terrible blow given saying no doubt in their hearts not Downe with it Downe with it even to the ground but Blow them up up with them even to the clouds Nay and when Guido Faux the party appointed to give fire to the powder was apprehended and examined and asked if hee was not sorry and repented himselfe of his bloody designe answered with a bold heart and brazen face that hee was sorry for nothing more in all his life than for that the designe tooke so ill effect and repented himselfe that hee had not set fire on the powder when hee was caught that he might have done some mischiefe at least upon himselfe and his apprehenders By all which it is more then plaine to be seene how the Popish faction jumpe directly with the children of Edom in all points of carnality and cruelty and especially in this their rejoicing in evill Here is onely the difference betwixt them The Edomites saw the ruine and desolation of jerusalem and rejoyced over it but the Papists did not see the ruine and desolation of our Church but onely in hope and expectation that they might have rejoiced over us But their hopes were dasht and their expectation frustrate and their joy was turned into shame and confusion of face as appeareth this day and all by the mercifull patience and providence of the Lord the keeper of our Israel who never slumbers nor sleeps but watcheth overus for our good to save our King and defend our state to direct his Church and deliver his poore servants from all the divelish machination of our implacable enemies And therefore not unto us not unto us but to his glorious name be ascribed the praise of our deliverance And the Lord make us truly thankefull for this most miraculous deliverance to remember it our selves and to be whetting of it upon our posterity that all true English hearted Christians may learne to praise the Lord God of Israel for ever And pray wee once more that God of his mercy and not for our merits for his owne goodnesse sake and not for any goodnesse that is in us he would be pleased to scatter our cruell enemies which delight in blood to infatuate their counsells and to root out that Babylonish and * Antichristian sect which say of Ierusalem Downe with it downe with it even to the ground And beseech wee him of his mercifull goodnesse to protect and prosper our soveraigne Lord and King in all his godly intendments to blesse the Church with the pure and incorrupt doctrine of his holy word and with faithfull Pastours after his owne heart to maintaine the whole State and realme in peace and prosperity that with our heart and moâ—th wee may praise his holy name and sing joyfully that his mercifull kindnesse is ever more and more towards us and that the truth of the Lord endureth for ever through jâ—sus Christ our only Saviour and redeâ—â—er Amen and againe I say Amen Hallelu_jah Praise â—ee the Lord and sing the 148. Psalme or Psal. 7. beginning at the 15. verse BEhold though he in travell bee of his divellish forecast And of his mischiefe once conceiv'd yet brings forth nought at last Hee diggs a ditch and delves it deepe in hope to hurt his brother But hee shall fall into the pit that he dig'd up for other Thus wrong returneth to the hurt of him in whom it bred And all the mischiefe that he wrought shall fall upon his head I will giue thankes to God therefore that judgeth righteously And with my songs will praise the name of him that is most high The 124. Psalme paraphrastically applied to the Papists Powder-plot fitted to one of the familiar tunes of Davids Psalmes for the 5. of November IF great Iehovah had not stood propitious on our side May England say most thankefully and been our guard and guide If heavens Almighty-Lord Himselfe had not our cause maintain'd When men yea most blood-thirsty men our downefall had ordain'd Then had their Antichristian rage and Hellish policy Devoured us with greedy jawes and swallowed suddainely Then like huge overflowing floods with furious inundation They all our soules o'rewhelmed had and drown'd in desolation Our royall King and Queene and Prince and princely Progeny Our prudent Counsellors of State and prime Nobility Our learned Iâ—dges Bishops grave best commons of this Land In Parliament by powder fierce had perish'd out of hand Romes raging streames with roaring noise and popish cruelty Had all at once engulft our soules in matchlesse misery But great Iehovah just and good thy name we praise and blesse Who onely sav'dst us from the power of Romish wickednesse For as a Bird out of the snare by furious Fowlers made Doth safely scape Even so our soules securely did evade Their net was broke themselves were caught our God that ne're doth sleepe