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A33996	A word in season being a parallel between the intended bloody massacre of the people of the Jews, in the reign of King Ahasuerus and the hellish powder-'plot against the Protestants in the reign of King James : together with an account of some of the wicked principles and practises of the Church of Rome, demonstrated in their barbarous and cruel murders and massacres of the Protestants in the Netherlands, France, Ireland, Piedmont, the Albigenses, &c. : also shewing that the present Church of Rome is an apostate church ... / by H.C., a lover of true Protestants.	Care, Henry, 1646-1688.	1679 (1679)	Wing C537; ESTC R13082	42,613	54

drunk deep of the Blood of the Martyrs of Jesus and also because she sets at nought God 's holy Word therefore we cannot we will not bow to her Golden Image that she hath set up notwithstanding all her Threats As Nebuchadnezzar threatned the three Worthies with a burning fiery Furnace if they would not bow down to the Image of Gold which he had set up So this Mother of Harlots if you will not put your Necks under her Yoke then comes an Armada an Inquisition a Massacre a Powder-plot Fire Faggot Racks Assassinations Stranglings witness Justice Godfry Who for taking but an Examination which was his Place and Work and Sworn to it those Men of Blood could not sleep quietly till their malice was vented on his Body by strangling and other Tortures they put him to as is more than probable to protract his misery and after a considerable time thrust a Sword into his Body to make the World believe it was his own Act. Surely had he done it himself some Blood would have appeared on the Ground where he lay but the Sword being run into his Body some considerable time after Strangling the Blood being coagulated nothing appears but a black Water which usually followeth after the Bloods coagulating And that Act inhumane and horrid Act was done by the Papists is clear from their taking his Pocket Book where the Depositions and Examinations were which was that they wanted though not his Gold nor Silver 'T is true his great Lace Band he went out withal in the Morning was taken away the Gentleman being strangled doubtless the Band was torn in the Fray and to have let that gone would have told the Story too plainly But this Blood as well as the Blood of many millions more crieth for Vengeance That one instance in Ireland in that most inhumane Massacre in 1642 wherein were more than three hundred thousand in a few days put to Death some burnt some slain with the Sword some shot to Death some smothered some starved and pined to Death some killed with Staves some cut in pieces some hanged twice or thriee many thousands drowned at Portendown-Bridg And when the poor Souls came swimming by the River side to save their Lives the Papists knockt them on the head with the But-end of their Musquets But the Instance I mind is that at Portendown-Bridg a Woman was seen to rise Brest-high out of the River her Hair hanging down with Skin as white as Snow often crying out Revenge Revenge Revenge which made the Persons much amazed that saw and heard it This was attested by one Elizabeth Price whose Husband was thrown into that River before the Commissioners appointed for that purpose with many more that might be named 4. Sudden Death was designed by wicked Haman after one Years provision and preparation for the Work as the Spanish Invasion was five Years before compleated so there was to be one Year For on the 13th day of the first Month the King's Scribes were called to make the Writings and on the 11th day of the twelfth Month the month Adar the Massacre was appointed and then nothing but sudden Death in one day Saith the Word They were to Destroy Kill and to cause to Perish all Jews both young and old little Children and Women in one day Esther 3. 12 13. So in like manner Sudden Death was like to be the portion of the Protestants in England Time for Repentance would have been reckoned too good for an Heretick To kill them and send them to Hell speedily is an act meritorious and cause of Triumph when there was near one hundred thousand lives in three days time taken away in France which it seems no less could quench the thirst of that unsatiable Whore and Harlot his Holiness at Rome at the same time made Bonfires rings his Bells shoots off his Guns and sang O horrid Blasphemy Te deum Laudamus We praise thee O God As if he would draw in the most Gracious God to be accessary to his Murders and an accomplisher of his Bloody and Abominable Impieties Sudden death is that they delight in when so many Barrels of Gun-powder were under the Parliament House and Chair of State Thirty six Barrels would soon have dispatcht the King Princes Clergie Nobles Knights and Burgesses the very confluence of the Flower of Glory Learning Prudence and Authority in the Land Fathers Sons and Brothers Foes Papists Protestants all at one blast and after that had been done then a sudden Massacre throughout the Nation and so would have altered Religion and Government and