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A62380 Papisto-Mastix, or, Deborah's prayer against God's enemies Judg. 5, 31. explicated and applyed : in the Cathedrall of Saint Peter in Exon, November the fift, 1641 / by William Sclater ... Sclater, William, 1609-1661. 1642 (1642) Wing S919; Wing P311_CANCELLED; ESTC R15926 46,487 70

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Head and for the whole representative Body of this Kingdome even as Sisera in this story we now treate of was met with in a part of that yron in the strength of which he had so much vaunted himselfe Neque enim lex justior ulla est Quam necis artifices arte perire suâ Lastly So that is whilest he was fast asleep Ju. 4.21 even in the height of his most reposed rest and security for even in the very midst of tumult the very jaws of death this carnall heathen found a time to sleep Quem Deus perdere vult stultum facit whom God intendeth to destroy he first infatuates when Sodom was to be destroyed the men of the City were some of them smitten with blindnes so that they could not foresee their own now most imminent ruine compare Judg. 18.27 And not to be tedious the infernall traytors of this day y Gen. 19.11 as Dr. Carleton relates it were securely sitting and warming themselves by a fire even as wicked Jehoiakim Jer. 36.22 when the very threatenings of the Law of God were against him sate before the fire without feare when a sparkle of that same fire flew out and lighting upon some two pound waight of powder that lay nigh them miserably deformed and spoiled them neer the place of their surprizall And it is a most irrevocable truth my beloved Christians that the Lord never suffereth his Enemies to go z Hoe tene nec crimen quenquam in pectore gestare qui non idem Nemesin in tergo Lipsius l. 2. c. 13. deConstant unrevenged one way or by some means or other sometimes he takes them off in the very beginning of their lewd projects and crusheth the Cockatrice in he Egge sometimes in the very a In Scelere sceleris supplicium est ●●aetanea sceleripoena c. vid. Duplessis c. 12. de verit relig Christ p. 198 c. vol. 8. act as Absalom Belshazzar Herod sometimes the punishment as thunder doth lightening followeth instantly upon the very heels of their sinne as upon b Act. 5.5 10. Ananta and Sapphira and sometimes not till a long time after as upon that old Judge who was with his age waxen old also in wickednesse which was at last brought to light ver 52. of the History of Susanna see to the same purpose c Luk. 11.50 Matth. 23.35 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith d Plato de repub Plato In summe cannot God blast the corn in the blade in the harvest in the Barn in the very mouthes of the wicked But if they bee treasonable attempts against the Lords Anoynted if e 2 Sam. 18.9 Absolom f 2 Sam. 17 23 Achitophel who proved their own executioners g 2 King 9.31 Zimri the h 2 Chron. 35.25 servants of Ammon and the rest of the same rabble if any of these prospered then may a like Traytor hope for immunity from vengeance yea what i Sueton. lib. 1. sect 89. Saeton reporteth of such as stab'd King Julius Cesar is generally true of all such Nequisquam suâ morte defunctus est No one of them died a naturall death or went down to his grave in k 1 King 2.6.9 Peace And the reason why a l Gen. 4.15 seven-fold vengeance was threatned more upon him that should kill Cain then was upon Cain himselfe though a bloody Fratricide is given by some to be this viz. because Cain was a Prince and being eldest Sonne to Adam was Heire apparent to the Crown of the whol world Our owne stories and experience may convince us herein How m Psal 105.15 tender the Lord is of Royall dignity how much he thinketh his n Zech. 2.8 own Majesty interested in the injuries attempted or done to his Vice gerents and such as carry semblance of his authority upon earth the vengeances have been sundry of them fearefull even to astonishment Wherefore Gods charge is so peremptory Psal 105.15 Touch not mine anoynted that is Tactu qualitativo with the least intention of annoyance and as David said to Abishai who would have smitten Saul a o Hos 13.11 wicked King 1 Sam. 26.9 Destroy him not for who can stretch forth his hand against the Lords Anoynted and be guilt lesse I say as Saint p S. Ambros de Naboth Jezraelit cap. 11. Ambrose when he closeth the