In heaven did sit and see and smile and us in safety keepe This was the Lords most worthy worke this was the Lords owne â—act And 't is most wondrous to behold this great and glorious Act. This is the jâ—yfull day indeed Which God for us hath wrought Let us be glad and joy therein in Word in Deed in Thought O let us never make aâ— end to magnifie Gods name To blesse the Lord our Staffe and Stay to sound abroad his fame To tell to all Posterity what wonders God hath wrought To save us from the woes which Rome hath oft against vs sought All glory then to God on high let Men and Angels sing Let Heaven and Earth and all therein give glory to heavens King And sing and say with heart and voyce all honour laud and praise To God who makes us thus rejoyce So be it Lord alwayes I. V. FINIS a 〈…〉 b Veritas odium 〈◊〉 Terent. c Bede is an old Saxon word and signifies praying so that Bedeman in the language of our Ancestours is a Praying man or a man addicted to prayer d Nobilitas sola estatque vnica virtus Novem. Praeloqâ—â— D. D. 〈◊〉 D. D. Câ— D D. Coâ—k M. Dunster Mr. Bolt◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Interpretatio Quaestio Subjectâ—â— Fabritius Talibus nâ—minibus câ—â—venientissi mè siguraâ—tur veritaâ— inimici Idâ— mâ— ae â— quippâ— interpretaâ—tur velsaâ—â—uinei vel tâ—reni Aâ—â— in Psal. 8 And agaiâ— Interpretatur Edom sanguis 〈◊〉 pumcè Edom dicituâ— August in Psal. 136. D D. Abâ—oâ— D D. Bear II. 1. Sam. 2 18. tus homo Doecb â—genus 〈◊〉 Doech â—lugust in â—al 51. Homiliâ—s 〈…〉 â— D. Whiâ—ak â—itio â— D â—ak pretaâ— Observatio Mr. B. Probatio Ratia Appliâ— Confutatiâ— Adâ—ortatiâ— â—nstructio Interpretat Observatio Mr. B. Probatio Applic. Moâ—itio 〈◊〉 〈…〉 DD. Câ—â— ton late I shop of Chichesâ—â— Concl◠〈◊〉
to the moderation and patience of a Christian man yea and contrary to Christs command Mat. 5. 44. where he bids us Love your enemies blesse them that curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them that persecute you If we must pray for our enemies why doe the Saints pray against them if wee must doe them good why do the Saints wish them evil if wee must blesse them why doe the Saints so eagerly curse them if wee must love them why doe the Saints expresse such an extreame and deadly hatred against them I answer it is true the imprecations used by the Saints in Scripture against wicked men are very grievous and fearefull but wee are not to thinke notwithstanding that either they transgressed herein against the rule of charity or sinned against the precep◠of Christ Iesus For first in all these imprecations they doe not so much respect themselves and their owne preservation as the glory of God and the conservation thereof the quarrel that they have with these men is not private but publike neither doe they curse them because they are their enemies but because they are Gods enemies and the enemies of GODS Church Secondly in all these imprecations the Saints of GOD are not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 such as take delight in other mens destruction and rejoyce themselves in seeing evill befall other men for they doe not wish these judgements to befall upon their enemies out of any spite or spleene or thirsty desire of revenge but because they understand by this meanes the glory of GODS Iustice is to be made manifest before the faces of the children of men God will have his glory even of sinners either in their salvation if they turne unto him or in their confusion if they continue obstinate In the salvation of sinners the mercy of GOD carries away the glory 〈◊〉 the confusion of sinners the glory reflects upon Gods justice It is true GOD delighteth not in the death of any sinner neither will hee have any of his Saints to take delight in the destruction of any wicked man but God desireth the glory of his justice to be manifest and the Saints of God may desire that the glory of GODS justice may be made manifest though it be by the death and destruction of wretched and unrepentant sinners Thirdly in all these imprecations wee are not to thinke that the Saints of God were carried away with the fire and fury of some preposterous zeale but led and directed by the discerning prudence of a propheticall spirit did curse and devove not every enemy but those whom they knew GOD had set a marke upon as upon Caine and utterly rejected from the society and company of his Elect Children Lastly wee must know as Saint Augustine hath observed that these imprecations are not onely prayers but prophecies being indeed prophetical denuntiations of those fearefull judgements which should certainly overtake and overthrow all the enemies of God and his Church without