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A45550	Justice triumphing, or, The spoylers spoyled laid forth in a gratulatory sermon for the miraculous discovery of, and our glorious delivery from the barbarous powder-plot / preached at Pauls, November the 5th, 1646 by Nathanael Hardy ...	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1648 (1648)	Wing H726; ESTC R32477	29,197	42

the wisdome of the Almighty What was it that infatu●ted the traitours who while the plot was but suspected had opportunity to escape that they should try the utmost and afterward sharpened the edge of all mens spirits against them where they came to kill some surprize the rest even before a Proclamation could overtake them but that just severity of God Finally what was it that prevented the surp●ziall of that Noble Lady Elizabeth and insurrection of the Papists when those Rebels whispered the feare of a Massacre into their eares but the mercifull goodnesse of God so that all the attributes of God were concentred and met together in this dayes deliverance and which is yet more remarkable in it selfe and sutable to the Text those Antichristian Mole-warps were taken in their owne pit those Romish fowlers caught in and by their own net Was it not a worke of one of their hands and pens that first gave cause of suspition and was the meanes of discovery did not their owne tongue fall upon them when the Colloquie betweene Garnet and Hall at the Tower proved the clearest Testimony against them in a word did not the Powder sinne flye in some of their faces when among others two of the Traitors were wounded accidentally by Powder in an house and afterward both killed by a shot so truly was this Scripture fulfilled in this example before the eyes of all men And surely were not our Romish Proselytes drunke with the wine of Sodome and nurs'd with the milke of Dragons they would behold beleeve and repent The Papists call much for a Judge of controversies between them and us but why take they not notice how God hath time by time shewed himselfe a righteous Judge pleading our cause and preventing their plots but I feare a spirit of delusion is fallen upon them and therefore I shall betake my selfe to that which concernes us to doe the 3 Last particular our worke I know you have long looked for an end much speaking is a wearinsse to the flesh and long hearing offensive to your patience yet spare me but a few Minutes while I teach you your duty and I hope you will have cause to say the latter end of the Sermon is better then the beginning let then our meditation continually fixe it selfe on both these objects 1 On the Enemies work and that so long till it have wrought in us an impression of these following duties even till it have flamed us wi●h a fiery zeale awakened us to a cautelous vigilancie and engaged us unto mutuall unity of each a word 1 Let it inflame us with a fiery zeale and holy indignation against the scarlet impudent whore of Babylon who is ever in travell with a Babel of our confusion Oh let us detest with a perfect hatred their practices whose mercy is cruelty Religion faction devotion sedition whose zeale is fire Martyrs are traytors and Saints devils and not onely their practices but their principles which are the wheels that move them to these cursed executions I meane those Jesuiticall Doctrines wherewith mens hearts being once poysoned they care not what villany they attempt Among which I observe three principall Engines that are no small enducements to treasonable projects The Popes power to dispence with Oaths the legality of murthering Princes and a Toleration of various Religions observe but the Powder plotters and you shall finde their despaire of obteining a free toleration their opinion of the lawfulnesse of killing Kings and blowing up Parliaments were the strong incentives to this mischiefe and that all of these devillish opinions are the plain assertions of the Jesuites I need not stay long to demonstrate Gretzer expresly asserts concerning the Oath of fidelity that the Pope may free his Catholike Subjects from it when their King rules tyrannously The sandy foundation on which he and the rest built it is the power of binding and loosing given to Peter and indeed to all Ministers of the Gospel by Christ to wit of sins not Oathes The Mutthering of Princes is a common tenet indeed these two Deum comedere Regem occid●re to eat their God and kill their King are the abhord Maxime of these unreasonable men Mariana accounts it a moderate way to poyson a Chaire or garment for the killing of Kings Francis de Verone commends the act of that desperate wretch who assaulted Henry the fourth of France as just and Heroick nay one of their Popes Sixtus the 5th made an Oration in praise of that Fryer who murthered Henry the third of France though no Protestant saying a true Fryer had kill'd a counterfeit Yea had his Cardinals been as forward as he they had Canonized him for a Saint what need we goe farther then this present businesse in Paris Oldborne and Garnet that were executed in England for this Treason are enrold in the Catalogue of Martyrs and certain English Priests censured for praying for their souls as though they doubted of their Crown of Martyrdome as that valiant Papistomastix in his time Doctor Featly hath left upon record that he saw the former and heard the latter credibly reported As for Toleration it is true it is far from their own practice where they have power witnesse their cruell Inquisition indeed none are more tyrannous where they beare rule then they that plead for this licentious liberty where their own way cannot be authorized but yet they maintain it lawfull and indeavour to attaine it where their Religion prevails not Thus Father Parsons Cardinall Allen and William Bishop a Seminary Priest doe all of them assert both in Thesi that Religions fundamentally differing are consistant in the same Kingdome and in Hypothesi that it is not onely lawfull and convenient but honourable for the King of England to permit the free exercise of the Rom●sh profession I hope the bare recitation of their damnable Doctrines is to us a sufficient confutation All I aime at is to warne us that while we declare an utter Antipathy against the Romanists we doe not Sympathize and joyne issue with them in any of their cursed opinions Oh farre be it from us to thinke that any humane power may dispence with and make what construction it pleaseth of the many Oaths and Protestations we have taken particularly that Solemne Covenant wherein we have lift up our hand to the high God Farre be it from any ●f us to have a malicious thought against our Liege Soveraign rather let us make Prayers and supplication for him And which I wish there were not too much cause of beware we that none of us defend or indeavour that intolerable toleration of all Religions It was the course Julian the Apostate tooke to root out the very name of Christianity by setting open the door to all Hereticks and Schismaticks I say no more but know that Religion is the Soul of the body of a Common-wealth and guesse your selves what a monster that Kingdom will be that is informed with an 100