poured out without mixture into the Cup of his Indignation and he shall be tormented with Fire and Brimstone in the presence of the holy Angels and in the presence of the Lamb and the Smoak of their Torment ascendeth up for ever and ever and they have no rest Day nor Night which Worship the Beast and his Image and whosoever receiveth the Mark of his Name In which Scripture you may see with open face the sad end of all the Popish Generation which is to be tormented for ever and ever Wherefore out of very Malice they have been are and will be our Tormentors here when they get opportunity because the Devil is to be their Tormentor in Hell for ever Wherefore who ever would avoid the Torments of Hell let him fly from Popery 3. Lastly Antichrist is now in his Old Age and draws near his End yea is drawing his last breath He is very shortly to be utterly destroyed with the Spirit of Christs Mouth and the Brightness of his coming And what Wise-Man yea what Man of common reason would join himself to Antichrist for one hour yea for one quarter or minute of his hour If Men might have reigned with him many years and have enjoyed his Delicacies for a long Season then might it have been a strong inducement to a carnal heart who seeks his Portion only in this life to have closed in with him but now to do it when his Destruction draws near what extream Folly and Madness must it needs be Who would venture a Board that Ship which is just a sinking or become a Subject in that Kingdom which is just ready to be rooted up and confident I am through God that after Antichrist and his Brood of Serpents have play'd a few more of their old cruel Pranks anew in England both He and They will become so utterly odious to All that their Name shall be no more remembred among us but with highest Contempt and Indignation and that for ever And let the Lord say Amen and all his People AND now O Lord to whom should we look our Eies are only unto thee And we beseech thee to look down from Heaven the Habitation of thy Holiness and of thy Glory upon us and upon our present Sad and almost Desperate Condition and stretch forth thy Holy Arm to maintain Thine Own Good Cause which thine Enemies scorn and deride and laugh at among themselves and to help afflicted Righteousness and thine own poor People who are brought very low so that their belly cleaveth even to the dust Indeed Vain is the Help of Man and our Enemies say There is no help for us in God But yet we know there is help in thee and that thy help is never in vain For thou canst do the greatest Things by the smallest Means yea thou canst do the greatest Things without all Means For thou spakest and the World was made thou didst command and it stood fast Therefore our Eies are unto thee O Lord and we do believe that thou canst do all things and can so do them that none can resist thee Is any thing too hard for the Lord shall we call thy Power in Question who didst prepare a safe passage for thy People through the mighty Waters and didst cause them to walk on dry ground through the depths of the Sea Take therefore thy great Power and come and Reign in the midst of these thy greatest Enemies till thou make them All thy Footstool and till thou hast put down all Rule Authority and Power which lifts up its Head and stretcheth forth its Arm against thee O Lord and thy Holy and Blessed Gospel and thine Anointed Oh cause Iniquity to stop its Mouth and Wickedness to hide its face again Let Violence no more be heard in our Land nor Wasting and Destruction within our Borders let the cause of the Fatherless and of the Widows be justly judged Let thy Prisoners be loosed and thine oppressed be eased let them be helped who have no helper Make way with thy strong Arm for thy own Labourers to continue to come to thy Harvest-Work for thy Harvest we trust is very great in England And therefore O Thou into whose hands all Things are delivered of the Father and all Power in Heaven and Earth is given and who by this Greatest and Highest Authority of Thine hast commanded thy Ministers to go and teach all Nations after thou didst send them Oh do thou make way for them to teach this Unworthy Nation before the Coming of the Son of Man that through their ministring thy Word thy Church may awake and rouze up it self and put off its filthy Raiment and may be restored to the Brightness of its first rising when it was full of faith and love and all Graces and Gifts of the Holy Ghost without any mixture of Antichristian Errors that all thy People may strive together for the Faith of the Gospel and not quarrel any longer about empty Forms but may with One Mind and with One Mouth confess the Truth as it is in Jesus and then shall all Kings bow down before thee and all Nations that serve Thee they shall sing forth the Honour of thy Name and make thy Praise Glorious Amen FINIS