repentance and therefore in all these imprecations as the affection is not at all distempered so neither is there any violation of patience any branch of charity any neglect of the precept of Christ. Now for the second branch of the question what is lawfull for us to doe in this case whether wee may imitate the Saints in this I doubt not but that we may if we admit these limitations and take a few distinctions along with ush 1. Wee must diligently distinguish betwixt the cause and the person that maintains the cause As touching the cause if it be an evill cause wee may condemne it and lawfully pray against it whatsoever the persons be that maintain it It is cleere by the example of David who prayed against the wicked counsell of Achitophel 2. Sam. 15. 31. And by the example of the blessed Apostles who prayed against the plots and practices of Herod and Pilate and the Pharisees to stop the current of the Gospell Acts 4. 29. As touching the persons of our enemies wee are to note this distinction Some are private enemies some are publike If they bee private enemies onely we must distinguish betwixt their nature and their sinne Their sinne we may pray against Yea I will pray yet against their wickednesse but their nature we must not wish evill unto it wee may love the man and hate his sinne and howsoever it is a man a sinner that I hate and pray against yet it is not qu◠homo as he is a man but qua peccator as he is a sinner For here Saint Augustines rule is good Omnis peccator in quantum peccator non es◠diligendus no sinnefull person as hee is sinnefull is to be loved of us De Doctrin Christian. lib. 1. cap. 27. The sinne even of our private enemy wee may hate and pray against but for his nature the man himselfe we must be so farre from hating him that we must love him and we must be so farre from wishing him evill that we must bee ready to doe him all the good we can as our Saviour commanded in his Sermon upon the Mount Mat. 5. 44. and the blessed Apostle injoyneth Rom. 12. 14. 20. These are our private enemies But if our enemies be publike that is if they be not onely our enemies but the enemies of God and his Church the enemies of the truth of God and of the Religion in the Church then wee may curse them in the name of the Lord and pray against them according to the example of the Saints of God but yet I pray you here take this Proviso Those publike enemies of GOD and the Church are of two sorts either they be incorrigible and incurable or they be curable and such whereof ther◠may be some good hope of amendment where there is hope of repentance and amendment we must not pray against such but for such wee must beg of God their conversion as we see Christ prayed for his enemies upon the Crosse Father forgive them Luke 23. 34. and the Protomartyr Saint Stephen prayed for his enemies at the last gaspe Lord lay not this si◠to their charge Acts 7. 60. And so doth the Prophet David in divers Psalmes in one hee saith Fill their faces with shame O Lord that they may seeke thy name he prayes that God would let them come to a sight of their sinne and be ashamed thereat and so be driven to seeke unto God for mercy and in another 〈◊〉 he saith Let their Iudges be everthrowne in stony places that they may heare my words for they are sweet hee prayes that God would send some fatherly chastisement and correction upon the chiefest of his enemies that by the consideration of Gods Ro◠displing of them they may be made to hearken unto Gods Word obediently and to relish it well in their palates All this must be done where there is any hope but where there is no hope left of amendment when they are become obstinate
EDOM AND BABYLON Against IERVSALEM OR Meditations on Psal. 137. 7. Occasioned by the most happy Deliverance of our Church and State on November 5. 1605. from the most bloody Designe of the Papists-Gunpowder-Treason Being the summe of divers Sermons delivered by Thomas Uicars B. D. Pastour of Cockfield in South-Sex This our Deliverance was such a marvellous worke of God that it ought to be had in an everlasting remembrance and the rather for that the Papists in blinde corners most shamelesly give out and goe about to perswade simple people that there was never any such thing intended by them as the Gunpowder-treason but that it is athing meerly put upon them to make their religion more odious Printed at London by E. P. for Henry Seyle dwelling in St. Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Tygers head 1633. On the 5. of November Prospera lux oritur linguis animisque favete Nunc dicenda bonâ sunt bona verba die Ex Ovid. Fast lib. 1. Psal. 31. 