Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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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

protection and thou maist expect it Arme thy selfe and addresse thee to beare bâ—unts and blowes as a souldier but feare not victorie so long as God is neere thee and thou neere him and his helpe Put on patience to waite without haste-making though he delay helpe awhile he denies it not Neuer seeke to preuent troubles by laying aside integritie and good conscience It is no way of safetie to prouoke God nor a meanes of defence to lay aside the armour This is the condition of diuine protection 1. Pet. 3. vers 13. No man shall hurt you while you follow the thing that is good Ionas would faine auoid trouble by flying from God but God fetcheth him backe againe with a witnesse Here by the way note a speciall difference betweene the wicked and the godly in their troubles One hath his helpe from heauen others from hell or not higher than from the earth One from the Name of God others against the Name of God The wicked expect helpe one from another and combine against the righteous and can helpe themselues by lying slandering violence and turning themselues into all fashions and formes for aduantage but the godly expecting helpe from the name of God keepe themselues in Gods right waies and will meet with helpe onely thence Let vs trust our selues with God in troubles as well as in peace expecting the accomplishment of that gracious promise Psal. 34.19 Great are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord deliuereth him out of all If we take Gods Name with vs for our helpe the number of crosses shall not foile vs nor the power of persecutors daunt vs nor the continuance of trials breake vs. For nothing can hinder his helping hand from his seruants Nothing but sin separates betweene God and vs be humbled for sinne meete God in repentance keepe not silence be instant in prayer and all shall be well Christ is our ship if we be neuer so tossed wee shall not be drowned come to him awaken him as his Disciples Master saue vs Master of the great ship of thy Church helpe vs we perish and he will in due time stirre vp himselfe and speake to the winde and the sea and there shall be a great calme The end of the third Sermon THE ROMISH CONCEPTION Psalme 7.14.15.16 Behold he shall trauell with wickednesse for he hath conceiued mischiefe but he shall bring forth a lye He hath made a pit and digged it and is fallen into the pit that he made His mischiefe shall returne vpon his own head and his cruelty shall fall vpon his owne pate THe occasion of the Psalme is in the inscription concerning the words of Cushi one of Sauls Courtiers and Dauids accusers to Saul as if hee had beene a Rebell and sought Sauls life The parts of it are three 1 A prayer for deliuerance from his enemies and that God would cleare his innocency to the 12. verse 2 A Propheticall prediction of the destruction of the wicked to the 17. verse 3 A vow of thankfulnesse for deliuerance in the last verse These three verses of my Text being part of the seâ—ond generall hauing in them two particulars First that all the labour of wicked men against the Church is â—ut labour in vaine in respect of their owne intent and expectation verse 14. Secondly that the labour of wicked men is turned cleane contrary to their owne intent and expectation vers 15.16 And these things are set downe two waies 1. In Metaphor and similitude 2. In simple and expresse speech The former that all their labour is in vaine against the Church is expressed by a Metaphore frequent in Scripture taken from the trauell of a woman The minde of a wicked man is compared to a wombe or belly The conception is hurtfull and mischieuous thoughts and enterprises The cunning contriuing carrying and watching of fit opportunities is the nourishing perfecting and preparing to the birth while they carrie it the iust moneths in the meane time swelling with their own presumptions and glorying in the certaine expectation of their conceiued hopes The attempting of their enterprises is the parturition and trauell which costs them no small paine and labour The birth or fruite is some misshapen monster some mischieuous impe some treacherous Massacre some inuincible armie or powder-plot borne as Onuphrius writes of Pope Alexander the 6. for the destruction of all Italy so for the destruction of all England Scotland and Ireland But this monstrous shape is called a lye because mentiri is contra mentem ire as some allude When they looke vpon their owne childe and see the vgly face and shape of it in all the deformed members it is not to their minde they are ashamed and confounded and would faine seeke some father abroad either the Hugonot in France or the Puritans in England but that it is so like the fire as none can mistake the father of such a monster The latter that all the labour of the