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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

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

profession and practice of the true Religion Reformation putting away their Idols Baalim and Ashteroth v. 4. Worshipping at Mizpeh fasting and praying v. 6. 2. Expressed In which 1. Gods grace and favour towards them Hitherto hath God helped us 2. Their sense of it Thankfulness for it and care to continue the memorial of it Thus large is this little portion of Scripture containing like Gold much value in a little compass To handle each particular as they ought would be too great a trespass to your patience and therefore I shall direct my discourse not to consider the many Doctrinal truths that they would present us with but apply my self to shew you how suitable they are to the occasion of this Solemnity and that according to the Method proposed and first 1. What 's supposed 1. The danger 2. The cause I shall joyn both together Their danger was from the Philistines because of their Reformation v. 3. and sincere profession and exercising of Religion and religious Worship at Mizpeh v 6. where they met to humble themseves before God and to consult of their affairs Then the Lords of the Philistines went up against Israel v. 7. and drew near to battel against them v. 9. and they were afraid of the Philistines v. 7. and intreated Samuel to cry unto the Lord for them that he would save them out of the hand of the Philistines v. 8. The Philistines were their neighbour Inhabitants whom the Israelites ought to have expelled but did not nor could not so that they continued amongst them as thorns in their sides many times in subjection always in opposition to Israel and sometimes having the upper hand as after the death of old Eli when they took the Ark of God kept it seven months sent it from City to City but grew weary of it and at last return it home and it was setled at Kirjath-jearim where it continued twenty years during which time the Israelites lamented their Condition under the Philistines power but took care to set up the Ark in the house of Aminidab whose Son Eleazer was consecrated to attend upon it Then Samuel whom God had raised up in Eli's place to rule and govern called them to Repentance and they obeyed that call and reformed themselves put away Baalim and Ashteroth their He-Gods and She-Gods and there solemnly humbled themselves by fasting and prayer and sacrificing a Lamb that signified their faith in Christ and obedience to God v. 9. Then the Philistines drew near to battel against them at which they being unarmed were afraid and knowing their own guilt desired Samuel to pray for them which he did and God delivered them in a miraculous way thundering a great thunder on the Philistines and discomfiting of them v. 10. This was their Case And is not ours the parallel to it Their enemies were the Philistines that always maligned Gods Israel Ours the Papist that always hate Gods true Catholick and Apostolick Protestant Church of England They had the Ark Gods true Religion and Worship Their Faith once famous throughout the World their Religion pure their Faith Orthodos Their manners holy and their Bishops holy Martyrs But this Ark they would not keep they became corrupt and unsound in their Principles and kept not the Faith once delivered to them but changed the glorious truths of God to a lie as the heathen Romans did cast away what they pleased of Gods commands quite left out of their Catechisms the second and to make Rom 1 up the number divided the tenth into two A sorry shift to support their idolatrous Worship taught for Doctrines their own unwarrantable Traditions closed up the Scriptures in an unknown tongue made it piacular to have or read and when to make some shew of owning them they make use of them they most ridiculously applied them as to instance God made a greater light and a lesser light therefore the Pope is as much greater than the Emperor as is the Sun than the Moon Christ said to Peter Kill and eat therefore the Pope may excommunicate and kill Kings Peter said Behold two Swords therefore the Pope hath both Spiritual and Temporal Jurisdiction God said to Jeremy He should plant and transplant therefore the Pope may dispose and transpose Kingdoms at his pleasure Domini sunc Cardines terrarum therefore the Cardinals are Lords of the earth Speed Hist p. 213. But generally they suppress the Scriptures and instead thereof allow their lying Legend to be read in Churches Added twelve new Articles to the Christian Faith impose Contradictions to be believed a that most monstrous Doctrine of Transubstantiation that contradicts not only Scripture that doth assure us that Christs natural Body is in Heaven but all that speaks us men our ●enses sight smell taste touch our Reason and Understanding that cannot comprehend how one body may be in a thousand places at one time and that all the dimensions of a man of full-grown stature can be hid under made and contracted into the proportion of a small Wafer have conjoyned new soul body-state destroying principles as that Dominion is founded in Grace That Religion should be promoted by the Sword A Turkish Tenet And that which is the Lerna Malorum that makes way if believed and entertained unto the establishing of all manner of Villanies in practise and falshood in opinion viz. That the Pope is infallible Thus for matters of Faith and as for their Morals how impure have been their practises not only allowing of publick Stews so that in Rome there were no less than twenty five thousand Common Women in the year 1565. under the Popes protection who received Bp. Jewel a Tribute from them but those houses of inforced and usually but pretended Charity have proved no other than unclean Brothel-houses and murderous habitations witness those 6000 Heads of Children taken out of a Pond near a Nunnery by the Command of Gregory the then Pope And as for Papal Vestals that were at greater liberty we read that Boniface an Englishman in the year 616 complained in a Letter rent to Cuthbert Archbishop of Canterbury That the English Nuns wandering in pilgrimage under shew of Devotion lived in pleasure and wanton Fornication through all the Cities of France and Lumbardy Speeds Hist p 360. How holy and chast the Roman Court was we have the Testimony of Cardinal Hugo who told them of Lyons in his farewel-Sermon when the Pope had for some time so journed amongst them That of the many benefits that the Popes abode had brought them this was a principal that when at his coming thither there were three or four houses of Common-Women in Lions now at their departure they lest but one but that indeed reached from the East-gate to the West facta est urbs tota lupana And of what temper of manners they were generally of even their devoted and religious persons in the days of King Richard the first of England we may find by that answer which

