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A13544	A mappe of Rome liuely exhibiting her mercilesse meeknesse, and cruell mercies to the Church of God: preached in fiue sermons, on occasion of the Gunpowder Treason, by T.T. and now published by W.I. minister. 1. The Romish furnace. 2. The Romish Edom. 3. The Romish fowler. 4. The Romish conception. To which is added, 5. The English gratulation.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.; Jemmat, William, 1596?-1678.	1620 (1620)	STC 23838; ESTC S118180	76,684	109

heard Winter himselfe fore-telling Therefore let vs reioyce in this great worke of God as his ancient people in this place For why The greatest rage of the enemie is turned to his greatest praise Psal. 76.10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee both in his glorie and his Churches deliuerance And what is the end of all Gods great deliuerances but to praise his name and glorie in his praise Psal. 106.47 Is not ours the benefit Haue not wicked men seene and felt that God hauing chosen our land to dwell in will not eas●y be cast out of his lodging and will not this coole their blood and daunt their spirits from the like enterprises for time to come Doth not this hazard thus happily diuerted make addition to our strength and peace Oh blessed be God euen the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who for his owne sake by his owne hand hath heaped vp our happinesse He that is mightie hath done great things for vs and holy is his Name Oh praise we the Lord for he is good for his mercie endureth for euer Holy Father knit our hearts vnto thee that wee may feare thy great and dreadfull Name Teach vs to be truly and vnfainedly thankfull to thy holy Maiestie for this daies mercies and all heretofore that so we may receiue the continuance of thy fauours to our euerlasting comfort and euermore reioyce in thy great saluation Blessed be God FINIS Rom● 1 Hos. 4.15 Exod. 19.5 Heb. 12.2 Rom. 15.29 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vers. 3. Regis ad exemplum totus componitur orbis See chap. 2 49. ●ra furor br●uis est Diuision of the Text. Affinity between Romish and Babylonish Nabuchadnezzar * Moulded first in the Laterane Councell vnder Pope Innocent the third Popish Priests worse than Iudas who valued Ch●ist at thirty pence for they buy 40. cakes euery one of which is Christs body for one halfe-penny This was preached Nouemb. 5. 1612. Romish cruelty surmounts the Babylon●sh 3. wayes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Idolatry and cruelty alwayes coupled together Exod. 5.2 Chap. 1.17 Vers. 22. H●st 3.6 Vers. 13. 2. King 21.3 See 1. Mach. 1. Iosephus de bello Iud. lib. 1. cap. 1. Nequ● tantae caedes satis fuêre sed Iudaeos cogere coepit vt abrogato more patrio nec infantes suos circumciderent porcósque super aram immolarent quibus omnes quidem aduersabantur optimus verò quisque propterea tru●cidabatur Hadrian Rome Christian as cruell as Heathen Rome 2. Thes. 2.3 Ioh. 17.12 Reuel 9.11 Trigin●a bellatorum mill●a qui bellica munera guauiter ●bire possent nihil interpellato sacrorum cultu Sabell Enead 9. lib. 6. Pulchra prosecto pulliti●s aulae Antichristianae decora familia Grass reg p. 34. B. Vers. 4. Reuel 13.11 Reuel 11.7 AntiChrist an enemie both to Scriptures and Scripture-men Rib●ra Bellarm. Testantur hoc Iac. Brocardus Venetus in Apoc. et monachus quidam Celestin●s Prophecies of Romish cruelty accomplished to the full Pandolph Colonutius ex Aenea Sylu. hist. Austr et Nicol. Machiauel Rom. 1.32 Ex Hermanno Mutio. Innocentius 3. anno 1212. See this story at large in the booke of Martyrs pag. 868. Out of which booke I haue picked some choise examples that our common people hauing the booke by them may see I belye them not in the things which seeme most incredible Foeminea in pugna victoria nulla est Acts Mon. pag. 859. 