wicked is turned quite contrary to their owne expectation is set downe by another similitude taken from Hunters who as they lay snares and ginnes and pitfalls to take the sillie creatures euen so wicked men digge pits and delue deepe and lay their traines to winde in the godly into the destruction by them prepared In which sense it is said of Ioâ—sh and Iâ—hoiakim Ezek. 19.4.8 that the nations laid their nets for them and they were both taken in their pit But himselfe falles into his owne pit which he made that is whatsoâ—uer mischiefe the cruell Aduersaries deuise against the godly it catcheth themselues whereof Dauid had good experience Saâ—l layes his traine and digs a pit against Dauid 1 Sam 18.21 I will giue Dauid Micoll that she may be a snare to him and the hand of the Philistims may bee vpon him and verse 25. the King desireth no dowry but only an hundred foreskins of the Philistims to be auenged of his enemies for Saul saith the Text thought to make Dauid fall by the hand of the Philstims but Saul fell into his owne pit himselfe fell by the hand of the Philistims Chap. 31. The Philistims pressed so fore vpon him that they slew his three sons wounded himselfe sore and his owne hand also was against himselfe In the last verse of my Text all this is set out in simple and expresse words His mischiefe shall returne vpon his owne head his cruelty vpon his owne pate according to that in Prou. 5.22 His owne iniquities shall take the wicked himselfe and he shall bee holden with the cords of his owne sinne Doct. The wicked counsels and enterprises of the enemies of the Church are not only vaine in respect of others but mischieuous against themselues Esa. 33.11 yee shall conceiue chaffe bring forth stubble the fire of your breath shall deuour you In which place the holy Ghost holds the same comparison as here comparing wicked men to women that haue conceiued

when all things seemed desperate when all counsell and meanes failed among men and no hope was left euen then came deliuerance How can a poore bird wound in the nets of the Fowler expect but to be taken And this is matter of more ioy gladnesse than if the danger had bin lesse 2. Beyond and beside the expectation of the fowlers themselues to their greater disappointment confusion How will the fowler rage and storme when a silly bird is gotten away out of his net so doe the enemies of the Church who haue beene at great cost and charge and paines and beaten all their wits to lay their nets to be disappointed euen then when they haue their expectation betweene their hands as the case of these Conspirators was For the meanes the net is broken God alone hath broken in pieces their crafty counsels and deuises God hath frustrated all their purposes when they had hemd in the people of God as a bird in a net on euery side God himselfe makes a way out as when the net is broken asunder the bird escapeth Doctr. The Lord in his season powerfully deliuers his Church by breaking the nets of the enemie Psal. 33.10 The Lord breakes the counsell of the Heathen and brings to nought the deuises of the people Reasons 1. Because GOD is euer present with his Church in the midst of it to helpe it at the greatest pinches Esa. 8 9.10 Gather together on heapes ye people and ye shall be broken in pieces c. for God is with vs namely as our shield and protection and if God be with vs who can be against vs Zeph. 3.14 Reioyce O daughter of Syon be ioyfull O Israel reioyce with all thy heart O daughter Ierusalem the Lord hath taken away thy iudgement and cast out thine enâ—mies the King of Israel euen the Lord is in the midst of thee thou shalt see no more euill The Lord is euery where present but not euery where as in his Church he is the King and the shelter of it by a speciall prouidence 2. The Church is Gods darling and delight his people is deare vnto him he that toucheth them toucheth the apple of his eye Zach. 2.8 In all their troubles he is troubled and taketh wrong done to them as done to himselfe and therefore must needes reuenge vpon the enemies one time or other See Nahum 1.2.9 because the Lord is iealous ouer his people hee reserues wrath for their enemies he shall come vnto them as vnto thornes The cause also is his they hate the godly for his sake and therefore he takes their part 3. As God is willing to saue his people so also he is euery way most able 1. Hee is more watchfull for his Church than all his enemies can be against it Hee that keepeth Israel doth neither slumber nor sleepe in which he out-matcheth the enemies who though they often break their sleepe through greedinesse of the prey yet sometime they must sleepe Hee is a more watchfull guard than Sauls when Dauid came and tooke away his speare and pot from his head The phrase is taken from watchmen who stand on walls in time of warre to fore-see the approach of enemies and giue warning they may be treacherous or sleepy as when the Capitall in Rome