thee This Daniel one of the children of the captiuitie regards not thee nor thy decree They proclaime him seditious rebellious and a traitor that hath no respect either of King or law but despiseth authoritie and edicts well and wisely deuised and published These are ordinarie nets laid against godly men by vngodly Then must the law of the Medes and Persians sealed with the Kings signet be executed vpon him He is cast into the denne They haue him in their net But they cannot hold him Nor can he be deliuered but with the destruction of them all by the lions Here by plausible speeches what did they but make their owne rods And so was it in our owne instance in whom Gods iustice shined most eminently All the while they digged a pit for themselues and fell into the pit they had digged for others according to that of the Psalmist He hath digged a pit and is fallen into the pit hee hath made his mischiefe shall returne vpon his head and his crueltie vpon his owne pate As their heads and pates vpon stakes are still eye-witnesses 3. Gods iustice is herein manifest that for the deliuerie of his Church hee not onely breakes their nets but makes them breake their owne nets and neckes And this is the greater confusion when the authors of sin are made the authors of their own punishment For example Such is their thirst after the ouerthrow of the Church and godly that they still call in more company and take in more partners that if one misse another may hit and all may be sure not to faile But Gods hand now ouerruleth the matter and makes their owne carnall counsell their confusion that whereas one could keepe counsell company shall reueale it As in the many conspirators about the powder-plot in which one of them furthered the punishment of another but not the performance This shewes vnto vs that the Church is altogether inuincible no net shall long hold it but it shall breake thorow all nets It may bee pressed not oppressed oppugned not expugned It is an heauie stone to heaue against Zach. 12.3 For 1. The enemies cannot worke wisely enough to preuaile but as the more the Egyptians oppressed Israel the more they incresed so is it here 2. Though the godly be in themselues fewer weaker more simple more shiftlesse yet are they strangely and strongly preserued and may say with the Prophet there be more with them than against them 3. The Church stands vpon two sure pillars like Boaz and Iachin first Gods promise which is that the gates of hell shall not preuaile against her Secondly her foundation is on a rocke against which if the floods beate and the windes blow it shall surely stand Matth. 7.25 Why then doe the Pope and Papists and that Antichristian league still trauell with wickednesse and conceiue mischiefe to bring foorth a lye What doe yee imagaine against the Lord Nahum 1.9 This is a ground of comfort for vs when wee see enemies leaguing themselues against Gods people that they make no spare of destroying either by secret meanes or open Gods helpe and deliuerance will shew it selfe in due season he is a present helpe in trouble Is he a God a farre off and not at hand on the mountaines and not in the vallies Doth he heare his people before he call and not when they call No the Church is neuer so neere some great deliuerance as when her enemies are at the top of their pride and rage For when they will roote out the name of Israel and destroy the law then is it high time for the Lord to put to his hand When they haue power in their hand and no arme of flesh to represse them when none will offer himselfe in the cause of God then the Lords owne arme shall saue it but so as wee be found in the way of deliuerance carrying our selues in this affliction as children when they see the father hath taken vp the rod runne vnto our father confesse our sins bewaile them begge mercie and sue for it as for life and death This is the way to stay our fathers blow to obtaine compassion and cause him to throw his rod into the fire as the Prophet brings him in relenting for his people Hos. 11.8 How shall I giue thee vp O Ephraim how shall I deliuer thee O Israel how shall I make thee as Admah how shall I set thee as Zeboim Mine heart is turned within me my repentings are rowled together For this is the condition 2. Chron. 7.14 If my people among whom my Name is called vpon doe humble themselues and pray and seeke my presence and turne from their wicked wayes then will I heare out of heauen and be mercifull to their sinne and will heale their land When we haue receiued such a seasonable deliuerance it becommeth vs to breake out into the praise of God and perpetuate the memory of it and prouoke our selues vnto thankfulnesse So doth our holy Prophet in this Psalme he sings out the praise of God to all posterity for so great a deliuerance in so present a danger Motiues heereunto 1. How many monuments hath the Lord himselfe erected from time to time to preserue in memory speciall mercies bestowed on his people 2. Hath he not taken order to write them in his booke of mercies and monuments Psalm 102.18 This shall be written for the generations to come and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord. 3. Hath he not established and appointed speciall dayes for the memorie of speciall mercies most worthy to be had in euerlasting remembrance And surely my brethren if Moses and Israel had cause to compile a song for their so strange a deliuerance and the ouerthrow of their enemies as Exod. 15.1 If Deborah had cause to praise the Lord with voyces and instruments for the ouerthrow of the Canaanites and victory ouer Sisera as Iudg. 5.1 If the good women came with Timbrels and dances to praise the Lord when the Lord brought an horrible slaughter vpon the Philistians and their chiefe Champion Goliah who defied the hoast of Israel and railed vpon the God of Israel and so saued Israel that day as 1. Sam. 18.6.7 If that day were a day of ioy and gladnesse of light and reioycing wherein the Iewes preuailed against their enemies and saw the ruine of their chiefe aduersary Haman that cursed Amalekite as Hest. 9.17 Then surely haue we iust cause to sing out and declare abroad and reioyce both in Gods house and in our owne houses for the great things that the Lord hath done for vs in our admirable deliuerance out of a more admirable red sea not of water but of fire and brimstone and from the hands of those furious Champions of Antichrist those Romish Siseraes Goliahs that defied the hoast of British Israel and those cursed Amalekites against whom the sentence is passed that the name of Amalek shall