story of Abab and Jezabels fearefull end Fuge ergò Dives bujusmodi exitum sed fugies hujusmodi exitum si fugeris hujusmodi flagitium Let all men tremble at the fearefull ends of wicked men chiefely of traytors for the brand of the King of Kings is set upon such but such ends yee shall avoyd if yee carefully fly from such like abominations Now to summe up the whol of this particular So let all thine Enemies perish that is in the height of their vain-glorious ostentation by weake means So that is in so shamefull a sort as dastard flying before their pursuers So in being entrapped in their own snares and nets and lastly so in the midd●st of their deadly security when they are as insensible of ruine as of sinne Even so saith good Deborah here So let all thine Enemies perish O Lord. And thus have I gone over all the particulars of this my first generall and with them I perceive I have filled up the houre But because as St. Austin said of the feast of Pentecost Gaudet produci haec solennitas This solemnity would bee extended and as the silkworm stretcheth forth her selfe before she spins her finest threads be drawn-out to a length I could even wish with Joshua that the Sunne would q Josh 10.12 stand still awhile that we might the longer rejoyce in this our gladsome festivall which so much angreth our Romish Proselytes and maketh them because we will never have done with this day to r Psal 112.10 gnash their teeth upon us with meagre envy This ſ Psal 118.24 This is the day that the Lord hath made let us rejoyce and bee glad therein And that we may the better doe it give me now leave as Elisha sometimes did upon the Shunamites dead sonne to t 2 King 4.34 stretch my Application upon each member of this Text I may perhaps raise up your attentions to some new life and vigour and shew your that this Scripture is as fit and consonant to this daies occasion and solemnity as was to Casars coine the u Matth. 22 20. image of Caesar Whether we consider the Enemies from whom or the manner how or the author of whom this our great deliverance came And as I remember Saint Gregory Nanianzen prologues his first Steliteutique against Julian the Apostate so will I this my ensuing speech 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Let all the Nations of the earth give eare let all ages both this present and that to come listen yea remember if not this speech yet the hints of
more e Facilior cauti● est ubi manifestior formido est Plus metuendus est cavendus inimicus cum latenter obrepit cum per pacis imaginem fallens occultis accessibus serpit unde nomen serpentis accepit c. S. Cyprian lib. de Vnitat eccles sect 1.2 dangerous What page of the faithfull relatour of their practi●es shews not They have like those locusts of the bottomles pit the f Rev. 9.7 8. faces of men and the hair of women pleasing and alluring but the very teeth of Lyons and the stinging tayles of scorpions If a learned man encounter them their words are smoother then oyle and the fair pretence of being soon accorded in matter if once the Terms of expression might be reconciled But if they meet with the feebler sex or the * Vide P. Martyr epist Calvin p. 1124. qua supra lesse grounded Christian their words will eate as doth a g 2 Tim. 2.17 Canker or Gangrene h 2 Pet. 2.14 beguiling unstable Soules to their utter undoing like unto King Davids i Psal 144.8 strange Children their mouth speaketh vanity and their right hand is a right hand of falshood Oh for but one winde of the God of k Exod. 20.5 jealousie to blow off these crawling Caterpillars and Frogs that have too long kept croaking in the very Chambers of Princes even into some dead Sea never to flow more for their return Awake O l Cant. 4.16 North winde and come ô South and blow upon our garden that the spices of repurged Religion may flow after these weeds these limbs of Antichrist be universally eradicated and pluck'd up by the very Roots In the mean while let us take up that of dying Jacob toward his two Sonnes Simeon and Levi O my soule come m Gen. 49.5 6 7. not thou into their secret unto their assembly mine honour be not thou united The next judgement that I shall mention in Aegypt is their blacke and palpable darknesse Exod. 10.21 And doth not their Doctrine of n Thom. 2a 2ae qu. Art 5 6 c. S●d nihil aliud est quam Diabolica 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Beza ad 1 Rom. ver 17. refuted by Arch-Bp usher c. 6. sect 8 9. p. 150. de successione eccl by Bp. Daven qu. 29 qua supra Calv. Inst l. 3. c. 2. sect 2 3. Implicit Faith of Divine Service in an o Conc. Trid. sess 22. c. 8 Test Rhem. Annot. p. 463. Matth. 