Eben-Ezer In which words we have three things considerable 1. The sense of their deliverance Then 2. Their present thankfulness saying Hitherto 3. Their care for the continuance of the memorial of it Then Samuel took a stone Of each of these in their order and first of the 1. Their sense of their Deliverance implied in the word Then When God had thundred on the Philistines and discomfited them v. 10. When the men of Israel went out from Mizpeh and pursued them and smote them until they came to Beth car v. 11. My present business is to parallel their Case with ours The Israelites Case was whilst they were unarmed fasting and praying and Confessing their sins and in all likelihood met at Mizpeh for the consulting about their Concerns so then Samuel judged Israel v. 6. as likewise we read of Israels meeting there before that time Judg. 10. 17. not thinking or being suspitious or afraid of any danger near them but in profound Peace as to men and by humbling themselves before God making their Peace with him Then the Lords of the Philistines went up against Israel and drew near to battel v. 10. with which sudden and unexpected danger they were very much terrified and in that fear did not sink under and cowardly run away as the Emperor Ferdinands Popish Army invading the Hussites for their Religion twice did being stricken by God with a panick fear never striking one stroke but they bethought themselves and betook themselves to the best course they could for their own preservation they befought Samuel not to cease to pray for them they remembred most likely that it was Moses's hand lift up that gave their forefathers victory and they themselves went out of Mizpeh and pursued them and God himself thundred upon them so that the Philistines were discomfited and smitten before Israel until they came to Beth-car v. 11. Lo this their deliverance and their sense of it appears by Samuels setting a stone erecting a Monumental Trophy of Gods mercy shewn them in that place Now should we parallel our Deliverance from the Powder-Treason and Traytors and theirs from the Philistines we shall find many remarkable Circumstances that heightned the greatness of our danger and so the value of our deliverance above theirs Which I may but touch 1. Their danger was from open enemies from whom they had deserv'd and could expect no other Ours was from pretended Friends who lived yea flourished with Wealth and Honour under the Protection of that King and Laws that they endeavoured the Destruction of were secret enemies that lived as Friends in the midst of us 2. The Israelites danger was known to them and could not be hid from them the Lords of the Philistines went up against them in battel in an hostile manner as declared Enemies Ours was altogether hidden from us no sign token or suspition of any mischief towards all things calm and those that call themselves Romau Catholicks a Contradiction in the terms as a Particular Vniversal had a very great share in the Kings favour and pretended greatest satisfaction with it Then the Lords of our Philistines the enemies of our Peace and Religion did not go up with an Army at their heels though they had Provision to have suddenly raised one but they went down into the Vaults and Cellars with the Devil at their elbows Their under-ground-Contrivances prevented discovery till our great and gracious God whose name be ever magnified who is Pan Ophthaelmus and saw those hidden works of darkness made one of themselves an Instrument of revealing of them and their most mischievous design And hence may all Gods saithful Servants comfort themselves That though the Devils claws be in all our enemies Plots and our danger yet still God seeth them though they do not and hath and will have a hand in their Discovery and in his Servants Deliverance as he had in Israels Deliverance from the Philistines and in our forefathers and in them our Deliverance from the Powder-Treason 3. The Israelites Danger was what they knew provided against and that by all the ways that could be imagined likely to deliver them as 1. Humiliation fasting weeping 2. Their own Reformation they put away Baalim and Ashteroth 3. Their importunate desires of Samuels praying for them 4. Samuels answering their desire not only 1. Earnestly praying He cried 2. But likewise sacrificing a Lamb. v. 9. Samuel set Faith and Prayer on work first he sacrificed exercised and acted his Faith on Jesus Christ the true Lamb of God that was by the Levitical Lambs typified as being slain from the beginning of the World and then he earnestly and fervently not only prayeth but crieth to the Lord for them And having thus taken the right course to make God their friend for this is the course of his own prescribing 2 Chron. 7. 14. If my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked wayes then will I hear c. Having taken this course they then 5. Set themselves forth couragiously and valiantly to fight against them and God fought with them and for them and made them victorious over their enemies insomuch that they drove them clean out of the field into their strong-hold of Beth-car the consequence of which Victory was the recovering of their own City and Peace with the Amorites Having thus considered theirs let us now see what our Danger and so Deliverance was 1. Our Danger was not from open enemies but pretended and supposed friends who had been many ways obliged to gratitude and good Offices by the favour of their Prince and the courtesie and kindness of their fellow-Subjects Oh horrid and unnatural Ingratitude and almost incredible were it not that we have seen and known by woful experience that the blind zeal of Jesuit-ridden Papists carrieth them against all the tyes and obligations that flow from gratitude kindred friendship Relation and in the service of the Devil and the Pope makes them like Levi to know neither Father nor Mother Kin nor Relation Friendship nor Gratitude but tramples down all that 's sacred that stands in the way of their promoting of the Interest of the Roman Church and if that be the case then Tros Tyrius nullo discrimen agetur Let them be Friend or Foe Relation or Stranger their fellow-Catholicks yea fellow Plotters too it 's all one if they are conceived to be blocks in their way they must be removed if their strength teachers and the seasonableness of so doing prompt to it And our Progenitors found that observation before mentioned very true in those English Powder-Traytors viz. That an English man Italionated is a Devil incarnate 2. Our Danger was hid from us no suspition nor fear nor apprehension of it all secure Halcyon days of peace without any disturbance The fear of danger that possest the Nation in reference to the death of Queen Elizabeth was over Sol occubuit nox