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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

he also never sleepeth never slumbreth Let their enemies be never so many all nations to him are but as the dust of the Balance Isa 40.15 the drop of a Bucket as nothing lesse then naught Let their enemies be never so mightie he hath their hearts in his hand can turne them as the Rivers of waters and make our enemies at peace with vs Ier. 33.4 changing their stabs into kisses he hath their heads in his hand and can infatuate the wiliest Herod the craftiest Achitophel turning their Councells into folly he hath their Hands and Hornes in his hand and can either binde them to their good behaviour or knocke out the Teeth of grators before they bite let them digge dippe to hide their plots the Lord will goe beyond them let them ioyne hand to hand they shall not prosper Prov. 11.21 Wee may say it wee may sweare it wee must beleeue it wee haue had experience never any Church more of the like what it is to haue such a Protector whose power is vnresistable his will vnchangeable his skill vnsearchable whose Greatnesse is such that he can doe what he will whose Goodnesse is such that he will doe what he can and ever magnifie both his Greatnesse and Goodnesse in the protection of his Israel and in the conversion or confusion of his enemies Witnesse this day of dayes on the morning of our fifth of November they would haue blowne vs vp on the evening of their fifth of November God beate them downe Vse 2 Is Iehovah the Deliverer of his Israel Why let God then haue the Honor of his owne worke not our wit not our wealth not our goodnes not our greatnes not our friends not our Bulwarkes but the Lord onely it was the Lords doing Psal 118.23.24 let it euer be marueilous in our eyes This is the Day which the Lord hath made let vs be glad and reioyce Let the wicked Politician the Machivilian Atheist sacrifice to their owne nets We will cry with that Kingly Prophet Psal 115.1 not vnto vs not vs ô Lord but vnto thy Name wee giue the glory Totum hoc quatumcunque sit quod certè miximum est totum est tuum the whole prayse of so glorious a rescue how great so euer it be which indeede is exceeding great is onely due to Iehovah Let the King say it is the Lord that giueth great deliverances vnto his David Psal 18. and sheweth mercy to his annointed and his seede for ever Let the Great Peeres and Princes say it is not our Arme that hath saued vs not our mighty strength but the Strength of Israel Iehovah Let the House of Aaron say and sing prayses sing prayses vnto the Lord that hath done wisely discouered our enemies broken their snares and we are escaped Ps 124.1.2.3 Let all England say if the Lord had not beene on our side if the Lord had not beene on our side when men rose vp against vs they had swallowed vs vp quicke when their wrath was kindled against vs. Praise waiteth for thee O God in Sion who is like our God who doth great and wondrous thinges Honored for euer be that Noble and Honorable Society The High Court of Parliament that to all ages hath set a Day apart for the Honor of that God who is the Protector of his Sion the Detector the Destroyer of his and their implacable enemies Goe on still O Noble Senate let King Prince Peeres Prelats Commons all conspire to honor the God of heaven by enacting such solemne Panagerickes to Iehovah and the God of honor will honor You this Church this State your Posterity the Generation to come shall blesse God for the deliuerance of this Day for the Record of this Deliuerance for this publicke gratulation vpon Record Blessed be that God which hath put it into the heart of that Great Assembly with an vnanimous and free consent to enact it for a Law in Israel and an Ordinance in Iacob for euer If euer we forget this mercy let our tongues cleaue to the roofe of our mouthes and our armes rott from our shoulders Let all faithfull loyall true hearted English Protestants with one heart and voice cry Amen Amen Finally doth the security of the Church State all lie in the presence of God Where God is there is no danger as where hee is nor no safetie O keepe him while we haue him driue him not from you who is our Buckler our shield all in all vnto vs keepe him in his Word in his Sabboths in his Ordinances and he will keepe you Would you know in a word what driues the Lord from a land a people sinne nothing but sinne can doe it and sinne will doe it Isa 59.2 your sinnes haue seperated betweene me and you where sinne is countenanced maintained multiplied there is no Harbor for the Almighty He is a God of purer eyes then to behold iniquitie what communion betweene God and Beliall Hab. 1.13 2 Cor. 6.14.15 light and darkenesse Christ and Antichrist Sinne chases the Lord away and leaues that person that Nation naked vnfenced exposed to the malice of men to the fury of Satan to the flames of hell Every wilfull sinner is a Traytor to God his King and Countrey as well as to his owne soule Away with beloued darling sinnes away with those wasting King-killing State-ruinating sinnes Idolatry contempt of Gods word worship Sacraments Sabbath Ministers scandalous enormous impieties out-facing Authoritie these if they should be found among vs will kindle a flame in our Citie Countrey a worse then Powder-flame that shall burne to the bottome of hell If we our selues betray not our soules our Church our State our Kingdome in vaine shall the Gates of Rome repine at the prosperitie of England if wee pull not downe our owne walls with our owne handes no Engins of theirs shall ever batter them if wee doe not open the sluces and floud-gates the Invndations of that Romish Nilus with her marish waters shall never over-flow our bankes If wee carry not Flax Tinder Gun-powder in our owne bosomes and strike not fire with our owne fingers their matches shall never take their sparkles shall not burne the flame shall not kindle vpon vs. For Gods-sake therefore for your soules-sake for your Countreys-sake if you loue your King Countrey peace plentie the Gospell of peace your goods friends children away with the toleration dispensation of knowne grosse scandalous notorious enormous Impieties maintaine a perpetuall correspondence with your Heavenly Father be in league with Heaven delight to Honour him his Name Word Worshippe Sacraments Sabbaths Messengers that hee may delight to Watch over you Serue him who saved vs and therefore saved vs that wee being redeemed from the handes of our enemies such subtle cruell barbarous savage enemies might serue him without feare all the dayes of our life in holinesse and righteousnesse before him Blessed are the people who are in such a case who haue the Lord for their God FINIS