nothing London the Glory of the Kingdom the Beauty of England's Excellency is become as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and is now at present a place for doleful Creatures for Owls to dwell in and for Satyrs to dance in and for Wild Beasts to cry among the desolate Houses and Dragons in their Dwellings For thou art swept with the Besom of Destruction and the Line of Emptiness is stretched out upon thee because thou didst reject the Word of the Lord and knewest not the day of thy Visitation How art thou brought down which wast inhabited by Seafaring Men the renowned City which wast strong at Sea and thy Inhabitants did cause terrour to all Nations All that knew thee formerly are astonisht at thee thou art become a Terror to them that see thee and they that hear of thee are pained for thee I was bowed down at the hearing of it I was dismayed at the seeing of it O Lord behold my affliction for the Enemy hath magnified himself see and consider for I am become Vile Our Enemies say This this is the Day we have looked for we have found it we have seen it This Day shall do that which the Fifth of November could not do now shall we see our desire upon them for the Strength of the Protestant Interest is broken we have broken the Head of it and now shall we rase it to the very foundation of it But O Lord thou hast seen my wrong judge thou my Cause Thou hast seen all their Vengeance and all their imaginations against me thou knowest the Contrivers the Abettors the Incouragers the Actors the Favourers of this Hellish Mischief and all those that rejoice in it Give unto them All Sorrow of Heart thy Curse unto them Persecute and destroy them in Anger from under the Heavens of the Lord. And let all the People say Amen But now I must shake hands with thee O London in thy Dust and Ashes for there is hope in this thy End And I must turn my self back again to England the Land of my Nativity and take up a Lamentation for it O England what Nation was like unto thee from the Rising of the Sun to the Setting thereof thou wast a People satisfied with favour and full with the Blessings of the Lord but art now suddenly become a poor and peeled People meeted out and trodden down Thou art smitten with a perpetual stroke in anger by a heavy hand thou art oppressed spoyled and crushed in pieces evermore and there is no man to save thee For God hath remembred our Iniquities against us and set our sins in the light of his Countenance For by Lying and Swearing and Oppressing and Slaying and Drinking and Whoring and Blaspheming c. the Land is defiled under the Inhabitants thereof We have forsaken the Laws of God changed the Ordinances of Christ and broken the Everlasting Covenant and therefore hath the Curse devoured us Our Labours yield us no Profit our Plowing Sowing and Reaping eats up the Husband-Man our Trade is every where decayed our Gold and Silver are exhausted and drained away our Estates are impoverisht and wasted the Abundance we had gotten and laid up is departed our Exactions and Taxes are heavy upon us so that we eat our Bread with sorrow and drink with sighing for they have found out our Riches as a Nest and as one gathereth Eggs that are left so have they gathered the Substance of the Nation and there was none that durst move the Wing or open the Mouth to the People We are brought so low that we have forgotten Prosperity but we daily mourn and fade away for we are filled with bitterness and made drunk with Wormwood For our Wise Counsellors are become Fools Understanding is perished from them our Princes are rebellious and Companions of Thieves they are Riotous Persons that eat not for Strength but for Drunkenness Our Counsellors take Counsel but not of God but against him our Judges abhor true Judgment and pervert all Equity they turn Judgment into Gall and the fruit of Righteousness into Hemlock they justifie the Wicked for a Reward and take away the righteousness of the Righteous from him Our Priests of all Titles and Degrees are like roaring Lions in the midst of us ravening the Prey they rob the Purses of Men they imprison their Bodies they devour their Souls they live in Rioting and Drunkenness they commit Adultery and speak Lyes they strengthen the hands of Evil Doers that none doth return from his Wickedness Our People are foolish and unwise a company of treacherous Men that ly-in wait for precious Souls they are perverse Children who have forsaken the Law of the Lord and have said to the Holy One of Israel Depart from us Wherefore we are become a base Kingdom because we have rejected all righteousness yea the basest of Kingdoms because we have Apostatized from the Truth Of a Pleasant and Joyful Land we are become a Land of Trouble and Anguish where is the Young and Old Lion the Viper and fiery flying Serpent We are become a Mingled People Strangers devour us in our presence they devour our Strength they swallow up our Riches they eat up our Bread yea they destroy us our Cities and Towns and there is none to reprove them We who were the chief of Nations