2. Tim. 4.17 Gathered out of Ianus August Thuanus President of the Parliament of Paris Mal. 4.1 * Metellus Sequanus Bartholomaeus Casas a Bishop that liued in that Country This booke written in Latine is wel worth translating but these with a number more ins●ances of their hellish cruelty are o●●racted by M. White in his way to the Church the 50. digression where the Reader may further acquaint himselfe with the Spanish conuersion or rather vtter subuersion of the Indies The Prince of the I le Cuba so answered the Fryar that came to shrine him at the slake Satia te sanguine quem sit isti cuius semper insacrabilis fuisti Thomyris de Cyri capite in v●re sang Minerius the diuels Proctor or Factor Acts and Mon. pag. 869. See another history of like cruelty p. 805. ● Pag. ●60 See the exquisite torments deuised and suffered by Bertrand p. 817. and by Rich. Atkins p. 1948. Marriage punished among Papists whoredome escapeth Pag. 887. Pag. 863. ●ag 831. Iam. 2.13 Acts and Mon. pag 814. Pag. 874. Pag. 751. Pag. 710. Pag. 766. A woman forced to kill her husband by Papists Acts and Mon. pag. 1951. No plea sufficient against the cruelty of Romanists Acts and Mon. pag. 1864. Fel●yes childe Dauies Boy vnder 12. yeares condemned for the 6. articles p. 1879. Pag. 1035. Pag. 816. Pag. 1780. Pag. 739. Pag. 1785. Pag. 1556. Prou. 12.10 Gal. 5.22 Math. 11.29 Mans extremity Gods opportunity Vse 1. Vse 2. Man purposeth God disposeth Psal. 2 1.2 Psal. 7.15 Hest. 9.25 Vse Sanguis Martyrum semen ecclesi●e Foecundi sunt Martyrum ci●eres Hest. 9.26 Haue nothing to do● against that iust man Zach. 12.3 Gods people g●yners by fiery trials 1. Pet. 1.7 Vse Math. 8 ●7 Acts 9.5 Psal. 33.1 Diuision of the text Exposition Numerus septenarius iuxta aliquos est numerus ●●rf●ctus Iob. 33.14 N● ham●n Gal. 4.29 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Antichrist resembled by Edom. Antichrist and Edom like in their persons foure waies Gen. 25.23 Verse 30. Lagnat Acts 24.14 N●n obstante ●●tichrist and Edom like in their sinnes 1. Prophanenesse Quid non regina pecuma donat 2. Idolatrie 3. Merits 4. Crueltie Crueltie of our Edomites and old Edomites compared Iosephus Obad. 14. Yong Edomites with vs farre surpasse the old in crueltie fiue arguments The powder-plot a villany without name The Popes leadden Bull sets all mischiefe on worke Vse 1 That religion good which Antichrist persecutes Vse 2. Bloody religion wicked religion Luk. 9.54.55 Vse 3. 1. Sam. 4.21 Gen. 32.28 Acts 13.50 Antichrist and Edom like in their punishment 1. For certainty Rome termed Babylon why 2. For seuerity Most probable that Rom● shall be destroyed with materiall fire for fiue reasons Ierem. 51.9 Obadi 15. Reuel 18.6 2. Thess. 2. ● Antichrist to be ouerthrowne with the sword temporall as well as spirituall Euen by Kings that are or were his friends Ouerthrow of Rome not partiall but totall Magnificence of Rome no whit secureth it Zach. 4.2 Vse 1 Comfort for the Church of God Vs● 2. Terror for the Church of Rome Reuel 19.16 Iudg. 17. Vse 3. All deuices of Papists insufficient to susteine their bloody monarchy Vse 4 Separate from them spiritually and corporally Reuel 18.2 Diuision of the Text. Enemies of the Church compared to Fowlers in 4. respects Prou. 4.16 〈…〉 9. Romish Nimrod a mighty Hunter of the Lords flocke Bonner a Bonfire Great labour and cost for the powder-treason Foure thousand pounds Practises of the wicked

to reape in ioy for such sorrowfull sowing and in sight France was neuer so furnisht with Protestants as at this day Against our owne Country did not they bragge and beare themselues vpon their Inuincible Nauie of 88. to destroy young and olde Religion and Iustice on a day Yet what was the end but this the Lord brake their ships and so weakened their strength as they haue halted euer since neuer able to gather such forces together againe And of what attempt almost euer so wicked could they blush at saue this most execrable deuise for which these dayes of Purim are instituted as a memoriall for indeede as neuer any vnfinished was so neare the accomplishment so neuer any did cast more iust reproach vpō them both for the accursed mischiefe and cariage of it as also for the suddaine shame confusion wherewith the actors were cloathed And as it is bootlesse so is it a dangerous thing to be an instrument against any good man come vvith what humane authoritie hee can come These seruants of Nebuchadnezzar might thi●ke they had warrant enough for their fact by the Kings commaundement but yet the fire licked them in suddainly and irrecouerably The Prophet Zachary calls the Church and so the members of it an heaui stone neuer man lifted at it but was torne in pieces The th●eatning is passed they shall be couered with shame which warre with Sion A wofull thing it is for any man to hatch mischiefe against the Church he carries his owne coales and a sentence of condemnation with him although hee goe in with Haman to the Kings banquet See Esa. 33.1 and 41.14.15 and Obad. 18. So much for the enemies Now in the persons deliuered the Text affordeth three notable points 1. The manner it was miraculous 2. The meanes a Sonne of God walking with them 3. The effect