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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

more warme and earnest the subiect may pleade for pardon which is a fierie and furious Powder-treason and fire vseth to warme and kindle If any straines or phrases be met with oftner than once consider these Sermons were preached many yeares asunder and euery yeare the same matter in substance was to be renewed among my Auditory If I might heereby winne of some Catholiques but to consider of the grounds of their Religion which as they say of Nilus breedeth almost yearely such monsters I should be glad to gather that f●ui● of my paines whose hearts desire for my seduced Country-men is as Pauls for his that they might be saued in the day of the Lord to whose grace I heartily commend thee and desire to be commended by thee THO. TAYLOR THE ROMISH FVRNACE Daniel 3.22 c. 22 Therefore because the Kings commandement was straite that the furnace should bee exceeding hote the flame of the fier slew those men that brought foorth Sadrach Meshach and Abednego 23 And these three men Sadrach Meshech and Abednego fell downe bound in the middest of the hote fiery furnace 24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the King was astonied and rose vp in hast and spake and said vnto his Counsellors Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire Who answered and said vnto the King It is true O King 25 And he answered and said Lo I see foure men loose walking in the midst of the fire and they haue no hurt and the forme of the fourth is like the Sonne of God NEbuchadnezzar maketh an image of gold straitly enioyneth the worship prescribeth the nanner of it with all manner of musicke to draw and affect the simple and superstitious Himselfe beginneth the daunce his Nobles Princes Dukes Iudges Counsellors Officers Gouernours easily follow the Kings will and example though in a most wicked decree what way now may we think the multitude went but after their leaders But certaine Iewes disordered fellowes against whom in all likelihood the image was purposely erected that such Chaldeans as Daniel had set ouer the Prouince of Babel might by this meanes be remoued from their places and charges are accused to the King Vers. 12. Sadrach Meshach and Abednego are with expedition conuented vers 13. charged vpon paine of present death to conforme to the worship of the Land vers 15. But it is not the commandement of the King nor the consent of Princes nor seuerity of Lawes nor threats nor allurements of Tyrants that can preuaile to draw the Elect from God they will craue none nor take any time of deliberation if it were offered in this thing they boldly protest against that horrible idolatry to the Kings face Wee will not serue thy gods nor worship the golden image which thou hast set vp vers 18. Heereupon as against confessed rebels for so were Gods children euer accounted in the world the sentence of death without respite or further forme of law passeth vpon them that they should be cast into a fiery Furnace seuen times hotter than euer it vsed to bee not that the King would quickly thereby dispatch them out of their paine but partly to shew his owne great indignation conceiued against them and partly to terrifie and affright them the more for Tyrants if they could would rather torment the minds of the Saints than their bodies But they abiding vndaunted at this sentence the wrath of the King proceedeth into a fury and short madnesse precipitating euery thing and with more hast than good speed executeth his wicked sentence and lest any fauour should be shewed them he commandeth his strong men and warriours to bring them before his eyes and throw them into the Furnace that hee might feed himselfe in their destruction and so they did Now of all this proceeding these verses and the other following shew the euent which is twofold First concerning the enemies of the Iewes that the flame licked them in who were the instruments of this wicked Tyrant which is set downe with the accusation in the first words 1. Because the Kings commandement was straite they were so intent vpon the Kings charge as in likelyhood they forgate their owne safety 2. Because the Furnace was so extraordinary hote the flame licked them in ere they were aware The second euent is concerning the persons of the Iewes and that is their escape and euasion euen in the middest of the Furnace Wherein three things are to be considered First the manner of it it was miraculous in that the flame had no power either vpon their bodies or on their apparell but onely on their bonds whereby being cast in bound they were able to walke loose in the middest of the Furnace Secondly the meanes of this escape a Sonne of God whom the Tyrant saw walking in the Furnace with them Thirdly the effect of this deliuerance the acknowledgement of the true God by Nabuchadnezzar and all his Nobles Wherein we haue an expresse type of our owne present estate and of Gods dealing with vs which when I haue in one or two words parallelled I will come to the seuerall parts The Romish Nabuchadnezzar