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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66416	A sermon preached upon the fifth of November, 1678. By a Protestant divine	Williams, John, 1636?-1709.	1678 (1678)	Wing W2723; ESTC R214125	17,281	35

their way was no new case so fell Frederick the second and Henry the seventh Emperors so fell our King John so fell also Henry the third and fourth of France To Butcher a people and without respect to Order Age or Sex to fall upon them was what the Albigenses felt of old and those of France in the Massacre at Merindol Anno 1545. and at Paris before spoken of had experience of But when Prince Parliament and People were to be assembled without any regard to what they were to blow them up all at once with Gun-powder and scatter the limbs of 30 or 40000 persons that must then have necessarily perished by that practice was what we are yet to find a name for and what Treason and Murder are too soft words to express And this was not the Act of some rash and inconsiderate person but what many confederated together in not a design all on a sudden thought of and as suddenly embraced but what had been considered and reviewed and advised upon what Flanders and Rome had been consulted about as the Transactions of Baldwin Owen and Baynham do sufficiently witness It was what they had spent much time and many thoughts upon and what they therefore did promise themselves success in And success they found for they quickly met with an house fit for their purpose adjoyning to that of the Parliament there they attempted to make a Myne fit for the receiving the stowage which they had provided But the time of the Parliament's sitting came on too fast they wanted hands and their own hands wanted exercise in such hard labour to bring this to perfection and here again success waited upon them and fortune which they call'd providence seemed to be of their party for the Parliament was adjourned from February to November and they in the mean while also met with a Vault which they soon hired and was more convenient for their purpose as what was already sitted for them and nearer to the place of the Parliaments convention The time now grew near and they are big with expectation the train was laid for their design in the Country as well as here and in all parts they were ripe for action But that which went on for so long a time as smoothly as their hearts could wish was all on a sudden interrupted For ten days before which was the same time that the Conspirators appointed to assemble one of them doubtless by the over-ruling Providence of God more tender-hearted than the rest wrote a Letter to the Lord Monteagle to disswade him from being present the first day of the Session A Letter in the reasoning of it very obscure but what by the fortunate interpretation of the King was found to signifie much and proved the happy discoverer of the whole Then as success waited before upon them so it doth as much in the further discovery whilst Faux is taken without the House that if otherwise within would have blown up though not the King and Parliament yet thousands with himself and that the Conspirators are pursued and taken in the Countrey before they were known to be guilty of this horrid Treason These and many other particulars might be observed in this Action but that I shall chuse to refer you for satisfaction to what hath formerly and of late been published upon that subject and to the Act of Parliament appointed to be read upon this day which follows Anno Tertio Jacobi Regis Yearly Prayers shall be made for the delivery of the King c. From the Gunpowder-Treason FOr as much as Almighty God hath in all Ages shewed his power and mercy in the miraculous and gracious deliverance of his Church and in the Protection of Religious Kings and States and that no Nation of the Earth hath been blessed with greater benefits than this Kingdom now enjoyeth having the true and free profession of the Gospel under our Most Gracious Soveraign Lord King James the most Great Learned and Religious King that ever reigned therein inriched with a most hopeful and plentiful Progeny proceeding out of his Royal Loyns promising continuance of this happiness and profession to all prosterity the which many malignant and devilish Papists Jesuites and Seminary Priests much envying and fearing conspired most horribly when the Kings most Excellent Majesty the Queen the Prince and all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons should have been Assembled in the Vpper-House of Parliament upon the fifth day of November in the Year of our Lord 1605 Suddenly to have blown up the said whole House with Gunpowder an invention so Inhumane Barbarous and Cruel as the like was never before heard of and was as some of the principal Conspirators thereof confess purposely devised and concluded to be done in the said House That where sundry necessary and Religious Laws for preservation of the Church and State were made which they falsly and slanderously term cruel Laws and enacted against them and their Religion both place and persons should be all destroyed and blown up at once which would have turned to the utter ruin of this whole Kingdom had it not pleased Almighty God by inspiring the Kings most Excellent Majesty with a Divine Spirit to interpret some dark phrases of a Letter shewed to His Majesty above and beyond all ordinary constructions thereby miraculously discovering this hidden Treason not many hours before the appointed time for the execution thereof therefore the Kings most Excellent Majesty the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and all His Majesties faithful and loving Subjects do most justly acknowledge this great and infinite blessing to have proceeded meerly from God his great mercy and to his most holy name do ascribe all honour glory and praise and to the end this unfeigned thankfulness may never be forgotten but be had in a perpetual remembrance that all ages to come may yeild praises to his Divine Majesty for the same and have in memory this joyful day of deliverance Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same that all and singular Ministers in every Cathedral and Parish Church or other usual place for Common-Prayer within this Realm of England and the Dominions of the same shall always upon the fifth day of November say morning prayer and give unto Almighty God thanks for this most happy deliverance and that all and every person and persons inhabiting within this Realm of England and the Dominions of the same shall always upon that day diligently and faithfully resort to the Parish Church or Chappel accustomed or to some usual Church or Chappel where the said morning Prayer Preaching or other service of God shall be used and then and there to abide orderly and soberly during the time of the said Prayers or Preaching or other service of God there to be used and Ministred And because all and every person may be put in mind of his duty and be then better prepared to the said holy service be it enacted by Authority aforesaid that every Minister shall give warning to his Parishioners publickly in the Church at Morning-Prayer the Sunday before every such fifth day of November for the due observation of the said day and that after morning Prayer or Preaching upon the said fifth day of November they read publickly distinctly and plainly this present Act. 