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The churches hazard deliuered in a sermon in the cathedrall church in Norvvich, vpon the fifth of Nouember. 1629. By Tho. Reeve, Minister of Gods Word at Coleby in Norfolke.
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Reeve, Tho. (Thomas), 1583 or 4-1651.
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a stratagem an abrupt manner of breaking vp they would have dissolved it with Gunpowder broken vp blowne vp England gave the summons and Rome would have given the writ of departure Could this plot have beene so layd that it might have come from above a man would have thought it had beene Heavens-blow the stroke of God but the Papists have no power above all their strength lies beneath it had come but â—rom Hâ—ll it had beene but the veâ—y of the Devill The Papists say they would faine bring vs to Heaven but then the force of their courtesie lies in pulling of vs vp thither with Gunpowder as for all their Eâ—gines of Doctrines they doe but push â—owne strike to hell I have read that in Rome there was once via sacra a Holy way shall I thinke that stiâ—l remaining no I rather beleeve there is Via sanguinea a bloody way They say their Images have sweat blood and that they have found blood in the Sacrament let them talke of those miracles as long as they will so long as they worke not this miracle to make a Kingdome sweat blood But this they would doe yea this they had done if God had not wrought a Miracle to make Tiburne sweat blood in stead of the Parliament wee lay at the point of death and the Papists were comming with this plot as extreame vnction to send vs out of the world with For for the State to have received the stab and Religion the stifle was as this day determined decreed Our Adversaries had said they shall neither know nor see till we come into the midst of them and slay them and cause the worke to cease Give me leave to runne short descant vpon my Text and to fit every parcell according to the present occasion Our Were wee not at this time gathered together into companies was there not the face of a Holy Congregation a Church visible amongst vs Yeâ— Babylons yoake not long before had beene vpon our neckes since the dayes of Queene Mary the grasse was scarce growne where their flames had beene they needed then no barrels of Gun-powder their pitch-barrels and faggots served the turne yet I say at this time our captivity was ended and our Church come to a most fulged estate for by the comming of that famous Queene Elizabeth to her Throne Elizabeth indeede the oath of God or the fulnesse of God sworne to his cause replenished with his heavenly endowments shee who was as a polished corner in Gods Temple as a golden pot of Mannah in his Sanctuary the Orient pearle of the Christian world yea the Bright starre of the Earth in her dayes Oh whom should I recount thee to be Oh quam 〈◊〉 memorem as incomparable as invincible not greater in the conquest of her enemies then the peerelesnesse of her vertues the Queene of England by her title of the world by her desert g Heb. 11. Who being dead yet speaketh whoâ—e memory is written in the hearts of her subjects the best Chronicle a virgin and yet the Gandame of Honour a Woman and yet a h Terror Achivis Terrour of Terâ—magaunts which paid hâ—r soul â—â—rs with the gold of India and mâ—de Cadiz the tiring roome of her Captaines which turned an invincible Armado into a Sea-bonfire and made 88 like a Climâ—ct ricall yeare to the state of Spaine which in her dayes for her Princely deportment seemed the Master peece of Royall perfections and for her manifold preservations the Miracle of Gods providence whose governmâ—nt was throughout glorious not like the Reignes oâ— some Princes that wee read of in other Histories whose governments hâ—ve prâ—ved to their suâ—jects like the seasons of the yeare a cheerefull spring at first comforâ—able Summer afterwards but at last â—â—arâ—full â—â—â—fâ—-â—â—ll and a nipping Winter or 〈◊〉 i Dan. 3. Nâ—bucâ—â—dnezzâ—â—s Image the heaâ— of gold the breast of silv r bâ—t 〈◊〉 wâ—rds nothing but brasse iron and câ—ay as Neâ—o wiâ— fâ—r k Ad quinque nuâ—m Suâ—t five yeares was nâ—table in his government and Caligula â—f whom Suetonius thus râ—port l Hâ—nus quâ—si de Principe reliqua vt de mâ—niâ—ro nâ—rra◠〈…〉 Hitherto haue written as â—f a Prince but afterwards I must write as of a Mâ—â—ster But as for her the sâ—epter fell out of her 〈…〉 with honour hâ— last yeares beâ—nâ— as famous as h r first her people