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A04425	The sermon preached at Paules Crosse, the tenth day of Nouember being the next Sunday after the discouerie of this late horrible treason. By the right reuerend father in God, William, by Gods permission, Lord Bishop of Rochester.	Barlow, William, d. 1613.	1606 (1606)	STC 1455; ESTC S114147	14,828	38

not without some annoyance Euen the verie Saluere of the tongue like the Saliva thereof hath some venome in it Psalme 28. 3. They speake friendly to their neighboures but imagine mischiefe in their heartes But their reall Deliuerances much more noxious For as it is in the Apologue to which the Poet alludeth of the Combat betweene the Stagge and the Horse viz. That the Horse beeing too weake for the Stagge required the helpe of the man which hee easily obtained who getting vpon the Horse backe driued the Stagge to flight but after that non equitem dorso non fraenum depulit oze he could neuer since quit his backe of the rider nor his mouth from the bit so is it with the helps of worldly Potentates beneficia viscata as the birde hauing escaped the snare percheth vpon the tree for refuge and there shee findes bird-lime to intangle her from whence she cannot flie but with losse of her feathers if not of her members so is it with the helps of States and Nations aske their helpe in distresse they will graunt it but withall eyther they exact a tribute which exhausteth the Treasury or impose conditions which infringe the Liberty or require a future aide which weakeneth the Power or betray vpon aduantage which redoubles the Misery or vpbraide the benefite which exulcerates the minde This is Saluatio ab Optimatibus as the Latines reade Ieremy 25.35 which as the Vsurers loane to speake for the capacity of the Citty freeth a man from the prison for the time but inuellops him in bondes more miserable more durable than the prison Herein differing from God for his blessing sayeth Salomon giueth riches yea and Deliuerances nec addit molestiam and ioyneth no sorrowes with them For if it bee salutare ex Sion Ps. 53.6 Then shall Iacob reioyce and Ifrael shall bee glad And thus much for the word Salutes the summe whereof is Psalme 85.9 that if it be Salutare Domini there concurre with it omnes salutes Glory Mercy Righteousnesse Peace as the Prophet there noteth The conclusion that in psalme 3.8 Domini est salus it is the Lord onely that giues true Deliuerance and withall a blessing vpō his people And this for the Pluralitie and Qualitie of the Deliuerances Now we come to the Quantitie Great wherein wee will not goe further than this Psalme nor there speake of his Salus coronans eyther the Celsitude of his honour verse 35. He hath set me vp on high places nor of the Amplitude of his honour verse 45. Thou hast made mee the head of the heathen a people remote vnknowne nor of his Triumphs ouer his enemeies verse 42. Driuing them as the winde the dust before him trampling them as the clay in the streetes vnder him though this bee also the Salus coronans of our dread Soueraigne and glorious King but onely shew the greatnesse of the dangers which Dauid escaped as more sutable to this late horrible occurrent both in respect of the dangers themselues as first Dolores mortis verse 4. the pangs of death which the imminent expectation put him vnto for the expectation of death is more bitter then death it selfe Secondly Laquei mortis funes inferni verse 6. daungers in the darke treasons in secret treacheries of the Vault Thirdly aquae multae one danger in the necke of another verse 16. And also of the Authors as verse 4. Torrentes iniquitatis streames of wickednesse a concurrence of Conspirators Secondly which is our late case vers 48. Vir iniuriarum or rapinae a cruell blood-thirstie wretch like our Vault-enginer All these of Dauids were great indeed but compared to this of our gracious King the last I trust for a worse there cannot be is but as a minium to a large whether we consider therein eyther the Plot it selfe or the Con-comitance with it or the Consequences of it Plot. FIrst in the Plot obserue I pray you a cruell Execution an inhumane crueltie a brutish immanitie a diuelish brutishnes an Hyperbolicall yea an hyperdiabolicall diuelishnes First Cruelty in the effusiō of blood cursed both of God and man for Cursed art thou from the earth saith God to Cain Genes 4.11 for one mans blood spilt Cursed be the rage for it was cruell saith Iacob of his sonnes Gen. 49.7 in the slaughter of the Shechemites Secondlie Immane crueltie in the multitude of the slaine to make himselfe drunke with the