A MAPPE OF ROME LIVELY 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 APOC. 17.6 I saw the Woman drunken with the blood of Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Iesus AT LONDON Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Iohn Bartlet and are to be sould at signe of the Talbot in Pater-noster Row 1620. TO ALL THAT WISH WELL TO OVR SYON HEARTILY AND VNfainedly Grace be multiplied and peace in our Lord Iesus Christ. BRethren beloued in the Lord You see by the Title what you may expect in the booke following I hope what it promiseth shall be indeede performed I wish it were more complete and accurate for your sakes as it might haue beene if the graue and diligent Author could himselfe haue set it forth but blessed be God that his weightier employments doe not giue him leaue or leasure I am glad I haue it for you as it is through my earnest request to him whose modesty thought it vnworthy the publication and my paines in writing it Reasons of this my request and paines I can giue you many First I thinke it necessary that our God our gracious and louing God may haue the praise of all his mercies and namely that of this day still reserued to himselfe wholly His workes are glorious and the benefit of them not confined to a scantling of time Therefore these Gratulations cannot be lesse seasonable now than they were at the day of Deliuerance Secondly this I hoped might be a meanes to restraine our declining times from gazing and doting on that pompous Harlot the Church of Rome For when our nation shall see and consider a fresh how insatiable she hath alwaies beene of blood and English blood I cannot thinke we can be so inconsiderate as to dreame of any toleration much lesse any sound reconcilement with so implacable an enemie Thirdly I thought it not altogether impossible hereby to stop the slanderous mouthes of misse-conceiuing persons scattered abroade through all the Country yet pleasing themselues in the common error who seeing in some good men a difference of iudgement in some small matters presently conclude them enemies of the State c. For this I will say of the Author and I say the truth in Christ I lie not my conscience bearing me witnesse in the holy Ghost that hauing beene partaker of his Ministery some hundreds of times I neuer heard him more earnest or more faithfull than in this Argument And the whole Towne of Reding will testifie with me of his holinesse lowlinesse peaceablenesse vnweariable painfulnesse and other graces beseeming his calling which no ill-willer could euer yet impeach Fourthly and lastly my intent is hereby to stirre vp our drowsie and forgetfull hearts to due thankfulnesse for so great a Deliuerance And this me thinks is more than necessary For when I behold the generall view of the Land and the quality of peoples manners the memory of that wonderfull day seemes vnto me quite blotted out And I know not whoÌ„ better to resemble our selues vnto than those of whoÌ„ the Psalmist speakes Psalm 106.11.12.13.14 The waters couered their enemies there was not one of them left Then beleeued they his words they sang his praise But they soone forgat his workes they waited not for his counsell but lusted exceedingly in the wildernesse and tempted God in the Desert Doe we not so euen in our Canaan a Land flowing with milke and hony What horrible prouocations are there daily and hourely amongst vs in all places in euery corner Who can complaine sufficiently of the grieuous temptings and out-brauings of God which our eyes doe see Who would iudge by our strange demeanours that God had euer done any thing for vs either by sea or land either against water-workes or fire-workes Ah sinfull nation laden with iniquity Doe we thus requite the Lord for his louing kindnesse Is this his reward for so great fauours Hearken ye children of Syon and consider Though Israel play the harlot yet let not Iudah transgresse Though carnall persons who haue no true sence of the grace of Christ set themselues out in their colours and fashions and Epicurisme and Heathenisme yet let it not be so with them that professe the feare of God Though others loathe the word and the meanes of saluation yet let not Professors loathe them Let it neuer be said that Professors are proud earthly contentious vaine fantasticall or willingly sweruing from the Rule of Piety You are his peculiar people and if hee lose his honour in you also he loseth it altogether Therefore consider you the workes of the Lord and his intent in them Stirre vp your hearts and frame your liues to a reall thankfulnesse Let your moderation and discretion be quickned by zeale and let your zeale be bounded by discretion You shall perhaps meeâ—e with shame that is reproches and ignominies despise these You shall meet also with the crosse that is persecutions and dammages these endure Here is patience and magnamity Let your patient minde be knowne to all men yet let it be valorous in the causes of your God saint not neither be afraid You may well take occasion to grow the faster by this Antiperistasis and vnite your forces the more strongly Are you so spighted and maligned on euery side by profane Ismaelites then let your loue toward one another encrease the more solidly and abound toward your selues mutually in the fulnesse of the blessing of the Gospell Liue fruitfully and peaceably in the Communion of Saints here the Lord hath appointed the blessing and life for euermore Watch against Satan and his eldest sonne that Antichrist pray for the dissolution of their Kingdome especially see it be vtterly defaced in your selues and yours Giue all diligence to leaue an holy seede behinde you which shall praise the Lord in earth while your selues praise him in heauen A disgrace it is to godly Parents to haue vngodly children especially by their owne default Make your houses houses of God by setting vp and then establishing his pure worship therein Cast vp your accounts before-hand and prepare for the comming of Christ in the clouds Accept my endeauours for your good and helpe me with your prayers Reding Oct. 12. 1619. Your seruant in the Gospell of Christ WILLIAM IEMMAT The Authors Apologie CHristian Reader as I esteemed not the Sermons following sit for so publique a â—iew so neither meant I to purcâ—ase to my selfe so much enuie wrath from the â—atholiques as these Sermons may perhaps bring vpon me But the opportunity of the Publisher who hath taken paines in them and of some others desirous of them drew out at last my consent to their request If any phrases may seeme
their tenures and records yea in their whole State and policy that he that could carry his heart into the suruey of the consequents might clerely see a fearefull doomesday of all these three goodly kingdomes And as before it was done it was cloked vnder the title of some famous exployt for the deliuerance of persecuted Catholikes So afterward to turne the odiousnesse of so foule a fact as might haue turned the sunne into darknes the moone into blood they had prepared their Proclamations to lay it vpon Puritans vnder which title they would haue reuenged it by the Massacre of all the godly in the Land within their reach Here be cunning Fauxes and Foxes indeed in whom we may see the true picture and pourtraiture of euery sound Catholike who by the principles of Popery are taught to be as true to their Soueraigne as Iudas to our Sauiour What great need haue we then to get vs into that secret which their secrets cannot come into namely vnder the secret of the Almighty vnder the shadow of his wing For the promise to such a one is Surely he will deliuer thee from the snare â—f the hunter The poore bird is safe no where abroad but in the nest and the Church is no where safe in earth but onely in heauen while it saith with the Prophet Dauid Thou art my secret place Psalme 32.7 So much for the secrecie of fowlers 2. Their instruments of mischiefe are compared to snares and nets in respect of the suddennesse of that destruction which they intend to Gods people A snare or a net windes in a bird suddenly thinking on no such thing Nay sometime while the poore bird is playing or singing as if it were without all danger the net or grin wraps it in on all sides So the enemies of the Church knowing