had beene taken by the French-men if the Geese had not beene more waking than the watch-men of the walls But the Lord is a faithfull and watchfull keeper let neuer so many watch the mischiefe of the Church he is sufficient against them all hath seauen eyes Zach. 4.10 2. He is wiser than all his enemies and herein ouer-matcheth them that he knowes all their counsels they know none of his which aduantage the King of Israel had of the King of Syria by reason of Gods Prophet Hee knowes their whole plot and proiects and suffers them to carrie them a long time but knowes when to preuent them and how to dispose them to the good of his Church for there is neither counsell nor wisedome against the Lord. 3. He is stronger than all the enemies Ioh. 10.29 My father is stronger than all no one no nor all together can resist his power And therefore when great men haue banded and bended all their forces against Christ and his Church they imagine but a vaine thing Psal. 2.1 4. God hath waies enow to deliuer his Church euen when things seeme very desperate He hath seuen pipes to his seuen lampes and these oftentimes laid very secret and out of sight He can make a way in the sea and the waters a wall for his people which cannot be expected by man yea he can suspend and stay the course of nature he can suffer his children to be cast into the fire then qualifie and coole the furnace 5. The Lord commonly delighteth in such a deliuerance of his Church as is ioyned with the confusion of his enemies as in the red sea the same way and waters which were the preseruation of the one were the destruction of the other Esai 33.11.12 Ye shall conceiue chaffe and bring foorth stubble the fire of your breath shall deuoure you And the people shall be as the burning of liâ—e as the thoâ—nes cut vp shall they be burnt in the fire And hereby the Lord manifesteth his power and iustice 1. That the wicked while they take craftie counsell together should be pauing a way to their owne destruction Hee takes the wise in their craftinesse that they lay a net in which themselues fall When they make couenants with death and digge to hell to make Gods children so sure as none should escape them then their owne destruction shall be the Churches deliuerance What a broad net had Haman laid for the Iewes None could be fairer for the game than he that had the Kings edict ring postes and all he desired But in due season his net tooke himselfe and his familie his gallowes caught himselfe and his sonnes in whose destruction God laid the preseruation of his Church at that time The same in the powder-plot what deuice was euer fairer or neerer or when was there a more vniuersall net laid for Gods Church these thousand yeeres yet the Lord in the very full season ioyned our deliuerance with their detection and destruction 2. It is iust with God that wicked men while they deuise mischiefe should onely make rods for their owne backes though their pretenses be neuer so faire and specious As for example Dan. 6.7 the Courtiers of Darius as they can easily lay their plots to sway Princes to euill counsels come to the King whose power they would abuse and none wish him so well as they O King liue for euer none so obseruant of the Kings edicts as they All the rulers of the kingdome officers gouernours counsellors and Dukes haue made a decree concerning the worship of thee O King that none shall aske any thing for thirtie daies saue onely of

be put out from vnder heauen But neuer let the fact of this Amalek nor this day of Purim be put out of the Kalender to the perpetuall infamy of the Popish generation so long as the Sunne courseth about the earth Looke we often in this glasse which God holdeth this day before our eyes O come and behold the workes of the Lord the great workes that he hath wrought for this English nation a people whom God hath now redeemed from a second hell which was indeed to bee a lake of fier and brimstone a very sparke out of hell brought by furies and diuels rather than men Consider wee seriously how our soules â—are deliuered from the nether most hell As in the first and great redemption from the lowest hell God of his mercy redeemed vs by the blood of his owne only Sonne so of his mercy hath he extinguished the flames of this inteÌ„ded hell by no other meanes than by the blood of those sonnes of Beliall And as for that greater redemption wee must magnifie the grace of God being redeemed from the hands of our enemies to serue him in righteousnesse and holynesse all the dayes of our life so in this lesser redemption we must stirre vp our selues to the cherefull praise of God not in word and tongue but in heart and life Let vs call vpon our selues euery one apart as Dauid Psal. 9.1.2.3 I will praise the Lord with all my heart c. for that mine enemies are turned back and Psal. 116.12 what shall I render to the Lord for all his louing kindnesse towards me and let vs call vpon one another