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A13544	A mappe of Rome liuely exhibiting her mercilesse meeknesse, and cruell mercies to the Church of God: preached in fiue sermons, on occasion of the Gunpowder Treason, by T.T. and now published by W.I. minister. 1. The Romish furnace. 2. The Romish Edom. 3. The Romish fowler. 4. The Romish conception. To which is added, 5. The English gratulation.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.; Jemmat, William, 1596?-1678.	1620 (1620)	STC 23838; ESTC S118180	76,684	109

A MAPPE OF ROME LIVELY EXHIBITING HER MERCILESSE MEEKNESSE and cruell mercies to the Church of God Preached in fiue Sermons on occasion of the Gunpowder Treason by T. T. and now published by W. I. Minister 1. The Romish Furnace 2. The Romish Edom. 3. The Romish Fowler 4. The Romish Conception To which is added 5. The English Gratulation APOC. 17.6 I saw the Woman drunken with the blood of Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Iesus AT LONDON Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Iohn Bartlet and are to be sould at signe of the Talbot in Pater-noster Row 1620. TO ALL THAT WISH WELL TO OVR SYON HEARTILY AND VNfainedly Grace be multiplied and peace in our Lord Iesus Christ. BRethren beloued in the Lord You see by the Title what you may expect in the booke following I hope what it promiseth shall be indeede performed I wish it were more complete and accurate for your sakes as it might haue beene if the graue and diligent Author could himselfe haue set it forth but blessed be God that his weightier employments doe not giue him leaue or leasure I am glad I haue it for you as it is through my earnest request to him whose modesty thought it vnworthy the publication and my paines in writing it Reasons of this my request and paines I can giue you many First I thinke it necessary that our God our gracious and louing God may haue the praise of all his mercies and namely that of this day still reserued to himselfe wholly His workes are glorious and the benefit of them not confined to a scantling of time Therefore these Gratulations cannot be lesse seasonable now than they were at the day of Deliuerance Secondly this I hoped might be a meanes to restraine our declining times from gazing and doting on that pompous Harlot the Church of Rome For when our nation shall see and consider a fresh how insatiable she hath alwaies beene of blood and English blood I cannot thinke we can be so inconsiderate as to dreame of any toleration much lesse any sound reconcilement with so implacable an enemie Thirdly I thought it not altogether impossible hereby to stop the slanderous mouthes of misse-conceiuing persons scattered abroade through all the Country yet pleasing themselues in the common error who seeing in some good men a difference of iudgement in some small matters presently conclude them enemies of the State c. For this I will say of the Author and I say the truth in Christ I lie not my conscience bearing me witnesse in the holy Ghost that hauing beene partaker of his Ministery some hundreds of times I neuer heard him more earnest or more faithfull than in this Argument And the whole Towne of Reding will testifie with me of his holinesse lowlinesse peaceablenesse vnweariable painfulnesse and other graces beseeming his calling which no ill-willer could euer yet impeach Fourthly and lastly my intent is hereby to stirre vp our drowsie and forgetfull hearts to due thankfulnesse for so great a Deliuerance And this me thinks is more than necessary For when I behold the generall view of the Land and the quality of peoples manners the memory of that wonderfull day seemes vnto me quite blotted out And I know not whō better to resemble our selues vnto than those of whō the Psalmist speakes Psalm 106.11.12.13.14 The waters couered their enemies there was not one of them left Then beleeued they his words they sang his praise But they soone forgat his workes they waited not for his counsell but lusted exceedingly in the wildernesse and tempted God in the Desert Doe we not so euen in our Canaan a Land flowing with milke and hony What horrible prouocations are there daily and hourely amongst vs in all places in euery corner Who can complaine sufficiently of the grieuous temptings and out-brauings of God which our eyes doe see Who would iudge by our strange demeanours that God had euer done any thing for vs either by sea or land either against water-workes or fire-workes Ah sinfull nation laden with iniquity Doe we thus requite the Lord for his louing kindnesse Is this his reward for so great fauours Hearken ye children of Syon and consider Though Israel play the harlot yet let not Iudah transgresse Though carnall persons who haue no true sence of the grace of Christ set themselues out in their colours and fashions and Epicurisme and Heathenisme yet let it not be so with them that professe the feare of God Though others loathe the word and the meanes of saluation yet let not Professors loathe them Let it neuer be said that Professors are proud earthly contentious vaine fantasticall or willingly sweruing from the Rule of Piety You are his peculiar people and if hee