namely the acknowledgement of the true God by Nebuchadnezzar and all his Nobles Of all these very briefly I. For the manner they were cast in bound and the fire onely loosed their bonds consumed them and set their bodies free yea their garments did not so much as sauour or smell of the fire Gods children and the children of the Church by fierie trials get more liberty and walke more enlarged they haue their chaines of sinne consumed and so walke more gloriously in persecutions than euer before and themselues like gold come out more purified Neuer were these three more glorious than in the flames We must learne by the Papists furnace to take good as we haue taken no harme and labour that our bonds of sinne may be more and more loosed and our selues walke at more liberty in the wayes of Gods commandements Thus wise men take more benefit of foes than of friends II. For the meanes of their deliuerance Some ascribe it to virginity as Damascene some to fasting as Basill but the word of God ascribeth it to faith in the Sonne of God Heb. 11.34 By faith they quenched the violence of the fire And so in this place Nebuchadnezzar saw a fourth like the Sonne of God speaking indeede like an Heathen whose Gods were begotten one of another not vnderstanding the Sonne of the eternall Father but an Angell vers 18. Yet hence we may note many good things as First that the Lord Iesus the Sonne of God and the protection of his people by whose onely power a true miracle can be wrought then affords his most gracious presence when his members are in extreamest dangers as the head most bestirres it selfe in the exigence of the least member He tooke not the quality of fire from this fire which did burne wood and fewell and the enemies bodies and the bolts of Daniels fellowes but onely restrained and repressed it from these subiects And hence it is that the Martyrs neuer finde such a chearefull presence of Gods Spirit with them as in the midst of flames whose consolations swallow vp all their feares and all the horrour of those flames Of this trueth if our selues had not had experience in their hellish conspiracie we had not beene here at this time Secondly let vs ascribe that saluation vnto the Sonne of God who walked with vs in that Furnace The wicked tyrant could espie a fourth like the Sonne of God in the furnace much more let vs and acknowledge that it was no fore-sight wisedome merit or humane meanes whereby we were preserued but onely the Sonne of God who by themselues reuealed it And for time to come let vs hide our selues vnder his wing which if wee doe fire shall cease to burne and water to drowne rather than we shall perish Thirdly as this tyrant by this sight of this Sonne of God in the furnace did acknowledge that hee neither ought to haue commanded such an vniust command nor his Ministers obayed it so wee wish the Romish N●buchadnezzar would at length come by such euents as haue befall ●n him to acknowledge the Sonne of God with vs protecting and defending his owne religion among vs and that the tyrant would but come to aske that Iewish question Who is this whom the windes and seas obey as in 88. and what is that fourth who would not suffer the fire to burne those for whom it was prepared as in 1605 and conclude at last that it is hard to kicke against such prickes III. For the effect or euent of all It is the acknowledgement and praise of the true God euen among his enemies much more should this be among vs who professe our selues friends and had the sweet of the mercie Note Dauids practice on the like occasion Psal. 7.16.17 His mischiefe shall returne vpon his owne head and his crueltie shall fall vpon his owne pate I will praise the Lord according to his righteousnesse and will sing praise to the name of the Lord m●st high Let vs also praise the iustice of God in defending the good and reuenging the wicked As he hides not his righteousnesse but drawes it out for our safety so let vs not hide his saluation but draw it out for his glory Let fathers tell their children and so let it be in euerlasting memory that the Lords grace and the Papists wickednesse may neuer be put out And let vs not onely speake of it as a wicked intent and so force one another to malice them but driue our selues forward to such duties of faith loue obedience as beseeme those who looke for such saluation Thus it becomes the iust to be thankefull To this blessed Sonne of God who is alwayes present with his Church in the hottest flames together with the Father of mercies and Spirit of all consolation be all honour and glory now and euermore Amen Amen The end of the first Sermon ROMISH EDOM Amos 1.11 12. Thus saith the Lord For three transgressions of Edom and for foure I will not turne to it because he did pursue his brother with the sword and did cast off all pitie

