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A30250	Another sermon preached to the Honorable House of Commons now assembled in Parliament, November the fifth, 1641 by Cornelius Burges, D.D. ; wherein, among other things, are shewed a list of some of the popish traytors in England.	Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665.	1641 (1641)	Wing B5668; ESTC R21418	55,204	69

27. that is first more immediately by blasphemous speaking against the God of Hierusalem as against the Gods of the people of the earth which were 2 King 19.21 22. the worke of the hands of man 2 Chron. 32.19 Secondly mediately through the Loines of Hezekiah and such of his people as trusted in the Lord. Now what of all this rage of man against God and his servants The Text tells you what is predicated of it Shall praise thee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It shall praise thee Or as the old Translation hath it it shall turne to thy praise Praise is nothing else but the exaltation of Excellency whereby it may be had in reverence and honour This is that which redounds unto God from the rage of man not intentionally on mans part as if he in his rage aymed at it for so God is not in all his thoughts Psal 10.4 But occasionally on mans part and efficaciously on Gods who brings light out of darknesse and good out of evill His Power and Providence so ordereth and disposeth all the malicious machinations and bloody designes of the most desperate men that they goe away with the shame his people with joy and himselfe with the honour And this he doth not onely by mastering them in their greatest rage and compelling them to acknowledge his power but also by giving such issue thereunto as shall produce effects quite contrary to those which they intended Thus the rage of Josephs brethren in selling him to the Ishmaelites turned to Gods praise As for you saith Ioseph Yee thought evill against me but God meant it unto good Genes 50.20 Nor is this spoken only in reference to what was already done and past as some would seeme to insinuate who render the Verb Totheka in the Present tense doth praise thee but as a Declaration of what God will ever doe in all time to come so often as the rage of man shall issue forth Therefore the best Interpreters render it by the future the rage of man shall praise thee making it to be not onely a voice of Thanksgiving but a conclusion of faith as before I touched So have you the first Proposition explained The Second followeth The rest of the rage This is the Subject of the later proposition which for substance is the same with the former Explication The rest of the rage to witt the rage of man Only it is differenced by two Circumstances which I must alike open One of the Circumstances is the changing of the number in the Originall Before it was Chameth rage in the singular number 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 now it is Chemoth rages in the Plurall which plainely supposeth the greatnes and the varietie of it The rage of the wicked is not small nor terminated in one plott or practice nor of one kinde but it is exceeding great ever working and multiplying by continuance so as there can be no wicked designe so barbarous no plott so bloody and Devilish but the rage of Gods enemies makes them ready for it and mad upon it If they once miscarry yea if they be often disappointed they are not discouraged but they will to worke againe and againe never giving over If one Plot faile they are ready with another and another of other sorts The Devill and their owne hearts make them fertile and bigge with all the inventions of Hell Justly then doth the Psalmist call them rages in the Plural For they are as Gad a Troop yea you may call their name Legion they bee so manie The other circumstance is in the word Sheerith translated the rest the remnant the remainder 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And this gives notice of the abundance of it Let never so much of it breake forth yet there is still move behinde that throngs after that which got out before And as it is with foule stomacks the best that comes up into the Bason is but filthy stuffe but that which is behind and comes last is farre more loathsome and bitter through the abundance of choller and gall so is it with the rage of wicked men the best is abominable but that which tarries behind and would come up in the Rere is most intolerable that is the bottome of the stomack the dreggs the most venemous and malignant part of the rage the letting out hereof would be the destruction of