23. O love the Lord all ye his Saints for the Lord preserveth the Faithfull and plentifully rewardeth the Proud-doer Psal. 9. 16. Higgaion Selah i. e. Res meditanda summè according to Iunius This is a thing most worthy our serious consideration A Summary or The most remarkeable points delivered in these Sermons THe Gunpowder-treason-day is a Festivall appropriate to the Church of England pag. 1 2 3. The divellish devise of the Gunpowder-plot exaggerated pag. 6. The effects likely to have ensued upon the treason if the hand of God had not dash'd it pag. 10. What wee are to thinke of those imprecations in Scripture used by the Saints against their enemies p. 13 14 c. Whether it be lawfull for us to curse our enemies in the name of the Lord according to the example of the Saints p. 17. The persecutors of the Church and namely the Gunpowder-Traytors are the children of Edom by morall imitation p. 21. The enemies of Gods Church Worldlings in generall and the Popish-faction in particular are a company of carnall fleshly minded men p. 23. The enemies of Gods church Worldlings in generall and the Popish faction in particular are most cruell and bloody-minded men like their father Edom p. 29. The wicked are ready to joyn hand in hand to vexe the church and to effect wicked matters p. 50. Neither affinity nor neerenesse of kinne nor any bond of love can quench that hatred which the enemies of the church beare unto it p. 58. It is the property of wicked men to rejoyce in evill p. 62. The Lords name who is the keeper of our Israel is to be blessed and praised for our most miraculous deliverance p. 70. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE THOMAS LORD COVENTRY Baron of Alesborough Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England and one of his Majesties most honourable privy Counsell RIght Noble Lord The fame of your Honours most religious and righteous proceedings in that high place of authority wherin his sacred Majesty hath most worthily seated you doth so spread it selfe far and neere that he is very envious that doth not acknowledge it very impious that doth not heartily thanke God for it The assurance of your Honours sincere love and affection you shew to Gods cause true religion that continuall countenance and encouragement you give both to the professours and publishers of the Gospell that facile eare you lend to all honest suppliants hath drawne mee on though I be the meanest of ten thousand to make so far bold as to present unto you these few leaves of paper which I was desirous should come abroad under your name both that I might thereby find shelter against the virulent tongues of that viperous brood the jesuited Papists enemies of our Church and state to whom I beleeve these Sermons will not be very welcome and also that I might hereby shew my selfe thankefull in some poore measure to your Honour in the behalfe of my uncle who by your good meanes next under God enjoyeth that meanes of living he hath for which he is ever bound as your Honours Bede-man to pray for your peace and prosperity even as long as he draweth breath Go on right noble Lord to be a pillar of piety and equity a patron of the distressed and needy a worthy Mecaenas to learned men and a religious Obadiah to Gods Ministers And I heartily pray God to thinke upon you in mercy and to remember all the good you have done to the house of God and the officers thereof So prayeth Your Honours most devoted in all observance Thom à Vicars EDOM AND BABYLON Against IERUSALEM PSAL. 137. 7. Remember the Children of Edom O Lord in the day of Ierusalem how they said Downe with it Downe with it even to the ground GIve me leave to begin the exercise of * this day with the words of S. Bernard Serm. 5. de dedicat eccles Hodierna die fratres solemnitatē agimus eamque praeclaram Today Beloved we celebrate a Festivall and that a great one For whether wee consider the great danger wherewith wee were compassed as upon this day or that great deliverance which God hath wrought for us out of that danger as upon this day Solennitate◠agimus eamque praeclaram it is a Festivall we celebrate a great one too Quae tanto nobis debet esse devotior quanto est familiarior as the same Bernard hath it in his first Sermon which of all other Festivals is more solemnly and more devoutly to be observed by us for that it is more proper and peculiar to our Nation than to any other Nam caeteras quidem sanctorum solennitates as hee goes on there cum ecclesiis aliis habemus communes The other Festivals and Holy dayes in memory of the Saints are common to us with many other Churches Haec verò sic nobis est propria ut necesse sit vel à nobis eam vel à nemine celebrari but the solemnity of this day is so