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death_n	child_n	king_n	son_n	4,367	5	5.1460	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55099	The plotters doom wherein the wicked plots, plotters, and their confederates are detected and sentenced by the Holy Scriptures : in a late sermon upon the hellish plots which have been discovered in these nations, and may be an answer to Mr. H's late sermon upon Curse ye Meroz / by a sincere Protestant and true son of the church.	Palmer, Samuel, d. 1724.	1680 (1680)	Wing P251; ESTC R602	32,970	40

enemies We shall then see every step they make more distinctly than when our judgment is mudded and blinded we are able to do Hence is it that you find the Apostle Paul praying so earnestly for the Ephesians that the eyes of their understanding might be enlightned Ephes 1.18 for he knew that they had a wily Devil to deal with and that he and his wicked instruments would find out such a world of tricks and arts and shifts that unless the eye of their understanding were enlightned that they might judg rightly of things and see through all their deceitful veils and pretences it was impossible but they should be deceived but this detects their deceit and discovers all their juglings so that you are not taken in their snares How many little tricks and arts have the Popish party played upon us within this year and half last past Into how many various forms and shapes have they cast their designs on purpose to deceive you First a Popish plot then a Presbyterian plot and now the Prentices plot and yet all three Plots theirs and all tending to one and the self-same end the destruction of the Protestant Religion For like lines in a Circumference though by their art they seem to make them come from never such opposite parts yet they all meet in the Center Their first Plots primarily aimed at cutting off the King which the wisdom of God and the courage of the Parliament hath yet preserved and because the Gentlemen of the Nation and true lovers and honourers of their King their Country and the Protestant Religion put out themselves in Parliament in the Country and every where at so bold and daring a rate they suspended the perpetrating of their Villany on the Person of his Majesty and new shaped and painted their second Plot principally against them knowing that if they were but out of the way that always interposed and flung themselves between danger and his Majesty they should soon recover the point again and compass their first design of killing the King as they would themselves and therefore under the notion of Presbyters and Presbyters plotting against the Royal life which above all things they studied to preserve they would have destroyed those Gentlemen though if you look their Meal-tub List you will not find one of forty of them Presbyterians But such is their Villany and such the Debauchery of the age for that Villany to work upon that they and their Partizans reckon every one a Presbyterian and Fanatick that hath not one cloven foot at least Now the Methods of this Plot were all to be managed by Subornations that those Worthies might have fallen as transgressors by the weight of the Law as by the arts of wicked Jezabel righteous Naboth did and when their cursed hand had been in every man should have been made a Presbyterian that had ought to lose For to be rich to be wise to be faithful qualifications that in our Ancestors days were wont to create esteem are with this wicked crew become the highest crimes Men of honour conscience and true worth that will rather perish than betray their God their King and their Country are in this Plot the very Butt of all their fury In 2 Sam. 3.33 you find King David lamenting over dead Abner thus Died Abner as a fool dieth But had this Prodigious wickedness took we must have lamented all the excellent men of the Kingdom at another rate and not only said Died these as fools die but died these as Knaves as Rogues as Villains die We must have lamented thus Died all these as transgressors as Rebels as Traytors die what by the hand of Justice and by the stroke of the Law It was one aggravation of our Saviours sufferings That he made his grave with the wicked and that he was numbered with the transgressors as every soul must needs be that falls by the hands of false Witnesses For the Judg will tell you that he must pronounce sentence according to the Verdict and the Jury will tell you that they must give their Verdict according to the Evidence So that if God had not most miraculously prevented many worthy Souls in the whole Nation had been cut off by a few suborned Villains Nor was this Plot calculated only against their Lives but against their Fortunes against their Honours and against their Posterity For they would have affected the child unborn with it A Villany of such a reaching magnitude as if it were layed in the very depths of Hell as undoubtedly it was The Wife could not here have lamented the loss of her Husband alone nor the Children the loss of their Father alone as in other deaths they use to do but must have lamented their own losses also That 's in my opinion a very sore threatning that the Lord speaks concerning Jehojakim the son of Josiah King of Judah in Jer. 22.18 They shall not lament for him saying Ah my Brother or Ah my Sister they shall not lament for him saying Ah Lord or Ah his glory For so mourners used to compassionate one another So in like manner here one child could not condole with another for the loss of their worthy Father but all condole their own losses the Brother that might have said to the Sister and the Sister to the Brother Ah Brother and Ah Sister what a dear and matchless Father have we lost how gracious was he in his Speech how courteous in his carriage how sound in his Counsels how prudent in his Reprooss and so have run over all the charms of his whole conversation and that would have gone on in their Lamentations Ah what a glory was he to our Family what a glory to his Friends what a glory to his Country must now have cried out O Brother and O Sister how hath our Father undone us how hath he destroyed our Fortunes ruined our Family and laid our very blood under a Legal attaint And certainly in this regaad as well as others are these kind of men stiled in Scripture the sons of Belial and therefore you find among the instructions that Jezabel gave in her Letters to the Elders of the City for the cutting off of Naboth that this was one That they should set two men sons of Belial before him to bear witness against him saying thou didst blaspheme God and the King But for ever blessed be God that they digged this pit as low as Hell yet his gracious hand followed and found them out and hath enabled us to sing that they are fallen into it themselves and to him alone be the glory thereof For this Plot was detected by the immediate hand of Heaven and not by man For it lay too deep for humane wisdom to fathom it it was only the Almighty that could and did find it out And therefore this second Plot failing on comes their third and if England be wise their last Plot that ever they shall make upon us and this if we may