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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12565	The black-smith A sermon preached at White-Hall before the Kings most excellent Majestie, the young prince, the councell, &c. On Loe-Sunday. 1606. and by commandment put to print. By W.S. Doct in Diuinitie chaplaine to his Maiestie.	Smith, William, 1555 or 6-1615.	1606 (1606)	STC 22881; ESTC S102424	20,319	66

animūreuertendi He fled for a vātage for by this meanes he drew his enemies the combatants to follow the flight And whē he espied any one before his fellows he suddenly turned dispatched him and so singling out these three bretherē one after another hee easilye conquered each of them whereas against them all at once hee could neuer haue had any hope to preuaile The bauen when the band is broken sticke by stick is easilye knapt asunder You see the similitude and the reddition is not obscure Of our three Horatij two are gon not cōquered by the Curiatij mauger all the might spight of hel it selfe of Rome it selfe bul transported by God from this militant Church to that tryumphant Hierusalem The third remaines for whome no doubt remaines the victorye on earth and tryumph in the heauens which neuer shall haue end But during the fight if hee seeme to flie or giue a foote let him take heed that followes fastest In the second of Samuel and second Chapter if Asahel had not beene so swift of foote and so eager in pursuite to out-runne his fellowes he had not run so hastely on his owne death And so surely if these men more furious then Nimshi more swift thē Asahel to out-run themselues their Soueraign his lawes could haue bin intreated eyther finally to desist or a least for a while to haue turned aside to the right hand or the left or to haue diuerted the heate of their zeale edge if their pennes against papist or atheist as they haue escaped with their liues so mght they in all likelyhood haue kept their liuings Of the which they are now some few of them most iustly depriued I dare say with greater griefe to vs all then eyther losse to themselues or hazard to the Church Howsoeuer it hath bin formerly giuen out that if they were silenced the Church might soone shutte vp her Shop windowes There would not bee a Smith left in all our Israel that could skill indeede of the right hammering and handling of the word of God yet I hope matters will be so handled that if they all stand out they shall not bee much missed God wee knowe is able of stones to rayse vp those that shall serue his turne if men should fayle or vppon euery tryfling discontentment so wilfullye abandone that sacred vocation whereunto they are by so manye bondes so strictly obliged And without any such miraculous worke if it please him to afford but his wonted graces to the two Vniuersities I nothing doubt but from time to time they shall be able to supplie more sufficient Ministers then all their complices will bee content to allowe sufficient liuings And now that they are thus dealt with by Law we all expect that the like order or rather much more sharpe and strict bee taken as for the Atheist so speciallye for the Papist Else must we needes confesse Reduuiam curauimus Capiti cum mederi debuissemus But I hope they shall ere it bee long haue iust occasion to thinke and speake otherwise when they shall see their Swordes and Speares and Smithes their Armour and Armorers their Priestes and Iesuites and cunning seducers with all their Syren-Songes their Bookes Pamphlets and Printers and all meanes and ministers thereto tending cleane cut off by the Sworde of Iustice and the lawes of the land A moste iust necessarie weapon-taken to keepe them frō hurting themselues and others as children and mad-men That it will be so I make no doubt that it should be so I seeke no other arguments against thē then their owne practise against vs. Bellarmines owne proofes in his third booke de Laicis 20 chapter for the abolishing of all heretical books For I wil not presse that which followes in the next chapter for the burning of Heretikes Howbeit wel we know they must needs acknowledge if their case and cause were equal better kill then be killed If they will needs threaten they may perhaps prouoke others to begin I will inuert the olde saying Pereant omnes potius quam pereat vnus For is not hee alone worth many thousands on whom so many thousands po depend Surelye it is high time to take the peace of them all and binde them to their good abearing when as so openly and presumptuouslye they shall dare to threaten the disturbance of our peace and destruction of the chiefe Pillers and preseruers thereof whome the Lord in mercy long preserue But for this point if wee had no other Schoolemaisters wee neede no other then these Philistims a people in their generation wise enough to set vs to Schoole And so I passe to the fourth and last part the reason why they remooued the Armourers and that was least againe they should renewe their Armour