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A11783
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Exod. 8.19. Digitus Dei
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Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.
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in all respects for their purpose when doubtlesse they suruaid the strength of the building and capacitie of euerie roome If the Law should take notice of their vnlawfull assembly as that was the least of their feares then they had the French Ambassadours House for a Cloake to which it was adioyning Or if the People should rise as this was one of their assayes or tryals before they durst appeare to play in publike to proue if all men were growne tame enough to be muzled and hood-winked and whether they would start at holy Water a Masse a Procession or the like then the Ambassadours House should be their Sanctuarie against the force and rage of the people And because it might be perillous to the Spanish Ambassadour to haue the first publication at or about his House who hath beene the first and principall moouer to introduce or restore Idoll-worship in this Island to the generall discontentment of the people therefore the French Ambassadours House must be chosen not for the Papists affection but for ours as lesse suspecting that Nation for all our antient enmities then the Spanish for all their new friendship and high alliance hoped for which they proffred with one hand and snatched away with the other as if they had beene too great for our Royall coniunction when I prayse God ours was too good for their commixtion Thus the place is secured against man but who can secure it against God Not the French or Spanish Ambassadors though they haue more powre and priuiledge in England to serue their Idols then the Prince himselfe could haue in Spaine to serue God For though his Chaplaines were sent thither to satisfie him and vs yet might they say nothing as we heare when they came there to satisfie them Secondly The time is obserueable It was their fifth of Nouember wherein they perished by anticipation as they would haue dealt with vs before vpon the fifth of our Nouember Here is the difference they fell downe as they would haue blowne vs vp and did alone feele the furie of that sodaine confusion without stirring their Neighbours Houses as they would haue blowne vs vp with the necessarie ruine of diuerse places adioyning And this they suffered from God when from the King they had in their fond conceites and mistaken hopes obtained that for which they would haue made him his vs ours so miserably suffer without mercie But we see though Pardons and tollerations passe freely at Rome and in other places for politique respects yet they are not sure till they be Sealed and Inrolled in Heauen Thirdly Obserue the Play-House stands in that place vnshaken though too often laden with sin-full multitudes of all sorts sexes and sects because it professeth it selfe to be no better then it is a Play-House and perhaps some Houses of Corporall Fornication stand there also because for custome sake that they may haue the more commings in they desire to seeme what they are Brothels But this House which professeth it selfe for Christ when it is for Antichrist and playes with the Word and Sacraments in a most Anticke or Apish fashion euen when it pretends to be most serious and teacheth men to commit Spirituall Fornication vnder the shew of Sanctitie and Holinesse this must not stand but the Lord makes it a spectacle of his Iudgement as he made the Beare-Garden long since whilst they prophaned the Sabbath day a day at the Creation ordayned for peace and rest in that beastly sport of crueltie betwixt the Creatures proceeding from Gods curse vpon our Fore-fathers sinne which sight should make Adam Abell and Seth with their pious posteritie weepe as it makes Caine Lamech Cham Nimrod and Esau laugh with all their Sauage and impious Seed and succession These Houses therefore must not stand when they touch vpon the skirt of Religion to prophane and pollute the holy things of God whereof man is not so carefull a keeper and zealous defender as of his own right and interest It may perhaps not seeme friuolous to some that I mention here what I haue heard for truth concerning an other Play-House called the Fortune in which repeating their Playes vpon a Sabbath day in the afternoone at night following the House fell on fire and was consumed to ashes The Gallorie in the preaching place at White hall which stood from the dayes of King Edward to King Iames must fall then vnder the Spanish Ambassadours feet when he was sent the second time to perfect what he had before but rough drawne I doe not wonder that it fell then hauing stood so long I rather wonder it fell not before being oftentimes as heauely laden except with the sin of Idolatry But that Gods prouidence must reserue it to that instant at that I wonder and me thinkes it told me the Spanish footing was not so certaine in this Land as he presumed but that whilst his power did tread downe the preaching places of the Land he might hap to tumble with them and by opposition giue a happy occasion to reedifie their ruines more strongly Fourthly Obserue no Idols Crucifixes Crosses Holy-Water Medals Beades or any sacred Relique or Agnus Dei whereof doubtlesse there was great prouision laid in could preserue or protect from this blow Let this open the eyes of their superstitious and bewitched Customers and abate the price and esteeme of such Romish and Anti-Christian Reuel 18 11. merchandize teaching wise men to distinguish betwixt toyes trash and reall safeguards And here I make bold to demand What became of those Wafer-cakes which the Priest had before turned into gods for doubtlesse some were there or in the roome vnder which was the Massing place reserued for the sicke What were all of them brayned with the Timber and Brickbats and did they perish with the Priest and the rest of the people O blind men lift vp your eyes and see your owne absurdities Should I feare the ruines of Heauen if he who sits at the right Hand of God the Father stood by me to support the Roofe from his owne omnipotent and my impotent Head Reply not ye blind who make others blind with your sophisticating tongues but pray to God for your selues as I doe for you that he would vouchsafe to giue you grace to acknowledge the truth which you cannot choose but see When our Sauiour rose from the Graue the Priests hired the Souldiers to say His Disciples came and stole away his body Math. 28 11. whilst they slept Had he not risen alone I should neuer haue beleeued he could raise me now I can neither doubt his power or will Saint Thomas his seeing and feeling hath resolued me Hire you some Souldiers if Souldiers will be such hirelings as doubtlesse you may fit your selues with some zealous Reformados vpon promise of absolution or otherwise make shift with your owne equiuocating Locusts armed at all points for the purpose with mentall reseruations and dispensations to say they saw the consecrated