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A14381 Edom and Babylon against Jerusalem, or, meditations on Psal. 137. 7 Occasioned by the most happy deliverance of our church and state (on November 5. 1605.) from the most bloody designe of the papists-gunpowder-treason. Being the summe of divers sermons, delivered by Thomas Vicars B.D. Pastour of Cockfield in South-sex. ... Vicars, Thomas, d. 1638. 1633 (1633) STC 24699; ESTC S102674 31,977 82

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EDOM AND BABYLON Against IERVSALEM OR Meditations on Psal. 137. 7. Occasioned by the most happy Deliverance of our Church and State on November 5. 1605. from the most bloody Designe of the Papists-Gunpowder-Treason Being the summe of divers Sermons delivered by Thomas Uicars B. D. Pastour of Cockfield in South-Sex This our Deliverance was such a marvellous worke of God that it ought to be had in an everlasting remembrance and the rather for that the Papists in blinde corners most shamelesly give out and goe about to perswade simple people that there was never any such thing intended by them as the Gunpowder-treason but that it is athing meerly put upon them to make their religion more odious Printed at London by E. P. for Henry Seyle dwelling in St. Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Tygers head 1633. On the 5. of November Prospera lux oritur linguis animisque favete Nunc dicenda bonâ sunt bona verba die Ex Ovid. Fast lib. 1. Psal. 31. 23. O love the Lord all ye his Saints for the Lord preserveth the Faithfull and plentifully rewardeth the Proud-doer Psal. 9. 16. Higgaion Selah i. e. Res meditanda summè according to Iunius This is a thing most worthy our serious consideration A Summary or The most remarkeable points delivered in these Sermons THe Gunpowder-treason-day is a Festivall appropriate to the Church of England pag. 1 2 3. The divellish devise of the Gunpowder-plot exaggerated pag. 6. The effects likely to have ensued upon the treason if the hand of God had not dash'd it pag. 10. What wee are to thinke of those imprecations in Scripture used by the Saints against their enemies p. 13 14 c. Whether it be lawfull for us to curse our enemies in the name of the Lord according to the example of the Saints p. 17. The persecutors of the Church and namely the Gunpowder-Traytors are the children of Edom by morall imitation p. 21. The enemies of Gods Church Worldlings in generall and the Popish-faction in particular are a company of carnall fleshly minded men p. 23. The enemies of Gods church Worldlings in generall and the Popish faction in particular are most cruell and bloody-minded men like their father Edom p. 29. The wicked are ready to joyn hand in hand to vexe the church and to effect wicked matters p. 50. Neither affinity nor neerenesse of kinne nor any bond of love can quench that hatred which the enemies of the church beare unto it p. 58. It is the property of wicked men to rejoyce in evill p. 62. The Lords name who is the keeper of our Israel is to be blessed and praised for our most miraculous deliverance p. 70. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE THOMAS LORD COVENTRY Baron of Alesborough Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England and one of his Majesties most honourable privy Counsell RIght Noble Lord The fame of your Honours most religious and righteous proceedings in that high place of authority wherin his sacred Majesty hath most worthily seated you doth so spread it selfe far and neere that he is very envious that doth not acknowledge it very impious that doth not heartily thanke God for it The assurance of your Honours sincere love and affection you shew to Gods cause true religion that continuall countenance and encouragement you give both to the professours and publishers of the Gospell that facile eare you lend to all honest suppliants hath drawne mee on though I be the meanest of ten thousand to make so far bold as to present unto you these few leaves of paper which I was desirous should come abroad under your name both that I might thereby find shelter against the virulent tongues of that viperous brood the jesuited Papists enemies of our Church and state to whom I beleeve these Sermons will not be very welcome and also that I might hereby shew my selfe thankefull in some poore measure to your Honour in the behalfe of my uncle who by your good meanes next under God enjoyeth that meanes of living he hath for which he is ever bound as your Honours Bede-man to pray for your peace and prosperity even as long as he draweth breath Go on right noble Lord to be a pillar of piety and equity a patron of the distressed and needy a worthy Mecaenas to learned men and a religious Obadiah to Gods Ministers And I heartily pray God to thinke upon you in mercy and to remember all the good you have done to the house of God and the officers thereof So prayeth Your Honours most devoted in all observance Thom à Vicars EDOM AND BABYLON Against IERUSALEM PSAL. 137. 7. Remember the Children of Edom O Lord in the day of Ierusalem how they said Downe with it Downe with it even to the ground GIve me leave to begin the exercise of * this day with the words of S. Bernard Serm. 5. de dedicat eccles Hodierna die fratres solemnitatē agimus eamque praeclaram Today Beloved we celebrate a Festivall and that a great one For whether wee consider the great danger wherewith wee were compassed as upon this day or that great deliverance which God hath wrought for us out of that danger as upon this day Solennitate● agimus eamque praeclaram it is a Festivall we celebrate a great one too Quae tanto nobis debet esse devotior quanto est familiarior as the same Bernard hath it in his first Sermon which of all other Festivals is more solemnly and more devoutly to be observed by us for that it is more proper and peculiar to our Nation than to any other Nam caeteras quidem sanctorum solennitates as hee goes on there cum ecclesiis aliis habemus communes The other Festivals and Holy dayes in memory of the Saints are common to us with many other Churches Haec verò sic nobis est propria ut necesse sit vel à nobis eam vel à nemine celebrari but the solemnity of this day is so appropriate to the Church and state of this Kingdome that I know not any Country in the world that hath so great cause to keepe it Holy-day as we of this Nation have The Israelites in memory of their deliverance out of Egypt from the bondage of Pharoah King of Egypt were to keepe a solemne Holy-day And Moses gives them a memento to thinke on that day Remember this day in the which yee came out of Egypt Exod. 13 3. And the Iewes afterward in memory of their delivery from the malice and wrath of wicked Haman who had appointed them all to the slaughter kept a Holy-day with feasting and much joy yea and they promised that the dayes of that anniversary solemnity called the dayes of Purim should bee remembred and kept throughout every generation and every family and every Province and every City even those dayes of Purim should not faile among the Iewes and the memoriall of them should not perish from their