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A05281	Great Britaines, great deliuerance, from the great danger of Popish powder by way of meditation, vpon the late intended treason against the Kings most excellent Maiestie, the Queene, the Prince, and all their royall issue: with the high court of Parliament at Westminster, there to haue been blowne vp by the Popish faction, the fift of Nouember, 1605. If God of his great mercy had not preuented the mischiefe.; Great Britaines, great deliverance, from the great danger of Popish powder.	Leigh, William, 1550-1639.	1606 (1606)	STC 15425; ESTC S103613	18,263	36

was yet euen then and in the rage of all this fury the Lord said Staie thy bloudie hand the sacrifice is not pleasing For what hath England done to deserue so heauie a iudgement I am their God they are my people and for my great name sake I will be propitious and make them glorious by deliuerance The Sun-shine is theirs and the gloomie day is yours your designes are vpon your owne heads your Daggers are turned vpon your selues and sheathed in your owne bowels ye haue bene fighters against God ye will not be warned that ye might be armed Wherfore now Discite iustitiam mouiti non temere diuos Your owne Letters shall discouer the treason and the writing of your owne hands shall betray the mischiefe of your owne hearts I will fight against you with your owne weapons and I wil weary you in your owne waies The old Florentines had a Bell which they called their Martynella and they rung it euer before the siedge of any Citie to warne the besieged either to yeeld or die It was a mercy to preuent a miserie But your Martynella hath giuen no such warning to vs and therein were you lesse mercifull then the Florentines How be it so it is that your Bell hath rung your passing Peale and the Lord hath turned your owne writings to be death to you and life to vs blessed be his name therefore One saith well Vbicun que fuerit prouidentia frustrantur Vniuersa contraria Where the Lord hath a prouidence all other encounters are defeated If his prouidence be vpon the fire it burneth not If vpon the seas they swell not If vpon the winds they blow not If vpon the aire it infecteth not If vpon the Lions they deuoure not If vpon the Sun it goeth not but standeth stil in Gibeon and the Moone in the valley of Agelon If I say his prouidence be vpon the graues they detaine not but yeeld to deliuer their dead and Lazarus must come forth How then should any creature stirre to the subuersion of so blessed a state whilest the prouidence of God houered ouer it like the wings of the Cherubims ouer the mercie seate yea his prouidence it was to preuent vs with mercy and louing kindnesse and ere euer we praied to be propitious to thinke vppon vs ere wee thought vppon him to deliuer vs from the blow before we saw the danger And to conclude it was his mercifull prouidence to turne your praiers into our bosome a crosse to that you ment it ominous to you but giorious to vs. I hope saith the Writer God will giue you the grace to make good vse of it and what better vse could euer haue bene made either to Gods glory the good of his Church the safetie of the King Queene and Prince with all their Royall issue I say what better vse could euer the receiuer haue made to shewe his loyaltie to his Prince and loue to his Country then by dealing as he did for which he shall be honourable in this generation well reported of in his time and be of them that haue left their name behinde them so as his praise shall be spoken of I may conclude with Zachary and make good the Lords prouidence ouer this English Nation to the great comfort of all the godly and the astonishment of the wicked elsewhere in the world Cease your attempts against the Truth for the handes of Zorobabel haue laide the foundation of this house his hands shall also finish it who seeing the stone of Tinne in the hands of Zorobabel shall despise the daie of the small thing The house is the church of God here in England Zorobabel is our Christ here in England he hath laid the foundation in England hee will also finish it in England And who seeing the line in his hand to build by which is his word in England the stone of Tinne to build vp which is his people of Englād dares euer despise the ●ay of the small things small to the ●e●ly and sensuall eye of flesh and bloud despicable to the worldly monarchies of small beginnings yet precious to God and now made glorious by deliuerance His prouidēce is ouer all And as the Prophet saith these seuen are the eyes of the Lord that goe through the whole world his graces still abound and are a continuall current in his Church like the two Oliue branches emptying themselues through the golden pipes into the gold Golden Prince golden Peere golden Prophet golden people fined from the drosse of sin superstition to be pure mettall and as it were spangles of gold in the holy Sanctuary of your God Emptie ô emptie your praises pipe by pipe from the highest Maiestie euen to the lowest of the people and giue God the glory And thou virgin daughter London write vpō thy walles Peniel and say the face of God was towards me Thou Princely Pallace Westminster write vpō thy seates of Iustice and high Court of Parliament write vpon thy Vaults Cells and Sepulchers write vpon thy doores posts and passages Beer-lahai-roy● and say Thou God lookest on me