that sudden and vnexpected euills can hardlyest be preuented and wound the deepest commonly effect most deadly stratagems when Gods people least expect them This is the guise of Antichristian enemies to the Church of God which while it is not suspicious but sometimes too charitable and credulous they lay their snares where no man can possible suspect Would any man think the Pope would instigate to kill Christian Princes at the very Masse yet by the counsell of Pope Sixtus the 4. the two Princes of Medices were hurt and slaine euen at Masse and the lifting vp of the hoast was made a signe of the murder by the Popes Legate as their owne Volateran writes Would a Prince thinke to be poysoned of purpose in receiuing the Sacrament by these charitable Catholikes yet one was by the powder of diamonds tempered with the wine of the Sacrament Would a Catholique King most deuoted to Romish religion and a champion for it expect to be slaine by Catholiques and men of peace before excommunication yet this was iust saith Reinolds and the charitable Pope Sixtus the 5. said A true Fryar had slaine a countefeit Fryar Could any man haue expected that suddaine terrible blow and an vniuersall destruction from vnder the Parliament house from which the honor iustice happinesse life and soule of our Country vnder God hath beene so long maintained and preserued This shewes vs that Papists are not to bee trusted though neuer so fawning neuer so flattering For indeed they are most cruell both in their positions and in their dispositions Their positions are these and such like 1. The Oath of Allegiance is against Catholique faith and the health of soules saith the Popes Breue 2. Princes excommunicate by the Pope may be deposed and killed by their subiects 3. No faith is to be kept with heretickes and all are hereticks that are not of their religion 4. All men are bound to resist hereticall Kings in the straitest bond of conscience 5. Euen a secret hereticke is ipso iure deposed and all his leaprous posterity saith Symancha 6. It is a iust and honourable warre for the Nobles to rise vp in Armes against Queene Elizabeth saith Cardinall Allan Such also are their dispositions and such are their practices We haue seene the Fowlers and their nets now let vs proceede III. The crafty laying of these snares is such as they haue compassed the bird and it seems impossible any way to escape For the danger was as if the Prophet had said We were on euery side included in the nets of the fowlers that what way so euer we could turne vs we were hemd in the danger met vs on euery hand and death euery way layd hold vpon vs. Thus Dauid Psal. 18.4.5 confesseth that the snares of death compassed him hee was euen as a man bound and piniond to execution so as hee saw nothing but death before him And the snares or cords of the graue beset him so hopelesse was his estate as if hee were laid forth already and wrapped in the bands and cloathes of death to the buriall both in his enemies conceit and his owne The same was our condition in that Gunpowder treason the enemies made sure of their prey they saw their expectation euen in their hands and brought their wicked conception to the very birth the Crowne and Kingdome was theirs they had disposed of the chiefe Offices the chiefe holds and reuenue of the Land onely one terrible blow was to be giuen and the hand of wickednes lifted vp on high reaching fire to the fewell which should haue turned three Kingdomes into one Bonfire Quest. Why doth the Lord suffer the enemies thus to ensnare his people that the Case seemes desperate the deliuerance impossible Answer 1. That wee may see our owne simplicity who cannot obserue or preuent their snares the crafty wiles of Satan and his instruments against the Church 2. That wee may take notice of Gods patience toward his enemies suffering them as long as he may and then his iustice in taking them at the height 3. That we may learne to depend on Gods power and wisedome for safety and defence who onely is able to match and ouermatch the enemies in both for there is no power or policie against the Lord. 4. That the greater the dangers be Gods goodnes may be the more manifest and that in most desperate euils we may acknowledge our deliuerance to be miraculous and so the praise of all may be referred to the Lord who is a very present refuge in the troubles of his Church as our selues found in this our danger Now we come to the second generall part of the Text namely the deliuerance of the Church Our soulâ— is escaped that is our liues were hunted our heads euen on the block the stroke a giuing and death fetching his blow but yet we are deliuered wee haue escaped with our liues Herein consider 1. the manner 2. the meanes of the deliuerance The manner as a bird escaped out of the net The meanes the net is broken For the manner 1. Beyond and aboue the expectation of the Church
when all things seemed desperate when all counsell and meanes failed among men and no hope was left euen then came deliuerance How can a poore bird wound in the nets of the Fowler expect but to be taken And this is matter of more ioy gladnesse than if the danger had bin lesse 2. Beyond and beside the expectation of the fowlers themselues to their greater disappointment confusion How will the fowler rage and storme when a silly bird is gotten away out of his net so doe the enemies of the Church who haue beene at great cost and charge and paines and beaten all their wits to lay their nets to be disappointed euen then when they haue their expectation betweene their hands as the case of these Conspirators was For the meanes the net is broken God alone hath broken in pieces their crafty counsels and deuises God hath frustrated all their purposes when they had hemd in the people of God as a bird in a net on euery side God himselfe makes a way out as when the net is broken asunder the bird escapeth Doctr. The Lord in his season powerfully deliuers his Church by breaking the nets of the enemie Psal. 33.10 The Lord breakes the counsell of the Heathen and brings to nought the deuises of the people Reasons 1. Because GOD is euer present with his Church in the midst of it to helpe it at the greatest pinches Esa. 8 9.10 Gather together on heapes ye people and ye shall be broken in pieces c. for God is with vs namely as our shield and protection and if God be with vs who can be against vs Zeph. 3.14 Reioyce O daughter of Syon be ioyfull O Israel reioyce with all thy heart O daughter Ierusalem the Lord hath taken away thy iudgement and cast out thine enâ—mies the King of Israel euen the Lord is in the midst of thee thou shalt see no more euill The Lord is euery where present but not euery where as in his Church he is the King and the shelter of it by a speciall prouidence 2. The Church is Gods darling and delight his people is deare vnto him he that toucheth them toucheth the apple of his eye Zach. 2.8 In all their troubles he is troubled and taketh wrong done to them as done to himselfe and therefore must needes reuenge vpon the enemies one time or other See Nahum 1.2.9 because the Lord is iealous ouer his people hee reserues wrath for their enemies he shall come vnto them as vnto thornes The cause also is his they hate the godly for his sake and therefore he takes their part 3. As God is willing to saue his people so also he is euery way most able 1. Hee is more watchfull for his Church than