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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

it to be finished and performed Ezra 6.1 Euen so what King Henry had begun young Daâ—ius Edward the 6. as another Iosiah finished to good purpose For as Darius made a decree for the house of God in Ierusalem both for the building of it and for the rendring of the vessels of the house of God of gold and siluer which Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the house of God vers 3.5 So this Edward of blessed memorie imitating Darius in the first yeere of his raigne proclaimed the aduancement and building vp of the worship of the true God in a true manner and brought in the vessels of gold and siluer which Romish Nebuchadnezzar had taken away He set the lights in the Temple againe in many shining candlestickes The Sweet-bread was set againe on the Table of the Lord and the Cup of Christ his precious blood which had been stollen away by those theeues was now found and comfortably restored to the owners The booke of the Law was found and restored againe into a knowne tongue as in Iosiahs time by Hilkiah the Priest The sweete siluer sounding Trumpets sound continually in our eares in daily preaching the blessed word of God The holy Arke a signe of Gods presence dwels againe among vs and Dagon is fallen before it the house of Baal and his vestrie destroyed his groues cut downe and grubbed vp Are not these great workes which the Lord hath done for vs wherein wee must reioyce 3. After this for the vnthankfulnesse of this land as the building of the Temple was hindred for a while by Sanballat and Tobiah so in the daies of Queene Mary this great work of God was interrupted in which time what the Babylonians could not conquer by Scripture they could subdue by torture and now fire and sword was the Catholike and inuincible argument that the new Romanists might not degenerate from the old bloody Romans their fore-fathers whose measure they filled to the full For in lesse than fiue yeeres three hundred of the faithfull seruants of Christ without respect of Nobilitie degree learning grauitie sexe age or naturall humanitie were in our Countrey burned to ashes But God had no delight in that bloody Religion It is as great a worke of mercie as any of the former that he made it as short as bloody For if violent things and times should continue the world could not And behold a greater worke which the Lord hath done for vs whereof wee reioyce in raising vs vp our ancient Deborah of England neuer-dying Elizabeth the wonder of the world and mirrour of nations who quickly quenched those hot and furious fires and her selfe being brought from a prisoner to a mightie Prince opened the prison-doores and deliuered them that were appoynted to death Now were the castles of their superstitions and hopes cast downe again and made euen with the ground What great workes God did for her and vs in her time were too long to recite how she out-stood the curses and Bulls of the Romish Nebuchadnezzar and saw in her time seuen of themselues tumbled out of their pretended chaire of S. Peter how wonderfull her many deliuerances were from many hellish treasons deuised by the armie of Priests sent from the King of pride and attempted by the Romish Captaines of that great Nebuchadnezzar How the Lord went out before our Armies and as in the daies of Israels Deborah so of Englands Deborah hee mâ—de the sea and windes fight for vs and by his owne right hand got vs the victorie that memorable yeere and ouerthrow of 88 shall be a perpetuall witnesse so long as the world standeth how God himselfe fights against that Religion which so furiously fights against him How she iudged and ruled in peace honour and happinesse fiue and fortie yeeres to the honour of God and his Gospell and terror of all enemies and in the same peace and happinesse exchanged her earthlie with an heauenly and euerlasting crowne of glory 4. A great worke of God it was for vs to reioyce in when at her decease the enemies who had long looked for a day found it the day of their greatest disappoyntment whilest the Lord setting himselfe for our good in our gracious King and the fruitfull plants renewed all our prosperitie gaue vs a new tenure of the Gospell and a new hold of our peace and liberties of whom we may say as was said of Dauid He is the light of Israel and of Iosiah the breath of our nostrils who by his power and pen hath shewed himselfe a Defender of the true Faith 5. To come to the great workes of this day That these Babylonians might keepe their hands in vre what foule and desperate designes haue they attempted against the life of the Kings Maiestie our gracious Soueraigne For while this light of Israel remaineth impossible they thinke it is for their kingdome of darknesse to preuaile Among other deuises that shame of Popish Religion that hideous gunpowder-treason shall neuer be put out from vnder heauen In which were many great workes of God for vs Englishmen whether wee consider the greatnesse of the danger or the greatnesse of the deliuerance First consider the greatnesse of the plot the greatest mischiefe that euer was wanting a fit name to expresse it vnlesse you will call it a Catholike villanie a plot of greatest and vniuersall danger to vs of greatest triumph to the Aduersarie Here the head and taile branch and root one and other Prince and people Nobles and Gentrie old and young Papists and Protestants should haue been destroyed together For as Duke Medina said his sword knew no difference betweene Catholikes and Heretikes no more should this hellish or hell-fire which it was a sparke of Besides the secret carriage and contriuing of it made it most dangerous more dangerous than the Babylonish captiuitie for the Babylonians dealt aperto marte there was some hope of safetie either by prayer or power or truce or preparing against them there a man knew his aduersarie but here is a crueltie digged out of the depth of darknesse all of them sworne to secrecie yea the Sacrament was a seale of their wickednesse sworne brethren in euill at league among themselues but no more league for vs to be expected than from hell it selfe Here we might say as Hanniball sometime said of two Romane Captaines one working by power the other by policie Magis se a non pugnante Fabio quÃ m Ã pugnante Marcello sibi metuere Wee are more afraid of slie and quiet Papists than of boysterous armed Turkes How these plotters would haue triumphed in the fact as the Babylonians ouer Israel Sing vs now one of the songs of Syon we may well perceiue by their glorying in the hopes of it God and man saith the Letter haue concurred to punish the iniquity of the time and The danger is past so soone as you haue burnt the letter and They shall receiue a terrible blow this Parliament