appropriate to the Church and state of this Kingdome that I know not any Country in the world that hath so great cause to keepe it Holy-day as we of this Nation have The Israelites in memory of their deliverance out of Egypt from the bondage of Pharoah King of Egypt were to keepe a solemne Holy-day And Moses gives them a memento to thinke on that day Remember this day in the which yee came out of Egypt Exod. 13 3. And the Iewes afterward in memory of their delivery from the malice and wrath of wicked Haman who had appointed them all to the slaughter kept a Holy-day with feasting and much joy yea and they promised that the dayes of that anniversary solemnity called the dayes of Purim should bee remembred and kept throughout every generation and every family and every Province and every City even those dayes of Purim should not faile among the Iewes and the memoriall of them should not perish from their
seed Hest. 9. 28. Beloved this dayes deliverance which Gods right hand hath wrought for this Land is much like to the delivery of Israel out of Egypt for Rome is Egypt mystically and so it is called in the Revelation and we were delivered from the bondage of Rome this day and wee were delivered from the tyranny of the Pope of Rome which yoke some of our friends would have put upon our neckes this day if they could have had their will and shall we not then remember this day wherin we came out of Egypt This dayes deliverance is much like the deliverance of the Iewes from the wicked devise of Haman the Iewes Adversary For was there not powder prepared to blow us up was there not Fire and Faggot provided to burne us up were wee not all of us as sheep appointed to the slaughter and shall not then this day bee remembred shall we suffer the memoriall of it to perish from us or our seed for ever Oh no The Lord hath so done his marvelous workes as upon this day that they ought to be had in everlasting remembrance This is the day which the Lord hath made we will rejoyce and be glad in it Psal. 118. This is a day of the Lords owne making not as though the Lord did not make all the other dayes as well as this Yes to speake with Cassiodore Fecit omnes sed hanc singulariter he hath made all the dayes in the yeere and one day telleth to another the goodnesse of God their Maker but he hath made this after a singular manner because this day makes report of a singular favour the Lord hath wrought for us upon it fecit totos sed non tales he hath made all the other dayes but he hath not made them such as this and therefore seeing God hath set a marke upon this day and given it a preheminence above it's fellowes the 〈◊〉 of the daies of the weeke I except alwaies the Sabbath as the Lords day but I meane the rest of the dayes of the weeke seeing I say God hath set the print of his owne finger upon it above the night there is reason that we should celebrate this day above the nights To observe dayes and yeeres and new Moons and to make every day a feast day this is supra it is above all heathenish superstition To observe no dayes at all but the Sabbath onely this is infra it is below a Christian profession I confesse time and place both are quantities and 〈◊〉 nuila est vis nulla efficacia there is no vertue nor 〈◊〉 in quantities so wee are taught in Philosophy notwithstanding yo◠know we give respect to the place for the persons sake that sits in it and why then should wee not give respect to the time for the worke that is wrought in it Let no man thinke my speech superfluous or account this Preface I have made as impertinent For it serveth both to rouze up the 〈◊〉 and untowardlinesse of some who have neither good conceit of this or any other 〈◊〉 and it serveth likewise to commend 〈◊〉 and readinesse to assemble your selves all other businesse set apart at this time in Gods House to keep this day holy unto the Lord as the wisdome of our state hath decreed and the piety of our Church hath well ordered There is none here present I take it that can bee ignorant of the businesse of this day and for what we are met together at this time in the House of God It is to give God thanks and to continue a thankefull remembrance of his mercy in the deliverance of the whole Church and Kingdome of England from the most barbarous and bloody intended massacre in the Gunpowder Treason A Treason horresco referens which I can never thinke upon but it makes my haire to stand on an end not conceiving in the word◠by what name to expresse it whether I should call it the miracle or rather the monster of all treachery the marrow or rather the quintessence of all villany A Treason so uncouth and unheard-of so matchlesse and unpareleled so prodigious