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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14381	Edom and Babylon against Jerusalem, 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 Vicars B.D. Pastour of Cockfield in South-sex. ...	Vicars, Thomas, d. 1638.	1633 (1633)	STC 24699; ESTC S102674	31,977	82

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