brought in a Foraign Power But our good God hath prevented them hitherto praised be his holy Name O what a settled Detestation and fixed Opposition should we have against that Religion whose Faith is Faction whose Promises are Equivocations whose Worship is Idolatry whose Principles are high Treason whose Mercies are Cruelties whose practices are Stabbing Strangling and poysoning of Kings whose frame of Government is a politick design to enslave the World and to bring the Necks of Princes under their Iron Yoke and whose God is a pretty little tiny thing which the Priests first create with a Charm of four Words long and then worship the Works of their own Hands and when they have done chop him up at a bit and make no Bones of him 5. Much Deceit and Hypocrisy was acted by wicked Haman when he intended to have the Jews Massacred For he pretended to the King Ahasuerus that this People had Laws diverse from the King's Laws and that they kept not the Laws of the King and besides that it was not for the Kings profit to suffer such People Est 3. 8. This he pretends to the King as the great reason why he would have them destroyed when indeed it was not out of love he had to the King's Honour but his own through the pride of his own Heart All the reason was because Mordecai would not bow to him Esther 3. 5. As hypocritical and deceitful hath Rome been in bringing about her wicked Designs at all times for concerning this Powder-plot the better to bring about her design Mr. Percy takes some Rooms of one Mr. Winyard which Rooms served for withdrawing Rooms in Parliament-time for the Lords for these Rooms adjoyned to the Wall of the Parliament-House and Percy took Fauks under pretence to be his Man who changed his name into Johnson he had the Keys and keeping of the Rooms and these Rooms were taken for Lodging Rooms They took also another House and a Seller just under the Parliament House under pretence to keep Coals and Wood which was to make the Serpents Nest in thus their deceit appears Yea further When they wanted to bring the Plot upon the Protestants for that they would have done one of the Conspirators Mr. Keys a Relation of Mr. Pickring of Tichmarsh Grove in Northamptonshire which Pickring was a Protestant and a great Favourite of King James's who had a very choice Horse This

Mr. Key one of the Conspirntors borrowed Mr. Pickring's Horse under pretence no Horse could serve his turn so well as that which indeed would not considering he was a Protestant this Horse was to stand in St. Georges Field ready for Fauks after the Blow was given as the Papists pretended to him Mr. Pickring was to be killed and conveyed away so as not to be found and when Fauks came into St. Georges Fields the Papists did intend to kill him and so to have mangled him that he should not have been known from Mr. Pickring the Protestant and so it should have been bruited abroad presently that the Protestants had done the work of the Plot and to make the World believe it Here say they or would have said is Mr. Pickring with his choice Horse who did the thing and was about to make his escape but he was prevented and so they did intend to have Massacred the Protestants under that pretence of their blowing up the Parliament House Fauks after he was taken and put into the Tower would not confess any thing notwithstanding they put him upon the Rack till he came to understand the design of his Brethren in Iniquity against him who promised him a great sum of Money to set the House on Fire yet when he came to make his escape in St. Georges Fields there they intended to take away his Life the better to bring about their design and then he confessed all when he came to hear this Thus we see there is no manner of safety in being a Papist for they value not the lives of their own party to bring about their designs for if we will not be subject to them in every thing they matter not the lives of their own Proselytes Witness King Henry the 3d and 4th of France the first because he would not destroy all the Hugonots and Protestants in France they Assassinated him and took away his Life So Henry the 4th was their Convert whom they twice Assissinated and the third time took away his Life so that a Man cannot promise himself any security under the Romish Religion but upon every humour and suspicion the Blood of the most Noble must go 6. As God wrought marvellously in the delivering the Seed of Abraham from the cruelty of wicked Haman so he did deliver England from the fate of Rome Consider with me a little how the providence of God did work in the saving the former King Ahasuerus makes a Feast invites his Nobles when his heart was merry with Wine he sends for Queen Vashti to come before him she refuseth to come the King and Nobles were greatly troubled for her not coming Queen Vashti is no more to come into the King's presence she is shut out for ever from being Queen more this makes way for Esther who was a Jew to be an Instument to save her People A great many fair Virgins were to be sought for by the King's Command out of all Provinces and