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A05281	Great Britaines, great deliuerance, from the great danger of Popish powder by way of meditation, vpon the late intended treason against the Kings most excellent Maiestie, the Queene, the Prince, and all their royall issue: with the high court of Parliament at Westminster, there to haue been blowne vp by the Popish faction, the fift of Nouember, 1605. If God of his great mercy had not preuented the mischiefe.; Great Britaines, great deliverance, from the great danger of Popish powder.	Leigh, William, 1550-1639.	1606 (1606)	STC 15425; ESTC S103613	18,263	36

against vs Let them not say in their hearts there there so would we haue it Neither let them saie We haue deuoured them Which and if they had then might we haue said with the Prophet There is a crying in the streetes all our ioy is darkened the mirth of the world is gone away in the Citie is left desolation the gate is strucken with destruction Then might we haue sung with Dauid that mournfull Lamentation hee vttered of his King to his Country O noble Israel hee is slaine vpon thy high places how are thy mighty ouerthrowne Saul and Ionathan were louely in their liues and at their deaths they were not diuided Then might we haue said that vpon the fift day of Nouember wee should neuer haue kept merry feast the day of the dissolution of so blessed an estate We might haue said indeed that this yeare 1605. had beene a yeare of Reuolution and that Tuesday were our dismall day Criticall in Scotland the fift of August for Gowry his treason And dismall in England the fift of Nouember for Faukes his designe plotted by bloudie Papists the bane of Christendome and Dolmans dogges now warranted by a new doctrine to barke at Kings and bite the Lords annointed if they be not pleasing to their deuotions Thus endaungered and yet thus deliuered endangered by men but deliuered by God Now let vs ioyntly giue him the glorie Dread Soueraigne deare Queene sweet Prince and progeny cast downe your Crownes at the feete of your Sauiour and say We haue bene saued by thee Earles Nobles Barons laie by your Robes of state with your ensignes of honor praise him who hath preserued you and say We haue beene saued by thee You Officers in Court resigne vp your staues into the hands of God and say We haue bene supported by thee Ye learned Bishops and Fathers of the Church slide from your Consistories and say to the great Bishop of your soules Wee haue bene kept by thee Ye Knights Squiers and Gentry of the Land vnarme your selues and with your Crests lay your Lawrel in the lap of Christ and say Wee haue conquered through thee Thou high Court of Parliament dissolue for a time and say O Angell of the great Councell We will consult with thee And lastly Thou Lord God of Gods and preseruer of men let there be silence in heauen for the space of halfe an houre till these Saints praises and praiers be offered vp So shall we sing with a godly Ouation and a grace in our hearts Kings of the earth all people Princes and all Iudges of the world yong men maids old men and babes praise the name of the Lord for his name onely is excellent and his praise aboue heauen and earth hee hath exalted the horne of his people and his Saints shall praise him euen the children of England whom he loueth and hath made so glorious by deliuerance Praise the Lord ô virgin daughter London Praise thy God ô England the Glorie of Kingdomes and beautie of all Europes honor for he hath made fast the barres of thy gates and hath blessed thy children within thee hee hath set peace in thy borders and satisfied thee with the flower of wheat Let the praise of God therefore be euer in thy mouth and a sharpe two edged sword in thy hands to be avenged of the heathenish Atheist and to rebuke the bloudie Papist such honor haue all Saints And now to speake to you Authors and Abetters of these desperate Treasons Cease your Rebellions laie by your bloudie designes recoūt which your selues your former both faithlesse and fruitlesse attempts against the Lord and against his annointed Recken with your selues your former losses in the year 1588. whē the windes the Seas Rocks Shelues fought for vs whē the Riuer Kishon swept them away from our English Coast to Dingle Cush in Ireland with a Beesome of such destructiō to their great Armado frighting to our English Fugitiues abroad and of their fauorites at home as by the grace of God hath brought them out of all heart out of all abilitie and possibilitie euer to attempt the like Learne what it is to fight with God VVe must encrease you must decrease for Babilon is fallen so told you by the Angel as a thing alreadie past and done and doubled in speech like Phan●●s dreame to tell you of the certaintie and expedition thereof Cease O cease to prouoke the Lord any longer and end your mallice against his Saints ere mallice end you lest he say vnto you as he did vnto Mount Seir Because thou hast had a perpetuall hatred and hast put the Israel of God to flight by the force of the sword in the time of their calamitie when their iniquitie had an end Therfore as I liue saith the Lord God I will prepare thee vnto bloud and bloud shall pursue thee except thou hate blood euen bloud shall pursue thee God is witnesse before whom I stand in the sight of men and Angels that I speake not this to seeke the bloud of any their bloud be vpon themselues and theirs till they haue dried it vp by vnfained repentance I wish the conuersion