and divellish in each respect that after-ages may peradventure be so amazed at the reading of it in our Chronicle that they will have hardly any faith to beleeve i◠for a true story but take it onely for some 〈◊〉 Poeticum a devise to expresse some matchlesse master-peece of treason it will scarce sinke into their heads or settle in their hearts that ever there should such a divellish plot have been attempted or acted by any that call themselves the sonnes of Adam A treason quam nec sol qui omnia intuetur aspicere which neither the Heaven which beholdeth all things could look upon without blushing nec terra quae omnia sustinet nisi eviscerata suscipere nor the Earth which beareth up all things could admit of without violent digging into her bowels nec Nox quae monstrorum mater est tegere occultare sustinuit nor the Night which is the mother of monsters and mid-wife of wickednesse could endure to cover or keepe close but must needs vent shame and confusion to the Authors and Actors in it Quid tale immanes unquam gessisse feruntur Looke upon Turkes and Iewes revolve the Annals and search into the manners of the most fierce and furious Nations and tell mee you that are conversant in History if ever you met with such a bloody practice you that have spent some time abroad in forrein parts tell mee if ever you heard of such a barbarous plot O mites Diomedis equi Busiridis arae Clementes if they be compared to this prodigious tragicke Gunpowder stratageme of which wee are now to speake If the grape-gatherers come unto thee would they not leave some grapes if theeves come by night they will destroy till they have enough and but till they have enough Ierem. 49. 9. But these mercilesse men playing the parts of furies in the shapes of men these Ignatian Pyrachmons will downe with all at one blow they will bury in one common fire rem regem Regimen Regionem Religionem Root and Branch Head and Taile the Government of the Region and the Substance of Religion Patrem Patriam our Countrey and th◠Father of our Countrey the King and hi◠Peeres the Reverend Clergy the Renowne◠Nobility the Sages of all Cities and Flowe◠of the whole Communalty and only I think to see an image of Tophet and Hell in thi◠World I would gladly set forth the horriblenesse of that same 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that universally intended destruction and desolation of thi◠Land that seeing the greatnesse of the danger toward wee may the better consider of the greatnesse of our Adversaries malice in ploting and the greatnesse of Gods mercy in discovering the plot But I am not able to depaint it out unto you in lively colours according as my desire is neither will the nature of the thing suffer it
that the very streets ranne with the blood that was shed on that dismall Bartholomewes Even and the two last Kings of France that were stabbed both of them the one by Clement which deed was commended by the Pope for heroicke and little in feriour to Christs incarnation in a solemne panegyricke at Rome made in his praise the other by Ravilliacke that forlorne wretch can testifie unto the world how fruitfull their doctrine is in stabbing and killing yea even of kings themselves Thirdly by pistoll witnesse that pistoll that was provided to make Queene Elizabeth away and though the traytor fail'd in the performance yet the malice of the adversary was never the lesse witnesse that bloody Minerius that set a yong man of Merindol against a tree and made him be shot through with harquebushes Witnesse that pistoll that was discharged in the brest of that worthy Admirall of France of who it was said BARTH O L O MEVS FLET Q VIA GALLICV S O CCVBAT AT LAS the numerall letters of which verse make up the number of 1572. the yeere of the bloody massacre of Protestants in France Lastly witnesâ—e that late attempt at the court upon the Minister of Tichfield a French man borne and an able Scholar who was shot at as hee was walking in his garden with a pistoll but was preserved by GODS most mercifull and immediate providence All these shew since the blacke Monke invented this deadly instrument that they have beene very much delighted with his invention to worke their bloody feates Fourthly by powder witnesse that barbarous and bloody intended massacre in the Gunpowder Treason a Treason that cannot be named without horrour nor thought upon without astonishment no age in the world affording a paralell and like example of such savage cruelty Let some rotten-hearted runnagates from us score us up in their bookes for Schismaticke and puritanPreachers for exaggerating and setting out the heinousnesse of that divellish Treason yet wee will not