lose his honour in you also he loseth it altogether Therefore consider you the workes of the Lord and his intent in them Stirre vp your hearts and frame your liues to a reall thankfulnesse Let your moderation and discretion be quickned by zeale and let your zeale be bounded by discretion You shall perhaps mee●e with shame that is reproches and ignominies despise these You shall meet also with the crosse that is persecutions and dammages these endure Here is patience and magnamity Let your patient minde be knowne to all men yet let it be valorous in the causes of your God saint not neither be afraid You may well take occasion to grow the faster by this Antiperistasis and vnite your forces the more strongly Are you so spighted and maligned on euery side by profane Ismaelites then let your loue toward one another encrease the more solidly and abound toward your selues mutually in the fulnesse of the blessing of the Gospell Liue fruitfully and peaceably in the Communion of Saints here the Lord hath appointed the blessing and life for euermore Watch against Satan and his eldest sonne that Antichrist pray for the dissolution of their Kingdome especially see it be vtterly defaced in your selues and yours Giue all diligence to leaue an holy seede behinde you which shall praise the Lord in earth while your selues praise him in heauen A disgrace it is to godly Parents to haue vngodly children especially by their owne default Make your houses houses of God by setting vp and then establishing his pure worship therein Cast vp your accounts before-hand and prepare for the comming of Christ in the clouds Accept my endeauours for your good and helpe me with your prayers Reding Oct. 12. 1619. Your seruant in the Gospell of Christ WILLIAM IEMMAT The Authors Apologie CHristian Reader as I esteemed not the Sermons following sit for so publique a ●iew so neither meant I to purc●ase to my selfe so much enuie wrath from the ●atholiques as these Sermons may perhaps bring vpon me But the opportunity of the Publisher who hath taken paines in them and of some others desirous of them drew out at last my consent to their request If any phrases may seeme

multitude more condemned to the mettals and mines with other most cruell slauery In one word the histories of those times seeme to be written in blood of which those monsters of nature in the shape of men made such effusion as it seemeth true which was said in those times that no m●n could step with his foote in all Rome but he should tread vpon a Martyr Now to apply this note to our occasion and purpose This very spirit of cruelty is the spirit of Antichrist which raigneth in Popery at this day which one religion exceedeth and outstrippeth all other religions in barbarous blood-shead and cruelty not the Turkish excepted Long it were to recite and incredible to beleeue those horrible slaughters which might be induced to prooue this part there is neither writer that can bee so diligent or writing so exact as can make a sufficient relation of the barbarous butcheries made vpon the Saints by these enemies of God and nature But yet so much as may giue a generall view and as it were a glimmering light must be set downe for the euincing of this truth which so gladly they would auoid And first to begin with the Scriptures Who is it whom the holy Ghost stileth the sonne of perdition but the head of this Romish Apostasie which title is commonly taken passiuely for that he is appoynted destinated and borne to perdition in which sense it is besides this man of sinne onely giuen to Iudas whom Christ calleth the lost child because being reiected and destinated vnto destruction he could not be kept by Christ as the rest of the Disciples were But it is also fitly ascribed vnto this man of sinne actiuely in that he is a destroyer and an author of destruction vnto others not onely by seduction and infection but also by persecution wasting the Church of God with all his might If any man stand in doubt hereof let him further consider how the King of locusts is called Ab●ddon and Apollyon that is A Destroyer from his effect Now it is made as cleare as the Sunne from the apt connexion of all the circumstances of the place that by these locusts are m●ant the Popish Clergie who are bred of ignorance heresie superstition and error which is the smoake of the bottomlesse pit out of which they ascend Thence come they by infinite numbers like locusts insomuch as that one sect of Franciscans offred out of their Order for an expedition against the Turke thirty thousand strong warriours which they might well spare without hinderance of their holy Obseruances And well might they so doe if that of Polydore Virgill be true that this one family of Franciscans suddainly filled the whole world no otherwise then locusts couer the face of the earth How can it then be other but that these locusts with all the other swarmes of Abbats Monks Fryars Priests and Iesuites must needs sodainly destroy eate vp the fruites of the earth not the grasse of God which hath the greennesse and moysture of grace nor the trees of righteousnesse which are the planting of the Lord for ouer such no power is giuen them but only