all his enemies can be against it Hee that keepeth Israel doth neither slumber nor sleepe in which he out-matcheth the enemies who though they often break their sleepe through greedinesse of the prey yet sometime they must sleepe Hee is a more watchfull guard than Sauls when Dauid came and tooke away his speare and pot from his head The phrase is taken from watchmen who stand on walls in time of warre to fore-see the approach of enemies and giue warning they may be treacherous or sleepy as when the Capitall in Rome had beene taken by the French-men if the Geese had not beene more waking than the watch-men of the walls But the Lord is a faithfull and watchfull keeper let neuer so many watch the mischiefe of the Church he is sufficient against them all hath seauen eyes Zach. 4.10 2. He is wiser than all his enemies and herein ouer-matcheth them that he knowes all their counsels they know none of his which aduantage the King of Israel had of the King of Syria by reason of Gods Prophet Hee knowes their whole plot and proiects and suffers them to carrie them a long time but knowes when to preuent them and how to dispose them to the good of his Church for there is neither counsell nor wisedome against the Lord. 3. He is stronger than all the enemies Ioh. 10.29 My father is stronger than all no one no nor all together can resist his power And therefore when great men haue banded and bended all their forces against Christ and his Church they imagine but a vaine thing Psal. 2.1 4. God hath waies enow to deliuer his Church euen when things seeme very desperate He hath seuen pipes to his seuen lampes and these oftentimes laid very secret and out of sight He can make a way in the sea and the waters a wall for his people which cannot be expected by man yea he can suspend and stay the course of nature he can suffer his children to be cast into the fire then qualifie and coole the furnace 5. The Lord commonly delighteth in such a deliuerance of his Church as is ioyned with the confusion of his enemies as in the red sea the same way and waters which were the preseruation of the one were the destruction of the other Esai 33.11.12 Ye shall conceiue chaffe and bring foorth stubble the fire of your breath shall deuoure you And the people shall be as the burning of liâ—e as the thoâ—nes cut vp shall they be burnt in the fire And hereby the Lord manifesteth his power and iustice 1. That the wicked while they take craftie counsell together should be pauing a way to their owne destruction Hee takes the wise in their craftinesse that they lay a net in which themselues fall When they make couenants with death and digge to hell to make Gods children so sure as none should escape them then their owne destruction shall be the Churches deliuerance What a broad net had Haman laid for the Iewes None could be fairer for the game than he that had the Kings edict ring postes and all he desired But in due season his net tooke himselfe and his familie his gallowes caught himselfe and his sonnes in whose destruction God laid the preseruation of his Church at that time The same in the powder-plot what deuice was euer fairer or neerer or when was there a more vniuersall net laid for Gods Church these thousand yeeres yet the Lord in the very full season ioyned our deliuerance with their detection and destruction 2. It is iust with God that wicked men while they deuise mischiefe should onely make rods for their owne backes though their pretenses be neuer so faire and specious As for example Dan. 6.7 the Courtiers of Darius as they can easily lay their plots to sway Princes to euill counsels come to the King whose power they would abuse and none wish him so well as they O King liue for euer none so obseruant of the Kings edicts as they All the rulers of the kingdome officers gouernours counsellors and Dukes haue made a decree concerning the worship of thee O King that none shall aske any thing for thirtie daies saue onely of
be put out from vnder heauen But neuer let the fact of this Amalek nor this day of Purim be put out of the Kalender to the perpetuall infamy of the Popish generation so long as the Sunne courseth about the earth Looke we often in this glasse which God holdeth this day before our eyes O come and behold the workes of the Lord the great workes that he hath wrought for this English nation a people whom God hath now redeemed from a second hell which was indeed to bee a lake of fier and brimstone a very sparke out of hell brought by furies and diuels rather than men Consider wee seriously how our soules â—are deliuered from the nether most hell As in the first and great redemption from the lowest hell God of his mercy redeemed vs by the blood of his owne only Sonne so of his mercy hath he extinguished the flames of this inteÌ„ded hell by no other meanes than by the blood of those sonnes of Beliall And as for that greater redemption wee must magnifie the grace of God being redeemed from the hands of our enemies to serue him in righteousnesse and holynesse all the dayes of our life so in this lesser redemption we must stirre vp our selues to the cherefull praise of God not in word and tongue but in heart and life Let vs call vpon our selues euery one apart as Dauid Psal. 9.1.2.3 I will praise the Lord with all my heart c. for that mine enemies are turned back and Psal. 116.12 what shall I render to the Lord for all his louing kindnesse towards me and let vs call vpon one another as he doth Psal. 34.3 Praise the Lord with me and let vs magnifie the Lord together He hath filled our hearts with gladnesse our mouthes with laughter our tongues with matter of triumph when we were as a bird in the net of these fowlers he brake the net and we are escaped Verse 8. Our helpe standeth in the Name of the Lord who hath made heauen and earth THese words are the conclusion of the whole Psalm wherein the whole benefit of all the deliuerance of the Church both for time past and future is ascribed to the Lord of heauen and earth He had sayd before the snare is broken but had not told vs by whome now hee expresseth him Our helpe is in the Name c. Quest. why saith he not in the Lord but in the Name of the Lord Answ. By the Name of God is meant that by which he reuealeth himselfe to his Church as a man is knowne by his name And in this argument the Name of God signifieth the ayd the power the strength and the goodnesse of God so it is vsed Psalme 44.5 in thy Name wee shall tread downe our enemies that is in thy strength and power Our helpe consists in that power and strength which the Lord putteth forth for vs. Who hath made heauen and earth Qust Why is this added Answ. 1. To aduance the Lord in his Attribute of Omnipotency 2. To strengthen our faith when meanes fayle vs for this power is not tied to meanes Therefore these are set the first words of the Creed I beleeue in God the Father Almighty maker of heauen and earth 3. To shew vs to what end the world the heauens and the earth were made namely that it might be a Theater and glasse of the diuine power and glory of God 4. To intimate how easie it is for God in most desperate cases to helpe his children much mor easie than to make heauen and earth 5. To shew that he can dispose all things both in heauen and earth for their safetie I. Note hence the nature and worke of faith in euery beleeuer which is to eleuate the minde to God in perils and dangers which is the time wherein