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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

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 en●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 li●e as the tho●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 ●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 intēded 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 Per●ies Reason 1. That the members of the Church may herein acknowledge the sleights of Satan and wicked men

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

heard Winter himselfe fore-telling Therefore let vs reioyce in this great worke of God as his ancient people in this place For why The greatest rage of the enemie is turned to his greatest praise Psal. 76.10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee both in his glorie and his Churches deliuerance And what is the end of all Gods great deliuerances but to praise his name and glorie in his praise Psal. 106.47 Is not ours the benefit Haue not wicked men seene and felt that God hauing chosen our land to dwell in will not eas●y be cast out of his lodging and will not this coole their blood and daunt their spirits from the like enterprises for time to come Doth not this hazard thus happily diuerted make addition to our strength and peace Oh blessed be God euen the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who for his owne sake by his owne hand hath heaped vp our happinesse He that is mightie hath done great things for vs and holy is his Name Oh praise we the Lord for he is good for his mercie endureth for euer Holy Father knit our hearts vnto thee that wee may feare thy great and dreadfull Name Teach vs to be truly and vnfainedly thankfull to thy holy Maiestie for this daies mercies and all heretofore that so we may receiue the continuance of thy fauours to our euerlasting comfort and euermore reioyce in thy great saluation Blessed be God FINIS Rom● 1 Hos. 4.15 Exod. 19.5 Heb. 12.2 Rom. 15.29 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vers. 3. Regis ad exemplum totus componitur orbis See chap. 2 49. ●ra furor br●uis est Diuision of the Text. Affinity between Romish and Babylonish Nabuchadnezzar * Moulded first in the Laterane Councell vnder Pope Innocent the third Popish Priests worse than Iudas who valued Ch●ist at thirty pence for they buy 40. cakes euery one of which is Christs body for one halfe-penny This was preached Nouemb. 5. 1612. Romish cruelty surmounts the Babylon●sh 3. wayes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Idolatry and cruelty alwayes coupled together Exod. 5.2 Chap. 1.17 Vers. 22. H●st 3.6 Vers. 13. 2. King 21.3 See 1. Mach. 1. Iosephus de bello Iud. lib. 1. cap. 1. Nequ● tantae caedes satis fuêre sed Iudaeos cogere coepit vt abrogato more patrio nec infantes suos circumciderent porcósque super aram immolarent quibus omnes quidem aduersabantur optimus verò quisque propterea tru●cidabatur Hadrian Rome Christian as cruell as Heathen Rome 2. Thes. 2.3 Ioh. 17.12 Reuel 9.11 Trigin●a bellatorum mill●a qui bellica munera guauiter ●bire possent nihil interpellato sacrorum cultu Sabell Enead 9. lib. 6. Pulchra prosecto pulliti●s aulae Antichristianae decora familia Grass reg p. 34. B. Vers. 4. Reuel 13.11 Reuel 11.7 AntiChrist an enemie both to Scriptures and Scripture-men Rib●ra Bellarm. Testantur hoc Iac. Brocardus Venetus in Apoc. et monachus quidam Celestin●s Prophecies of Romish cruelty accomplished to the full Pandolph Colonutius ex Aenea Sylu. hist. Austr et Nicol. Machiauel Rom. 1.32 Ex Hermanno Mutio. Innocentius 3. anno 1212. See this story at large in the booke of Martyrs pag. 868. Out of which booke I haue picked some choise examples that our common people hauing the booke by them may see I belye them not in the things which seeme most incredible Foeminea in pugna victoria nulla est Acts Mon. pag. 859. 2. Tim. 4.17 Gathered out of Ianus August Thuanus President of the Parliament of Paris Mal. 4.1 * Metellus Sequanus Bartholomaeus Casas a Bishop that liued in that Country This booke written in Latine is wel worth translating but these with a number more ins●ances of their hellish cruelty are o●●racted by M. White in his way to the Church the 50. digression where the Reader may further acquaint himselfe with the Spanish conuersion or rather vtter subuersion of the Indies The Prince of the I le Cuba so answered the Fryar that came to shrine him at the slake Satia te sanguine quem sit isti cuius semper insacrabilis fuisti Thomyris de Cyri capite in v●re sang Minerius the diuels Proctor or Factor Acts and Mon. pag. 869. See another history of like cruelty p. 805. ● Pag. ●60 See the exquisite torments deuised and suffered by Bertrand p. 817. and by Rich. Atkins p. 1948. Marriage punished among Papists whoredome escapeth Pag. 887. Pag. 863. ●ag 831. Iam. 2.13 Acts and Mon. pag 814. Pag. 874. Pag. 751. Pag. 710. Pag. 766. A woman forced to kill her husband by Papists Acts and Mon. pag. 1951. No plea sufficient against the cruelty of Romanists Acts and Mon. pag. 1864. Fel●yes childe Dauies Boy vnder 12. yeares condemned for the 6. articles p. 1879. Pag. 1035. Pag. 816. Pag. 1780. Pag. 739. Pag. 1785. Pag. 1556. Prou. 12.10 Gal. 5.22 Math. 11.29 Mans extremity Gods opportunity Vse 1. Vse 2. Man purposeth God disposeth Psal. 2 1.2 Psal. 7.15 Hest. 9.25 Vse Sanguis Martyrum semen ecclesi●e Foecundi sunt Martyrum ci●eres Hest. 9.26 Haue nothing to do● against that iust man Zach. 12.3 Gods people g●yners by fiery trials 1. Pet. 1.7 Vse Math. 8 ●7 Acts 9.5 Psal. 33.1 Diuision of the text Exposition Numerus septenarius iuxta aliquos est numerus ●●rf●ctus Iob. 33.14 N● ham●n Gal. 4.29 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Antichrist resembled by Edom. Antichrist and Edom like in their persons foure waies Gen. 25.23 Verse 30. Lagnat Acts 24.14 N●n obstante ●●tichrist and Edom like in their sinnes 1. Prophanenesse Quid non regina pecuma donat 2. Idolatrie 3. Merits 4. Crueltie Crueltie of our Edomites and old Edomites compared Iosephus Obad. 14. Yong Edomites with vs farre surpasse the old in crueltie fiue arguments The powder-plot a villany without name The Popes leadden Bull sets all mischiefe on worke Vse 1 That religion good which Antichrist persecutes Vse 2. Bloody religion wicked religion Luk. 9.54.55 Vse 3. 1. Sam. 4.21 Gen. 32.28 Acts 13.50 Antichrist and Edom like in their punishment 1. For certainty Rome termed Babylon why 2. For seuerity Most probable that Rom● shall be destroyed with materiall fire for fiue reasons Ierem. 51.9 Obadi 15. Reuel 18.6 2. Thess. 2. ● Antichrist to be ouerthrowne with the sword temporall as well as spirituall Euen by Kings that are or were his friends Ouerthrow of Rome not partiall but totall Magnificence of Rome no whit secureth it Zach. 4.2 Vse 1 Comfort for the Church of God Vs● 2. Terror for the Church of Rome Reuel 19.16 Iudg. 17. Vse 3. All deuices of Papists insufficient to susteine their bloody monarchy Vse 4 Separate from them spiritually and corporally Reuel 18.2 Diuision of the Text. Enemies of the Church compared to Fowlers in 4. respects Prou. 4.16 〈…〉 9. Romish Nimrod a mighty Hunter of the Lords flocke Bonner a Bonfire Great labour and cost for the powder-treason Foure thousand pounds Practises of the wicked