of all vijs modis by all good meanes I wish our Lawes may still bee written in milke and that his Maiesties Royall heart may continue a depth of rare mercy I wish our preaching may sauour peace and that the Magistrate may still strike with a trembling hand Yet giue me leaue to pray withall that the rage of the enemy neuer grow so sower as to turne our milke into bloud mercy into iudgement peace into warre sythes into swords and them to be hallowed in the bloud one of another which I feare both must and wil ensue if they grow so great in the contempt of God so greeuous to their Soueraigne and so intollerable to the state which if they doe then be wise ô ye Kings be learned ye that be Iudges of the earth Let mercy and truth meete together in you Let righteousnes and peace kisse each other Take the sword into your owne hands and strike ô ye Worthies of Israel for Zeba and Zalmana will neuer be killed by the weake hands of Iethro for as the man is so is his strength the Minister may speake and the inferior Magistrate may strike and both with a trembling heart and hand like the child Iethro but assure your selues that Romish Zeba and Popish Zalmana will neuer die till you rise vp and with your own hands fall vpon them as Gedeon did for as the man is so is his strength Sit in vobis materna pietas paterna seueritas exhibite vos matres fouendo patres corripiendo extendite vbera sed producite verbera That is Let there be in you a motherly pittie and a fatherly seueritie shew your selues Mothers in cherishing but Fathers in correcting Laie out your brests but withall draw forth your

who were a mixed people and of a confused Religion tollerating both the persons and causes of Idolatry As you may reade in the 2. of Kings 17. vers 24. for the persons And vers 23. for the cause And the Iewes in the daies of Christ thought it as greeuous an imputation as they could deuise to laie vpon him when they said Say we not wel that thou arta Samaritan and hast a diuel And surely so it is for to be of two religions is to be of no religion and to tollerate both is to confound all either in a kingdome or in a conscience It is memorable and it may goe for a Caution to all Christian Kings and Princes what is recorded in this case of the vnconscionable offer of great Chan the Tartarian Prince of whom Lipsius reporteth that when Stephanus that mightie King of Poland was dead he amongst others sent his Legat to the assembly where the new Creatiō was with these three motiues to moue them to make him King 1. First that he was mightie and could bring myriads of horsmen out of his owne lands either for the defence or inlarging of their kingdome of Poland 2 Secondly that he was frugall could liue in time of famine onely with horse flesh 3. Thirdly for the Religion whereof he heard there was much dispute among them that he was indifferent saying Tuus pontefex meus pontefex esto tuus Lutherus meus Lutherus esto Your Pope shall be my Pope and your Luther shall be my Luther It was the Tartarians sinne to be so indifferent and so readily to offer a tollerance and it was the Polonians sinne so long to suffer a mixture of many or moe religiōs then one in a kingdome And yet how euer either feare or folly moued the Polonians for the time to endure it and to staine their kingdome and conscience with so great a brand of wickednes notwithstanding the Emperours large offers otherwise yet that of Religiō was thought so ydle as they reiected it with laughter saying Ecce hominem paratum omnia sacra deos deserere regnandi causa But good Lord how inestimably are we beholding to thee our good God for so great a mercy as to giue vs a King in thy loue when we were a people not to be beloued whose Princely relish sauoring true pietie did so much distast either an alteratiō of the religiō we haue or a tolleratiō of any other as in publique he did cōtest against both in these words I doe protest before God and his Angels that I am so constant for the maintenance of the Religion publikely professed in England as that I would spend my deerest blood in defence thereof Rather then the truth should bee ouer throwne And if I had ten times as many moe Kingdomes as I haue I would dispend them all for the safetie and protection thereof And likewise if I had any children that should yeelde either to the Popish faith or faction I desire of God that I may rather see them brought to their graues before me that their shame may be buried in my life time neuer to bee spoken of in future ages By the Lawe of GOD no man may weare a coate of Linsey-wolsey If I may not weare a garment so woven vppon my backe may I weare a Religion so twisted within my heart May Princes tollerate it in their Kingdomes May fathers in their families It were a grieuous imputation to either of both and that which the aduersarie himselfe would neuer yeelde vs they will neither tollerate vs nor ours and why should wee endure either them or theirs If the euill will not yeelde to the good why should the good yeeld to the euill Doe but mention a tolleration of Religion in Rome and Rome will be ragious doe but speake of such a thing in Spaine and it will be thought prodigious France is fearefull in deliuering it Edicts and whole Italy is resolute neuer to yeelde either to our cause or persons Why should wee then endure either them or theirs in their knowne Idolatrie Were the Law of God on foote that Idolaters should die the death soone would the controuersie be determined and motions for tollerations in Christian common-wealthes would seldome bee mentioned but whilest we demurre vpon the point and stand a disputing whether Papists be Idolaters whether Rome bee Babilon the Pope Antichrist his Religiō antichristiā whether his louers friends be enemies to the state and dangerous to a Kingly rule I say whilest we demurre vpon such doubts and are a debating the Question Poperie will encrease and presume to gaine if not an alteration yet a tolleration If not a tolleration yet a connivence and if not that yet such a personall respect and fauour of some as will endanger the state of all if wee endure it any longer By the lawe of God the Idolater I say againe must die the death Exod. 22. 