blessing their selv s that they dyed before 〈◊〉 â—cause the 〈…〉 a Prince behind them aâ— it was said of the Subiects in the dayes of Augustine wh ch lived with more Mâ—jâ—stie and dyed with more â—eareâ— then any of her Predecâ—ss uâ—s in a thousand yeares before h r which deserved a tombe of gold at her death as Constantine the Great hâ—d and to haue had Statues set vpon her honour in every house as Marcus Aurelius had after his departure whose Sepulcher and ah that I should speake off her Sepulcher is the monument of euerlasting renowne more to bee regarded with all due respect then any of the Paynims vrnes or the Popish shrines whose name is the joy of our hearts the Triumph of our tongues which can scarse to this day bee pronounced without panting brests and dropping eyes whose body is gone to sleepe in a bed of safe repose whose soule is in the Chauntry of Heauen for m Gaudet vnus â—uisâ—ue Angel 〈◊〉 tantum 〈◊〉 tangere Chry. hom 15. de diuit paupere Euery one of the Angels desired to catch to carry such a burthen to God Shee I say for Faemineo generi tribuuntur All these blessings of the Church are to bee attributed to her as the happy restorer of them Illa Ecclesiae scintilla shee the bright Sparke of the Church warmed vs when wee were almost frozen to death in that brumall season of Popery and like a good Surgeon stâ—nched our dropping veines when they were almost lâ—ft empty of blood shee brake the yoke of Egyptian bondage led us through the red Sea of prepared dangers seated vs in the land of promise fed us with the honey and milke of Evangelicall truth brought home the Arke of God with Triumph and set our Church like a Citie upon a hill as Aniâ—lasinutha that renowned Queene who followed Theodoricus that vessell of blood n Vas sanguinis decreta mala emendavit Platina mended all the cruell decrees So this renowned Princesse remoued all the sharpe statutes and the shadow of her Throne proued a shadow of refreshing to the Professours of Religion o Iudg. 5.7 Surrexi ego Deborah Surrexi ego mater in Israele I Deborah arose I arose a mother in Israel A step-mother wee seemed to haue before a naturall mother now fourtie fower yeares nourcing up her subjects with the brests of sincere profession And her successour prouing a successour of her faith as well as her Throne King Iames memorable for his wisedome and graces confirmed this happinesse vnto vs in so much that Paradice
needes no more to relish your palates then the remembrance of this dayes intention I haue read of many craftie plots as of u Gen. 34. Simeon and Leui that set vpon the Sichemites whilst they were sore of their circumcising of x 2 Kings 19 Adramalech and Sharezer that slew Senacherib when he was worshipping in the Temple of Nisroch of y Knolles Chasis Ilbeg who s ying vnto Hadrianople like a discontented fugitiue and hauing gotten some authority in the Citie on the suddaine set vpon the warders at the gates and having slaine them let in his ambushment not farre off and so betrayed it into the hands of the Turkes of z Knolles Terhates Bassa who feyning himselfe to be at the point of death sent for Ales-Beg and his foure sonnes with pretence that if he should die he would commend his gouernement into his hands till Solyman his Master should otherwise dispose of it and so with this wily devise hauing drawne them to him presently put them all to death of a The watch-word beeing Nirâ— in which were thirty thousand slain at Constantinople Procopâ—et Euagr. those desperate wretches in the dayes of Iustinian that went with sharpe weapons secretly vnder their garments and stabbed men to death no men knew which way But of all subtill deuises this carries the superiority For consider the passages in it To the Priest it is disclosed vnder seale of confussion so that he must not râ—ueale it Next the Actors had sworne that neither directly nor indirectly by word nor circumstance they would discouer it so that they had made sure worke at home Confessors and complices are bound to secrecy like Angerona the goddesse of silence that the Poets speake of which holdes her finger vpon her lippes with a tablet vpon her breast and this inscription vpon it Heare see and say nothing Papirius was not more ready to cut his tongue out of his mouth because he should haue beene forced to confesse his treason then these would haue beene ready to haue beene discerpted eviscerated to haue had limbe torne from limbe rather then they would haue had any thing brought to light Consider further First