times hotter than euer before yea seuenty times seuen times hotter than euer Nabuchadnezzars was For that was prepared onely for three persons but this for the sudden burning and blowing vp of three Kingdomes England Scotland and Ireland That by heathens sanguinary and bloody men without the knowledge of God but this by men howsoeuer more bloody yet professing such a religion as out-boasteth all other for sanctity of life and workes of mercy That openly as in a course of iustice where prayer or strength or change of mind in the parties might haue preuented the extremity but this in the depth of blacke darknesse against all iustice in the fountaine against the liuing Law his Maiesty himselfe against the honourable Iudges which are speaking Lawes against all the Records and instruments of iustice which are silent Lawes and against the whole Parliament the makers of these Lawes and all this in such secret and vndermining manner as any league might assoone be made with hell it selfe as with these pioners who digged to the bottome of hell for mischiefe But marke when all things were thus prepared and these three flourishing countries after a sort a casting into that hellish flame the selfe same euent wickednesse returning vpon the heads of wicked doers wicked counsels the worst to the counsellors sowers of wickednesse reapers of destruction The Agents and instruments of this Romish Tyrant so intent vpon the straite commandement of their Master as forgetting their owne danger were some of them licked into the flame others eaten vp by the gallowes others deuoured by the mouth of the sword all of them made spectacles of confusion which they most intended while those whom they had designed as fewell for their flames had not an haire of their head no nor of their garments touched For which vnspeakable mercy the name of our God bee euermore praised Now to the seuerall parts Therefore because the commandement of the King was straite that the furnace should be exceeding hote c. Hence we note first what spirit it is that raigneth amongst idolaters euen the same which is heere discouered in Nabuchadnezzar namely the spirit of malice rage and cruelty which when things succeed not to their mind doth breathe out nothing but threatning slaughter and blood against the Saints of God Pharaoh a notable idolater who professed that he knew not the Lord nor would heare his voyce nor let the people goe how began he his raigne but by consulting to keepe vnder the people of God by heauie burthens and hard taske-ma-masters But when that succeded not but the more they were vexed the more they encreased hee added to the former cruelty a charge that the Midwiues should kill all the males of the Hebrewes in the byrth But neither did this prodigious cruelty prooue so successefull as hee desired for the Midwiues feared God and did not as the King commanded them but preserued aliue the men children And therefore transported by rage as one that had lost humanity it selfe he makes a more publike general law charging all his people that euery man-child that was borne they should cast into the riuer and drowne it With what furie and violence after he had made them weary of their liues by sundry oppressions did follow them into the bottome of the sea thinking belike that God had diuided the sea for no other purpose than for him to pitch his field in against his people It is plaine that had not God taken him off he would neuer haue taken his rod from off the Israelites Of Haman that idolatrous Tyrant the text saith being full of wrath against Mordecai for not bowing vnto him he thought it too little to lay hands onely on Mordecai but sought to destroy all the Iewes that were throughout the whole Kingdome of Ahashu●rosh euen the people of Mordecai and to this purpose procured letters from the King which he sent by Postes into all the Prouinces to root out to kill and to destroy all the Iewes both young and old children and women in one day Manasses was a wretched idolater who did euill in the sight of the Lord after the abomination of the Heathen he built the hie places which his good father Hezekiah had destroyed hee erected altars for Baal and made a groue he worshipped all the hoast of heauen and serued