ouer such as the heauenly Father neuer planted and whose names were neuer written in the booke of life But were this more obscure whither tend all those Prophesies and where were they euer accomplished if not in this man whereof the Reuelation is full It is said of the second Beast which rose out of the earth and had two hornes like a Lambe but spake like a Dragon that hee caused so many to be killed as would not receiue the image of the beast in their hands and in their foreheads This Beast can be no other but the Pope of Rome who riseth out of the earth that is out of most base beginnings and steppeth or riseth aboue the earth and all earthly power He hath hornes like the Lambe that is professeth the meekenesse and innocencie of Christ which the Turke neuer did but speaketh like the Dragon that is not with outward force and power but euen by his word and speech exerciseth all the power of the Dragon that is of the Emperour for not the greatest Emperours or Monarchs in all the world can translate and remooue Kings and Kingdomes by all the power they can make which hee can by his word alone The same is the Beast that commeth out of the bottomlesse pit and maketh warre against the two witnesses and ouercommeth and killeth them By which two witnesses whether we vnderstand the Scriptures in the two Testaments as some which are now ouercome in Popery and their owne Traditions made equall or rather set aboue them as triumphing ouer them or else we vnderstand the zealous and sincere Professours of the Word of God who both by their Doctrine and Conuersation giue witnesse vnto the truth of it it commeth all to one for the Beast that dare make warre vpon and professe hostility to the Scriptures will warre with ouercome and kill also the sincere louers of them and vpright liuers after them To conclude this point that one Prophecie may serue for all Reuel 17.6 where is affirmed of the great Whore with whom the Kings of the earth haue committed fornication c. that this woman was drunke with the blood of the Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Iesus By this woman the Iesuites themselues will they ●ill they confesse is meant their Rome but olde Rome say they such as it was vnder the Heathen Emperours But where are the scarlet coloured Fathers but in the present Rome In whose forehead is the name mysterie written but in the present Romish Babylon The Heathenish Emperours proclaimed open warre against Christianity and carried not their enmity in secret and in a mysterie These with sundry other circumstances in the Text will perhaps draw them one step further one day and force them to a free confession of the whole trueth when they can no longer withstand it And thus hauing briefely propounded the Prophecies of this Antichr●stian cruelty let vs in as few words see it in the accomplishment of them Which if out of most approued Histories we should enlarge as wee might it would easily appeare to be most matchlesse and that no Scythian cruelty was euer comparable vnto it But I must keepe a measure and giue but a taste of that cup filled and running ouer with blood which the Saints of God in all Countries haue drunke vp to the bottome The Romish History teacheth vs that Romulus layde the foundations of the Citie of Rome in the blood of his brother Rhemus And as the foundation was layd by him so hath the frame been vpheld by his bloody brood vntill this day Whence were the Emperours who shed so much Christian blood in the first 300. yeares after Christ were they not Romane Whence hath almost all the blood that hath beene shed vpon the earth since

Happy were we that they reckoned without their host and so came to another reckoning else had the Funerals of England been their sports and merriments How should this Act haue beene canonized and registred in the Popes Calender amongst the most Heroicall facts that euer were attempted For if treason against the person of one King was so extolled how would this haue been aduanced being against the King Prince State and three whole famous Kingdomes Guignard the Iesuite tearmes the act of Iames Clement in murthering Henry the 3. of France with a poisoned knife which he thrust into his belly an Heroicall act The Iesuites of France terme it a gift of the holy Ghost Nay Pope Sixtus the 5. in a solemne oration made in the Consistory of Cardinalls Decem. 11.1589 compared the treason of that cursed Dominick with the act of Eleazar or Iudith yea a farre greater worke a rare a notable and a memorable act that a Monke a religious man had slaine the vnhappy French King in the midst of his host An act not done without the prouidence of God and the assistance of his holy Spirit Oh hellish blasphemies of vnerring Popes not iustifying only but abetting and extolling most hainous treasons against the highest powers on earth oh blasphemous beasts teaching men that God is a murtherer of Kings and Princes How then should this fact haue been eternized if it had succeeded And if there were such reioycing at Rome by publike professions bonfires shooting of ordinance and present publishing of a Iubilee by the Pope his Cardinals hearing tidings of that persidious and bloody