thou Emperiall seate of great Brittaine fragrant for thy flowers and for thy Coller of Mirtles twisted with the Roses of both houses dignified with the Diadem of Rubies wreathed with the Armes and supporters of both kingdomes I say thou great Brittaine famous as at the first for thy olde name honourable now for thy new birth and euer blessed for thy happie and so desired an vnion whereby our former ruines are repaired streames of bloud are stopped old mallice is worne out and deadly fude is forgotten for all which abundant great mercy as also for this thy late deliuerance write Ruhamah Ruhamah Mercy mercy Write vpon thy Ports Holds Castles Mercy Write vpon thy Towers Townes Temples Mercy Write vpon thy fields waies wastes Mercy Write vpon thy Corne Coine and Cattle Mercy Say the Lord hath had mercy vpon vs he hath had pleasure in his people and hath made the meeke glorious by deliuerance For all which Mercies say God is my King of old the helpe that is done vpon the earth he doth it himselfe Say with Elephus Iob his friend but Great Brittains Prophet when others are cast down then shalt thou say I am lifted vp and God shall saue the humble person for the innocent shall deliuer the Iland and it shall be preserued by the purenes of thine hands Innocent King innocent Queene innocent Prince Peere Prophet and people If not for fiftie sake yet for fortie If not for fortie yet for thirtie If not for thirtie yet for twentie If not for twentie yet for ten iust persons the Lorde hath put by this terrible blowe of these wicked Shebaes For should not the God of all the world do according to right Pleade thou our cause O Lord with them that striue with vs and fight thou against them that fight

GREAT BRITAINES Great Deliuerance from the great danger of Popish Powder By way of Meditation vpon the late intended Treason against the Kings most excellent Maiestie the Queene the Prince and all their Royall issue With the high Court of Parliament at Westminster there to haue bene Blowne vp by the Popish Faction the fift of Nouember 1605. If God of his great mercy had not preuented the mischiefe Psal. 5. vers 11. Destroy thou them O God Let them perish through their owne imaginations Cast them out in the multitude of their vngodlines for they haue Rebelled against thee LONDON Printed for Arthur Iohnson at the Signe of the white Horse ouer against the great North doore of Paules 1606. TO THE HIGH AND MIGHtie Prince Henry by the grace of God Prince of Wales Duke of Cornewall Earle of Chester and Heire apparant of the Crowne and Diademe of this Kingdome of Great Brittaine France and Ireland PArdon me my gratious good Lord and deare Prince if out of a loyall heart I present vnto your Princely viewe what I conceiued vpon these late intended Treasons in solace of my soule after the Lord had made the land so glorious by deliuerance I say Deliuerance out of the hands of cruell enemies who strooke at our fairest tree to haue cut it downe both roote bole and branches if the Lord had not beene propitious And because your excellency is the highest straine in all expectance and Heire apparant to that Crowne and dignitie whose vndoubted right they haue so wronged by sinister thought word and worke as in former ages the like was neuer deuised in any Nation nor by the grace of God euer shall I haue made bold in these fewe leaues and lines to lay open the danger with the deliuerance and the rather to your Highnesse for that in feeling sort you may iustly say Quorum pars magna fui I haue had my part of both for man hath endangered me but God hath diliuered me If in the deliuerie and proiect of this my speech your Highnesse shall find lesse Method then Matter I hope your clemency will beare with my passionate heart more affected to grieue for them who deuised the mischiefe to ioy for our selues that missed it then I can well expresse without a troubled stile One saith well Vt luctus sic laetia loquntur leues ingentes stupent As are our sorrows so is our-solace in their mediocrities they speake but in their extremities they are silent and say nothing What maruell then if this our rauishment of so great ioy for the deliuerie and deepe griefe of horror because of the danger either enioyne me silence or if I speake make me to vtter my thoughts with such passion as little passeth of the Method so it meete with matter to expresse the meaning of a melting heart Nescit ordinem amor Loue is lawlesse and a loue thus boiling how can it but shed ouer keep no current other then in your Royal acceptance euer seasoned with such heauenly sufferance as is gracious both to God man Digna prorsus rara virtus humilitas honorata It is a rare vertue when humilitie is honoured and honour is humbled the blaze whereof I saw in your Princely countenance when at your Highnesse Court at Saint Iames it pleased your excellencie to licke ●p the dust of the Sanctuarie there vpon the Lords day and after the Sermon ended to yeeld such grace in publicke to the Preacher as that he might kisse your Princely hand which euer sithence hath strucke so great an impression of exceeding loue and loialtie in my poore heart as by the grace of God I shall neuer leaue to pray for your Highnesse as I am most bounden and also by all meanes studie how either my loue or life may expresse the seruice and dutie I owe for so gracious an aspect Gold and siluer I haue none such