them he built altars for all the host of heauen and that in the Court of the house of the Lord hee caused his sonnes to passe through the fier hee gaue himselfe to witchcraft and sorcery and vsed them that had familiar spirits and were southsayers Now if to all this you would adde an inseparable note to know a wilfull idolater by you haue it in the 16. verse Moreover Manasses shead innocent blood exceeding much till hee replenished Ierusalem from corner to corner Antiochus Epiphanes that monster of men both for his horrible idolatry and sauage cruelty against the Iewes called Epimanes forced the Iewes to lay aside the institution of God in circumcising their children as also in hatred of God to offer swines flesh vpon the altar and eate swines flesh in their houses in stead of Gods worship hee set vp the worship of Iupiter Olympius and this within the Temple of Ierusalem The bookes of Moses and the Prophets hee burnt c. All which horrible rage against God himselfe was attended with such barbarous and despightfull wasting and oppressing of the Church of God such murther and slaughter of the people of God as neuer was since there began to be a nation till that time as witnesseth Daniel chap. 12.1 Insomuch as stories report that Ierusalem was left desolate and void of all good men In both which high wickednesses by the consent of all writers he was an expresse type of that great Antichrist which was to come after him and is now in the world consuming the Saints of the most High and working no lesse misery to the Church of God than he did as we shal in part anon declare What shall I speake of the tyranny and cruelty of those Heathen Romane Emperours within the first 300. yeeres after Christ of whom not only the Apostles themselues suffered violent death but whosoeuer made any profession of their doctrine were most ignominiously tormented no respect had of sexe nor reuerence of age in so much as the dead bodies of men and women and children old and young together were cast out and lay naked in the streets like the pauement thereof And if we may beleeue history in the dayes of one of those ten Persecutors were ten thousand Christians crucified in one mount crowned with crownes of thornes and thrust into the sides with sharpe darts in imitation or derision rather of the death and passion of our Lord Iesus Christ. And in the last of those ten in the space of one moneth were slaine vnder the name of Martyrs seuenteene thousand persons beside a

powder flies in their owne face Obiect Antichrist must be destroyed with the sword of the Spirit and the breath of the Lords mouth not by carnall weapons Answ. The cleere shining of the Gospell shall detect the mysterie wherein Antichrist worketh and lay him naked and discouer his frauds by which hee gulls the world the truth shall warre and preuaile against his heresies But this hinders not but that the Princes of Europe seeing the infinite wrongs sustained by him shall ioyne to set the seate of Antichrist on fire considering the Scripture affirmes it so manifestly as euen the Papists themselues subscribe to the generall truth of it for these be the words of Ribera Romam non solùm ob pristinam impi●tatem sed propter ea quae postremis temporibus commissura est magno incendio perflagraturam adeo perspicuum est manifestum vt ne stultissimus quidem id negare possit And the text is plaine that the Kings Marriners and Merchants shall stand and see the smoake of her burning Reuel 18.9 Obiect But this seemes impossible for we see Kings and Princes sticke fast to support her as Spaine France and many Kings of Europe Answ. God can and will doe it who hath horses and chariots of fire to besiege her withall if meanes should faile But God will doe it by them Reuel 17.17 For he hath put into their hearts to fulfill his will And by many meanes God can effect it 1. Hee can soone conuert them from their Antichristian and Papisticall superstitions to the truth as sundrie of them are already 2. It may be that sundrie of them which yet retaine Romish idolatrie may for some other causes turne against the Pope and waste Rome as for his vniust claimes his horrible pride and tyrannie his treasonable practices against them pardons to kill them c. and thus by Charles the 8. and Lewis the 12. Kings of France was Rome sacked and spoyled and the Pope opposed as also by Charles the 5. his armie And is this vnlikely when not onely the Popes Agents and Priests shall giue the Sacrament and absolution to gunpowder-traytors but Iesuites teach