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A02487	A comparison betvveene the dayes of Purim and that of the Powder treason for the better continuance of the memory of it, and the stirring vp of mens affections to a more zealous observation thereof. Written by G.H. D.D.	Hakewill, George, 1578-1649.	1626 (1626)	STC 12615; ESTC S103633	13,103	40

supplications hee heard and granted and yet herein it must be acknowledged that mercy was shewed them But alas that mercy towards vs farr exceeded this For the Lord wrought our deliuerance when we were so farr from sackcloth and ashes as we dreamed not of any danger approching but were rather puffed in pride and wantonnesse promising to our selues by the entrance of his maiesty and his royall issue a setled continuance of peace plenty and prosperity Euen then when wee were lulled a sleepe in the depth of security and yet our enormious sinnes were crying alowd in his eares for vengeance and vrging his Iustice to poure downe the full viols of his wrath vpon vs euen then did the eye of his speciall prouidence and mercy watch ouer vs and for vs and deliuered vs from the very brinke of the graue from the iawes of death which had opened her mouth wide to haue swallowed vs vp quicke Herein God setteth out his loue towards vs that while wee were yet sinners Christ died for vs saith the Apostle surely herein if euer God shewed the riches of his mercy towards vs that when wee were in the hight of our sinnes he so wonderously deliuered vs when wee had no will to desire much lesse meanes to deserue it And for our enemies their owne tongues as the Psalmist speakes or rather their owne penns made them fall insomuch as who so considereth ●t shall laugh them to scorne and all men that see it shall say this hath God done for they shall 〈◊〉 that it is his worke But yet much more if we consider the issue which is the next point of Cōparison the issue I meane as well in regard of the end of the Conspiratours as the consequences of the Conspiracyes had they taken effect Touching the end of the Conspiratours for Haman himselfe wee know he 〈◊〉 on the same gibbet that he prouided for Mordecai as Catesby the first inuenter of the powder treason was scortcht and 〈◊〉 and likely to haue beene slaine by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 about the time that they intended the acting of their plott Hamans sonnes went the same way that their Father did before thē Garnet the ghostly Father of these powder men went the same way his sonnes had gone before him The end of them all being a like Vpon the same day that the innocent bloud of the Iewes should haue beene poured out by their Enimies and the friends of Haman the Iewes slew of them thorowout Assuerus his dominions and in Susan the Imperiall Citty seuenty sixe thousand And I haue often wondred that the people of this land vpon the first discouery of this damnable Conspiracie being knowne to be vndertaken wholly by Romish Catholiques and for the advancement of the Catholique cause had not violently run vpon the knowne professors of that religion But that God restrained both their hearts their hands that our mercy might remaine as an argument of the goodnesse of our religion as their Cruelty shall to the Worlds end of the badnesse of theirs It was a short but a sufficient answere returned by a Professor of ours to one of theires demaunding what reason he had not to bee of their religion why quoth he because you eate your God and kill your King And as their cruelty is a sufficient reason to keepe vs from them so me thinkes it should worke somewhat specially this most bloudy and barbarous conspiracy to bring them to vs. Wee reade in the last verse of the eight chapter of this booke of Ester that when the people of the land saw the vnexpected downefall of Haman and his adherents and the wonderfull deliuerance of the Iewes many of them became Iewes that is made themselues Proselites conforming themselues to the Iewish religion And I haue many times not a little marueiled that the manifest detection and knowledge of this foule Conspiracy had not turned the hearts of many Romish Catholiques to our profession But againe when I call to minde that of our Apostle Because they receaued not the loue of the truth that they might be saued God shall send them strong delusions that they should beleeue lies I cannot but therein acknowledge the iust iudgement of God in their Wilfull obstinacy Now for the consequences of these conspiracies had that of Haman taken effect it would doubtlesse haue beene very grieuious to behold but worse to feele the children should haue beene slaine in their Parents sight the poore infants haue beene drawn from their mothers breasts and dasht against the stones It must needs haue giuen a great blow and a deepe wound to the Church of God yet not so deepe but the body of the Iewish nation and the life of their religion the state of their gouernment would still haue beene preserued there being at that tyme a great number of that people liuing in their owne countrey of Iudea But if this of ours had taken effect Lord what a marueilous confusion must needes haue suddainely followed through out the whole kingdome both in religion and ciuill gouernment as well in Church as state affaires what bitter outcries and lamentation what sheeding of