as I haue I giue in the name of Iesus Christ of Nazareth be you established Yet if it please your good grace to receiue this simple New-yeares gift with the least acceptance and as the first fruit of my labours in your highnesse seruice It may be I shall with Ianus looke backward to the old yeare out of my smal store offer a pearle of an higher price Til when and euer I pray God safely to keepe your Royall person to his glory your owne comfort and Englands ioy Your Graces Chaplaine most humble at command W. Leigh Great Brittaines Great Deliuerance from the great danger of Popish Powder THe Papists of these our daies falsly called Catholicks vnles it be in this that they be vniuersally euil haue euer since the first yeare of Elizabeth our late Queene of famous memory euen to this day endeuoured the subuersiō of their dear Country to set vp their Babel of all confusion And haue sought by all possible and potent meanes to make this Church Country the noblest of Nations an Akeldema or field of blood Witnesse all their Rebellions that haue bene raised since that time either in England Ireland or Scotland euer fed with the grosse Viands of Popish Bull and Indulgence fetched from Rome by Saunders Morton Felton Edmond Campion and Robert Parsons most or all factious Priests Iesuites and since spred and divulged by the poysoned breath of thousandes of their Seminaries vermine of the Church and bane of Christendome These haue done much and deuised more against the state then euer was thought vpon in elder times and not so much by open hostilitie as secret treasons excommunications cōfiscations against the liues soules and goods both of Prince people who were not pleasing to their deuotions But of all that euer were this last deuise of Gun-powder to blowe vp all was most detestable diuellish damnable as wherin hel was shakē with all it furies to haue effected their thrice bloudy practise with this firy resolution of their angry Goddesse Iuno Flectere si nequeo superos Acheronta mouebo If God will not the diuel shall Wherevpon when I do thinke it is with me as it was with Elisha when hee looked vpon Hazael his person and sawe in his countenance his entended crueltie toward the Israel of God he looked vpon him stedfastly till Hazael was ashamed and the man of God wept Hazael said Why weepeth my Lord Wherevnto the Prophet answered Because I know the euil that thou shalt doe to the children of Israel for their strong Cities shalt thou set on fire and their young men shalt thou slaie with the sword and shalt dash their Infants against the stones and rent in peeces their women with childe Then Hazael said What is thy seruant a dog that I should do this great thing And Elisha answered The Lord hath shewed mee that thou shalt be King of Aram. We haue stedfastly looked vpon you O ye Romish Aramites more cruell then Hazael and lesse compassionate then he we haue wept ouer your tyrannie as Elisha did and

ye are not ashamed as Hazael was the prints of your former cruelties haue pierced our hearts but this last impression hath euen wounded our soules wherin we see nothing but traces of blood and as it were the blacke face and countenance of confused desolation King Queene Prince with all their Royall issue the onely remaine of our religious hope Councel Peeres and Prophets the next support of our happie estate graue Iudges and learned at Lawes with the Knights of the Parliament and Commōs there assembled a third pillar bearing vp the kingdome all these our honors had gone in a day Woe vnto vs that euer we sinned to deserue the hazard of so great a iudgement Which once accomplished to their full then had we felt to our wofull experience how speedily the mischief wold haue spred it self into the body bowels of all the kingdō wherin nothing should haue bene heard but rumbling of shot and chrashing of armor outcries of mothers and yelling of children nothing seen but sacking of cities burning of towns racing of towers wasting of the land with destruction of parts and desolation of the whole Quorum animus meminisse horret luctuque refugit And yet as all this were nothing or not enough we should haue seene these miscreants neuer sated with the bloud of the Saints til they had changed our religiō for superstition our knowledge for ignorance our preaching for massiing our subiects for Rebels our Councellors for conspirators and so haue brought vpō vs and ours A most wofull Sabaoth whē both the lawes of God man which are the sinewes of a sanctified state had bene dissolued and silent Now if any shall say as Hazael did Am I a dog that I shall do this great euil I answere with Elisha though in differing tearmes yet in equall sense The Lord hath told me experiēce hath made it good that where Romish Hazael is King there is crueltie Fraterno primi maduerunt sanguine muri The first walles of Rome were laide in blood and euer since they haue bene symonted with such morter as is euident by the ten cruel persecutions of Emperors in the first 300. yeares after Christ and by the crueltie of Popes euer sithence wherein Emperors haue bene Dogges to bite but Popes haue bene diuels to deuoure and make hauocke of Gods Saints nay worse then diuels and more audatious according to that Non audet stigius Pluto tentare quod audet effranis Monachus plenaque fraudis Anus Vnbrideled Monke dare vndergoe what diuel himselfe hee dare not