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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

protection and thou maist expect it Arme thy selfe and addresse thee to beare b●unts and blowes as a souldier but feare not victorie so long as God is neere thee and thou neere him and his helpe Put on patience to waite without haste-making though he delay helpe awhile he denies it not Neuer seeke to preuent troubles by laying aside integritie and good conscience It is no way of safetie to prouoke God nor a meanes of defence to lay aside the armour This is the condition of diuine protection 1. Pet. 3. vers 13. No man shall hurt you while you follow the thing that is good Ionas would faine auoid trouble by flying from God but God fetcheth him backe againe with a witnesse Here by the way note a speciall difference betweene the wicked and the godly in their troubles One hath his helpe from heauen others from hell or not higher than from the earth One from the Name of God others against the Name of God The wicked expect helpe one from another and combine against the righteous and can helpe themselues by lying slandering violence and turning themselues into all fashions and formes for aduantage but the godly expecting helpe from the name of God keepe themselues in Gods right waies and will meet with helpe onely thence Let vs trust our selues with God in troubles as well as in peace expecting the accomplishment of that gracious promise Psal. 34.19 Great are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord deliuereth him out of all If we take Gods Name with vs for our helpe the number of crosses shall not foile vs nor the power of persecutors daunt vs nor the continuance of trials breake vs. For nothing can hinder his helping hand from his seruants Nothing but sin separates betweene God and vs be humbled for sinne meete God in repentance keepe not silence be instant in prayer and all shall be well Christ is our ship if we be neuer so tossed wee shall not be drowned come to him awaken him as his Disciples Master saue vs Master of the great ship of thy Church helpe vs we perish and he will in due time stirre vp himselfe and speake to the winde and the sea and there shall be a great calme The end of the third Sermon THE ROMISH CONCEPTION Psalme 7.14.15.16 Behold he shall trauell with wickednesse for he hath conceiued mischiefe but he shall bring forth a lye He hath made a pit and digged it and is fallen into the pit that he made His mischiefe shall returne vpon his own head and his cruelty shall fall vpon his owne pate THe occasion of the Psalme is in the inscription concerning the words of Cushi one of Sauls Courtiers and Dauids accusers to Saul as if hee had beene a Rebell and sought Sauls life The parts of it are three 1 A prayer for deliuerance from his enemies and that God would cleare his innocency to the 12. verse 2 A Propheticall prediction of the destruction of the wicked to the 17. verse 3 A vow of thankfulnesse for deliuerance in the last verse These three verses of my Text being part of the se●ond generall hauing in them two particulars First that all the labour of wicked men against the Church is ●ut labour in vaine in respect of their owne intent and expectation verse 14. Secondly that the labour of wicked men is turned cleane contrary to their owne intent and expectation vers 15.16 And these things are set downe two waies 1. In Metaphor and similitude 2. In simple and expresse speech The former that all their labour is in vaine against the Church is expressed by a Metaphore frequent in Scripture taken from the trauell of a woman The minde of a wicked man is compared to a wombe or belly The conception is hurtfull and mischieuous thoughts and enterprises The cunning contriuing carrying and watching of fit opportunities is the nourishing perfecting and preparing to the birth while they carrie it the iust moneths in the meane time swelling with their own presumptions and glorying in the certaine expectation of their conceiued hopes The attempting of their enterprises is the parturition and trauell which costs them no small paine and labour The birth or fruite is some misshapen monster some mischieuous impe some treacherous Massacre some inuincible armie or powder-plot borne as Onuphrius writes of Pope Alexander the 6. for the destruction of all Italy so for the destruction of all England Scotland and Ireland But this monstrous shape is called a lye because mentiri is contra mentem ire as some allude When they looke vpon their owne childe and see the vgly face and shape of it in all the deformed members it is not to their minde they are ashamed and confounded and would faine seeke some father abroad either the Hugonot in France or the Puritans in England but that it is so like the fire as none can mistake the father of such a monster The latter that all the labour of the wicked is turned quite contrary to their owne expectation is set downe by another similitude taken from Hunters who as they lay snares and ginnes and pitfalls to take the sillie creatures euen so wicked men digge pits and delue deepe and lay their traines to winde in the godly into the destruction by them prepared In which sense it is said of Io●sh and I●hoiakim Ezek. 19.4.8 that the nations laid their nets for them and they were both taken in their pit But himselfe falles into his owne pit which he made that is whatso●uer mischiefe the cruell Aduersaries deuise against the godly it catcheth themselues whereof Dauid had good experience Sa●l layes his traine and digs a pit against Dauid 1 Sam 18.21 I will giue Dauid Micoll that she may be a snare to him and the hand of the Philistims may bee vpon him and verse 25. the King desireth no dowry but only an hundred foreskins of the Philistims to be auenged of his enemies for Saul saith the Text thought to make Dauid fall by the hand of the Philstims but Saul fell into his owne pit himselfe fell by the hand of the Philistims Chap. 31. The Philistims pressed so fore vpon him that they slew his three sons wounded himselfe sore and his owne hand also was against himselfe In the last verse of my Text all this is set out in simple and expresse words His mischiefe shall returne vpon his owne head his cruelty vpon his owne pate according to that in Prou. 5.22 His owne iniquities shall take the wicked himselfe and he shall bee holden with the cords of his owne sinne Doct. The wicked counsels and enterprises of the enemies of the Church are not only vaine in respect of others but mischieuous against themselues Esa. 33.11 yee shall conceiue chaffe bring forth stubble the fire of your breath shall deuour you In which place the holy Ghost holds the same comparison as here comparing wicked men to women that haue conceiued

it to be finished and performed Ezra 6.1 Euen so what King Henry had begun young Da●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 m●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 quàm à 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