blood of so many Worthies and so innocent for by the reporte of militarie men his prouision was so large that if fire had beene giuen beside the place it selfe at the which hee aymed the Hall of Iudgement the Courtes of Recordes the Collegiate Church the Cittie of Westminster yea White-Hall the Kinges house had beene trushed and ouerthrowne such heapes hee had layde in of Billets Fagots huge stones Iron-crowes Pike-axes great Hammer-heades besides so many barrels of Gun-powder fiue and thirtie in number small and great as I am credebly informed Thirdly his brutish immanity in the manner of the death not man-like to kill but beast-like to discerpe and teare parcell meale the bodies of such personages Ferina rabies est saith Seneca dilaniare non occidere Fourthly his diuelish feritie first for the materials of the death intended Gun-powder which they say none but the diuell the King of the sulphurious pit did inuent secondly for the fierie massacre it should haue made not from heauen as the fire that came downe from aboue vppon Iobs substance Iob. 1.16 For which cause it is there called Ignis Dei but vnder the earth out of a Caue as kindled and sent from the infernall pit The Apostle sayeth That the member which sets on fire Rotam generationis Iames 3.6 The whole course of generation as this shoulde haue done it selfe is set on fire by Hell Fiftly But this more then diuelish for this Diuell of the Vault contented not himselfe with the death of the bodie but reached in his Proiect at the second death of the soule by taking away many so suddenly in their sinnes vnrepented with their mindes vn-prepared I trust that this escape will make many to like the better of the prayer against suddaine death for though I doubt not but if it had beene effected that this whirling blast woulde haue beene vnto our sacred King so Religious in his profession so innocent from wrong so cleare in his conscience as the Whirle-wind and fiery chariot of Elias to haue carried vppe his soule to heauen and that God in his mercy woulde haue made this Deluge of Bloode as Baptismum sanguinis a Baptisme of Martyrdome to haue washt away our sinners and as a Holocaust an whole burnt sacrifice to propitiate his wrath for our Transgressions yet as much as in this Fury it lay he wold haue sent vs all to hell Secondly And still I say a Rage more then diuelish for the Diuell when hee is described to haue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Apoc. 12.12 to bee in his extreamest rage

yet then hee is saide verse 4. to haue drawne with his tayle but the third part of the starres and that from heauen to earth but this Diuell with his traine would at once haue pulled downe all the glorious Starres both fixed and erraticall those that are fastened to the Court and those which come and goe as they are called and dismissed yea euen the Sunne the Moone themselues not from heauen to earth but to the bottomlesse pit as much as in him lay Thirdly and still I say more then diuelish For as the Fathers alluding vnto that speech of the King of Sodome Da mihi animas caetera cape tibi Genes 14.21 doe well obserue that the diuell is contented with the soules of men for if Iob would haue cursed God to his face Iob. 1.11 he would not haue cared though his substance and honour had beene encreased and his life continued but this Satanicall miscreant must haue body and goods and life and soule and all Lastly marke in this Plot a prodition without a match and yet it shoulde haue beene effected with a match but I meane a Treason without Paralell a slaughter beyonde comparison For the Treason the neerest that I find to it is that in the Roman Historie of the schoolmaister among the Falerians whose Citty Camillus besieged who hauing the sonnes and youth of all the Nobility and the Chiefe of that Cittie in his tuition drawing them into the fieldes a little without the Walles vnder pretence for their recreation betraide them all at once into the handes of Camillus and yet herein there is a great disparison for they were but children but in this case olde and young parents and progenie all at once should haue beene betrayed they were aliue and so might be eyther raunsomed or recouered or if slaine yet they should haue seene their death but here without ransom or recouery or seeing who had hurt them for so the letter boasts a death suddaine and invisible there but the sprowtes of one Cities Nobilitie a small territorie heere the stem and seede Royall with the Honour and Hope of this whole Ilands Gentry and Nobility But Slaughter none can I thinke of matchable therewith Pharao