Massacre at Paris anno 1572. in so much as the Cardinall of Lorraine gaue him a thousand Crownes that brought the first newes of it What publike ioy in Rome what Masses processions triumphs and gifts would there haue beene if this stratageme had had successe Bellarmine shall not deceiue vs who tells vs in his Letter to the Arch-priest that it was neuer heard of from the Churches infancy vn●il this day that euer any Pope did commaund that a Princ● though an hereticke or ethnick or persecutor should be murthered or did approue the fact when it was done by another This is a lewd and vnconscionable vntruth vnlesse we conceiue he meanes that it was neuer heard by those who were de●fe and could not heare As by a Iesuiticall Aequiuocation it may well be construed I conclude this point with the speech of Agis to an euill man asking him who was the best Spartan his answer was Qui tui dissimillimus He that is most vnlike thee So is this to be a good Catholike nay he is the best Catholike who is most vnlike these Catholikes Wee see our danger and how great it was Now secondly let vs see how the worke of God is as great in our deliuerance both for the Matter and for the Manner of it I. For the Matter we were deliuered from great euills to great good things First we were deliuered from a terrible blow A deadly blow to King Queene Prince Nobles Iudges Bishops Counsell Gentry Commons all A deadly blow to all Lawes and Law makers to iustice peace titles tenures records and the whole Common-wealth These Babylonians had sacked and spoiled all the Land A terrible deadly blow to religion piety the Gospell the Word the Sacraments These Babylonians would haue rased downe the Temple to the very foundations of it and carried away all the vessels and rich ornaments of it The waies of Sion should haue mourned because none could come to her solemne feasts Lastly a terrible deadly blow to all Louers and Professors of religion within the whole Land which as the traytors should haue beene drunke with the innocent blood of the Inhabitants Secondly wee were deliuered from a terrible day like the day of the Lord which shall burne like an ouen Mal. 4.1 A terrible day wherein the frame of the world should haue seemed dissolued the sunne should haue beene turned into blood the earth should haue opened her mouth and swallowed the inhabitants the aire should haue been darkned through the blacknesse and lamentation of that day A dismall doomesday of England a day of fire and brimstone had that fifth of Nouember been if the fire-workes of these fire-brands had preuailed Thirdly wee were deliuered from a terrible tyrannie and yoke to which that of Babel was altogether incomparable 1. Spirituall our glory had beene gone and we might well haue been called I●habod In stead of our Arke wee should haue had the abomination of desolation set vp the horrible idoll of the Masse ignorance worshipped as a god mother of deuotion Preaching hindred Preachers martyrd al worship in an vnknowne tongue an ignotant rascall sort of greasy filthy Priests a doctrine which is a very mystery of iniquity 2. Temporall Answerable to their tyrannous doctrine is their tyrannical practise The whole world satisfieth not their couetousnesse nor all the harlots in the world their filthinesse Look where that religion is stable if it haue not swallowed euen the fat of the Land And what Nobleman dares meddle with a base hedge-Priest And for their practise is not behind their positions and in both Turkes and Canibals are behind their cruelty One of themselues writes It had bin better the poore Indyes had bin giuen to the diuels in hell than vnto them and themselues professed they would neuer come in heauen if the Spaniards came there Well hath his Maiesty obserued that not the Turks Tartars or they of Calicute who worship the diuell do lay such principles of cruelty in their Doctrine as Papists doe Wee see the greatnesse of our deliuerance priuately now see it positiuely In one word The good things wee are restored vnto are the fruition of God and his Christ in his holy ordinances with the Gospell of peace to the peace of our Countrey vnder our peaceable Gouernour new leases of our liberties lands callings liues and all that heart can desire II. The Ma●nor or meanes of our deliuerance was altogether wonderfull 1. It was easily brought about not by millions of gold and siluer not by the power or wit of man 2. It was done mightily not by the diuell as Faux blasphemously spake but by the immediate worke of God though as Cyrus had some glory of the Babylonish deliuerie so our Cyrus our gracious King had worthily some glorie of his princely care and watchfulnesse in this discouerie 3. It was done seasonably in the very due time whē all was ready the conception was euen in the birth 4. It was done to their own confusiō detected by themselues their hands that should haue acted it detected it by writing Discouered against themselues mischiefe returned on the heads that deuised it they fell into the pit that they digged for others death intended against their brethren caught themselues and that by their owne powder All this to the vtter confusion of their Religion as we haue