For so they sayde Least the Hebrewes make them Swords speares The dint of the Sworde and push of the Pike two sorts of weapons very powrefull especially in those dayes for offence or defence Comminus or Eminus farre or neere But this was as it should seeme in the worldes child-hood the infant-age of hell and hellish Smiths but Nouices as yet and Prentises in their Trade they had not as yet proceeded masters of their craft Anon after in Salomon his time we read of a generation whose teethe were Swordes and their iawes as Kniues Whose off-spring heere a-amōgst vs the cursed off-spring of the Anakims haue bent their tongues like Booes and shotte out their wordes like arrowes sharpe and swift and full of poyson euen as high as the heauen and as farre as from one ende of the world to the other Sure I am at one flight from Rome to England haue flown their firey thunder-bolts These men not content with dagger dagge and poison for their priuie plots which God for heauen so oftē hath detected deiected nor with swords and speares Gunnes and Cannons for open Rebellion which God in mercie so many yeres hath stayed in this Land but as hee speaketh of the Greekish Stratageme Instar montis aequum they had deuised a Cannon as big as an huge bigge house full rammed and charged with a store-house of powder to the which if all the fire of hell and Purgatorie could haue lent sent but one spark we had all beene consumed Wonder it was not set on fire with the sulphureous blast of their hellish breath Then there was a deale of dead powder so it pleased God without fire since that a false fire the Lorde bee thanked without powder If the one affrighted vs the other amazed vs being both but a fallax God graunt they alwayes so deceiue and wee be neuer worie deceiued but if they had argued indeed a Diuisis ad Coniuncta putting fire to powder or powder to fire where then had we beene Surely they had swallowed vs vp quicke or sent vs vp quicke to the heauens at least our soules Howsoeuer our bodies hauing accompained thē as high as they could had descended again to the foote of the mountaine and there as Abrahams seruants expected their returne or wayted for the time when they should be called vp vnto thē neuer againe to be disseuered but for the present they had been most lamentablye deuorced had not the Lorde beene on our side then might Israel say now euer may Israel fing Had not the Lord himselfe beene on our side when men rose vp against vs. May I call them men being in the shape of men more then deuils incarnate then beware of men as saith our Sauiour Homo homini Lupus Mā to man is become a wolfe a beare a lyō a leopard a tygre a deuil Not all those strange mixtures of so many beasts in 〈◊〉 Prophecie able to expresse the thousandth part of those beastly minds 〈◊〉 praised be the Lord who hath not giue 〈◊〉 ouer for a praye to the teeth of those cursed Cannibals who seeing they cannot satiat their mawes with the blood of Christ in their vnbloody Sacrament haue sought to ingorge imbrewe thēselues with the blood of Seruāts for no other cause or quartel in the world 〈◊〉 that they are his seruāts True it is they cannot say worse of vs then we thinke on our selues our sins we confesse 〈◊〉 deserued such a punishment but thogh wee for our sinnes are most worthy to suffer it yet are they of all men most vnworthy to inflict it I date be bold to giue the Challenge let him that is guiltles amongst them I except not the holy of holiest throwe the first stone or put fire to the powder But Lorde if it bee thy will according to our deserts to plague and punish vs let it bee thy pleasure to take the rodde into thine owne hands Liceat periture viribus ignis igne 〈◊〉 tuo clademque authore leuare For why shouldst thou sell vs into the hands of these vncircumcised Philistims that will neuer therefore bee thankefull vnto thee but giue thine honour vnto stockes and stones and sacrifice thy praise to the Shrines of 〈◊〉 dead whereas thou knowest all our helpe standeth in thy Name onely Thou onely art our God thou onely art our Creator our Sauiour our Redeemer and onely Protector By thy meanes onely wee acknowledge our soule is escaped as a bird out of the snare past danger as wee hope but not past feare And therefore no meruaile though wee start at ●●ery bush although we see the snare 〈◊〉 broken wee are escaped and they are fallen into the pit they prepared for 〈◊〉 O so let thine enemies perish O Lord so let them all that plowe iniquitie and sowe affliction reape the same But let thy mightie hand 〈◊〉 still at hand against them all to defend and protect our King our Queene our Prince their Off-spring Counsell Clergie Nobles Commons and all their Realmes and Kingdomes that in sinceritie truth still call vpon thy name So shall we thy people and sheep of thy pasture thus preserued from blood and slaughter sing alwayes vnto thee the Blessed Trinitie three persons and one God all honour laude and glory now and for euer Amen Amen FINIS