21 6. The pretended inconvenience see in hist of the Trent Counc l. 5. p. 460. But contrary to S. Paul 1 Cor. 14.6.9.14 Art 24. of our Church unknown known c. resemble this To which is added the denying of the use of the holy Scriptures to the Laity lest pearles forsooth should be cast before Swine and holy things to Dogs By which practise they deale like to the Philistins 1 Sam. 13.19 who put down all smiths in Israel lest the Hebrews should make themselves swords and speares or as that Bungler in Plutarch who having with his coale scraped out the figure of an Hen in a most ill-favoured and mishapen sort was forced to keep one standing by to drive away all living ones least they should shame his draught in like sort they keep off the Vulgar from the searching of the Scriptures lest they with the Bereans searching p Act. 17.11 and q 1 Thess 5.21 proving their Traditions and vaine inventions by this touchstone should not onely have them all deserted with scorn but themselves the imposers derided for their blockish phansies yea abhorred probably or r Matth. 23.13 shutting of their poore soules up under such black ignorance more palpable and more dangerous than that darknesse of Aegypt that might be s Exod. 10.21 felt To the judgement of Lightening and Haile Exod. 9.23 24. I parallel the innumerable Excommunications and Anathema's that from the mount t Deut. 11.29 Ebal of their Trent Conventicle even with Bell Book and Candle they send forth flashing in the faces even of Kings and Princes themselves who may perchance refuse the good Ostlership of his Holines u Vid. D. Scl. ad 2 Thess stirrup or a busse forsooth of his greasy Toe Vah Lucifer But lastly to that of * Exod. 7 19. blood and x Exod. 9.23 Thunder for I will now joyn these two together what is more like than that accursed doctrine of theirs teaching the y Vide Arch-B Usher exampling this refuting it zealousty in serm upon 1 Cor. 10.17 p. 44 45 46 47 c. Before the Commons House of Parliament murthering of Prince and people nor are their tongues longer then their hands witnesse the Records of the infinite Golgatho's and Acheldama's that the Tyranny of that man of sin hath caused in the Christian world making the chanels of whol streets to run in the color of the red Sea or as the purple waters of z Isa 15.9 Dimon streaming all with blood Loe even Kings have been seen to wallow in their gore-blood shed by their desperate Assafines a See D. Rayn p. 664. conclus 5. against Hart. Ignat. Loyola Fundat or Jesuit Chemnit in exam Conc. Trid. initio de iis item scripsit Maffeius rebellions seditions and combustions in all Christian Kingdomes have been raised by the fiery spirits of the disloyall b Ignatians That cruell Phlebotomy in the massacre of France is not to be c Nullu simile saevitiae exemplum in tota Antiquitate reperire circiter sexagint a millia hominum circa illud tempus trucidata c. Natalis Comes parallel'd by any example in all antiquity of former times when there were about sixty thousand slaine and yet that Romish horseleach still cryed out Give give and was not satisfied And God be pleased to chaine up that wilde d Psal 80.13 boare from having power to rage in the like nature even now among our distressed brethren in Ireland where as we are informed eradications against the State Laws King dome Religion it self are endeavored by conspiracies Rebellions and all hostile Machinations May the God even the father of our Lord Jesus Christ the father of e 2 Cor. 1.3 mercies and the God of all comfort f Job 5.12 disappoint the devices g Isa 37.27 blast the projects and nullifie the power of the enemy or give the oppressed h Heb. 10.36 patience and i 1 Chron. 28.7 constancy to beare up under that k 1 Pet. 4.12 fiery tryall of which they are in danger Arise O Lord make bare their own arme Isa 52.10 breake thou the speare and stop up the way before the cruell Psal 46.9 Psal 35.3 To conclude to the judgement of thunder I will liken the * Flectere sinequeo superos Acheronta movebo Virgil. Acheronticall Powder-plot as upon this day when in thirty six barrels of powder there was a great