faith most bestirres it selfe and to apply Gods promise of ayd his presence and deliuerance in all our troubles not only beleeuing his Omnipotency and goodnesse but that he is so vnto vs and all his chosen For this is a speech of faith which looketh beyond all external meanes and fixeth the eye of the soule only vpon God in whose hand help is And farther the nature of faith is to search into all the Atributes of God whereby it may fortifie it selfe and become inexpugnable It looketh to the Name of the Lord. It considereth him as Iehoua one that is willing to accomplish all his promises to his Church else he could not bee Iehoua by which Name he would be knowne to his people It beholdeth his power and omnipotency at the same time and then what shall hinder the Churches safety if God be both able and willing It seeth also all his power exercised for hir safety It beholds at once both the pillers of the Temple Boaz with him is strength but what are wee the better if we apply it not and Iachin that is the Lord will establish Let vs liue by faith at all times especiall in dangers stil looking beyond the means and giue glory to God with Abraham Rom. 4.20 who was strong in faith and fully perswaded that he who promised was able also and willing to performe Obiect What then must we reiect meanes Answ. No for God giueth meanes for our good But 1. No meanes can helpe vs without God as God can without meanes 2. Meanes must be vsed but not trusted in Psalm 20.7 Some trust in chariots and some in horses but we will remember the Name of the Lord our God Heere he condemnes not the vse of chariots and horses but trust and confidence in them 3. Neuer let vs stand in the meanes as our helpers but in the Name of God who affords both them and successe in them Hence it is that God sometimes yea for the most part worketh his greatest workes by weakest meanes that the meanes might be as a glasse through which we might behold the brightnesse of his own Maiesty and grace Dan. 11.34 They that vnderstand and instruct many shall fall and when they shall fall they shal be holpen with a little helpe Why a little Because through weake meanes wee may see Gods greater strength So in the yeare 88. there was a little helpe for England but the victory was Gods So in the Gunpowder treason a little helpe and meanes by his Maiesties singular care but this was that through it we might easier see that Omnipotent helpe of him who made heauen and earth II. Note that the Churches helpe is not in it self and the dangers of it and harmes threatning it are farre greater than it is able without better help than it own to withstand So was it with the Church at the red sea so with the three children of God in the fire what help had they of themselues being bound So it was in Hamans deuice and so in Perâ—ies Reason 1. That the members of the Church may herein acknowledge the sleights of Satan and wicked men
good and counted it an action worthie to be laid vpon their greatest enemies whom they termed Puritans Yea God opens their owne mouthes against themselues Winter professeth before hand that if it should not take effect the scandall would be so great which the Catholike Religion should susteine by it as not onely our enemies but our friends also saith he would with good reason condemne vs. Thus we see the truth of God and his iustice for hee hath said Woe to thee that spoylest shalt thou not be spoyled Ye see how iustly he that takes the sword perish thâ—â—by by the sword Here is iust Agags case Thy sword made many childlesse and Gods sword shall make thy mother childlâ—sse See also what little cause we haue to trust Papists who daâ—e attempt such deuices for the reliefe of the Catholike cause as all of them confessed this was Must youâ— Religion be thus relieued It hath euer so been and so neuer was from the Lord. Obiect Why doe you impute this to our Religion being the error of a few infortunate Gentlemen Answ. If it were onely the error of their nature to vse the Kings Maiesties distinction it were the more tolerable but it is the error of their Religion And most truly hath his Maiestie shewed that no other Sect of Heretickes not excepting Turkes Iewes Pagans or they of Calicute did euer by the grounds of Religion maintaine that it is lawfull or meritorious to murther Princes or people for the quarrell of Religion but onely Romish Catholikes This doctrine they would as impudently deny as they doe other The light makes them ashamed and so they denie their owne doctrines They will denie that the Pope properly pardoneth sinnes or that they teach it They will as impudently denie that euer Pope had a bastard that euer a woman was Pope and an hundreth such which their owne chiefe writers aâ—ow But let vs know that religion which is set vpon lyes and held vp by lyes by conceiuing mischiefe and bringing foorth lyes to be fitter for Antichrist than for Iesus Christ or Christians professing his name And now seeing the wicked are fallen into the pit they made and the powder they laid for vs hath blowne vp themselues let vs conclude with the next words of this Psalme We will praise the Lord according to his righteousnesse and sing praise to the name of the Lord most high We will set foorth his righteousnesse and faithfulnesse in keeping his promises and in sauing the liues of thousands of his Saints destinated to death as sheepe to the slaughter The end of the fourth Sermon THE ENGLISH GRATVLATION Psalm 126.3 The Lord hath done great things for vs whereof wee reioyce THis Verse is the marrow of the whole Psal. occasioned by the returne of Gods people out of Babels Captiuity into their owne Country who neuer receiued lesse fauours than this without thanksgiuing Vnto which duty of praise the better to prouoke themselues they amplifie the benefit verse 1. and make it great in their eyes and hearts as it was in it selfe so great and incredible as when God brought it to passe they were as men in a dreame thinking it rather a dreame and a vaine imaginatioÌ„ than a reall truth or action 1. Because it was so great a deliuerance from so great and lasting a bondage it seemed too good to be true 2. It was sudden and inexpected when they little thought or hoped for it Thus the sudden and inexpected newes of Iosephs life made Iacobs heart fayle him that he could not beleeue the relation of his sonnes to be true 3. All things semed desperate nothing more vnlikely or impossible rather for indeed the godly themselues sticking so much to sense cannot so well weigh the great workes of God in the scoâ—les or with the weights of God as they should 4. The manner was so admirable without the counsell helpe or strength of man nay it was beyond and against all humane meanes that they doubt whether these things be not somnia vigilantium the dreames of men that are awake For so we read in Act. 12. that Peter being in prison the next day to be brought forth to death slept betweene two souldiers and the Keepers before the doore but was led out by an Angell and with him passed sundry gates and streetes verse 9. yet Peter knew not that it was true which was done but thought it had beene a dreame and that he had seene a vision It was so incredible so inexpected so suddaine so immediate a deliuerance that he could not beleeue it But as Peter being come to himselfe said Now I know for a truth that the Lord hath deliuered me vers 11. so this people of God knew it was