do And here might I seasonably taxe the perpetuall hatred and intollerable crueltie of that Roman Antichrist toward the professors of Gods truth and Religion of whom I may truly say as the Prophet did of the Babilonians that they are and euer haue bene a people vile in name and sore in affliction Graues are pregnant and would bring foorth their dead to plead their iust cause against their cruelties and Abels innocent blood crieth vengeance out of the earth against these cursed Canites from vnder the Altar me think I heare the soules of them that are killed for the word of God and for the testimony which they maintained cry with a loude voice saying How long Lord which art holy and true doest not thou iudge and auenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth Of many take these fewe for all Et leonem ex vnguibus Nor will I kallender any but moderne cruelties and such as are yet fresh bleeding in the memories of men liuing of this age and clymate Mariana tempora Anglicana stigmata Maries times are English staines and who gaue the dye but that Romish red Dragon bloudy beast and whore of Babylon not sated with the blood of the Martyrs then liuing but ransacked the bones of their dead and burned them to glut vp their crueltie Witnesseth the buried bones of Paulus Fagius and Martin Bucer Andwarpe and Naples can witnesse like crueltie vpon a mother Queene and Prince of great hope whose Funeralls as some say were solemnized both in one moneth At Naples with ioy and at Andwarpe with griefe done by that Sanguinary Inquisition of Spaine Romish red Dragon and bloody beast of Babylon whose Horses mouthes fume nothing but fire smoke and brimstone Paris and France doe yer streame with the blood of the innocent murthered and slaine in that cruell massacre on Bartholomew day 1572. wherein the Shatilian was slaine and diuers others noble excellent men with all the flower of the Gentry and Protestants in France to the number as is thought of 100. thousand all done deuised by the two Cardinals of Lorraine and Peluey conntenanced by the Queene mother of France aided with her Guisian faction executed by Mandolet with such crueltie that out of the Court of the Gaile called the Archbishoppes prison the bloud was seene in the broade day-light to the great abhorring and feare of many that beheld it runne warme and smoking into the streets of the Towne and so downe into the Riuer of Scene So great a dishonor and so great an infamie to that nation as the most part of them are ashamed at this day of their owne Countrey defiled with two most filthy spots of Popery falshood and crueltie of the which whether hath bene the greater in that religion it is hard to say I passe to speake of the Butchery of Henry late King of France by two Iacobin Friars with poisoned kniues in their handes and Popish Bull in their bosomes which Guignard the Iesuite was not ashamed to call an heroicall act and a gift of the holy Ghost I say nothing of Parry his stab of death Lopas his Pill of poyson intended against Queene Eliza of famous memory by their owne confession the best natured and quallified Queene that euer liued in England yet this may I say that the dagger was sharpened and the Pill was poysoned with the venome of Popery else Benedetto Palmio and Hanniball Codrotto two factious Iesuites had neuer bene traduced as bellowes to blowe the fire and kindle the coales of so great a mischiefe with this warrantie to enflame their hellish hearts that the fact was lawfull and meritorious But if all these were clapt in one they may not ballance with the waight woe of our late entented dismall day if God of his great mercy and wonted clemency had not put by the deadly blow For a day of death like that of doome in Ictu oculi had put out the light of Englande King Queene Prince Peere and people All had perished and all at once Seruants had ruled ouer vs none could haue deliuered vs out of their hands our inheritance had bene turned to the straungers and our houses to the Aliants our Fathers had beene childlesse and our children fatherlesse In our English Rama had bene a voice heard mourning weeping and great howling Mothers weeping for their children and children for their mothers and neither had

bene comforted because they were not We should ere this haue drunken our water by measure and eaten our bread by waight our skinne had bene blacke as an Ouen because of the terrible famine they had defiled our women in Sion and our maides in the Cities of Iuda our neckes ere this had bene vnder such persecution as we should haue bene weary of our liues neuer haue had rest when our soules had bin put into the hands of so viperous a generatiō who would haue shut vp our liues in the dungion cast a stone vp vs I say so generall a iudgment so speedie and so bloudie had neuer bene in any kingdome Nay more that deadly blow at once and in Ictu oculi ere this had takē the elder from the gate the yong men from their songs it had silenced the Prophets and dissolued the lawes both of God and the Nation I say still as formerly I haue said so general a iudgement so speedie and so bloudie had neuer bene seene in any kingdome The Royall Pallace of Westminster Citie and Sanctuary there built by the Noble Kings of this Land and now honoured with the presence of as mighty a Monarch as euer went before with as wise a Councel as euer England had with as