20. And if an Israelite will goe in and dally with a Midianite before Moses and in the sight of all the congregation zealous Phinehas with his speare in his hand may enter the Tent and thrust them through that the plague may cease from Israel Numbers 25. 6. The Lord hath sworne that hee will warre with Amaleck from generation to generation Exod. 17. And amongst other ordinances laid down by God for his people this was vrged againe to be remembred thus When the Lord hath giuen thee rest from all thine enemies and the land for an Inheritance to possesse it then shalt thou put out the remembrance of Amaleck from vnder heauen forget it not Deut. 25. 19. And 400. yeares after Saule was plagued for sparing Agag of the Amalekites and not executing of that lawe The Lord I can assure you requireth a through conuersion from sin And why not a through subuersion of sinne The Tabernacle of God hath it Censer Snuffers Beesome to purge the Sanctuarie sweepe away the filth if you build the rubbish must be remoued ere you lay the foundation be the body neuer so healthfull it will decay without an euacuation and vntill you take away the drosse from the siluer ye can neuer make a vessel for the Finer It was Ieremies moane at Anathoth in the land of Beniamin the bellowes are burned the lead is consumed in the fire the founder melteth in vaine for the wicked are not taken away As if he should say All our labour is lost and it is in vaine that we haue wearied our selues with our praier and Preaching if the wicked be not taken away As it is apparant this day by the baser sort of these audatious Rebels too much emboldened by his Maiesties most gracious and godly clemency which they haue abused and whom if they had requited with such an vnkinde kisse of killing crueltie yet might he haue said with the Orator Non vitiū nostrū sed virtus nostra nos afflixit Yea to speak frō a more powerfull spirit his Mastie and Senate being then about a worke of so great consequence both for the good of the Church and common-weale If that Court then had bene their coffin and they had died so doing yet might they haue said in the silence of their soules Happie is the seruant whom when the maister commeth he shall find so doing The Lord direct all as may be most for his glory though neuer so much to our triall and keepe vs O keepe vs Lord from this ill kind of men Roote out Poperie from the hearts of this people set vp thy truth ô Lord saue thine annointed In Sionis gaudium Anglo papistarum luctum Lord saue thine annointed that he his may be still vnto vs and ours as an hiding place from the wind and as a refuge for the tempest as riuers of water in a dry place and as the shadow of a great-Rock in a wearie land Then shall our-land take vp this prouerbe against the King of Locusts and all his crawling Agents It shall say as Israel and Iuda did of their Luciferian tyrant How hath the oppressor ceased the gold-thirstie Babel rested the Lord hath broken the rod of the wicked and the Scepter of the Rulers which would haue smitten this Land in anger with a continuall plague and ruled our Nation in their wrath but thy pompe ô Lucifer is brought downe to the graue the sound of thy vialls The worme is spred vnder thee and the wormes couer thee while England is at rest and quiet ô sing for ioy and sing to the praise of God in all your flockes and families the Psalme 124. Dauidica sentit qui Dauidica patitur Sing it with Dauids passion and it will be Mel in ore in aure melos in corde Iubiseus honie to the mouth musicke to the eare and a ioy to the heart And thou Lord God almightie maker of heauen and earth and preseruer of men so blesse vs out of Sion as wee may see still the beautie of our Church and Countrey the Soueraigne safetie of our King Queene Prince and Royall progenie the honourable Bench of our worthy Councellors Peeres and reuerend Fathers with the subuersion of Antichrist and peace in this our Israel Amen Amen FINIS 2. King 8. 11. 12. c. Reuel 9. 17. See the Mutabilitie of France for the nūber Lamen 5. 8. c. Lamen 5. 4. c. Lamen 3. 5. 3. Reu. 9. 11. Acts 5. 39. Iosua 10. 12. c. Eccle. 44. 8. c. Zach. 4. 9. c. Psal. 149. 4 Zach. 4. 10. 11. c. Gen. 32. 3● Gen. 1● 14 Hose 2. 1. Psal. 149. 4 Psal. 74. 13 Iob. 22. 29. 30. Gen. 18. 23. c. Psal. 35. 1. 25. Esay 24. 11. 12. 2. Sam. 1. 19. c. Reue. 8. 1 c. Psal. 148. 11. c. Psal. 147. 12. c. Psal. 149. 6 c. Iudg. 5. 20. 21. Io. 3. 30. Reue. 18. 2. c. Gene. 41. 32. Ezec. 35. 56. Psal. 2. 10. c. Psal. 45. 10 Iudg. 8. 20. 21. Prou. 25. 4. Eccl. 8. 11. 1. Sam. 4. 21. 22. 2. Sam. 12. 5. c. Mat. 23. 15. Reue. 14. 11. Ioel. 8. 48. Lipsij monita Exemp Polit. 3. lib. 20. 11. Deut. 22. 11. Deut. 13. 9. 1. Sam. 15. Ieremy 6. 29. 30. Psal. 12. 7. Isaiah 32. 2. c. Isaiah 14. 4.