more than a dreame euen a reall deliuerance and could not but expresse their ioy as men doe when they laugh But as the cause was abundant so they say they were filled with laughter verse 2. Nay the Gentiles themselues obserued the benefit and preached it euen the enemies could obserue a speciall worke of Gods power and fauour for them verse 3. And should they be behinde the Heathen and not with full heart and mouth celebrate the benefit Should God lose his glory by his owne people whom the benefit concerned and finde it among the Heathen who were but lookers on No and therefore they proclaime it in these words The Lord hath donâ— great things for vs c. Wherein we may consider these foure particulars 1. The Author or Agent the Lord. 2. The Worke or Act hath done great things 3. The Persons for whom for vs his Church 4. The Effect whereof wee reioyce Of these in their order I. The Agent is the Lord verse 1. the Lord brought back the captiuity of Syon It was a diuine worke passing not humane power onely but humane apprehension for it was not very easie to conceiue much lesse to effect Obseru All deliuerances of the Church are the works of God What meanes so euer he vseth himselfe is the principall Agent and of it it must be said Digitus Dei est hic This is the finger of God For 1. the helpe of man is vaine 2. God onely hath promised deliuerance and will be depended on 3. the glory of deliuerance belongs to no other Psalm 50.15 Call vpon me in the day of trouble and I will heare thee and thou shalâ— glorifie me II. The worke great things The Lord is a great God and great things beseeme him Psalm 135.5 I know the Lord is great and he doth great things 1. To manifest the greatnesse of his power aboue all creatures 2. That there may neuer want some great occasions of praising and glorifying his Name 3. That our eyes may be lifted vp aboue humane counsels and not fixed on inferiour things when we see euents which could be welded by nothing but an Omnipotent and Diuine hand III. The Persons for whom these great workes are done for vs
Great are the workes of God seene in the Creation and Gouernment of the world But the greatest workes of all hee doth for his Church 1. Hee hath chosen them to be his people and selected them from all nations of the earth to be a peculiar inheritance and his owne possession of all the earth 2. He hath made his residence and aboade with her as hee hath with no other society of men in the world 3. He hath made vnto her all his gracious promises and giuen the custody of his word to her and to no other people of the earth He hath not dealt so with euery nation neither haue they knowne his lawes Psal. 147.20 4. Hee hath taken vpon him the defence of his Church as of no other people to be as a shield or as a louing and carefull Husband of his deare and faithfull Spouse 5. He hath giuen her such experience of his prouidence and protection in many meruailous deliuerances both for soule and body as no people euer had the like to the perpetuall ouerthrow of all her aduersaries These and the like great workes in generall the Lord hath done for his Church Looke now vpon Israel who vtters the words of our Text what great things God hath done for them both in generall and in this speciall For the generall 1 Israel was Gods elect his sonne Exod. 4.22 his fiâ—st borne more loued more priuiledged than any his treasure his portion Deut. 32.8.9 To him belonged the adoption Rom. 9.4 and hee was not numbred among the nations Hee is select and chosen out of all the world Hee must haue the promises Of him are the Fathers and of him is Christ God blessed for euer 2. God dwelt in Israel Of Beniamin it is said that the Lord dwelt betweene his shoulders Deut. 33.12 With him was the Arke and the glory Rom. 9.4 and when that was taken the glory departed from Israel He dwelt at Salem and his Tabernacle was at Syon Psalm 76.2 God is present euery where but dwels onely in his Church Of Syon it was said There will I dwell 3. Their Lawes ordinances were meerely from God theirs was the Couenant Rom. 9.4 The Tables of the Couenant written with Gods owne hand and deliuered to them And the giuing of the Law that is their Statute-lawes Iudicials were not enacted by men but came from heauen In which respect no nation was so honoured Deut. 4.7.12 Was there euer any nation to whom God came so neere and spake out of the fire c. 4. Their preseruation and protection was a great worke of God as we shall see in some instances 1. Great was his care to send them into Egypt by reason of the famine that they might encrease in a fat land but he sent a man before euen Ioseph to prouide for them the fattest of the land Psalm 105.17 2. Great was his worke of preseruation in Egypt vnder that extreame tyrannie of Pharaoh and the Taske-maisters who could not worke wisely enough to keepe them vnder but the more they oppressed them to diminish them the more they encreased so as of seauenty soules in 220. yeares the encrease was 600000. men besides women and children Psal. 105.24 Hee encreased his people greatly and made them stronger than their enemies 3. Great was his worke in drawing them out of Egypt to which purpose hee sent Moses his seruant miraculously drawne out of the water and Aaron whom he had chosen vers 26. By whom he wrought those mighty signes and wonders vers 27. of darknesse blood frogges lyce haile caterpillers the death of their first borne c. Insomuch as the enemies loaded them with rich iewels and eare-rings and hastned them out of the Country God would not haue his seruants goe without their wages for so hard labour which the Egyptians had not considered Besides hee will haue them to haue somewhat away to bestow and conferre for the vse of the Temple And when Pharaoh pursued them so as they saw no way to escape him God gaue them a great deliuerance through the sea and him a great and miraculous ouerthrow Such a worke God neuer wrought for any people 4. Great was his prouidence and protection of them in the wildernesse where hee led them forty yeares first guiding them by a strange pillar of a cloud by day and of fire by night in all their iourneyes secondly feeding them with Mannah from heauen in which were a number of miracles and refreshing them with water out of a rocke thirdly couering their bodies with the same cloathes forty yeares together which did not teare by wearing not so much as their shooes fourthly fighting their battels for them suffering no man to do them harme but rebuking euen Kings for their sakes fiftly when hee had his people alone hee prescribes his whole worship concerning holy things holy persons places and times reareth vp a stately Tabernacle for his owne presence in it placeth a glorious Arke whence he immediately gaue answeres and directions by Vrim and Thummim and accepted sacrifices by fire immediately from heauen all testimonies of his immediate presence 5. As great was his care and prouidence in bringing them into the land of Canaan casting out all their enemies before them raising vp Ioshua to leade them in and aâ—ter him Iudges and Kings Sampson Deborah Dauid Salomon and their successors euen till their Captiuity in Bâ—bilon He gaue them a goodly land and fat flowing with milke and hony In it were vineyards which they planted not and houses which they builded not Hee gaue them a city which was on earth as the sunne in heauen the eye of the world an earthly