slew the Males of Israel but that was by Edict and they were Children and of his Vassalles Herod massacred the infantes but that was to secure him of his State shaken as he thought by a prediction Math. 2. Abimelech and Athaliah killed all the allies of the bloud but their furie was stanched in the issue Royall Of Achilles his furie it is saide by the Poet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that he sent many worthy men to the graue but that was in open warre and in the compasse of many yeares And all these were Kinges and Tyrants and so their mind the same with Polynices in the Tragaedy Imperia precio quonis constant bené that Kingdomes are to bee bought at any rate but what shoulde moue this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a vermine of the basest sorte a very Tenebrio the slaue of darkenesse like a Mole vnder the grounde to subuerte at one push as the Prophet speaketh Esay 9.14 heade tayle braunch and roote all in one day Caligula was but a shadow for he wished that all the Cittizens of Rome had but one necke that at one blow hee might cut it off but this Blood-sucker not only wished it but contriued it prepared for it and was ready to execute it There was but one famous Nero which for his Crueltie got the name of Nero frō all the rest him hath he matched in Affection for when one of Nero his dissolute company had said Me mortuo when I am deade let heauen earth goe together Nay said Nero Me viuo while I am aliue So ment Guy Faulkes the true name of a false traytor to haue beheld as hee said the houses and bodies flying vp he liuing laughing at it If hee had solde vs for bond-slaues hand-maides saith Hester of Haman yet there had been life and so hope of returne but to make an vtter dissolution of the whole State had beene a misery incurable was a proiect most damnable Here was read the parties confession so much as concerned the Plot. ANd so much of the Plot. Now for the Con-comitance what would haue come to passe euen with that blow The olde Greeke Prouerbe is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that no great exploit can suddenly be effected especially alteration of States doe aske a long time must bee wrought by degrees for omnis subita mutatio est periculosa euen to the Conquerors themselues and therefore in their purpose to change a State they will begin with one thing at once as with weakening the force or exhausting the wealth or altering the Religion or remouing their Gouernors but in this designe Vno flatu vno ictu vno nictu with one blast at one blow in one twinkling of an eye should haue bin crushed together the Gouernement the Councell the wisedom the Religion the Learning the strength the Iustice of the whole land The want of one of these is a blemish to a State and bringes a miserie with it A Realme without a Monarch as the Skie without the Sunne is a clowde of darkenesse a darkenes of confusion A Monarch without counsell as a head without eyes obnoxius of it selfe to danger and a burden to the members Counsell without Wisdome as an arrow out of a childes bow accidentally fortunate but originally weake Wisedome without Religion like Tullies Offices politique but prophane Religion without Learning like the Athenian Altar Act. 17 superstitiously deuoute but fundamentally vnsound Learning not guarded with strength as a rich Citie without wals naked vnfenced Strength without Iustice as a Lyon broke from his Cage furious and vnsatiable And yet this darkenes this blindenes this prophanes this superstition this weakenes this lawles fury had with this blowing vp bin blown in ouer this whole nation a thing which neither the greatest Potentate of the world with his strongest inuasion nor the most dangerous rebel though most popular powerfull coulde haue brought to passe after many repulses in many years namely to take away at once the hope of succession the Oracles of wisedome the Chariots of Israel the Beau-peeres of Learning the buttresses of strength the guardians of iustice the glory of the Nobilitie and in one word the Flower of the whole Kingdome not as Tarquinius the poppy heades one after one but with Sampsons crush al in a moment And which makes the fact more odious in the sanctuary of the Kingdom These would haue gone with the blow but what should the Issue haue been If the light which is within thee be darkenesse saith our Sauiour Mat. 6.23 how great is that darkenes and yet such had beene ours when all the lights together were extinguished Begin first with the chiefest and brightest Lucerna Israel so is the King called 2. Sam. 21. It is a wo to