the place wher they wrought vnder the ground They are not for a roome where the light of the sun that bright and broad eye of the World could haue discerned them neither where men with their two sparkling planets in their heads could ordinarily view them no they lurk in their theuish corners they are for a caue a dungeoÌ„ a vault a close celler who could there haue spied out any thing but he that needed neither eye to search or to haue window to be opened or vault doore to be vnlocked to whom darkenes and light were both alike but for men they were sure enough The time when they wrought in the night Night is that which wicked men take vp for a mist to their actions a mantle to their wretchednesse b Nocte â—atent mendae vittoque ignoscitur omni Ovid. Faults haue then gotten their couerts and men may sinne by a kind of priuiledge This was the opportunitie they tooke when honest men were at their rest then they were watching and sweating to conuey in their engines of horror The materialls whereupon they wrought which were chiefely gun-powder c Contra terra motum nulla latebra nulla fuga Petr. 91. Dial. Against an earth-quake saith Petrarch there is no hiding nor shifting so say I for Gun-powder The blast is inevitable for all them within the compasse it is a quicke dispatcher In a plague a man may escape in a battell a man may come foorth aliue against poisons a man may haue Antidotes but from Gun-powder what muniment or preseruatiue no it is the strongest arrow in deaths quiuer The colour they set vpon the worke it was to lay in winter provision Were not these men thinke you much to bee commended that could prouide so well against a hard Winter and was not that Master thinke you very happy that had such a faithfull seruant as Faux to lay vp in store for him but the Master should neuer haue made vse of this prouision for himselfe neuer haue warmed himselfe with the billet nor haue had so much as a draught out of the 36. barrels the Master herein me thinkes was a strange kind of prodigall oh but it was for friends it was for a Parliamentary breakfast and Papists care not to bestow much vpon such a courtesie for vs there were Lawes to be made and they would haue them to be proclaimed Cum sonitu with noise indeed it had beene the lowdest trumpet that euer the earth heard or shall heare except the trumpet vpon mounâ— Sinah and the last trumpe Heere are Popish procâ—amations of Lawes d Mugitu lamâ—nta â—li omnia comâ—lerent Greg. Naz in Mon. they would fill all the sky with a lamentable roaring Well the devise was so great that they began to send forth their Prophesies tâ— their friends That the memory of novelties should perish with a cracke and in a moment should their bones be crushed yea they thought a man might have seene any thing in the Aegyptian darknesse as soone as have had any thing in this enterprise discovered in so much that when it was revealed Faux that Cerberi Faux if it may be lawfull to vse the word that jawe of Cerberus vttered this blasphemous censure that not God but the Devill had â—icovered it Now lay all these things together and consider with your selves whether mans eare ever heard or mans heart can conceive a more secret plot no our Adversaries were close enough like Basilisks they would have kill'd before they had beene seene Our Adversaries said they shall neither know nor see Till we come into the midst of them Next Till we come into the midst of them And were not our Adversaries aymes as haughty were they not for the Midst the height of authority the heart of command Yes Rome would be felt in her stroke They care not for some eminent man or some chiefe familie but for the Nation a Nationall Stratagem e Raâ—â— alâ—o 〈…〉 our Kiâ—gâ—ome must haue perished from her highest toppe Twelue men were abâ—ut to brâ—ng into bondage a whole Kingdome with one stroke yea with one blow to make a gâ—nerall thrall the Papists strike home They would put out all the lights of the Land at a blast what a darke house had there beene Rome hath a strange kind of extinguisher They would batter downe all the bulwarkes of the Kingdome at one Cannon-shot Mahomet the Great Solyman the Magnificent nor any of the mighty martiall spirits in the World euer had such artillery The King in his Throne should haue bene blowne vp the Queene his consort in wedlocke shouâ—d haue beene his consort in woe the Prince at their knees should haue beene heyre apparant to nothing but their misery not a Noble-man shâ—uld haue beene left not a Prelate to gouerne the