teares and wringing of hands in euery quarter of the land sonnes and daughters mourning for their slaughtered fathers fathers and mothers for their sonnes brothers and sisters for their brothers wiues for their husbands and seruants for their masters that such masters such husbands such brothers such sonnes such fathers as were both for nobility in bloud ability in estate and sufficiency in wisdome the pict choice men of the land of whom they could neither take their leaues aliue nor interr their bodies being dead It is precisely noted in the ●●ve of the eighteenth and ninteenth chapters of the booke of Iudges that in those daies there was no King in Israell and thereupon follow those abominable outrages there after recorded What then was our case like to haue beene when wee should haue had neither King nor Queene neither Prince for this present King they intended presently vpon the blow to haue made away nor great officer of the Kingdome nor Counsellor of state nor Bishop nor Iudge what publique exercise of religion what administration of Iustice could any where haue taken place what cutting of throats what rifling what rauishing should wee haue seene in euery corner by rogues ruffians without any check or controll Wee should neither haue lyen quietly in our beds nor haue sate quietly at our tables nor haue walked quietly in our streets nor haue trauelled quietly in our waies much lesse haue mett quietly in our temples but euery place would haue beene full of feare and danger and horror and bloud and surely I am perswaded that in such a generall confusion of all things the Cōspirators themselues could not haue promised security to their owne goods and houses to their owne sonnes and daughters to their owne wiues and persons and if this should haue beene our case in the countrey what would

haue beene the face of the Court and Citty wheras the blow should haue beene giuen How would they haue lookt what could they haue said or done but stood amazed at their wits ends By the hideous thunder and roaring of the blow by the trembling of the ayre earth by the flashing of the fire and the thicke clouds and smoake by the fall of those ancient goodly buildings by the sight of the dismembred and the wofull cry of the brused wounded who by the casting of beames iron and stones afarr of must needes haue beene many besides those infinite troupes who waiting there about the returne of that assembly would haue beene either torne or crusht in pieces nay all the courts of Iustice the Church vsed for the Coronation of our Kings the monuments of former Princes the Crowne and scepter and other markes of Royalty all the records as well of Parliament as of particular mens right with a great number of charters such like should haue beene snatcht away in that stormy tempest that furious diluge of fire so as not onely we but the memory of vs and ours should haue beene thus extinguished in an instant worse then if we had beene inuaded or vanquished by the Turke or Scithian I remember that the heathen Emperor when he beheld the temple of Ierusalem on fire he could not hold but let fall teares at the sight thereof and truly I am of opinion that the Conspiratours themselues had they beheld this monstrous birth of their most vnnaturall deuise if they were men and not incarnate Deuils or sauage beasts in the shape of men they would haue sent foorth many a sigh and lett fall many a teare at that wofull spectacle and for myne owne part I thinke that no true English heart can seriously think or tongue speake or hand write of it without some kind of horrour astonishment and least my thoughts should be swallowed vp in this dreadfull meditation I hasten to the last comparison of the moneth and the day Their moneth was Adar answering in part to our February and in part to March It was a moneth famous among them for the finishing of the second temple and the discōfiting of Nicanor but aboue all for this their admirable deliuerance from the Conspiracy of Haman And is not this moneth of Nouember crowned with as many great blessings in it brought vnto vs. In this moneth it was `that that renowned Lady that heroicall Ester of incomparable vertue made her entranceto the Crowne and wore it as long with as much honour as euer Prince did She brought with her the sunn shine of peace prosperity and aboue all of the Gospell after almost fiue years cōtinuall showers of teares and bloud during her sisters raigne In this moneth his sacred maiesty now liuing and by Gods grace long to liue the ioy of our hearts the staffe of our hopes made his entrance into the world borne I hope in a happy houre for the good of Christendome and from my heart I pray it may so proue And lastly in this moneth God Allmighty wrought for vs this wonderfull deliuerance from the most damnable conspiracy that euer the sunne saw which I may the more boldly auerre for that it being a worke of darknes was wrought so neere hell as the eye of the sunne could not pierce through to discerne it yet as S. Paul had the messenger of of Satan sent to buffet him least he should be puft vp with abundance of reuelations so is the sixt of this moneth as an yearely messenger sent vs to put vs in mind of that heauy losse which vpon that day for our sinnes we receaued least wee should be puft vp with abundance of blessings But