paradise the seat of their Princes and Metropolitan of Iudea containing an hundred fifty thousand men the inhabitants In it was a Temple the bewtye of the whole world and the glory of the earth Thither the tribes went vp twice in a yere to worship the Lord Psal. 122.4 In it were the Colleges of Priests at whose mouth they were to require the Law Mal. 2.7 In it the thrones of iustice were erected Psalme 122.5 In a word Great and glorious things are to bee spoken of this Citie of God Psal. 87.3 Thus the Church in Israell might well say The Lord hath done great things for vs. But she need not cast hir eyes so farre back Here is one great worke in steed of many great things as which indeed hath many great things in it on which while she fixeth her eyes she countâ— shâ— hath matter enough of reioycing IV. For God hauing now reuenged the impiety of the Priests and Princes who had not only profaned his Land Temple and worship with Idols but had filled all the corners of the land with innocent blood by Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel called the scourge of God for the space of seuenty yeares It pleaseth him now to returne in mercy to his miserable people
For he neuer striketh but withal prouides a remedy alwaies in iudgment remembring mercy And in this theâ— Returne there was great cause of ioy being so great a work of Gods mercy For 1. God seemed now to forget the causes of their Captiuity their idolatry their contempt of his Ministers with other hainous and foule sinnes which brake out so farre that there was no remedy 2. Cron. 36.15 But now he graciously returneth therefore certainly those sinnes are forgiuen them 2. They had now a long time beene exposed to all the enemies wrath who had vnmercifully oppressed and slaine them and cruelly dasht their infants braines against the stones carried them farre from house and home among heathens and strangers to them and to the Couenant strangely vsed them not suffering them any house or harbour but let them spend their time in weeping by the waters side exposed to all iniury of winde and wether of men and beasts But now as health is sweet after a long disease so is liberty after a long bondage Here is great cause to reioyce for temporall freedome from corporall misery 3. Their shame and reproch in captiuity was infinite the Aduersaries on one hand insult and call for their Hebrew songs on the other hand their Citie Babel whither they weâ—e carryed being the Metropolitan and head of the Monarchy at that time all the people of the knowne world resorted thither and carryed into all Countries the Iewes reproch But now the Lord hath remoued their shame and published from thence to all the world their glorious deliuerance 4. In Captiuity they were but ciues mundi men of the world but now they are ciuâ—s ecclesiae members of the Church that Country being a testimony to the godly that they belonged to Gods Couenant and to that heauenly Canaan of which that was a type Now their Captiuity was an abdication from the familie of God and being spoyled of these good things how could they thinke but that they were cast out from God from the Couenant from heauenly Canaan aswel as earthly But now they are receiued againe into the family and people and Country of God their title to heauenly Canaan is renewed and for this they reioyce 5. Whereas the Babylonians had robbed the Citie but especially had defaced and burned the Temple profaned both it and all holy things and set vp the abomination of desolation in stead thereof that now where God was worshipped of his owne people according to his will the diuell was worshipped by Heathens and Infidels Now the Lord hauing raised Syon out of the dust hee hath reared his Temple and his Worship againe hee hath cast out the filth and pollution by which they defiled his Temple hee hath set vp againe the shining lights in the Temple standing vp in golden Candlestickes hee hath set the sweet-bread on his Table the booke of the Law is restored againe and the holinesse of the Lord shines againe in all his ordinances God enioyes his worship and glory They enioy their land and peace and sit safe vnder his protection as in times past And these are the great things whereof they now reioyce Now to the application This day are these things performed in our eares who may truly say with the Church of Israel The Lord hath done great things for vs whereof we reioyce We will not goe so farre backward as if time would giue leaue we might to compare the Lords generall mercies to vs with theirs wherein we are not inferiour giuing vs a land as rich more large peace more stable Kings and Princes as Sauiours and Iudges leading vs along to Canaan the couenant of grace as peculiar more sure to vs than to them What Oracles had they which we haue not yet we haue what they had not Had they worship in shadowes we haue it in substance Had they good things in promise and expectation we in the very thing and full accomplishment Christ was to come of them but he is come vnto vs. I will only speak of our deliuerance froÌ„ Babylon of which the Church here speaketh That Rome is Babylon the learned Iesuites themselues coÌ„fesse And if they did not we could easily shew that one egge is not liker another than Rome is to Babylon As in this Collation 1. Babel was the great Citie that must rule ouer all nations Gen. 10.10 And Rome is the great Citie that must rule ouer all Cities and Churches her Bishop must be Head and Monarch of the Church and set himselfe aboue all that is called God 2. At Babel was the first confusion of tongues Gen. 11.7 In and from Rome is the confusion of tongues and of errors one not vnderstanding another in the word or sacraments or other their seruices All is in a strange language to them 3. At Babel was horrible superstition and wickednesse in Priests and people and thence it spread all abroad Rome is a sinke of superstition and filthinesse and all nations haue drunke of her cup and beene made drunke with her horrible enchantments and wickednesse 4. Babel held the Church in slauery seauenty yeares so the Church of Christ hath beene oppressed a long time vnder the tyrannie of the Romish Church 5. Babel robbed and spoyled the Church of her treasures and the Temple of God and horribly polluted it Rome hath robbed the Christian world of infinite treasures by fraud and deceit selling for millions that which was not worth the dust of mens feet And the Church by her hath beene robbed of the word the Sacraments the offices of Christ and most comfortable doctrines the chiefe dowry and reuenew that Christ her Head gaue her 6. Babel most miserably intreated the Church Psalm 137.1 Her eyes did nothing but drop downe teares day and night And she prouided a furnace to cast such in as would not worship the image Dan. 3.6 All bookes and writings of the Church are full of the bloody cruelty by all instruments of cruelty and all plots of cruelty in the Romane Church both the head and the members Now that our deliuerance from Romish power and plots is as great a work to reioyce in as this of Israel from their captiuitie is easily proued 1. God hath broke the yoke of the King of Babel the Romish Nebuchadnezzar from off our neckes when we lay among the pots by that great Cyrus King Henry the 8. who thrust out the Pope and Papall power cut the sinewes of their strength cast out the Canaanites that were in the land pulled downe the dens of theeues and robbers and set his people to build an house for the Lord God of Israel As great a worke as euer the people of this nation saw either attempted or executed All the Kings before him durst not meddle well they might mourne vnder their bondage and murmure at the Oppressor but did nothing because they durst not 2. When Cyrus had begun the worke Darius commanded