leave to speake against it yea to cry and thunder against it being as his sacred Majesty that last lived hath rightly observed not onely a crying sinne of blood but a roaring and a thundring sinne of fire and brimstone And as wee will not cease to exaggerate their villâ—ny so neither will we cease to extoll Gods mercy who is the keeper of our Israel and never slumbers nor sleepes but is alwaies ready at hand to shend and defend his people whom â—ee hath set his love upon even for his owne mercy and goodnesse sake howsoever wee by reason of our rebellions against him have desâ—rved the contrary And therefore let us ever confesse and say as our Church â—â—th taught us From this unnatâ—rall conspiracy O Lord not our merit but thy mercy not our foresight but thy providence hath delivered us not our love to thee but thy love to thine annointed servant and thy poore Church with whom thou hast promised to be present to the end of the world And therefore not unto us ô Lord not unto us but to thy name be ascribed all honour and glory in all the Churches of the Saints througâ—out all generations And ever loved and blessed be Gods mercifull patience and providence that hath not given us over as a prey unto their teeth Our soule is escaped even as a Bird out of the snaâ—e of the Fowler the snare is broken and wee are delivered Our helpe standeth in the name of the Lord which made heaven and earth from this time forth for evermore Now that I have named the Powder-plot the top of all treason and quinteâ—sence of all cruelty mee thinkes I should need to say no more of the cruelty of these â—â—umaeans but because I have promised to make you acquainted with other bloody cruell malicious and violent practises of the Popish faction I must be as good as my word and I thinke indeed I owe this service both to Christ and his Church to discover as much as in mee lyeth the tyranny of Antichrist and the malice of the malignant Church which hath terribly â—aged in this Land and doth yet fearefully reigne in divers quarters of the world But here where shall I begin abroad or at home with forreine or domesticke examples with the Pope or popelings the head or his members If you will with the Pope himselfe because hee loves to have the preheminence hee shall have it in pride and cruelty To give you â— taste of the spirit that ruleth in this holy father what shall wee say of him that made the noble Prince Dandalus to be tyed by the â—eck with a chain and to lye flat under his taâ—le there to gnaw bones like a dogge such a â—yrant was Pope Clement the sixth as Sabelâ—icus writeth inclemens Clemens in name gentle in nature cruell Clement by an antiâ—â—rasis what shall wee say of him that â—roudly and contemptuously trode Frederick the Emperour under his feet applying that â—erse of the Psalme to himselfe Thou shalt go â—pon the Lion and the Dragon the young Liâ—â— and the Dragon shalt thou tread under thy â—et such a tyrant was Alexander the third what shall we say of him that armed and aniâ—ated the sonne against the father causing him to be taken and to be cruelly famished to death contrary to the law of God and of nature too Such a tyrant was Pope Paschalis the second what shall wee say of him that made Henry the emperour with his wife and child stand at his gates in the rough winter bare foot and bare legge eating nothing from morning to night and that for three dayes together Such a tyrant was Pope Hildebrand that brand of hell if wee shall so terme him as hee hath best deserved what shall wee say of him that having his enemy delivered into his hands caused him first to be stripped starke naked his beard to be shaven in disgrace and to be hanged up by the haire of his head then to be set upon an asse with his face backward to the tayle to be carried round about the city in despite to be miserably beaten with rods and at last to be thrust and banished out of his country for ever Such a tyrant was Pope Iohn the foureteenth of that name To come from the head of the faction to his members was not that a bloody practise of Minerius against the poore Merindolians about the beginning of the reformation when hee made a number of their innocent infants to be muâ—hered like another Herod and cut off the paps or nipples of women that had sucking children by that means to destroy both the women the fruit of their wombe as you shall read in the history of the Waldenses the poore men of Lions In which story I read likewise of another blood-hound one Iohannes de Roma a Monk whose coÌ„mon and ordinary practise was to take the profeâ—sors of the Gospell and fill bootes full of boyling grease and put in the feet and legâ— of Gods Saints in