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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92853	Haman's vanity, or, A sermon displaying the birthlesse issues of church-destroying adversaries. Preached to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemne thanksgiving, being on June 15. 1643. By Obadiah Sedgwick, Batchelor in Divinity, and Pastor of Coggeshall in Essex. Published by order of that House.	Sedgwick, Obadiah, 1600?-1658.	1643 (1643)	Wing S2374; Thomason E56_6; ESTC R16869	19,380	39

unthankfull man is an ugly and ill-favoured man but thankfullnesse is a most becoming garment to a Christian And it is Gods contentment of most musick he delights in this there are four things which are very Note pleasant to God First An upright heart Secondly An humble spirit Thirdly A believing soule And Fourthly A thankfull breast That this sweet note of Thankfullnesse may be the better raised give me leave to descant a little upon that miserable and unfortunate designe against your selves and the City lately contrived and intended to have been put in execution There are at the least ten remarkable dashes in it First the Horror of it and lesse I cannot style it Livy reports of a designe to dispatch the whole Senate of Rome in one hour and at Carthage there was a project to cut off at once the noblest and truest family to the state But this unhappy plot had it taken effect might have proved the Funerall of all our Sanctuaries the Grave of all our Religion the Dooms-day of all our Liberties the Ruine of Countrey of City of Parliament of All. Secondly the Vnnaturallnesse of it For Nero that monster of mankinde to wish that Rome had but one head which he might take off with one blow for him to set Rome on fire and solace himself in beholding the flames and ashes of it this was but like himself Such barbarous acts were no way strange for his monsterous disposition For Papists to contrive the blowing up of a Parliament this agrees fulwell with the modest principles of their bloud-thirsty and cruell Religion But for men who professe the Protestant Religion yet to contrive the ruine of it for Members of a Parliament to devise the ruine of a Parliament for them who so seriously have protested and not without some execrations the defence and preservation of all thus maliciously to entrap and hazard the safety and subsistence of all What is this but viper-like to gnaw out the bowels of that Countrey which bred them and of that Parliament which all this while hath defended and preserved them Thirdly the Cruelty of it What could have beene expected lesse then that of Simeon and Levi brethren in iniquity who after a pretence of favour came boldly Gen 34. 25. upon the City of Shechem and slew all the males with the sword Nay I feare the tumult might have ended like that of Shalman who spoiled Beth-arbel in the day of Hos 10. 14. battell and the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children Here might you have heard the confused noise of the Warriours there might you have seene garments rolled in blood one street flaming with fire another street groaning under the wounds of death some crying out kill and murther them others crying out O pity and spare us In one house perhaps the Parishioner hunting after his Minister to braine him in another house the son laying hold on his father to pistoll him some hiding themselves and then burnt others hasting to fly and running only upon the point of the sword and speare before hand disposed to every corner to slay them One cals out O spare the Parliament another O spare the City another O spare my father spare my mother spare my tender children But in this rage nature would have been forgotten law would have been forgotten religion would have been forgotten relation would have been forgotten because before this the feare of God would have been forgotten Fourthly the madnesse of it every sinner is a foole and Solomon saith a mad man too Did ever any wise man think to repaire his house by subverting the foundations of it or to preserve himselfe by splitting his ship or imagine to stand if a Parliament should fall Good Lord that any should so forfeit themselves in devising or rather in believing that these men who would have ruin'd one world could make another or that they would prove restorers of our liberties who contrived the lawlesse and mercilesse ruines of all our safeties Fifthly the injustice of it What is my trespasse what is my sin that thou hast so hotly pursued after me said Iacob Ge. 31. 36. to Laban May not this Parliament say as much to all them who so bloodily act against them You know well enough that familiar story of Aristides whom a person desired to write his name in the shell to be banished and only for this reason because all said that he was a just man O how unjust it is and I feare will stand upon infamous record to our posterity that many of their Ancestors sought to destroy their own refuges against destruction struck at them who to avoid the stroke of justice are risen up to strike all as if theeves and robbers should arme themselves to judge the Judge who durst to question and judge them Sixthly the ingratitude of it By thy Providence worthy deeds are done to this Nation said Tertullus unto Foelix Within these few years O how we groand under the burdens of conscience by an high Commission and under the burdens upon our liberties by heavy taxations the learned speeches of some of the Complotters are palpable witnesses to what I now speak and through Gods blessing on the Parliaments care and paines we are eased of both And now after all to be like the unthankfull Romans to condemn that African Scipio who had saved all their State Or to be like that monster of whom I have read who that night that his Prince pardoned and released him got out and slew him To burne Michael Balbus to the Emperour Leo Armenius Vide Zouaram in Annal. that ship which brought us to shore to wound that Physitian who healed our wounds the Lion did not thus to the poor man who eased him of a thorne in his foot It is the very dregs of basest ingratitude to returne the sowrest of mischiefes for the sweetest of kindnesses Seventhly the hypocrisie of it under the pretence and affectation of peace to intend the most dismall and abhorred of cruelties I have read of Garnet the Iesuite who upon a treatise of Equivocation plaisters on this title A Treatise against lying and fraudulent dissimulation And truly this plot fell nothing short of that artifice for under the name of peace a more savage destruction is intended only Amasa is the more complementally saluted that hee might not see the sword of Ioab For my part if yet Truth might have the Vantguard and Justice might have the Body I should rejoice that Peace might bring up the Reere Nay if that place seems too low let them all stand in rank so that Truth may still have the right hand But this is no new plot to whet swords and yet talk of peace there was an overture of peace from Spaine with England when at the same time the Armado was to set saile And that for ever odious massacre in France was guilded over with the solemnity of Nuptials Heathens have been more candid this way then