it to be finished and performed Ezra 6.1 Euen so what King Henry had begun young Daâ—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 mâ—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 quà m 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
heard Winter himselfe fore-telling Therefore let vs reioyce in this great worke of God as his ancient people in this place For why The greatest rage of the enemie is turned to his greatest praise Psal. 76.10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee both in his glorie and his Churches deliuerance And what is the end of all Gods great deliuerances but to praise his name and glorie in his praise Psal. 106.47 Is not ours the benefit Haue not wicked men seene and felt that God hauing chosen our land to dwell in will not easâ—y be cast out of his lodging and will not this coole their blood and daunt their spirits from the like enterprises for time to come Doth not this hazard thus happily diuerted make addition to our strength and peace Oh blessed be God euen the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who for his owne sake by his owne hand hath heaped vp our happinesse He that is mightie hath done great things for vs and holy is his Name Oh praise we the Lord for he is good for his mercie endureth for euer Holy Father knit our hearts vnto thee that wee may feare thy great and dreadfull Name Teach vs to be truly and vnfainedly thankfull to thy holy Maiestie for this daies mercies and all heretofore that so we may receiue the continuance of thy fauours to our euerlasting comfort and euermore reioyce in thy great saluation Blessed be God FINIS Româ— 1 Hos. 4.15 Exod. 19.5 Heb. 12.2 Rom. 15.29 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vers. 3. Regis ad exemplum totus componitur orbis See chap. 2 49. â—ra furor brâ—uis est Diuision of the Text. Affinity between Romish and Babylonish Nabuchadnezzar * Moulded first in the Laterane Councell vnder Pope Innocent the third Popish Priests worse than Iudas who valued Châ—ist at thirty pence for they buy 40. cakes euery one of which is Christs body for one halfe-penny This was preached Nouemb. 5. 1612. Romish cruelty surmounts the Babylonâ—sh 3. wayes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Idolatry and cruelty alwayes coupled together Exod. 5.2 Chap. 1.17 Vers. 22. Hâ—st 3.6 Vers. 13. 2. King 21.3 See 1. Mach. 1. Iosephus de bello Iud. lib. 1. cap. 1. Nequâ— tantae caedes satis fuêre sed Iudaeos cogere coepit vt abrogato more patrio nec infantes suos circumciderent porcósque super aram immolarent quibus omnes quidem aduersabantur optimus verò quisque propterea truâ—cidabatur Hadrian Rome Christian as cruell as Heathen Rome 2. Thes. 2.3 Ioh. 17.12 Reuel 9.11 Triginâ—a bellatorum millâ—a qui bellica munera guauiter â—bire possent nihil interpellato sacrorum cultu Sabell Enead 9. lib. 6. Pulchra prosecto pullitiâ—s aulae Antichristianae decora familia Grass reg p. 34. B. Vers. 4. Reuel 13.11 Reuel 11.7 AntiChrist an enemie both to Scriptures and Scripture-men Ribâ—ra Bellarm. Testantur hoc Iac. Brocardus Venetus in Apoc. et monachus quidam Celestinâ—s Prophecies of Romish cruelty accomplished to the full Pandolph Colonutius ex Aenea Sylu. hist. Austr et Nicol. Machiauel Rom. 1.32 Ex Hermanno Mutio. Innocentius 3. anno 1212. See this story at large in the booke of Martyrs pag. 868. Out of which booke I haue picked some choise examples that our common people hauing the booke by them may see I belye them not in the things which seeme most incredible Foeminea in pugna victoria nulla est Acts Mon. pag. 859. 2. Tim. 4.17 Gathered out of Ianus August Thuanus President of the Parliament of Paris Mal. 4.1 * Metellus Sequanus Bartholomaeus Casas a Bishop that liued in that Country This booke written in Latine is wel worth translating but these with a number more insâ—ances of their hellish cruelty are oâ—â—racted by M. White in his way to the Church the 50. digression where the Reader may further acquaint himselfe with the Spanish conuersion or rather vtter subuersion of the Indies The Prince of the I le Cuba so answered the Fryar that came to shrine him at the slake Satia te sanguine quem sit isti cuius semper insacrabilis fuisti Thomyris de Cyri capite in vâ—re sang Minerius the diuels Proctor or Factor Acts and Mon. pag. 869. See another history of like cruelty p. 805. â— Pag. â—60 See the exquisite torments deuised and suffered by Bertrand p. 817. and by Rich. Atkins p. 1948. Marriage punished among Papists whoredome escapeth Pag. 887. Pag. 863. â—ag 831. Iam. 2.13 Acts and Mon. pag 814. Pag. 874. Pag. 751. Pag. 710. Pag. 766. A woman forced to kill her husband by Papists Acts and Mon. pag. 1951. No plea sufficient against the cruelty of Romanists Acts and Mon. pag. 1864. Felâ—yes childe Dauies Boy vnder 12. yeares condemned for the 6. articles p. 1879. Pag. 1035. Pag. 816. Pag. 1780. Pag. 739. Pag. 1785. Pag. 1556. Prou. 12.10 Gal. 5.22 Math. 11.29 Mans extremity Gods opportunity Vse 1. Vse 2. Man purposeth God disposeth Psal. 2 1.2 Psal. 7.15 Hest. 9.25 Vse Sanguis Martyrum semen ecclesiâ—e Foecundi sunt Martyrum ciâ—eres Hest. 9.26 Haue nothing to doâ— against that iust man Zach. 12.3 Gods people gâ—yners by fiery trials 1. Pet. 1.7 Vse Math. 8 â—7 Acts 9.5 Psal. 33.1 Diuision of the text Exposition Numerus septenarius iuxta aliquos est numerus â—â—rfâ—ctus Iob. 33.14 Nâ— hamâ—n Gal. 4.29 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Antichrist resembled by Edom. Antichrist and Edom like in their persons foure waies Gen. 25.23 Verse 30. Lagnat Acts 24.14 Nâ—n obstante â—â—tichrist and Edom like in their sinnes 1. Prophanenesse Quid non regina pecuma donat 2. Idolatrie 3. Merits 4. Crueltie Crueltie of our Edomites and old Edomites compared Iosephus Obad. 14. Yong Edomites with vs farre surpasse the old in crueltie fiue arguments The powder-plot a villany without name The Popes leadden Bull sets all mischiefe on worke Vse 1 That religion good which Antichrist persecutes Vse 2. Bloody religion wicked religion Luk. 9.54.55 Vse 3. 1. Sam. 4.21 Gen. 32.28 Acts 13.50 Antichrist and Edom like in their punishment 1. For certainty Rome termed Babylon why 2. For seuerity Most probable that Româ— shall be destroyed with materiall fire for fiue reasons Ierem. 51.9 Obadi 15. Reuel 18.6 2. Thess. 2. â— Antichrist to be ouerthrowne with the sword temporall as well as spirituall Euen by Kings that are or were his friends Ouerthrow of Rome not partiall but totall Magnificence of Rome no whit secureth it Zach. 4.2 Vse 1 Comfort for the Church of God Vsâ— 2. Terror for the Church of Rome Reuel 19.16 Iudg. 17. Vse 3. All deuices of Papists insufficient to susteine their bloody monarchy Vse 4 Separate from them spiritually and corporally Reuel 18.2 Diuision of the Text. Enemies of the Church compared to Fowlers in 4. respects Prou. 4.16 〈…〉 9. Romish Nimrod a mighty Hunter of the Lords flocke Bonner a Bonfire Great labour and cost for the powder-treason Foure thousand pounds Practises of the wicked