head of that whore of Babel not sitting ouer an hundreth seuen and twenty Prouinces as this but challenging the power of both the swords ouer all the Princes and Prouinces of the earth hath set vp an Idoll in that the whole chaos and vast body of Popery is as base an idolatry as euer was among the Gentiles but especially their Breaden God in the Masse which the Gentiles would bee ashamed to fall downe before Hee hath sent out his Edicts that all people nations and languages should worship the image which hee hath set vp and whosoeuer receiue not the mark of that Beast in their hands and in their fore-heads these he excommunicateth and adiudgeth to fier and faggot as witnesse all the bloody Martyrdomes and fiery trials in other and in our owne countrey his owne Kings Princes Dukes and Gouernours in Italy Spaine France and other Popish countreys bow downe to this beast But a few reformed Churches as England Scotland Ireland Germanie Belgia Hel●●tia Bohemia Saxony Denmarke and Sweueland doe not deliberate in this matter that they will not doe this thing He also hastily sends out his Bulles of Excommunication and furiously threatens worse matters of blood and slaughter which by his hands of mischiefe stretched into all countries hee putteth in execution against Princes and people who conforme not to the worship of his image Plentifull experience hereof we haue had in our owne countrey witnesse those many and outragious conspiracies both in the dayes of her late Maiesty blessed in all memory as also of his Excellent Highnesse both before and since his solemne Inauguration But all these prouing no better than paper-shot and nothing so terrible and and deadly as he intended seuen yeeres agoe hee set his Captaines on worke for the heating of a Furnace seuen

Popish Bishops was so violent a fowler to furnish his Maisters dishes that himselfe in fiue yeares space tooke and rosted 300. seely Martyrs most of them in his owne walke and dioces Such were our Fauxes and Fawkners who made sure account of such a prey as was neuer before layd for namely for three whole Kingdomes at once which would haue filled all their nets For God and man concurred to punish the iniquity of this time said the Letter to L. Mounteagle for the obtaining whereof they despised all danger and all labour is thought little in digging halfe a yeare together through hard foundations they will bestow any cost whatsoeuer of their owne and other mens Digby promised 1500. pounds Tressam 2000. Percy all that he could get of the Earle of Northumberlands rents besides tenne galloping Horses And nothing troubled Faux but that he was disappointed II. The Scripture both here and else where compares their meanes and instruments to snares nets and ginnes which are set in the wayes of Gods Saints to take them And that for two causes 1. It notes the secrecie of the danger which makes it farre more dangerous and ineuitable for nets and snares vse to be layd in secret and out of sight In vaine were the net layd before the eyes of all that hath wings Prou. 1.17 As therfore the fowlers or fishers go about their matters craftily and subtilly they will stand priuily behinde a tree they dissemble all they will lay meate as though they intended to feed the seely bird which they meane to feed vpon they haue a Lure or Call as if they were friends and birds themselues but the end is to kill and destroy So doe the Fowlers of Gods Church Psal. 83.3 They haue taken crafty counsell against thy people and haue consulted against thy secret ones So euer haue done the Romish Antichristian Fowlers who haue beene taught by their great Nim●od leoninae pelli assuere vulpinam Alwayes to match together the Lyon and the Foxe Iulius the 2. can turne him either way to Peters keyes or Pauls sword What they cannot doe by open force they can doe by secret fraud wherein oftentimes there lyes more strength than in the former The Syrian Antiochus Epiphanes was a liuely type of the Romish Antiochus of whom it is sayd Dan. 8.24.25 His power shall be mighty but not in his strength he shall destroy wonderfully and shall prosper and practise and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people and by his policie shall cause craft to prosper in his hand A liuely description of the Romish Antiochus or Antichrist that beast arising out of the sea hauing as well the hornes of the Lambe as the speech of the Dragon He intrudes himselfe as the head and husband of the Church while he robs and wastes it He professeth himselfe a seruant of seruants while he sets himselfe aboue all Kings and Commanders as Boniface the 8. in the yeare of Christ 1300. before a great concourse in a solemne Iubilee one day shewed himselfe in his Priestly Pontificals with the crosse carried before him the next day in an Emperours roabes with a naked sword before him and this title proclaimed Ego sum Pontifex Imperator terrestre ac coeleste imperium habeo All this is mine and to whomsoeuer I will I giue it What is the whole religion of Rome but a mysterie of iniquity a bundle of policie which by secret conueyances