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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03080	The triumph of the Church over water and fire. Or A thankfull gratulation for that miraculous deliverance of the Church and state of Great Britaine, from the Romish Tophet: or, that barbarous and savage Powder-plot As it was delivered (for substance) in a sermon at Blacke Fryers in London on the fifth of November. 1625. By Theodor Hering, minister of the Word of God.; Triumph of the Church over water and fire.	Herring, Theodore, 1596-1645.	1625 (1625)	STC 13204; ESTC S104029	27,216	53

THE TRIVMPH OF THE CHVRCH OVER WATER AND FIRE OR A Thankfull Gratulation for that Miraculous Deliverance of the Church and State of Great Britaine from the Romish Tophet or that barbarous and savage Powder-plot As it was delivered for substance in a Sermon at Blacke Fryers in London on the fifth of November 162● By THEODOR HERING Minister of the Word of GOD. ISAI 29.15 Woe vnto them that digge deepe to hide their councell from the Lord for their workes are in darkenesse and they say Who seeth vs Who knoweth vs PSAL. 66.12 Wee went into fire and into water but thou broughtest vs out into a wealthy Land LONDON Printed by I. D. for Nicholas Bourne at the South entrance of the Royall Exchange 1625. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE IAMES LORD LEE Baron of Lee Lord High Treasurer of England one of the Lords of his MAIESTIES most Honorable privie Councell my dearly honored PATRON RIGHT HONORABLE IT is an Aphorisme of State delivered by a great and wise King When the Righteous are exalted the Citty reioyceth A good Man especially if a Great Man is a common Good Where Goodnesse and Greatnesse meete together that Happie coniunction promiseth a Gracious aspect Giue me leaue being received into and shrouded vnder the winges of your Honors Protection to congratulate that High Honor which His Maiesty hath so worthily conferred on your Lord-ship I know not whether the Place doth more Honor the Man or the Man the Place Your Honors Wisedome Experience Iustice Gravitie Pietie what good doe they not presage If the world faile not exceedingly of their expectation none more like to doe God the King and his Country better service Your Honor hath the prayers and hearts of the best and therefore need not being armed with such a Coate of Male feare the calumnies or opposition of the worst For my-selfe your Honors favour and countenance afforded me in private hath obliged me to a publike Gratulation and emboldened me to dedicate these my Labours to your Honor to whom I haue given my selfe as being a chiefe Member of this State and therefore knowing the state of this Story better then my rude draught can pourtray it wherein your Honor shall see the Combat Conflict and Conquest as of the Church in generall so of this Church this State in speciall Never any Nation so embroiled so entangled came off so faire Never any intended bloudy Tragedy shut vp with such a reall ioyfull Catastrophe The Matter cannot but yeeld delight to a Christian especially to an English-man If the Manner please not I haue done my endevour to cloath it with the best Suit my homely Wardrope could affoord more in so short a time and on so suddaine a warning I cannot promise The Grecians delivered it as a Proverbiall Precept that who ever speakes to Great Men his words must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Suauissima breuissima as wee English it Short and sweete What my Discourse wants in the one if it be not so sweete as I could wish it it shall make vp in the other and be as short as your Honors more weightie employments require to which I remit your Honor wishing many a happie New-yeare to your Noble Lordship and my Honorable Good Lady with all encrease of Honor and Happinesse here and here-after remaining Your Honors humbly devoted in all faithfull observance THEOD HERING ¶ To the Reader GEntle Reader Little did I dreame that these priuate Meditations intended only for a particular Congregation should be made thus publicke to the view of the whole world Homo proponit Deus disponit Man purposeth but God disposeth Importunitie wrung them from me not onely beside but against my intention My pleas were many if they might haue beene heard The shortnesse of time allotted for preparation multitude of other distractions which would scarce giue me leaue either to write what I had Preached or to review what I had written before the publication The curiositie of the times and various humour of men what one likes another dislikes one thinkes it too curious another too carelesse one too facile another too obscure one too loose another too elaborate So impossible is it for any one man to please all men The same sentence which pleaseth one dislikes another the same man that receiues content this houre is out of charitie the next so various is man in his thoughts so vnconstant in his censures to others and himselfe Adde to this beside the ficklenesse of some the perversenesse of others who Malchus-like heare all with the left eare and as if the right hand were withered like Ieroboams take all with the left If some passages accord in substance with certaine materiall poynts that are delivered of other Writers though never so different in the carriage and circumstance they must needes be transcribed As if divers men building on the same foundation guided by the same Spirit may not in their Meditations border each on other vnlesse they borrow one from another All these iust allegations were vrged by mee but in vaine I did but surdo narrare fabulam my friends would haue no nay for their sakes haue I ventred to put my finger once againe into the fire though already scorched with the slame Happily the subiect matter of this Discourse will procure better intertainement Many I confesse haue written of this Theame and as our Adversaries querulously complaine too many Wherefore els doe they say What nothing but the Powder-Treason nothing but the Powder-Treason When will you haue done with your Cole-worts twice thrice sodden over It vexeth them to the Heart that wee should rubbe this Soare and make this wound bleed afresh but by their leaues GODS goodnesse and Their wickednesse deserues a Monument of Marble and let them haue it They loue the Treason but hate the Memory of it Istis siquidem pudor est audiendi quae secerunt Nullus faciendi quae erubescant Let all Ages ring of this transcendent match-lesse mercilesse Plot. Let every true-hearted Englishman tell what great Wonders the Lord hath done for this Nation how Hee carried our Fathers in the yeare Eightie-Eight through the waters how Hee carried vs their children this fifth of November through the fire Let this be graven with a Penne of Iron with the Point of a Diamond on the Tables of our hearts on the Postes of our Houses on the Hornes of our Altars in such Capitall Letters as he that runnes may reade them Let the Fathers report it to their children and the children to their childrens children that the Generation to come as yet vnborne may discerne the malicious mischievous attempts of Romane Catholikes That Law of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let it not here take place but by tradition let it successiuely descend from hand to hand from mouth to mouth from penn to penn least in time Histories Chronicles all Narrations hereof seeme to after-Ages incredible and this Truth bee entertained for a Fable which indeede exceeds all Heathen