Gods people or some way or other dishonourable to our God This remnant it is of which the Psalmist speaking unto God saith Thou shalt restraine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thou shalt restraine This in the Hebrew is expressed in one word Tackgor which imports the begirting or binding of it in on every side that it shall by no meanes break out but shall be kept in as a Dog in a chaine as a Lion in his Denne how violent soever The Greek Septuagint in their Translation have wittily expressed themselves thus the rest of the rage shall keep holy day unto thee * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Their meaning is that as men who are to keep an holy day to the Lord cease from labour doing no manner of work therein further than may directly tend to the honour and service of God so the rage of man further than God may get some honour out of it shall keep holy day too that is cease from working or acting it shall rest from labour in regard of breaking out how restlesse so ever it be within because it cannot get out But this is not all Tremellius in his Revised Translation supplies one word which makes the sense more complete and comfortable For thus Hee residuo aestuum accingis tuos Thou dost begirt thy people with the remainder of the rages That is thou dost not onely keep in the rage of thine enemies that it doe no hurt but thou makest that very rage which was intended for their destruction to become even as the walls of a Citie for their defence and protection The upshot of all is this That wicked men shall be so farre from attaining those ends which in their rage they drive at that they shall be sure to meet with a stop where they made themselves most sure of going on and be occasions of promoting the good of Gods party which they meant to destroy 1 Observation Thus farre the Explication The Observations which I shall now recommend unto you from the whole bee these Three 1. The observations The rage of the wicked against God and his people is bottomlesse and endlesse 2. Let the rage of wicked men be what it will it shall onely raise that Glory to God and benefit to his people which the wicked never intended and ever fall short of that issue which they chiefly projected 3. The experience of Gods over-ruling and mastering the rage of man in times past is an undoubted assurance of the like for all time to come I begin with the first The rage of the wicked against God and his people

ANOTHER SERMON Preached to the Honorable House of Commons now assembled in PARLIAMENT November the fifth 1641. By CORNELIUS BURGES D. D. Wherein among other things are shewed A List of some of the Popish Traytors in England That their Treasons were not occasioned by our Laws but from Principles of their owne Religion That their Priests are bound to infuse suc● Principles into them The courses taken by their Preists and Iesuites to animate them unto Treasons An Experimentall Prognostication Published by Order of the House of Commons LONDON Printed by R. B. for P. Stephens and C. Meridith at the Gilded Lion and at the Craine in S. Pauls Church-Yard 1641. To the Honourable House of Commons now assembled in PARLIAMENT WHen first I understood that You had designed only my selfe to preach unto You at that Great and happy Solemnity upon the Fifth of November last I inlarged my Provision because there was no other to second me in that Service But when I came to set before You what the Lord had brought to my hand The Tumults in Ireland I found You so over laid with businesse of such high importance as would hardly permit You to hear any sermon at all This constrained me to contract the two first Parts of my Sermon and wholly to suppresse the third except the last branch of the last Vse which I found meanes to affix to my second Point It was far from my thoughts and above my hopes that such a mangled Peice should gaine such Acceptance with You as to be held worthy of Your Thankes or of Publique View But seeing Your pleasure is to Order the Publishing it I obey Only I have now added the remainder of that Provision with which I could not at first present You by reason of those Indispensable Occasions then pressing on You. The Lord of Heaven direct all Your ways make them plaine before You prosper You in them and hold all Your hearts firme to Himselfe and in Vnity among Your selves set You more effectually upon and carry You more strongly through that most necessary and of all other most Important Work even the Perfecting of the Reformation of this Church by the assistance of a free Nationall