terrible blow given saying no doubt in their hearts not Downe with it Downe with it even to the ground but Blow them up up with them even to the clouds Nay and when Guido Faux the party appointed to give fire to the powder was apprehended and examined and asked if hee was not sorry and repented himselfe of his bloody designe answered with a bold heart and brazen face that hee was sorry for nothing more in all his life than for that the designe tooke so ill effect and repented himselfe that hee had not set fire on the powder when hee was caught that he might have done some mischiefe at least upon himselfe and his apprehenders By all which it is more then plaine to be seene how the Popish faction jumpe directly with the children of Edom in all points of carnality and cruelty and especially in this their rejoicing in evill Here is onely the difference betwixt them The Edomites saw the ruine and desolation of jerusalem and rejoyced over it but the Papists did not see the ruine and desolation of our Church but onely in hope and expectation that they might have rejoiced over us But their hopes were dasht and their expectation frustrate and their joy was turned into shame and confusion of face as appeareth this day and all by the mercifull patience and providence of the Lord the keeper of our Israel who never slumbers nor sleeps but watcheth overus for our good to save our King and defend our state to direct his Church and deliver his poore servants from all the divelish machination of our implacable enemies And therefore not unto us not unto us but to his glorious name be ascribed the praise of our deliverance And the Lord make us truly thankefull for this most miraculous deliverance to remember it our selves and to be whetting of it upon our posterity that all true English hearted Christians may learne to praise the Lord God of Israel for ever And pray wee once more that God of his mercy and not for our merits for his owne goodnesse sake and not for any goodnesse that is in us he would be pleased to scatter our cruell enemies which delight in blood to infatuate their counsells and to root out that Babylonish and * Antichristian sect which say of Ierusalem Downe with it downe with it even to the ground And beseech wee him of his mercifull goodnesse to protect and prosper our soveraigne Lord and King in all his godly intendments to blesse the Church with the pure and incorrupt doctrine of his holy word and with faithfull Pastours after his owne heart to maintaine the whole State and realme in peace and prosperity that with our heart and moâ—th wee may praise his holy name and sing joyfully that his mercifull kindnesse is ever more and more towards us and that the truth of the Lord endureth for ever through jâ—sus Christ our only Saviour and redeâ—â—er Amen and againe I say Amen Hallelu_jah Praise â—ee the Lord and sing the 148. Psalme or Psal. 7. beginning at the 15. verse BEhold though he in travell bee of his divellish forecast And of his mischiefe once conceiv'd yet brings forth nought at last Hee diggs a ditch and delves it deepe in hope to hurt his brother But hee shall fall into the pit that he dig'd up for other Thus wrong returneth to the hurt of him in whom it bred And all the mischiefe that he wrought shall fall upon his head I will giue thankes to God therefore that judgeth righteously And with my songs will praise the name of him that is most high The 124. Psalme paraphrastically applied to the Papists Powder-plot fitted to one of the familiar tunes of Davids Psalmes for the 5. of November IF great Iehovah had not stood propitious on our side May England say most thankefully and been our guard and guide If heavens Almighty-Lord Himselfe had not our cause maintain'd When men yea most blood-thirsty men our downefall had ordain'd Then had their Antichristian rage and Hellish policy Devoured us with greedy jawes and swallowed suddainely Then like huge overflowing floods with furious inundation They all our soules o'rewhelmed had and drown'd in desolation Our royall King and Queene and Prince and princely Progeny Our prudent Counsellors of State and prime Nobility Our learned Iâ—dges Bishops grave best commons of this Land In Parliament by powder fierce had perish'd out of hand Romes raging streames with roaring noise and popish cruelty Had all at once engulft our soules in matchlesse misery But great Iehovah just and good thy name we praise and blesse Who onely sav'dst us from the power of Romish wickednesse For as a Bird out of the snare by furious Fowlers made Doth safely scape Even so our soules securely did evade Their net was broke themselves were caught our God that ne're doth sleepe In heaven did sit and see and smile and us in safety keepe This was the Lords most worthy worke this was the Lords owne â—act And 't is most wondrous to behold this great and glorious Act. This is the jâ—yfull day indeed Which God for us hath wrought Let us be glad and joy therein in Word in Deed in Thought O let us never make aâ— end to magnifie Gods name To blesse the Lord our Staffe and Stay to sound abroad his fame To tell to all Posterity what wonders God hath wrought To save us from the woes which Rome hath oft against vs sought All glory then to God on high let Men and Angels sing Let Heaven and Earth and all therein give glory to heavens King And sing and say with heart and voyce all honour laud and praise To God who makes us thus rejoyce So be it Lord alwayes I. V. FINIS a 〈…〉 b Veritas odium 〈◊〉 Terent. c Bede is an old Saxon word and signifies praying so that Bedeman in the language of our Ancestours is a Praying man or a man addicted to prayer d Nobilitas sola estatque vnica virtus Novem. Praeloqâ—â— D. D. 〈◊〉 D. D. Câ— D D. Coâ—k M. Dunster Mr. Bolt◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Interpretatio Quaestio Subjectâ—â— Fabritius Talibus nâ—minibus câ—â—venientissi mè siguraâ—tur veritaâ— inimici Idâ— mâ— ae â— quippâ— interpretaâ—tur velsaâ—â—uinei vel tâ—reni Aâ—â— in Psal. 8 And agaiâ— Interpretatur Edom sanguis 〈◊〉 pumcè Edom dicituâ— August in Psal. 136. D D. Abâ—oâ— D D. Bear II. 1. Sam. 2 18. tus homo Doecb â—genus 〈◊〉 Doech â—lugust in â—al 51. Homiliâ—s 〈…〉 â— D. Whiâ—ak â—itio â— D â—ak pretaâ— Observatio Mr. B. Probatio Ratia Appliâ— Confutatiâ— Adâ—ortatiâ— â—nstructio Interpretat Observatio Mr. B. Probatio Applic. Moâ—itio 〈◊〉 〈…〉 DD. Câ—â— ton late I shop of Chichesâ—â— Concl◠〈◊〉
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