brought to Shushan the King's Palace Now Mordecai the Jew brings in Esther his Uncles Daughter who had neither Father nor Mother and among all the Virgins that were brought none pleased the King so well as Esther whom he made Queen Again it came to pass on a certain Night that the King could not sleep a Hand of God there was in that also he calls for the Records in which he finds that two of the King's Chamberlains Bigthana and Teresh intended to lay Hands on the King which was discovered by Mordecai the Jew Then saith the King What hath been done to him for that good deed Hath he not been promoted for the same No say the King's Servants Who is in the Court saith the King Haman say the Servants Now Haman at this time stood in the outer Court to speak with the King to have Mordecai hanged on the Gallows he had prepared The King commanded Haman to be called in What saith the King to Haman shall be done to the man whom the King delighteth to honour Haman thinking he should be the man said thus Esther 6. 7 8 9. Let the Royal Apparel be brought which the King useth to wear and the Horse that the King rideth upon and the Crown Royal which he useth to wear And let this Apparel and Horse be delivered into the hands of one of the King 's most noble Princes that they may array him withal whom the King delighteth to honour And bring him on Horse-back through the Street of the City and proclaim before him Thus shall be done to the man whom the King delighteth to honour Then said the King to Haman Take the Apparel and Horse and do so to Mordecai the Jew that sitteth in the King's Gate and let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken Then Haman did as the King commanded but Haman hasted to his own House mourning and having his Head covered Mark how God's Providence did work further When Mordecai had by Proxy informed Queen Esther of wicked Haman's design and sent her a Copy of the Writings among the Jews by the hand of Hatateh the King's Chamberlain poor Mordecai weeps bitterly puts on Sackcloth and went into the midst of the City and cried with a loud and bitter Cry But when Queen Esther came to hear of the Design she is in a very great strait she had not been called before the King for thirty days space And there was a Law that whoever comes before the King into the inner Court except the King holds out his Scepter to them they are to be put to death What shall Queen Esther do now Well out of love to her own Country and considering what Mordecai said Think not that thou shalt save thy own Life Upon these considerations she resolves to go to the King with her Life in her Hand and if I perish I perish saith the Queen When she comes before the King God puts it in his heart to hold out his Scepter to her so Esther drew near and touched the top of his Golden Scepter Then saith the King to her What is thy Request and it shall be granted to the half of my Kingdom And Queen Esther answered Let the King and Haman come this day to a Dinner I shall prepare The King and Haman did so Now Haman's heart was lifted up when he heard that none but he was to go with the King to the Dinner the Queen had prepared yet saith he All this availeth me nothing so long as Mordecai standeth in the Kings Gate When the King Queen and Haman was at the Banquet of Wine What is thy Request Queen Esther saith the King and it shall be performed to thee even to the half of my Kingdom Then Esther the Queen answered If I have found favour in thine Eyes O King if it please the King let my Life be given at my Petition and my People at my Request for we are sold I and my People to be destroyed to be slain and to perish But

the same Sentence of Damnation as he that denieth the Almighty Power of God Stapleton an English Jesuit styl'd Pope Gregory the 13th The Great most Gracious and Soveraign God on Earth The Sicilian Ambassadors coming to ask Pardon of Martin the 4th delivered their Supplication by saying three times O Lamb of God which takest away the Sin of the World Again 'T is Heresie to think that our Lord God the Pope hath no power to decree as he hath decreed And the Canonists say one Article of the Popish Creed is That the power of Indulgences was left by Christ and that the use of them is very available to Salvation Secondly She blasphemeth the Tabernacle of God 1. This may either signifie the Church of God which oftentimes is called the House of God over which the Beast doth sinfully assume a Power Or 2. It holds forth the Humane Nature of Christ which the Author to the Hebrews doth elegantly call it because it was the true Tabernacle which the Lord had pitched and not Man which is blasphemed when the merit of those Sufferings which God himself underwent in the Humane Nature is lessened and Christ's Blood not accounted sufficient to cleanse from Sin without something added by Men to inch out its value Nay these Blasphemers do take away the property of each Nature in Christ the Godhead is Infinite the Humane Nature Finite The Pope doth set out the Deity of the Father in Pictures and Images and doth imagine the Humane Nature of Christ to be in many places at once With this shift Is any thing too hard for God So he forges a Finite Divinity and an Infinite Humanity He doth also confess in words that Chirst is Just and Merciful but in deed doth indirectly deny both For perfect Justice doth not admit of imperfect Satisfaction that 's humane and perfect Mercy doth not grant imperfect Pardon Christ doth not remit the Fault and retain the Punishment The Pope doth teach indirectly that imperfect Satisfaction and Pardon is performed by Christ to the Faithful and so makes Christ a plain Idol Thirdly Those that dwell in Heaven saith the Text are Blasphemed Rev. 13. 