Synod if Your wisdomes should so thinke meet for the further securing of our Religion from Corruption in Doctrine from Pollution in Worship from superstition in Ceremonies from Exorbitancy and Tyranny in Ecclesiasticall Government and Discipline and from Anarchy and Confusion under a false guise of Christian Liberty which is farre worse than Tyranny Hee also make You all more zealous to settle a Ministery worthy of the Glorious Gospell of Christ in every Congregation and a sufficient maintainance for all faithfull Labourers therein He raise You higher and higher in honour with God and Man and carry You stil in his Bosome till hee hath brought You to Glory All of which is and shall be the incessant prayer of Your most humble servant C. BURGES PSAL. 76.10 Surely the rage of man shall praise thee the rest of the rage shalt thou restraine THis Text and this day doe well agree Introduction shewing I. The fitnesse Never did day more exactly demonstrate the truth of this Text. Never did Text more fully set forth the Workes of this Day whether we regard the rage of man or the Power of God in over-ruling thereof to his own Praise and our preservation This is that day wherein the most prodigious rage of man that ever the Sun beheld or that Hell it selfe boyled up to an height justly execrable to all the world was ready to break forth out of the nethermost Pit against our Late King Queene the Royall Seed the Parliament Church Kingdome this Place our selves and all ours all at once And this is that day wherein our God came riding to us in his Chariot of Triumph and made himselfe fearfull in prayses by doing wonders and leaving us no more to doe but to praise his Name and lengthening out our happinesse joyfully to celebrate this Publike Anniversarie of that stupendious Deliverance So that II. The occasion while Interpreters contend and sweat about the speciall occasion of this Gratulatory Song whether penned as a Lasting Trophee of the many Victories atchieved by David over the Philistines Moabites Syrians and others 2 Sam. 8. or of the discomfiture of that formidable Army of the Ethiopians in the dayes of Asa 2 Chr. 20. Or of the selfe-destroying of that huge Host of the children of Ammon Moab and mount Seir in the reign of Jehoshaphat 2 Ch. 20. Or rather which is more probable as a Pillar of Gratitude in the time of Hezekiah for the wonderfull defeat of those numberlesse Forces of blasphemous Sennacherib nigh to Ierusalem where an Angel went forth and in one night and slew 185000. men in the campe of the Assyrians King 19. Sure we are Introduction that none of all those Great Acts of the Lord ever administred greater occasion to advance a Publike Thanksgiving beyond the faint and dull straine of Prose to the spritefull courage of a Verse by the gratefull violence of a Poetick Rapture truly divine than that admirable and even ineffable over powering of the matchlesse fury of those Romish Pioneers imployed in that Master-peece of Hellish Invention the Gun-powder Treason affords unto us and all Posterity of greatest exilience and of utmost industry to make His Praise glorious who justly inhabiteth the praises of Israel and is in himselfe exalted above all blessing and Praise For on this Day if ever and even here also if any where brake He the arrows of the bow the shield the sword and battell whereby he is become more glorious and excellent than the mountaines of prey Here the stout-hearted are spoiled they have stept their sleep and none of the men of might * In that great slaughter in the host of Sennacherib the Leaders Captaines and mighty men of Valour were all cut off 2 Chron. 32.21 have found their hands At thy rebuke O God of Jacob both the Chariot and the horse are cast into a dead sleep Thou didst cause judgement to be heard from heaven the earth feared and was still when God arose to judgement to save all the meek of the earth Therefore wee even wee also will for ever say and sing to thy Name as thy people of old Surely the rage of man shall praise thee the rest of the rage shalt thou restraine III. The Summe Which words Janus like have a double Aspect For they looke not only backwards as a Thankfull Remembrance of what God hath already done but also forwards as a Prophetick Resolution and well grounded Conclusion of Faith touching the constant ordering and curbing the rage of all his and our enemies so as to get himselfe glory out of all to the end of the world IV. The Parts of the Text. If we make a Distribution of the Text there will be found in it an Asseveration and an Assertion 1.

