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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05281	Great Britaines, great deliuerance, from the great danger of Popish powder by way of meditation, vpon the late intended treason against the Kings most excellent Maiestie, the Queene, the Prince, and all their royall issue: with the high court of Parliament at Westminster, there to haue been blowne vp by the Popish faction, the fift of Nouember, 1605. If God of his great mercy had not preuented the mischiefe.; Great Britaines, great deliverance, from the great danger of Popish powder.	Leigh, William, 1550-1639.	1606 (1606)	STC 15425; ESTC S103613	18,263	36

GREAT BRITAINES Great Deliuerance from the great danger of Popish Powder By way of Meditation vpon the late intended Treason against the Kings most excellent Maiestie the Queene the Prince and all their Royall issue With the high Court of Parliament at Westminster there to haue bene Blowne vp by the Popish Faction the fift of Nouember 1605. If God of his great mercy had not preuented the mischiefe Psal. 5. vers 11. Destroy thou them O God Let them perish through their owne imaginations Cast them out in the multitude of their vngodlines for they haue Rebelled against thee LONDON Printed for Arthur Iohnson at the Signe of the white Horse ouer against the great North doore of Paules 1606. TO THE HIGH AND MIGHtie Prince Henry by the grace of God Prince of Wales Duke of Cornewall Earle of Chester and Heire apparant of the Crowne and Diademe of this Kingdome of Great Brittaine France and Ireland PArdon me my gratious good Lord and deare Prince if out of a loyall heart I present vnto your Princely viewe what I conceiued vpon these late intended Treasons in solace of my soule after the Lord had made the land so glorious by deliuerance I say Deliuerance out of the hands of cruell enemies who strooke at our fairest tree to haue cut it downe both roote bole and branches if the Lord had not beene propitious And because your excellency is the highest straine in all expectance and Heire apparant to that Crowne and dignitie whose vndoubted right they haue so wronged by sinister thought word and worke as in former ages the like was neuer deuised in any Nation nor by the grace of God euer shall I haue made bold in these fewe leaues and lines to lay open the danger with the deliuerance and the rather to your Highnesse for that in feeling sort you may iustly say Quorum pars magna fui I haue had my part of both for man hath endangered me but God hath diliuered me If in the deliuerie and proiect of this my speech your Highnesse shall find lesse Method then Matter I hope your clemency will beare with my passionate heart more affected to grieue for them who deuised the mischiefe to ioy for our selues that missed it then I can well expresse without a troubled stile One saith well Vt luctus sic laetia loquntur leues ingentes stupent As are our sorrows so is our-solace in their mediocrities they speake but in their extremities they are silent and say nothing What maruell then if this our rauishment of so great ioy for the deliuerie and deepe griefe of horror because of the danger either enioyne me silence or if I speake make me to vtter my thoughts with such passion as little passeth of the Method so it meete with matter to expresse the meaning of a melting heart Nescit ordinem amor Loue is lawlesse and a loue thus boiling how can it but shed ouer keep no current other then in your Royal acceptance euer seasoned with such heauenly sufferance as is gracious both to God man Digna prorsus rara virtus humilitas honorata It is a rare vertue when humilitie is honoured and honour is humbled the blaze whereof I saw in your Princely countenance when at your Highnesse Court at Saint Iames it pleased your excellencie to licke ●p the dust of the Sanctuarie there vpon the Lords day and after the Sermon ended to yeeld such grace in publicke to the Preacher as that he might kisse your Princely hand which euer sithence hath strucke so great an impression of exceeding loue and loialtie in my poore heart as by the grace of God I shall neuer leaue to pray for your Highnesse as I am most bounden and also by all meanes studie how either my loue or life may expresse the seruice and dutie I owe for so gracious an aspect Gold and siluer I haue none such as I haue I giue in the name of Iesus Christ of Nazareth be you established Yet if it please your good grace to receiue this simple New-yeares gift with the least acceptance and as the first fruit of my labours in your highnesse seruice It may be I shall with Ianus looke backward to the old yeare out of my smal store offer a pearle of an higher price Til when and euer I pray God safely to keepe your Royall person to his glory your owne comfort and Englands ioy Your Graces Chaplaine most humble at command W. Leigh Great Brittaines Great Deliuerance from the great danger of Popish Powder THe Papists of these our daies falsly called Catholicks vnles it be in this that they be vniuersally euil haue euer since the first yeare of Elizabeth our late Queene of famous memory euen to this day endeuoured the subuersiō of their dear Country to set vp their Babel of all confusion And haue sought by all possible and potent meanes to make this Church Country the noblest of Nations an Akeldema or field of blood Witnesse all their Rebellions that haue bene raised since that time either in England Ireland or Scotland euer fed with the grosse Viands of Popish Bull and Indulgence fetched from Rome by Saunders Morton Felton Edmond Campion and Robert Parsons most or all factious Priests Iesuites and since spred and divulged by the poysoned breath of thousandes of their Seminaries vermine of the Church and bane of Christendome These haue done much and deuised more against the state then euer was thought vpon in elder times and not so much by open hostilitie as secret treasons excommunications cōfiscations against the liues soules and goods both of Prince people who were not pleasing to their deuotions But of all that euer were this last deuise of Gun-powder to blowe vp all was most detestable diuellish damnable as wherin hel was shakē with all it furies to haue effected their thrice bloudy practise with this firy resolution of their angry Goddesse Iuno Flectere si nequeo superos Acheronta mouebo If God will not the diuel shall Wherevpon when I do thinke it is with me as it was with Elisha when hee looked vpon Hazael his person and sawe in his countenance his entended crueltie toward the Israel of God he looked vpon him stedfastly till Hazael was ashamed and the man of God wept Hazael said Why weepeth my Lord Wherevnto the Prophet answered Because I know the euil that thou shalt doe to the children of Israel for their strong Cities shalt thou set on fire and their young men shalt thou slaie with the sword and shalt dash their Infants against the stones and rent in peeces their women with childe Then Hazael said What is thy seruant a dog that I should do this great thing And Elisha answered The Lord hath shewed mee that thou shalt be King of Aram. We haue stedfastly looked vpon you O ye Romish Aramites more cruell then Hazael and lesse compassionate then he we haue wept ouer your tyrannie as Elisha did and