full a Senate of Nobles as euer satte there with Bishops for learning gifts and graces equalling if not aboue the reach of former times and with Knights and Commons of the lower House of Parliament in all respects sutable this Royall Place and Presence with all the Honor Puissance Pietie therof to haue bin blowne vp at once and in Ictu oculi I say still so generall a iudgement so speedie so bloudie had neuer bene seene in any kingdome O vnnaturall and degenerate Englishmen how could you euer endure to thirst after the destruction of so sacred a Senate and sweete an assembly how could you finde in your hearts to seeke the destruction of so benigne a Prince and so Royall an issue with the vtter subuersion of so glorious a state● by bringing into the bowels thereof that Romish Apolion mentioned in the Reuelation who where he is victorious staineth the earth with bloud the aire with blasphemy and the heauens with his abominable and luxurious incontinences The old worthy Romanes the two Decij thought it the most heroicall thing that might bee to vowe themselues to death for their Country and euen to spend their liues in defence of their Altars Temples and Monuments of their Elders but you seeke to see your Countrey bathing in the bloud of your Prince Peeres and Prophets in the bloud of your parents kindred and friends to see the cities graues and temples of your predecessors consumed with fire to see your Records burned your Actuaries destroyed your virgins deflowred your women rauished and finally to bring the noblest of Nations to a perpetuall slauery and seruitude by as deadly and dolorous a blow as euer was deuised or done in any kingdome except in that kingdome of darknesse where is nothing else but hell horror and all confusion Surely surely for this your entended mischiefe and your former murthers the worme that neuer dieth will gnaw your rebellious hearts and the furies of hell which neuer giue rest will haunt you in your habitations where euer ye goe they wil speak in the voice of those Kings Queenes and Princes with whose bloud you haue embrewed your trayterous hearts and hands as it is said Caesars ghost did to Brutus and Cassius whom in the Senate they murdered with such crueltie O vnkinde Countrymen and cruell Caitiffes I haue bene your blesse but you are now my bane I haue bene your mirth and you are now my moane I haue bene your wealth and shadow in a florishing Empire but you are now my want and woe in a decaying estate I haue preserued your wiues to your comfort and your children to your great ioy but ye haue made my wife husbandlesse and my children fatherlesse to their vnspeakable griefe I cloathed you with scarlet and hanged ornaments of gold vpon your apparell spotted with the purest Armines but you haue couered my dead corpes with a Carpet of greene grasse diaperd with my dearest bloud Finally I haue kept your Daggers within your sheathes and you haue sheathed them within my heart Fie fie Flee flee And whither can you flee but the Hagge will euer haunt you nor can you euer fare well till the Fury finde you faultlesse Interim nos ad sepulchra vadimus We sleepe in peace The Lord deliuer our Church Country from all such Brutish Cassian cruelties so as neuer they be able either to touch the Lords annointed or do his Prophets any harme and praised be the Lorde which hath not now giuē vs a praie vnto their teeth for our soule is escaped euē as a bird out of the snare of the Fowler the snare is brokē we are deliuered Let this suffice for the danger deuised by men but vndone by God and if any would know by what men and of what Religion I answere by Englishmen and of the Popish Religion Nor will I say that all of that faction were priuie to the practise yet may I say that none for ought I yet heare were of the conspiracie but the popishly affected so branded which when God hath the glorie and the truth is knowne then will it appeare how farre the humour hath spred it self into the bodie of all the kingdom too much God wot decaied with that deadly maladie Yet I hope well in time if such be the fruits of popish Religion that fewe will gather Apples of that blasted tree a tree of Sodome faire in sight but in truth and touch nothing but Cindars and rottennesse and of all the staines that euer Popery had I am perswaded that this is of the deepest die For in stead of blowing vp vs they haue blowne vp themselues their Religion with such a wound to their Cause as will neuer be cured by any craft being blotted with one of the horriblest Treasons that euer was contriued and such as God Nature could neuer brooke to be amongst the cruellest Cannibals Turkes or Scithians that euer were No maruell then if Ciuil states abhorre it Christian Nations detest it Religious Kings spit at it and the Cronicles of all times record it for such an Antichristian stratagem Romish Monster and Popish prodigie as neuer might endure the sight of any Sunne but was strangeled in the birth ere it could bee borne and kild in the blade ere it came to any growth Strangled I say and killed by no other hand then the hand of God and euen then when the deuisers deemed it done for the Vault was readie the Powder was laide the traines were made the match was prepared Percy was busie Faukes was bloudie in resolution to giue the charge with a Crucifix about his necke and haire about his loines to tell you of what Tribe he