6. They are Angels or departed Saints Now when any thing is done to them that are in Heaven which they would not own on Earth is to blaspheme them You know when the Men of Lystra Acts 14. 14. offered to worship St. Paul and Barnabas which had the excuse of an amazing Miracle to justifie them yet 't is said they rent their Clothes Which was usual in cases of Blasphemy 2 Kings 18. 37. So when St. John would have worshipped the Angel said he I am thy Fellow-Servant Worship God Rev. 22. 8 9. So the Son of God himself appearing unto Manoah in the shape of an Angel would not have sacrifice offered to him but said If thou offer an Offering offer it to God Yet one Article of the Popes Creed is I do hold that the Saints reigning with Christ are to be worshipped and invocated that they offer up their Prayers to God for us and that their Reliques are to be worshipped When they pray to St. Gregory they say Let him save us from our Sins that in Heaven with the Saints we may rest So of St. Peter and St. Paul Grant that by both their Merits we may obtain the the glory of Eternity Again O Queen of Heaven most mild dearest Mother to thy Child Despise me not O Dust in thee alone I trust God's sweet Heart springing and Star of Grace Think on me still till I have run my Race We do thee praise and beg always Christ Jesus's Mother dear That thou attend and us defend From sad Death which we fear Again O Mary the Mother of Grace and Mercy defend us from our Enemies and receive us in the hour of Death O holy Cross our only hope increase our Righteousness O Saint saith the holy Servant of Christ prepare for us the Glory which thou hast merited O Prince Gabriel be on our side against the Wicked and all that work Iniquity Jaspar Melchior and Belthazar with all the twelve Apostles help me in my necessity Thus they invocate the Saints and Angels which is proper only to God Call upon me in the day of trouble Psal 50. 15. Reliques Invocated A Prayer to the Cross O Cross our only hope all hail Now on this Passion Day Make good mens Goodness more prevail Take Sinners guilt away Devotion to a Rag. A piece of Linnen they say that wiped our Saviour's Face when he sweat in his Passion on which the lively picture of his Face was imprinted if you will believe it All hail our Redeemer the most holy Face Wherein doth shine the beauty of Divinest Grace Imprinted on a Snow-white Cloth by th' Power above And on the Vernacle beside as pledg of Love Be to us we thee pray a Buckler and Relief A sweet Refreshment and great comfort from our Grief That Foes may never hurt us but we still the same May heavenly rest enjoy for evermore Amen Thirdly The Church of Rome is a proud Harlot This appears in that she cannot be satisfied without Ruling and Reigning over mens Bodies and Souls yea over the best Kings and Princes in the World and all under pretence that the Pope is St. Peter's Successor Which makes nothing for him if he were but against him for St. Peter tells us that Bishops must not be Lords over God's Heritage 2 Pet. 5. 1 2 3 4 5. Christ alone is the chief Shepherd of the Sheep Therefore Shepherds are so far from being Lords over God's Heritage that they are to be Servants as Christ saith He that will be greatest among you let him be a Servant As Christ commanded Peter to feed his Lambs and Sheep John 21. 15 16 17. Shepherds have an equal Power here under Christ and he is the Head of all See Ephes 1. 22. Col. 1. 18. Besides St. Peter exhorts to a subjection to Kings and Kingly Government 1 Pet. 2. 13 14 15. such as are a Terror to evil doers and a praise to them that do well But the Pope is so unlike St. Peter that he tells us he hath power to dispossess Princes if they will not root out such as he calls Hereticks Pope Alexander the third made one of the Emperors fall down before him in the Temple of St. Mark at Venice all the People being present putting his beastly Foot on his Neck and uttered these words of the Psalmist Thou shalt tread on the Lion and the Adder the young Lion and Adder thou shalt trample under foot The usages of King Henry the second and King John do very plainly prove his Usurpation over Kings They did what they could against Queen Elizabeth when they Excommunicated her and they would have dispossessed her of the Kingdom they did what they could by their Invincible Armada as the Pope christened it in 1588. but through God's Goodness it proved Vincible When the Scripture tells us