the Princess of Provinces who when we spake there was trembling to the ends of the Earth are now become weak and contemptible because our Rock hath sold us and the Lord hath shut us up Therefore the Pomp of our Strength hath ceased and our Spirit fails in the midst of us So that we are shamefully brought down by the least and lowest of the Nations who have subdued our Naval Power taken burnt and spoiled our Royal Ships the Wall and Bulwark of our Nation fought us in our own Bowels triumphed over us in our own River blocked up the Passage of our chief City stopped all intercourse of Trade made a Spoil of our Riches and a Prey of our Merchandise hindred and deprived us of all our pleasant things bereaved us of several of our Rich and Advantageous Plantations brought us down to their feet humbly to beg their favour and have made us a Reproach a Proverb and a Hissing to all Nations O England who shall bewail thee What Lamentations shall we take up for thee Oh that thou wert sensible of thy Stroke and couldst bewail thy self for thou hast sinned grievously therefore art thou cast out of the Mountain of the Lord thou art cast to the ground and laid before Kings and Nations that they may behold thee This is the end of the Children of Pride for they that exalt themselves shall be made Low And therefore talk no more so exceeding proudly let hot Arrogance come out of your Mouth again for God is a God of Judgment and by him actions are weighed The Adversaries of the Lord shall be broken in pieces out of Heaven shall he thunder upon
them and therefore let not the Rebellious exalt themselves Thus have Irehearsed the Evils we â—y under and now I shall represent some of the Great and Deadly Dangers that we are in And one is to have the Nation quire overrun with Popery and to have the Popes Throne of Iniquity new erected amongst us And are there not swarms of Priests and Jesuits earnestly at work to bring this to pass they having emptied their Popish Cloysters and Monasteries from beyond Sea into England to promote their Catholique Design here And they knowing who stands at their right hand have done it with great boldness and with too great success For they have perverted not only very many of the Common People but some Nobility also and many Gentry And they have two great Engines to advance their design to wit on the one hand Safety on the other Danger on the one hand Promotion on the other Destruction on the one hand Life on the other Death with the one of them they allure with the other they terrifie with the one they draw whom they can with the other they drive whom they cannot draw And these Engines are of that force that thereby they have conquered many weak sinful and unstable Souls yea and have prevailed with some Persons of Honour and Quality to send their Sons to Monasteries and their Daughters to Nunneries beyond Sea to be trained up in their Damnable Religion there till better provision can be made for them here of which they now are in full hopes And now think with your selves and consider well O my Dear Protestant Country-Men how could you endure to see the Pope Worshipped here again in England for a God on Earth to see him set his proud Foot on the Neck of your King to see your King a Tributary to the Pope and to stand or fall at his base pleasure how could you indure to be forced to acknowledge his sinful and foolish Decrees to be equal to the Holy Word of God and to own his little Wafer or piece of Bread for the very Natural Body and Bloud of Christ which was crucified and shed on the Cross how could you indure to have your throats stretched so wide as to swallow down only this one Abomination of his which is more vast and rude than the first Chaos how could you indure to see new Roods erected in every Parish Church and to bow your selves down and worship Stocks and Stones Crucifixes and Images instead of the True and Living God how could you frame your selves to Auricular Confession and to rehearse or enumerate all your sins in a Priests Ear who himself stands in need of Forgiveness more than you being a greater Sinner how could you indure that their lusty Priests should defile your Wives and Daughters they being prohibited Wives of their own and so should drive again a General Trade of Whoredom in the Nation as they have been wont to do formerly how could you submit your selves to their Popish Pennance and to travel their Popish Pilgrimages to their feigned Saints and ridiculous Reliques how could you bear the severity of their Ecclesiastical Courts and Censures and to be pronounced Heretiques by those who are themselves the greatest Heretiques in the World how could You Noblemen and Gentlemen who have your Estates or part of them in Abbey and Church-Lands as they were called be content to have them taken away from You and your Posterity and given back again to maintain Abbots Monks Friers Nuns and such kind of Popish Vermin and Locusts which if once