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A sermon on the gunpowder treason, with reflections on the late plot by Thomas Wilson ...
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Wilson, Thomas, 17th cent.
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1679
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Wing W2936; ESTC R8248
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countenance doth behold the upright He will be a refuge for the oppressed a refuge in time of trouble And they that know his name will trust in him for he hath not forsaken them that seek him For who is God save the Lord or who is a rock save our God Arise O Lord and let not man prevail let the heathenish people be judged in thy sight Put them in fear O Lord that they may know themselves to be but men Destroy thou them O God let them fall by their own counsels cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions for they have rebelled against thee But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoyce let them ever shout for joy because thou defendest them let them that love thy Name be joyful in thee For thou Lord wilt bless the righteous with favor wilt thou compass them as with a shield Amen But let me add a few words more because of the new attempts of our Adversaries who like their Fathers have again consulted with the Devil and the grand wickedness of their hearts to kill our King subvert our Government and change our Religion But remember Dear Brethren that men cannot curse those whom God will bless except it be with their tongues which is only a brutum fulmen a Popes Bull a clap of Thunder without the bolt And be ye sure that those God will bless that love and serve him keeping themselves from sin and following peace and holiness with a pure heart as Balaam after he had attempted several times to move God against Israel for this end building seven Altars and offering upon every one a bullock and a ram and repeating this again and again confessed saying God hath blessed and I cannot reverse it He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel The Lord his God is with him and the shout of a King is among them Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob neither is there any divination against Israel And if the case be so that God sees not iniquity among us not such as that he will curse us for it perverseness and rebellion then may we boldly say Let the sons of Belial conspire and contrive what they can let the covetous Priests build seven Altars and add seven more to them and let them offer upon every one seventy times seven bullocks and as many rams Masses Reliques Candles Hosts and what they please let them lay their crafty heads together and call up all the Devils of Hell to their consultation let them prepare all sorts of deadly instruments and fortify themselves according to their cunning and gather together the Kings of the Earth against us Tush it is in vain and the evil which they devise they are not able to bring to pass He that sitteth in the Heavens will laugh the Lord shall have them in derision he shall speak unto them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure We fear I see deceitful workers ungodly plotters serpentine Jesuits bloody Papists and so we do Witches Sorcerers and Conjurers But much rather may we fear our wickednesses than all the generation of this black rabble in Earth and Hell And as the presence of some of these malicious and mischievous creatures strikes some into trembling so would to God we were all as much afraid of sin and did not take this more dangerous enemy so near unto us and love its Company so dearly as to invite it to our house and put it into our bosom and let it lodge with us from day to day all the year about But Sirs what can you do you that put the Nation into fear with your evil machinations you Sons of Rome You can smite you 'l say you can torment you can burn kill and destroy us Some of us you may but all you shall not and the Devil can do as much as this and this is right well in his eyes But can you pull the Sun out of Heaven or toss about the Mountains Neither shall your Hell-gates prevail against the Church of Christ to throw it down and lay it wast utterly which is built upon the firmest Rock and which that mighty Son of man the Son of God compasseth with his Arms. For God is stronger than the Devil and will save his people from that evil Spirits rage and yours otherwise he were not what assuredly he is a loving and watchful Father You remember the voice from heaven Saul Saul why persecutest thou me And you may thence observe that the troublers of his Church contend not with frail man only but with the Mighty Iesus who can dash you into pieces in a moment And you may conclude from the same words that he will not always suffer himself to be bruised and beaten persecuted and afflicted And do you not think that we can pray to our Father in Heaven who can send us more than twelve legions of Angels which shall vanquish the Devil and his powers of darkness your confederates in your wicked enterprises And what can we not kill you as well as you kill us Our strength is as great as yours but our will thanks be to God not so wicked You cannot say in Conscience that you fear any such thing from us as we do from you death and burning and tortures And did you fear so much as loss of Goods or Imprisonment Were you not in quietness Lived you not in peace and safety Who troubled you Did you not enjoy as much liberty in the exercise of your Religion as you could in reason expect more I dare say you had than your Religion deserves that is than your Latin-Service your Half-Communion your denial of Marriage to Priests your Masses Indulgences Purgatory and Papal-Supremacy your Image-worship your Invocation of Saints and Angels your Adoration of Sacramental Bread and Wine and such like stuff deserves All which is properly your Religion that which we call Popery wherein you differ from us and from the truth of the Gospel I think you were blind and did not understand your own happiness as you esteem this Liberty to be so or you were mad and foolish and would endeavor to deprive your selves of it by abusing your indulgent friends But God now intends you a greater happiness and that is to shame you out of your adherence to Rome and to convert you from her corrupt Religion I wish you were so wise as to embrace the opportunity and good providence when his providence namely discovers to your face your Popes and Priests and other friends unrighteous doings and raises up the spirits of all honest men against you for the same and lays upon you some restraints and penalties to curb in your insolencies and exorbitant actions and to secure us from your Swords and Daggers your Poysons and Stabs your Coleman's Confusions your Fauks's Powder your Irish Rebellion your Spanish Inquisition and Invasion your Paris Massacre your Queen Mary's Faggots and