from the moneth if wee descend a little lower to the comparison of the day wee shall find that wee haue better reason to obserue ours thē they theirs though doubtlesse they obserued theirs much more solemly thē wee doe ours Wee shall hardly find in holy scripture the like to these daies of Purim instituted by humane authority either Ecclesiasticall or ciuill except it were that of the dedication inioyned in their moneth Caslew answering to our Nouember by Iudas Macchabeus in memory of the restoring of the publique exercise of their religion after the freeing of the temple from the tyranny and pollution of Antiochus his garrison to which our Sauiour himselfe was not vnwilling to afford some credit countenance by his personall appearing in the temple at that feast That it is then both lawfull and commendable in some cases to sett such a day a part for publique thankes-giuing and commemoration either of some great benefit or deliuerance wrought I intend not to proue because I suppose no sober minded man makes a doubt of it The saying is Cura omnium cura nullius that office which is giuen in charge to all no man takes charge of and it is as true that such as neglect the obseruation of this day vnder a pretence of being thankfull at all times are for the most part thankfull at no time Besides it is most kindly seasonable to publish opus diei in Die suo the worke of the day vpon the day it selfe then a mans words if ever worke a deeper impression in the hearts of the hearers then if euer are they like apples of gold with pictures of siluer like nailes fastned by the masters of the assembly the very robes face of the day makes our children not capable of our prayers preaching to enquire into the reason of our meeting good reason haue wee to deliuer ouer the keeping of this day to our posterity since in it the sonnes of Beliall thought to haue feathered vs such an arrow as should haue striken through the heart of the child yet vnborne When your children aske you what seruice is this you keepe you shall say it is the sacrifice of the Lords Passouer saith Moses Exodus 12. And when your children shall aske their fathers in time to come what meane these stones you shall shew your chil dren and say Israel came ouer this Iordan on dry land saith Iosuah chapter 4 In like manner whē our children enquire what meaneth the obseruation of this day it will be a fitt occasion to informe them in the reason therèof Areason neuer to be forgotten but deepely to be ingrauen in the heart of all succeeding ages as it were in a pillar of Marble or brasse with a pen of yron or the point of a diamond But I returne to the Comparison of our Powder day with those of Purim kept by the Iewes Theirs had the name of Pu● which in the Persian language signifieth a Lott as in Greeke it signifies fire a name not vnfitt for our day too Theirs was appointed by the authority of Mordecai and Ester the decree for the perpetuall keeping of it aswell in the country as in the citty was registred in their booke of ordinances as ours is in our booke of statutes made and ratified by our Soueraigne then being and the body of the three Estates assembled in Parliament whereas though Mordecai were a greate man in the Persiā state Ester were Queene yet had neither of thē for ought we find Soueraigne authority ouer the Iewes which notwithstanding they duly and cheerefully obserued two whole daies as festiuall there being but one part of a day nor past two houres in a manner inioyned vs. They were to obserue theirs in a countrie where they could not but prouoke their enimies more powerfull then themselues by putting them in mind of the slaughter committed by the Iewes vpon their Countriemen and kindred vpon that day whereas wee may God be thanked obserue ours not onely without feare and danger but With much comfort commendation yea it is written by those who report the present estate of the Iewes that this day is obserued among them wheresoeuer they liue so that by computation they haue kept it aboue two thousand yeares whereas wee haue not obserued ours aboue twenty yet I know not how it comes to passe the keeping of it is already growne out of fashon wearisome and teadious vnto vs I know that the disciples of Rome howsoeuer they would haue highly applauded the plott had it taken effect yet now it being of the nature of those designes quae non laudantur nisi per acta which are neuer commended till they are ended in their hearts they wish of this day as Job did of his birth day that it might not be ioyned to the dayes of the yeare nor come in to the account of the moneths But the rather must we truly may we say of it as was said of the night in which the Isralites went out of Egypt It is a day to be kept holy to the Lord it is that day of the Lord which all the children of England must keepe throw out their generations as an eternall presedent of Gods watchfull eye in the preseruation of our Church and state and an euerliuing testimony of the neuer dying cruelty of Iesuited Romish Catholiques This shall be written for the generation to come and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord. Psal. 102. 18. FINIS Plot. Persons Motiues Assurance Preuention End of the conspiratours 2 Thes. 2. 10 11. The moneth Ezra 6. 2 Macc. 15 The day and hence wasit called Mordocheus day 2 Mach. 15. 36