admitted will eat up again every green thing in the Land And let me tell you that all these Estates of yours they do not only promise to themselves but verily expect them Yea farther how could you indure to have your loving Husbands taken from your Heads and your dear Wives torn out of your Bosoms your sweet Children dragg'd out of your Houses your near Relations and friendly Neighbours hawlled and hurried into Prisons and Dungeons and there to be wracked starved tormented and at last if they live to it to be put alive into the flames of Fire there to be burnt and consumed to Ashes and that only because they sincerely cleave to Christ and his Gospel and will not adhere to Antichrist nor receive his Mark nor do his Hellish Drudgery how could you indure to see this cruel Beast of Rome to play Rex here in England again and though he be the First-Born of the Devil yet to set himself up above all that is called God and Worshipped And yet you are now in more danger to see all these things come to pass because you received not the truth in the love of it whilst you enjoyed it than your Predecessors have been this Hundred Years they having now gotten both Wind and Tide with them even Opportunity and Incouragement Wherefore a Great Man concluded That now certainly the Papists would do their Work they were in so fair a way But he reckoned without his Hoast And lest my Protestant Country-Men should be too much discouraged in this apparent and approaching Danger I will furnish you with one Rich Cordial out of the Words of Henry the VIII which he directed to the Papists in his days in his foregoing Declaration against them where he saith Are you not wicked which so hate the Truth that except she be utterly banished ye will never cease to vex her The Living God is alive neither can Truth his Darling He being alive be called to so great shame contumely and injury as you would have her and if she may be called to all these yet can she come to none of them Who is he that grievously lamenteth not Men to be come to such Shameless Boldness to shew apertly that they be Enemies to Christ himself on the other side who would not be glad to see such Men as foolish as they be Wicked For they work a deceitful Work and by all their cunning Craftiness Mysterious and Industrious Actings they only dig the Pit into which they must fall themselves and contrive the ruine that must be their own Portion Your Second Danger is to have the most Cruel and Inhumane Massacre executed upon you that ever yet was committed in the World by the Consecrated Hands and Weapons of the Papists And this Glorious Service of theirs is designed upon the English Protestants for the singular Promotion of the Catholique Cause which hath its way usually prepared into all Nations by Fire and Sword The Wrath of the Papists is so kindled against you and they are so thoroughly set on fire from Hell that they are ready to break forth into their greatest flames and to endeavour the Destruction of All at Once It is well known how well they are Hors'd and Arm'd and how they train their Troops against the Bloudy Day intended It is well known how well they are furnish'd with Money intended for other purposes It is well know what numbers of French Men
are brought into the bowels of the English and many Noblemen and Gentlemen are so pleased with the Children of those Strangers that they have French Servants Papists to attend them whom they have well Mounted and Armed enough to make a little Army of themselves And this they do that their strength may be hidden till opportunity shall serve to make it appear It is well known that the chief Places of Strength and many Chief Commands are in the hands of Papists And now they become so numerous and having such power what is there wanting but a convenient Opportunity to fulfil all that is in their Hearts upon Secure Unarmed Unprepared People and to dispatch their work in few days and especially upon thee O London who art their chiefest Eye-Sore O England except the Lord prevent it thy Calamity is near at the very Door and thou mayst expect every day now Peace is made Abroad when these will unsheath and draw their Swords upon you here at Home and you must be charg'd in the Kings Name for so they will abuse it to stand still and to hold forth your Throats to Murderers You cannot forget the dreadful Maffacre at Paris nor that late more dreadful and bloudy Massacre of the English Protestants in Ireland when more than a Hundred Thousand Innocent Persons Men Women and Children were in a very short time with the greatest Cruelties and Torments that ever were heard of murdered by them and what Authority they pretended for it But they have treasured up in their minds the fulness of all Cruelties for you English-men They have discovered something of their Kindness and good Pleasure to you in their firing the City of London which they have left as an Everlasting Monument of their Treachery and Villany