed a Nation but God preserved it Haman put the Lot into the lap but God drew it out And in this event consider 1. Means 2. Manner 3. Time 4. Issue 1. Means They to God by fasting and prayer to man by Queen Esthers Mediation to the King We used none nor could use any neither fasted or prayed suspected no evil and so could use no means to prevent it 2. Manner Though no means to God yet we had from God and so had they too but ours better both from and by a King Theirs from a King but from him came the Danger his Proclamation under hand and seal without which Haman could have done nothing Ours from a King but no danger from him He was as deep in the danger as we were Theirs by a King set right by Esthers Information in a regular

and common way Ours by no information but inspiration by a Casual rather than a Grammatical interpretation of the dangers being past as soon as the Letter was burnt 3. Time The night before Haman intended to have beg'd Mordecai's life the King could not sleep calls for the Chronicles reads therein what faithful and eminent service Mordecai had done for him and enquiring and understanding that he had received no recompence he resolves to honour him Haman pronounceth how Mordecai should be honoured who was commanded to do what he proposed himself and as he thought for himself and according to the great grief of him he did perform the Kings Command and his own designed honour towards him Haman himself was by the King upon the Queens Complaint judged to be hanged which was done on the same day place gallows that he had designed for Mordecai 4. Issue Deliverance to both the net broke the Fowl escaped yea the Fowler himself taken Israel delivered Pharaoh drown'd Psal 124. Haman hang'd So was it with us and the Powder-Traytors they hoped that their designed puff and net should have divided and scattered our Noble Senators and ancient and glorious Structures and they themselves were deservedly hang'd and quarter'd and their heads and limbs set up on the tops of that house they designed to throw down So that what we read concerning the Jews may as fitly be applied unto us in the day that the enemies of the Jews of us Protestants Esth 9. 1. hoped to have power over them over us it was turned to the contrary that the Jews that our King had rule over them that hated them And oh let it still be marvellous in our eyes Let us be glad Ps 118. 24. and rejoyce in it And indeed Gods deliverances of England have been acts of Wonder Not to insist on the unexpected discovery of the present Popish Plot and let us pray for the full defeating of it the truth whereof I hope no good Subject or true consciencious Protestant dot\h any thing question being attested by such undeniable Evidences viz. his most Gracious Majesty whom God still preserve from it the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the whole House of Commons and which we have still cause to fear though several Artifices are used to smother and stifle it but let us remember that many times the less noise the more danger But to pass this as not so pertinent at present Our work is what the Psalmist was to consider the days of old and the years Psal 77 5 11 12. of ancient times to remember the works of the Lord even his wonders to meditate of all his works and to tell of all his doing Now these ancient mercies God hath made them that they Psal 111. 4. should be had in remembrance that we should declare them to our Children Moses spends the four first Chapters of Deuteronomy in recording of them and God himself made a Statute-Law to Israel which they observed for so we find them speaking I will utter dark Psal 78. 2 3 4 6. sayings of old which we have heard and known and our Fathers have told us We will not hide them from our children shewing to the Generations to come the praises of the Lord and his strength and the wonderful works that he hath done That the Generation to come might know them even the Children which should be born who should arise and declare them to their Children Now to mention no more There are two great deliverances ancient deliverances which God hath given to his Church and people in England from their inveterate and implacable enemies the Papiss From the Spanish Invasion in 88 From the Gunpowder Treason in 1605. Two such deliverances that our eyes have not seen nor our ears have heard nor could our Fathers tell us of the like One by Strand the other by Land One from a Fleet and as they call'd it an invincible Armado sent forth by the King of Spain's great and vast Charge long Preparation the Popes blessing furnished with his best and most zealous Soldiers all manner of Instruments of Cruelty Whips and Knives engraven in Spanish with words which in English are To cut the Throats of the English Hereticks The other from a Vault under ground charged with many Barrels of Gun-powder Billets and Faggots c. A Monks Invention that would had not God prevented with one blast destroyed both King and Kingdom the most sudden cruel and unmerciful instrument of Death Both of these gracious deliverances from the hands of our most implacable enemies the sworn Vassal of the Papal Throne that sought not only and they are still of the same humour our Land and Estates and Livelihoods but our Lives our Souls our Consciences even our utter Destruction to have brought us under the Tyranny of a Foreign Prince and the unutterable and unconceivable Cruelty of the Papal Usurpation and Inquisition Not from roaring Enemies but such as were Vipers that sting to Death without any hissing at all Such was this deliverance the thankful memorial whereof we now celebrate From Hamans Plot to some From Babylons power and dominion to the rest To those who would not comply with them and embrace their superstitious idolatrous Principles and Practises to them from Death To those that were Protestants in Masquerade or Atheistical indifferent to all Religions notwithstanding fancy to the contrary that deliverance was from servitude slavery and bondage Englishmens Land and Goods let the Owners be what they will will be always judged by Jesuited Foreiners heretical when they are victorious over us which God forbid Have we then not great reason that are and have been the redeemed of the Lord whom he hath delivered from the Egyptian darkness of Popery from the worse than Babylonish Cruelty and barbarous oppression of Popish enemies from the Devilish Treachery and Conspiracy of others by the Discovery of the late Plot Have we not great reason I say to sing aloud with the Psalmist and say We will praise the Lord with our whole heart in the Assembly of Psal 111. 1. the upright and in the Congregation The works of the Lord are great sought out of all them that have 2. pleasure therein His work is honourable and glorious and his righteousness endureth 3. for ever He hath made his wonderful works to be remembred the Lord is 4. gracious and full of Compassion He hath sent Redemption unto his people c. 9. In furtherance of this common piety and to refresh our Memories and quicken our Devotion I have made choice of the Scripture first read as pertinent to the occasion Text Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpeh and Shen and called the name of it Eben-Ezer saying hitherto hath God helped us In which we have considerable 1. Something supposed 2. Something exprest 1. Supposed 1. Their danger from their enemies who were the Philistines 2. The cause of it Their