and t●●ines both brought and held all the Kingdomes and Countries in Europe within the snare and bondage of a silly Fryar by sembled sanctity lying myracles false donations forged writings and the like and thus hath ensnared mens bodies goods liues and consciences Neuer saw the world so cunning a fowler Are his emissaries and such as he sends out of better disposition than himselfe No witnesse Gregory the great As Christ sent out simple and seely plaine men to raise vp his Kingdome so shall Antichrist make choise of crafty and double and deceitfull persons for his businesse How subtilly did these two friars Clemēt and his Associate lay their snares when they flew the French King Henry the 3. pretending great good businesse for the Church and State When the Papists in France could not by open force oppresse the Prince of Condy and Casper Colignius the Admirall of France they could by fraude and cunning as by a lure pretending peace and nuptiall solemnity raise a sudden Massacre by which thirty thousand Protestants fell into their snare who most perfidiously were slaine against all laws of God nature and nations not much without the space of one moneth What Potentate euer layd the foundation of obedience in conscience or could ouercome his enimies without warre by a parchment Bull or maintaine himselfe and his pompe at all mens costs and deuotions or conquer opposite Princes by their owne subiects or stabl●sh himselfe by dispensing with vnlawfull marriages and lawfull oaths or mainetaine so many Intelligences by Confession or pleasure all men in their humours by wealth pouertie austerity voluptousnesse What a notable combination of knaueries is there in that religion wherein all these things and many more are most eminent most vsuall To come to our owne Country what did those trayterous bandits and emissaries All●n Harding Sanders Parsons Campion and others but by writing and speaking pretend singular loue Instruction and care ouer their Country-men whose religion they left yet indeed what intended they but destruction of Prince and State being trumpets to rebellion raising vp armes some out of Spaine some out of Ireland some desperate cut-throts at home to take away the life of that blessed Lady Elizabeth of eternall happy memory What a number haue they snared vnder the pretext of peace truce and friendship as Duke Alba in the Low Countries and as the King of Spaine in 88. while he was prouiding that invincible nauy against our Prince and Country he sent the Duke of Parma to intreat of peace as if it were honesty in Catholikes whome they cannot kill by warre to delude and spoile them vnder the name of peace not without villany and per●ury How secretly did our late foolish fowlers lay their nets and traines with what faire pretences It was meerely and only for religion sayd Faux and he was bound inconscience to do it because the King was an heriticke he was sent by the name of Iohn Ionson to Percy to conferre for releefe of the Catholike cause All of them tooke an oath for secrecy yea heard Masses and tooke the Sacrament neuer to reueale any thing Now to the laying of snares as deep as hell 36 barrels of gunpouder are prouided numbers of iron bars to blow vp with one deadly blow in time of peace in time of Parliament●al England Scotland and Ireland in their King and posterity in their lawes and gouernments in their Church and Religion in their Common welths and Iustice in

Happy were we that they reckoned without their host and so came to another reckoning else had the Funerals of England been their sports and merriments How should this Act haue beene canonized and registred in the Popes Calender amongst the most Heroicall facts that euer were attempted For if treason against the person of one King was so extolled how would this haue been aduanced being against the King Prince State and three whole famous Kingdomes Guignard the Iesuite tearmes the act of Iames Clement in murthering Henry the 3. of France with a poisoned knife which he thrust into his belly an Heroicall act The Iesuites of France terme it a gift of the holy Ghost Nay Pope Sixtus the 5. in a solemne oration made in the Consistory of Cardinalls Decem. 11.1589 compared the treason of that cursed Dominick with the act of Eleazar or Iudith yea a farre greater worke a rare a notable and a memorable act that a Monke a religious man had slaine the vnhappy French King in the midst of his host An act not done without the prouidence of God and the assistance of his holy Spirit Oh hellish blasphemies of vnerring Popes not iustifying only but abetting and extolling most hainous treasons against the highest powers on earth oh blasphemous beasts teaching men that God is a murtherer of Kings and Princes How then should this fact haue been eternized if it had succeeded And if there were such reioycing at Rome by publike professions bonfires shooting of ordinance and present publishing of a Iubilee by the Pope his Cardinals hearing tidings of that persidious and bloody Massacre at Paris anno 1572. in so much as the Cardinall of Lorraine gaue him a thousand