there remaines now onely the third behind and that is their exultation and rejoycing in evill which is expressed by their insulting noyse and cry Downe with it Downe with it even to the ground This was the day of Ierusalem that is the day of her captivity and calamity wherein the Babylonians laid waste her dwellings and destroyed her walls even to the foundation the Edomites seeing her fall they had that they looked for they liked it well they insulted over her and rejoyced in her ruine the observation is shortly this It is the property of wicked men to rejoyce in evill This property is expressely set downe by the wise man in the description of the wicked man Prov. 2. 14. Which rejoyce in doing evill and in another place hee saith that he casteth abroad firebrands and deadly weapons and saith am I not in sport Loe hee makes it but a sport and pastime to doe evill to others Et si non aliquà nocuisset mortuus esset there is nothing more vexes and troubles him at the heart than when hee cannot bring his wicked projects about to mischiefe others The Prophet David had good experience of this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in his malicious adversaries for to say nothing of that where hee complaines that the drunkards made ballads and songs upon him making themselves merry with his misery even as they were tipling and sitting over their cups or of that where hee sayes that it pleased them exceedingly if they did but heare of those hurts that had befaine him crying out So so there goes the game if you will but looke Psal. 35. there you have a full proofe of this there you shall finde both their practises against him and his prayers against them and in both these a most ample description of this evill quality in wicked men wee now speake of their practises against him first verse 15 16. In my adversity they rejoyced and gathered themselves c. Then verse 21. They gaped upon mee c. his prayer against them first verse 19. Let not them that are mine enemies rejoyce over mee then verse 24 25 26. Let them not rejoyce over me let them not say in their hearts there there so would wee have it let them be confounded and put to shame together that rejoyce at my hurt Thiâ— is plaine I have read of Nero that bloody and barbarous tyrant that hee commanded Rome to be set on fire and while the smoke ascended and the houses burned hee gate him up to the top of his palace to looke upon it and laugh at it and taking a fiddle minstrell as hee was plaid upon it and sung all the while Rome was a burning the destruction of Tâ—â—y Here was a lively type of this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 indeed And because I have mentioned that story give mee leave to proceede a little further in it because it makes for our purpose Assoone as Nero had made Rome thus to be burnt the blame was presently laid upon the Christians that they by trechery had fired the City even as the Powder-traytors had resolved if the treason had taken effect to lay all the blame on the Puritans that they had by treachery blowne up the Parliament house but that by the way when Nero â— I sayâ— had caused this 〈…〉 bee spread against the Christians and this rumour was growne into a common opinion and this opinion became an undoubted perswasion that it was just so as Nero had bruted it abroad then imagine you what deaths were devised what tortures threatned what cruelties practised upon the bodies of the poore innocent christians and this blood sucking tyrant and their mercilesse tormentors not content to put them to death with all manner of cruelty that the divell could invent they did mocke and flout them in their death and made themselves merry with their destruction for so much sound the words of Cornel. Tacitus Pereuntibus addita ludibria But you will say Nero was a damned wretch a monster of men and those his instruments you speake of were all pagans and infidels out of the Church without God and therfore no wonder if they be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 like their father the divell reâ—oycing in evill but can the divellish affection once enter into the hearts of any that call themselves christians peradventure thereare none suchamong them Are there none such I wish I could say so but I cannot I must tel you that there are such men as delight in evill even among christians First let vs looke over into France there we shall finde under Charles 9. there were slaine 30000. protestants all at once and that not in battell but in treachery under pretence of friendship shadowed by the marriage of the kings sister to aprotestant prince And when Gregory 13. Pope heard of this â—amous exploit he caused the like joy to be shewed in his City the guns to be shot off froÌ„ his castle S. Angelo the masse to be sung in honor of this noble deed in S. Lucies church a French Saint This was rejoyâ—ing in evill was it not Let me now take you by the hand lead you out of France into Ireland there you shall find N. Sanders the 〈…〉 consecrated banner displayed in the field stirring up rebellion and animating the rebels in their trecherous and violent courses Nay there wee read that when Io. Desmond a popish traytor had murthered one Henry Davil an English gentleman most dastardly in his bed as a taste of his faith and obedience to the Pope and his forwardnesse in the Catholike cause as he cal'd it howsoever there were some even of the rebels that condemned this desperate and bloody attempt yet doctor Sanders coÌ„mended the action applauded the actor for a couragious Catholike told him that therin questionles he had off erâ—d up a sweet smelling sacrifice unto Almighty God Good Lord what a wretched and abominable part was this when an ungracious bloody fellow shall kill a man in his bed most barbarously and yet that Sanders the Popes legat should pronounce this thiâ—g to be a sweet sacrifice to God this pasâ—eth all imagination Can any either practise these things or commend these practises of blood but they must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But to lead you out of these forreine countâ—ies and to bring you over into our owne native soyle can wee pronounceany other of the popâ—sh faction in the Gunpowder-tâ—eason The Lord sayes of Edom that hee should not have looked upon the affliction of his brother in the day of his misery Obad. verse 12. but they did looke upon it and laughed at it and cryed to their confederates Downe with it downe with it even to the ground And were there not some of the popish faction set upon the hill betwixt Kingstone and London where they might have a full prospect of West minster and the Parliament house expecting for that dismall desolation intended and longing to heare the