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whose whole design it is to defeat him in the good that he would do for mankind doth perpetually labour to put a stop to whatever may be offered toward the delivering of the Souls of men out of his snare How doth he triumph in being the god of this World and in the success that he hath upon poor and miserable mortals most of whom he hath in all ages made his tributaries and vassals and by whom he was so generally served and obeyed that it was but in a spot of the earth that God was truly worshipped a Country not above 200 miles in length and 80 in breadth So Psal 147. 19 20 He sheweth his word unto Jacob his statutes and his judgments unto Israel He hath not dealt so with any nation and as for his judgments they have not known them Whatever good men might be scattered through the World and however Religion might be preserved in some particular Families and Tribes of other nations as it was in that of Job and his friends yet there was no intire nation that kept up the Religion of the only true God besides that of the Jews When mankind had basely degenerated and the state of the World grew worse and worse God chose out the people of Israel for his peculiar service and as for other ends so to be an instrument of winning others over to the same practice This people he separated from the rest of the World and by his dealings with them in dividing the Seas piercing the Rocks destroying the nations for them and preserving them when threatned with the greatest dangers so that no violence could hurt them nor power disposses them nor any thing destroy them but their sins by these and the like ways he made them conspicuous to the Nations far and near and pu● such upon enquiring whence all this should proceed and so at length they might be won to own the same God and put themselves under his protection So Deut. 4. 6 Keep therefore and do them my statutes for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of all the nations which shall hear all these statutes and say surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people So Vers 32. 33 34. and Chap. 26. 18 19. And when God had so visibly separated a people to himself from all the World and that by such eminent tokens of his presence with them he had made them and himself known to the World it was no wonder that the Devil set himself with all his might to prevent this growing-danger that threatned his Kingdom and to provide that his dominions which he had kept hitherto intire to himself might not be invaded and what he had usurped might not be wrested out of his hands Nothing should in such a case be wanting on his part that either his wit could invent or his power perform and so without doubt he did stir up enemies to assault vex and destroy them And he that did thus bestir himself in the first settlement of a National Church cannot be thought to have forgot himself or to neglect his cause so far as not to use an industry great and sufficient in proportion to the danger that was approaching when no less a design was set on foot than of bringing the whole world into the same condition and making al● mankind to adore the King of kings and Lord of lords in the same way When this design was laid and such a power appeared in its behalf as threw him out of his Empire in a shameful way and tore up the foundations of it we may suppose that he would bend all his forces that way and that all his Crew would take up Arms to oppose whatever was like to procure the total overthrow of that Empire he had so long injoyed Then the gates of Hell all the power and policy of it would combine against the Church which Christ established so much to the prejudice of the Devils dominion It 's said Revel 12. 12 13. Wo to the inhabiters of the earth and of the Sea for the Devil is come down unto you having great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short time And when the Dragon saw that he was castout unto the earth he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man-child He that prided himself before in the extent of his dominions and numbers of his Subjects being deprived of that Supremacy breaks forth into the greatest rage against all the deserters of his government and seeks to destroy those whom he could not retain and keep firm to him And this is one cause why the Church of God meets with opposition and persecution as the Devil is concerned in the quarrel and doth instigate bad men to manage and to carry it on Secondly It proceeds from the restless tempe●… of wicked men whose minds are set upon mischief and that do catch at all opportunities for it It is said of such Prov. 1. 16 that their feet run to evil and make haste to shed blood And Chap. 4. 16 17. They sleep not except they have done mischief and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence Wherefore they are fitly compared to the troubled Sea when it cannot rest whose waters cast up mire and dirt Isaiah 57. 20. When sin hath erected its Empire and come to be predominant it then becomes an interest and the heart of man which of it self is perpetually in motion will then being made a party move strongly in its desires and designs that way which by such a depraved temper it is directed to It 's always then prepared for action and as it is habitually disposed so being awakened by the least occasion it presently is all on fire and engages in the quarrel It will then appear in the Cause of Sin and fight its battels and whatever doth obstruct and oppose it shall be looked upon and dealt with as an Enemy This doth all sin more or less wherever it is But there are some sinners that from their own natural temper or their manner of life are more unquiet than others and whom it 's necessary for the peace and safety of the world to find out some employment for as they say it is for a Spirit when it is raised by the power of charms and witchcraft and to watch over them or else they will be perpetually hatching and doing of mischief Such especially are they that ●ive in Cloysters and Frieries that having no set and fixed employments to take up their minds are listning to all news greedy of understanding the state of affairs prying into every ones concerns busying themselves in finding out what others think design or do and therefore it is that there is no part of their office which they are so diligent in and expert at as that of hearing confessions This they can abide by all the day when they have