Crownes that brought the first newes of it What publike ioy in Rome what Masses processions triumphs and gifts would there haue beene if this stratageme had had successe Bellarmine shall not deceiue vs who tells vs in his Letter to the Arch-priest that it was neuer heard of from the Churches infancy vn●il this day that euer any Pope did commaund that a Princ● though an hereticke or ethnick or persecutor should be murthered or did approue the fact when it was done by another This is a lewd and vnconscionable vntruth vnlesse we conceiue he meanes that it was neuer heard by those who were de●fe and could not heare As by a Iesuiticall Aequiuocation it may well be construed I conclude this point with the speech of Agis to an euill man asking him who was the best Spartan his answer was Qui tui dissimillimus He that is most vnlike thee So is this to be a good Catholike nay he is the best Catholike who is most vnlike these Catholikes Wee see our danger and how great it was Now secondly let vs see how the worke of God is as great in our deliuerance both for the Matter and for the Manner of it I. For the Matter we were deliuered from great euills to great good things First we were deliuered from a terrible blow A deadly blow to King Queene Prince Nobles Iudges Bishops Counsell Gentry Commons all A deadly blow to all Lawes and Law makers to iustice peace titles tenures records and the whole Common-wealth These Babylonians had sacked and spoiled all the Land A terrible deadly blow to religion piety the Gospell the Word the Sacraments These Babylonians would haue rased downe the Temple to the very foundations of it and carried away all the vessels and rich ornaments of it The waies of Sion should haue mourned because none could come to her solemne feasts Lastly a terrible deadly blow to all Louers and Professors of religion within the whole Land which as the traytors should haue beene drunke with the innocent blood of the Inhabitants Secondly wee were deliuered from a terrible day like the day of the Lord which shall burne like an ouen Mal. 4.1 A terrible day wherein the frame of the world should haue seemed dissolued the sunne should haue beene turned into blood the earth should haue opened her mouth and swallowed the inhabitants the aire should haue been darkned through the blacknesse and lamentation of that day A dismall doomesday of England a day of fire and brimstone had that fifth of Nouember been if the fire-workes of these fire-brands had preuailed Thirdly wee were deliuered from a terrible tyrannie and yoke to which that of Babel was altogether incomparable 1. Spirituall our glory had beene gone and we might well haue been called I●habod In stead of our Arke wee should haue had the abomination of desolation set vp the horrible idoll of the Masse ignorance worshipped as a god mother of deuotion Preaching hindred Preachers martyrd al worship in an vnknowne tongue an ignotant rascall sort of greasy filthy Priests a doctrine which is a very mystery of iniquity 2. Temporall Answerable to their tyrannous doctrine is their tyrannical practise The whole world satisfieth not their couetousnesse nor all the harlots in the world their filthinesse Look where that religion is stable if it haue not swallowed euen the fat of the Land And what Nobleman dares meddle with a base hedge-Priest And for their practise is not behind their positions and in both Turkes and Canibals are behind their cruelty One of themselues writes It had bin better the poore Indyes had bin giuen to the diuels in hell than vnto them and themselues professed they would neuer come in heauen if the Spaniards came there Well hath his Maiesty obserued that not the Turks Tartars or they of Calicute who worship the diuell do lay such principles of cruelty in their Doctrine as Papists doe Wee see the greatnesse of our deliuerance priuately now see it positiuely In one word The good things wee are restored vnto are the fruition of God and his Christ in his holy ordinances with the Gospell of peace to the peace of our Countrey vnder our peaceable Gouernour new leases of our liberties lands callings liues and all that heart can desire II. The Ma●nor or meanes of our deliuerance was altogether wonderfull 1. It was easily brought about not by millions of gold and siluer not by the power or wit of man 2. It was done mightily not by the diuell as Faux blasphemously spake but by the immediate worke of God though as Cyrus had some glory of the Babylonish deliuerie so our Cyrus our gracious King had worthily some glorie of his princely care and watchfulnesse in this discouerie 3. It was done seasonably in the very due time whē all was ready the conception was euen in the birth 4. It was done to their own confusiō detected by themselues their hands that should haue acted it detected it by writing Discouered against themselues mischiefe returned on the heads that deuised it they fell into the pit that they digged for others death intended against their brethren caught themselues and that by their owne powder All this to the vtter confusion of their Religion as we haue