to England and of their hatred to English Protestants and let this most notorious fact of theirs be engraven in great Characters on the Gates and Walls and Chief Places of your City when it shall be built again that all Posterity when they shall see New London may know and consider what Persons and what Religion burnt the Old They have also often attempted the firing of Southwark and of the remaining parts of the City for nothing but the utter ruine of it will satisfie them And when the kindling of some of these later flames was related to a Great Person they laughing said Now the Game is begun again for they make but a May-game of consuming all And yet Fire only will not satisfie them it is bloud must follow or they are never the near It is you O English Protestants whose lives they thirst after and they can neither eat nor drink comfortably nor sleep quietly till they be filled with this Venison And therefore of you it may be truly said Your lives are in jeopardy every hour Yet for all this let us not despond nor cast away our Confidence saying Our hope is cut off and we are perished for he that sits in Heaven laughs them to scorn even the Lord hath them in Derision and though we hold our peace he will speak to them in his Wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure He will make his Arrows drunk with their bloud and his Sword shall devour their flesh from the beginning of Revenges upon the Enemy Rejoice O ye Nations with his Paople for he will avenge the Bloud of his Servants and will render Vengeance to his Adversaries and will be merciful to his Land and to his People Thirdly Another of your Dangers which also is one of the greatest is your own Heedlesness and strange Security in the midst of such thick Clouds and Storms which have encompassed us round able to awaken even dead Men. How stupid and sottish were you at the burning of your City when you saw with your own eies your Houses your Substance your Riches all consuming together in those furious flames before your faces yet how insensible were you of your deplorable condition how regardless of that heavy hand of God how insensible of the Treachery and Cruelty of Men who did not only begin those flames but also continue them in the Progress they had appointed for them Had you the Brains or Hearts of Men to suffer those Incendiaries who were taken in the very Act to be rescued from Justice and released to carry on their Villany again surely you were so Sottish that had not the Lord been the more merciful to you your Lives and Houses had perished together as it was designed Moreover how insensible have you been of the Popish Plot and intended Massacre as if those good Men had been but in Jest when a Regiment of Papists was brought up to secure the Protestants and a company of Wolves to guard the Flock and when some of their own Pens and Lips reveal their minds why should you yet be so ignorant of it who are wholly concerned in it Wherefore as your Lives hitherto have been dear to God so let them now also be dear to your selves and do not you say Peace Peace when the Papists intend and prepare Destruction Destruction but let that be verified of you which Henry VIII saith of his time to wit The World is not now in so light a suspicion of you Papists as it hath been hitherto but every Man seeth before his Eies your deceits your Wicked Minds your Immortal Hatred against the Truth and the Professors of it every Man sees how many miserable Tragedies your pretence of an Unity and Concord hath brought into Christendom They see your fair face of Peace hath served Sedition and troubled almost all Christian Realms And therefore seeing they were so quick-sighted who lived above an hundred and thirty years ago to see and foresee the Treacheries and Cruelties of the Papists let not us who live so many years after and have had far greater experience of them be altogether blind and see nothing at all in the clear Noon-shine of their Doings Wherefore let all be admonished that after the desired Tidings of Peace they be not so eagerly addicted to the rebuilding their Houses and regaining their Trade and prosecuting their Worldly Affairs and Concernments whilst yet they are uncertain of the enjoyment of any thing that they become careless and regardless how it fares with the Church of Christ and his Gospel which is the very light and life of our Souls as well as the foundation of all our outward comforts or how active and watchful the Brood of Antichrist which lurks amongst us becomes that they may deprive us of our Religion and Lives and so be as greedy Birds that are scratching for food whilst the Net is spreading over them to catch them at unawares for what will it profit you to win Estates and to lose your Lives your Lives are better than your Estates and your Estates are but for the comfort of your Lives And if the Enemy take away your Lives whose shall your Estates be they shall even become a reward