as he doth Psal. 34.3 Praise the Lord with me and let vs magnifie the Lord together He hath filled our hearts with gladnesse our mouthes with laughter our tongues with matter of triumph when we were as a bird in the net of these fowlers he brake the net and we are escaped Verse 8. Our helpe standeth in the Name of the Lord who hath made heauen and earth THese words are the conclusion of the whole Psalm wherein the whole benefit of all the deliuerance of the Church both for time past and future is ascribed to the Lord of heauen and earth He had sayd before the snare is broken but had not told vs by whome now hee expresseth him Our helpe is in the Name c. Quest. why saith he not in the Lord but in the Name of the Lord Answ. By the Name of God is meant that by which he reuealeth himselfe to his Church as a man is knowne by his name And in this argument the Name of God signifieth the ayd the power the strength and the goodnesse of God so it is vsed Psalme 44.5 in thy Name wee shall tread downe our enemies that is in thy strength and power Our helpe consists in that power and strength which the Lord putteth forth for vs. Who hath made heauen and earth Qust Why is this added Answ. 1. To aduance the Lord in his Attribute of Omnipotency 2. To strengthen our faith when meanes fayle vs for this power is not tied to meanes Therefore these are set the first words of the Creed I beleeue in God the Father Almighty maker of heauen and earth 3. To shew vs to what end the world the heauens and the earth were made namely that it might be a Theater and glasse of the diuine power and glory of God 4. To intimate how easie it is for God in most desperate cases to helpe his children much mor easie than to make heauen and earth 5. To shew that he can dispose all things both in heauen and earth for their safetie I. Note hence the nature and worke of faith in euery beleeuer which is to eleuate the minde to God in perils and dangers which is the time wherein faith most bestirres it selfe and to apply Gods promise of ayd his presence and deliuerance in all our troubles not only beleeuing his Omnipotency and goodnesse but that he is so vnto vs and all his chosen For this is a speech of faith which looketh beyond all external meanes and fixeth the eye of the soule only vpon God in whose hand help is And farther the nature of faith is to search into all the Atributes of God whereby it may fortifie it selfe and become inexpugnable It looketh to the Name of the Lord. It considereth him as Iehoua one that is willing to accomplish all his promises to his Church else he could not bee Iehoua by which Name he would be knowne to his people It beholdeth his power and omnipotency at the same time and then what shall hinder the Churches safety if God be both able and willing It seeth also all his power exercised for hir safety It beholds at once both the pillers of the Temple Boaz with him is strength but what are wee the better if we apply it not and Iachin that is the Lord will establish Let vs liue by faith at all times especiall in dangers stil looking beyond the means and giue glory to God with Abraham Rom. 4.20 who was strong in faith and fully perswaded that he who promised was able also and willing to performe Obiect What then must we reiect meanes Answ. No for God giueth meanes for our good But 1. No meanes can helpe vs without God as God can without meanes 2. Meanes must be vsed but not trusted in Psalm 20.7 Some trust in chariots and some in horses but we will remember the Name of the Lord our God Heere he condemnes not the vse of chariots and horses but trust and confidence in them 3. Neuer let vs stand in the meanes as our helpers but in the Name of God who affords both them and successe in them Hence it is that God sometimes yea for the most part worketh his greatest workes by weakest meanes that the meanes might be as a glasse through which we might behold the brightnesse of his own Maiesty and grace Dan. 11.34 They that vnderstand and instruct many shall fall and when they shall fall they shal be holpen with a little helpe Why a little Because through weake meanes wee may see Gods greater strength So in the yeare 88. there was a little helpe for England but the victory was Gods So in the Gunpowder treason a little helpe and meanes by his Maiesties singular care but this was that through it we might easier see that Omnipotent helpe of him who made heauen and earth II. Note that the Churches helpe is not in it self and the dangers of it and harmes threatning it are farre greater than it is able without better help than it own to withstand So was it with the Church at the red sea so with the three children of God in the fire what help had they of themselues being bound So it was in Hamans deuice and so in Perâ—ies Reason 1. That the members of the Church may herein acknowledge the sleights of Satan and wicked men

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