should eate or drink with him or if any met him he should not bid him God-speede and if hee came to Church in diuine seruice hee must be thrust out â— After this excommunication hee was condemned and committed to the secular power to be burnt for an Heretick and so by the Sheriffes the poore dead man vvas the second time executed Now out of all this I conclude that the spirit of Nâ—buchadnezzâ—r is quickned or reuiued in these Romanists and that they are of the number of those whose mercies are cruell Certainly they are not led by the Spirit of God for the fruits of the Spirit are meekenesse gentlenesse peace neither by the spirit of Christ for he was meeke and lowly of spirit He and his Apostles put none to death Obiect You put Catholickes to death and not for any thing but for maintaining the ancient religion of their fathers Answer This is a cunning wile of Satan to put this imputation from his deare Antichrist vpon others for it cannot be shewed that euer any Romanist suffered death amongst vs for his religion but for rebellion and denying his allegiance there being no law in England to put a Papist to death for his conscience Yet yeeld that which can neuer be graunted without betraying our innocencie and compare which of our religions be more vnmercifull it must needes fall vpon their pate for M. Fox in the fiue yeares of Queene Mary hath reckoned vp towards three hundred and so the truth is as eye-witnesses will testifie whereas a Writer of theirs hath raked vp in fifty yeares vnder two hundred namely 193. Compare the oddes I hasten to things that remaine wherein I will be more briefe Note here how farre the Lord suffers the wicked to bring their purposes euen to the point of execution for here was the rage of the King vnplacable till the furnace was prepared and his seruants put in whom the Lord would not deliuer till they were in the furnace and not in some corner of it where the fire came not but in the midst of the flames This the Lord doth 1. In respect of the wicked to glorifie himselfe through them both in his long patience toward them forbearing them till there be no remedie as also in his iustice when they make all cock-sure and glory in their vngodly purposes then to confound them and dissipate their counsels recompencing his leaden feete with brazen hands 2. In respect of the godly either to try their patience and faith and loue of himselfe or else to declare his mighty power in their deliuery when all other meanes are hopelesse This may stirre vs vp to the greater thankfulnesse for the great mercie of this present day for the same was the Lords dealing in that vngodly and diuellish plot as here for the three children It was brought euen to the birth as the Scripture speakes Oftentimes the wicked conceiue wickednesse and trauell to bring forth iniquitie and here the mischiefe had beene conceiued the full moneths and they no doubt gloried in their hopefull birth but yet our watchfull and gracious God caused their Sunne to fall at noone-day and stretched out his owne right hand to saue when all meanes failed that all the glory and praise of it might returne to himselfe Let vs learne hereby euer to wayte for the Lords deliuerance though hee seeme to delay if it be not suddaine yet it shall be seasonable how glorious will it be if it be in the very flames euen the night before the danger as was Peters deliuerance Act. 12. and ours also the very night before the intended execution Note further how the prouidence of God guides all euents and ouer-rules all designements of all his creatures Nebuchadnezzar purposed to burne the bodies of the Saints but the Lord disposed that the wicked should be burnt in their stead He cannot burne whom he will He cannot saue whom he would He may command the furnace to be made and to be made seauen times hotter than ordinary yet can hee not commaund it to burne whom he would he cannot forbid it to consume whom he would not This ouer-ruling power of God makes fire and water which we say haue no pitie more mercifull and pittifull then tyrants wicked men as flames of fire here more fauourable than Nebuchadnezzar as the sea it selfe more calme than Pharaoh Nay more this prouidence makes the vngodly meditate a vaine thing especially in banding themselues against the Church Nay more yet their counsels are not onely turned vnto folly the Lord disappointing them but euen to a quite contrarie end for a mischiefe to themselues as here the same fire that they kindle against the children of God lickes vp themselues the same destruction that Pharaoh intended against Israel ouerthrew onely himselfe and all his hoast Hence Dauid obseruing this truth is bold to say that the wicked digges a pit for others but falls into it himselfe hee layeth snares for others but himselfe is taken he whetteth his sword against the innocent but it shall pierce his owne heart The wicked deuise of Haman against the Iewes was turned vpon his owne head both hee and his were hanged on the Gallowes which he had set vp for Mordecay And the enemies of Daniel are cast into the same den that they prepared for him The selfe same thing we see experience of in the Popes and Percies barbarous deuise against the Church they could make their furnace but could not kindle the fire nay some of the actors were marked with their powder but none against whom it was layd though they carried it a long time in their resolutions and plots yet did not they meditate a vaine thing yea did not the Artizans of death perish in their owne Art yes most iustly And so of D. Stories iron Cage which was turned into an hurdle and halter against himselfe Let vs all therefore to the praise of God acknowledge both what a bootlesse thing and dangerous it is to be an instrument of malice against the Church The Pope and holy league or rather impure faction haue a long time leagued themselues against the Churches reformed but hath not the Lord still dissolued their most furious practices and made the end shamefull vnto themselues Haue they not lost more by their cruell Inquisition at home then they haue gotten Hee that hath knowledge of the state of the Low Countries shall easily see it had beene good for them neuer to haue knowne it Haue not the same persons by horrible stratagems and blood-sheds sought vtterly to waste the Church but is not the blood of Martyrs the seede of the Church haue not we reaped the holy doctrine of Christ which was sowen in the blood and ashes of our Fathers Was not that most hellish massacre in France a meanes vtterly to haue abolisht the mention of religion for euer but haue wee not great hope that the Lord will giue them

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