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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

Popish Bishops was so violent a fowler to furnish his Maisters dishes that himselfe in fiue yeares space tooke and rosted 300. seely Martyrs most of them in his owne walke and dioces Such were our Fauxes and Fawkners who made sure account of such a prey as was neuer before layd for namely for three whole Kingdomes at once which would haue filled all their nets For God and man concurred to punish the iniquity of this time said the Letter to L. Mounteagle for the obtaining whereof they despised all danger and all labour is thought little in digging halfe a yeare together through hard foundations they will bestow any cost whatsoeuer of their owne and other mens Digby promised 1500. pounds Tressam 2000. Percy all that he could get of the Earle of Northumberlands rents besides tenne galloping Horses And nothing troubled Faux but that he was disappointed II. The Scripture both here and else where compares their meanes and instruments to snares nets and ginnes which are set in the wayes of Gods Saints to take them And that for two causes 1. It notes the secrecie of the danger which makes it farre more dangerous and ineuitable for nets and snares vse to be layd in secret and out of sight In vaine were the net layd before the eyes of all that hath wings Prou. 1.17 As therfore the fowlers or fishers go about their matters craftily and subtilly they will stand priuily behinde a tree they dissemble all they will lay meate as though they intended to feed the seely bird which they meane to feed vpon they haue a Lure or Call as if they were friends and birds themselues but the end is to kill and destroy So doe the Fowlers of Gods Church Psal. 83.3 They haue taken crafty counsell against thy people and haue consulted against thy secret ones So euer haue done the Romish Antichristian Fowlers who haue beene taught by their great Nim●od leoninae pelli assuere vulpinam Alwayes to match together the Lyon and the Foxe Iulius the 2. can turne him either way to Peters keyes or Pauls sword What they cannot doe by open force they can doe by secret fraud wherein oftentimes there lyes more strength than in the former The Syrian Antiochus Epiphanes was a liuely type of the Romish Antiochus of whom it is sayd Dan. 8.24.25 His power shall be mighty but not in his strength he shall destroy wonderfully and shall prosper and practise and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people and by his policie shall cause craft to prosper in his hand A liuely description of the Romish Antiochus or Antichrist that beast arising out of the sea hauing as well the hornes of the Lambe as the speech of the Dragon He intrudes himselfe as the head and husband of the Church while he robs and wastes it He professeth himselfe a seruant of seruants while he sets himselfe aboue all Kings and Commanders as Boniface the 8. in the yeare of Christ 1300. before a great concourse in a solemne Iubilee one day shewed himselfe in his Priestly Pontificals with the crosse carried before him the next day in an Emperours roabes with a naked sword before him and this title proclaimed Ego sum Pontifex Imperator terrestre ac coeleste imperium habeo All this is mine and to whomsoeuer I will I giue it What is the whole religion of Rome but a mysterie of iniquity a bundle of policie which by secret conueyances and t●●ines both brought and held all the Kingdomes and Countries in Europe within the snare and bondage of a silly Fryar by sembled sanctity lying myracles false donations forged writings and the like and thus hath ensnared mens bodies goods liues and consciences Neuer saw the world so cunning a fowler Are his emissaries and such as he sends out of better disposition than himselfe No witnesse Gregory the great As Christ sent out simple and seely plaine men to raise vp his Kingdome so shall Antichrist make choise of crafty and double and deceitfull persons for his businesse How subtilly did these two friars Clemēt and his Associate lay their snares when they flew the French King Henry the 3. pretending great good businesse for the Church and State When the Papists in France could not by open force oppresse the Prince of Condy and Casper Colignius the Admirall of France they could by fraude and cunning as by a lure pretending peace and nuptiall solemnity raise a sudden Massacre by which thirty thousand Protestants fell into their snare who most perfidiously were slaine against all laws of God nature and nations not much without the space of one moneth What Potentate euer layd the foundation of obedience in conscience or could ouercome his enimies without warre by a parchment Bull or maintaine himselfe and his pompe at all mens costs and deuotions or conquer opposite Princes by their owne subiects or stabl●sh himselfe by dispensing with vnlawfull marriages and lawfull oaths or mainetaine so many Intelligences by Confession or pleasure all men in their humours by wealth pouertie austerity voluptousnesse What a notable combination of knaueries is there in that religion wherein all these things and many more are most eminent most vsuall To come to our owne Country what did those trayterous bandits and emissaries All●n Harding Sanders Parsons Campion and others but by writing and speaking pretend singular loue Instruction and care ouer their Country-men whose religion they left yet indeed what intended they but destruction of Prince and State being trumpets to rebellion raising vp armes some out of Spaine some out of Ireland some desperate cut-throts at home to take away the life of that blessed Lady Elizabeth of eternall happy memory What a number haue they snared vnder the pretext of peace truce and friendship as Duke Alba in the Low Countries and as the King of Spaine in 88. while he was prouiding that invincible nauy against our Prince and Country he sent the Duke of Parma to intreat of peace as if it were honesty in Catholikes whome they cannot kill by warre to delude and spoile them vnder the name of peace not without villany and per●ury How secretly did our late foolish fowlers lay their nets and traines with what faire pretences It was meerely and only for religion sayd Faux and he was bound inconscience to do it because the King was an heriticke he was sent by the name of Iohn Ionson to Percy to conferre for releefe of the Catholike cause All of them tooke an oath for secrecy yea heard Masses and tooke the Sacrament neuer to reueale any thing Now to the laying of snares as deep as hell 36 barrels of gunpouder are prouided numbers of iron bars to blow vp with one deadly blow in time of peace in time of Parliament●al England Scotland and Ireland in their King and posterity in their lawes and gouernments in their Church and Religion in their Common welths and Iustice in