it lawfull yea meritorious to kill Christian princes nay Popes themselues so proclaime it as Sixtus Quintus of the villaine that murthered Henry the 3. of France Obiect But then this prophecie may seeme to be in part fulfilled Answ. No this fire of Edom must be a deuouring fire which is the other part of the similitude that must quite consume Teman the Metropolis so this first against Rome must be as a fore-runner of the fire of hell it must be vnquenchable and agreeing with that fire of the Syrian Edom Obad. 18. A fire shall be kindled in Edom and deuoure them and there shall be no remnant of the house of Esau for the Lord hath spoken it This ruine of Rome shall be like the ruine of Iericho which can neuer bee re-edified and is notably shadowed in Reuel 18.21 by the casting of a milstone into the sea noting both the swiftnesse and irrecouerablenesse of their estate no more to be raised againe than a milstone can rise out of the bottome of the sea and float againe Yea the eternall desolation of Rome is noted by denying such things to be euer any more in her which a citie cannot be without viz. A milstone shall not be heard in her nor the light of a candle seene nor any crafts-man nor any voyce of ioy nor any bridegroome or marriage or procreation A poore citie it is or none at all where none of these are Obiect But the state of Rome is the strongest state in the world for wisedome wealth strength and many of our great ones goe backe to them so as you speake vnlikely things Answ. 1. God will honour himselfe by eff●cting his will in vnexpected and vnconceiuable meanes Hee is wise of heart to lay vnknowne pipes and meanes for his purposes And herein it shall be like Edom Obad. 8.9 In that day I will destroy the wise men out of Edom and vnderstanding from the mount of Esau and thy strong men O Teman shall be afraid neither is there wisdome or strength that shall helpe against the Lord. 2. God by themselues if others be sla●ke can hasten their destruction as it was with Edom Obad. 7. The men of thy confederacie and they that were at peace with thee deceiued thee So our late Edomites were detected by themselues euen by their owne confederacie 3. What if some go to thē and giue them a little lightning before their death See we not such infamie cast vpon them all by their daily practices and plots as all the water in the sea can neuer wash away Yes we see with our eyes that they gaine not but fall notwithstanding all their supplies of succours To comfort the poore Church of God in that when the enemie marcheth furiously like Iehu God sets in and prouides for his safetie Reuel 10.10 Iohn hauing before prophecied of many mischiefes to befall the Church by Antichrist and the Turkes both conspiring against it in this Chapter brings Christ in a vision for the comfort of the Church thus described An Angell namely of the Couenant our great Mediatour comming from heauen to make himselfe better knowne and neerer to his Church clothed with a cloud not onely in our humane nature clouding vailing his Deity but still obscured by the world with a rain-bow on his head a signe of reconciliation an assurance that he will remember his couenant as Genesis 9.15 and a token that although stormes and tempests be vpon the Church yet Christ at length will driue them away and reduce the calme of it and a faire season his face as the Sunne shining as in his transfiguration to his Church his feete as pillars for strength of fire because of his efficacie and force to ouercome all difficulties He is a constant stander as a pillar and fierce for his Churches good A sweete meditation against all fierie furious and sulphurious plots of the enemies of the Church He hath the Rain-bow on his head his feete are pillars of fire and further he sets his foote on the sea and earth to note the subiection of the sea and earth and all the creatures and all the world vnto him The iustice of God shall one day magnifie it selfe against that bloodie seate citie and kingdome of Antichrist for 1. He that is the vnmercifull maintainer of all treasons and supreme head of all heretikes must needes be fearefully destroyed 2. He that is concluded to be more merciful than Christ because Christ deliuered none out of Purgatorie and more powerfull than God because God makes but creatures he makes the Creator shall dearely buy that and other such blasphemies 3. Pride wee say must haue a fall and the higher the pride the lower the fall He that hath fought against the Kings of the earth yea against Christ the King