by powder At Holbeach in Worcestershire wherewith they intended the destruction of so many And afterwards Catesby and Piercy the principals in that wickednesse were shot to death by one shot of a Musket and thereby found Gods own hand taking revenge by powder before the justice of man could seize upon them And not onely so but even Faux the appointed Executioner and Garnet the Arch-Devil to blesse their plot confessed to the praise of God as well as the rest at their execution the outragious wickednesse and odiousnesse of that hellish designe Nay further God raised up an everlasting * An Act for keeping of this Day for ever Pillar of Thankesgiving from that very Parliament which should have been blown up and produced effects quite contrary to those which the Traytors intended in preserving not onely the Persons but the Laws which they meant to destroy and in causing moe Lawes to be made against them who so wickedly provoked the Clemencie of the Prince and abused the lenitie and mercie they formerly enjoyed but in providing more carefully ever since for our preservation I need not tell you that the rest of the rage is happily restrained Your eyes behold it and we all sit under the blessing of it unto this day Onely take notice that God did it not by ordinary meanes Not by abating th●ir rage for Faux God restrained the rest not in an ordinary after his apprehension repented nothing more then his not giving the blow yea the whole crew afterwards brake forth into open Rebellion till some of them were slain and the rest taken in the height of their rage Not by diverting them for they received not the least interruption till all was ready for execution Not by taking off any of their Instruments for not a man of them was toucht by death sicknesse or arrest till after the very trains were laid to the powder and all prepared for the firing of it Not by arming the creatures against them for no creature once troubled them till they were found out almost too late to be Troublers of Israel Not by smiting them with Panick fears for they were never so high floan before the discovery with confidence of successe nor more desperately fearlesse after they knew that all was discovered Nor yet by setting them one against another for like Simeon and Levi they held too fast together 2. Use of the second Point even unto death but in an extraordinary manner But the Lord did it himselfe causing one of them who had taken three Oaths to conceale it and kept touch with his tongue by a writing to reveile it verifying that of the Wisest King that a Eccl. 10.20 that which hath wings shall tell the matter and affecting the King with a spirit of jealousie who ordinarily offended rather on the other hand and leading him to an interpretation of the Letter quite contrary to the common sense And not onely so but by sharpning the edg of all mens spirits against the Traitors See the Discourse of the Powder Treason in King James his Works in the Countries where they wandred to kill some of them and to apprehend the rest even before any Proclamation could overtake them and before the people who seised on them knew any thing of this particular Treason Thus He that sitteth in the Heavens laught them their rage and Counsels to scorne compelling them at length to acknowledge the finger of God in their Discovery and his arme in their most deserved Destruction O wonderfull Providence O admirable Justice upon them and Goodnes to his People 2. Use of the second Point Incitation to thankfulnes 2. How should this put all our hearts into a flame of the highest Thanksgiving to Him who hath done for us such wonderfull things When their Rage had concluded that We and all Posterity should for ever wallow in ashes b Nah. 2.7 taber upon our breasts and howle like Dragons for that irreparable Desolation the God of our Mercies hath prevented them broken the snare given us an escape and hurl'd them out of the Land of the Living as out of the midst of a Sling Therefore rejoyce in the Lord and againe I say rejoyce Rouse up your spirits call up your hearts and let all that is within you blesse his holy Name I hope I shall not need to set before you the Institution of a thankefull man nor to spend time in directing how to give thankes On Septem 7. 1641. that Work being excellently performed at your late Publique Thanksgiving Rather let me bestow a few words to incite you to the Duty because I finde every where more and more backwardnesse to it and coldnesse in it For however at first the meltings of most mens spirits were extraordinary their affections being soone upon the wing The necessitie of such an Incitation when the first newse of the Deliverance out-ran the report of the Danger Yet by Degrees men have so farre cooled that not onely too many of the ordinary sort doe wholly neglect this Day but not none of the Clergy also who have sometimes for their hyre declaimed vehemently against that Treason in the Pulpit begin in ordinary discourse to jeere this solemnitie of such a Deliverance and in derision to name it Saint Gunpowders Day Papists perswade their Novices that there was never any such thing Yea some once ours have arrived at so much giddinesse as to pronounce the keeping of this Day to be Will-worship and the religious enjoyning of it even by Parliament to be a trenching on the Libertie left us by Christ as if the binding of our selves as Gods people of old in their feast of c Esth. 9.27 Purim did to give publique thanks for an extraordinary Mercy were a violation of true Christian Libertie O shamefull Ingratitude O Impudent Ignorance And how carelesse the greater part of the better sort are become in observing this Day is a subject more fit for my teares than my tongue even in this Honorable Assembly Wherefore the better to quicken You to restore this Day to its former splender Motives to the Duty that the Great Work of the Lord done herein may be for ever more honorable and glorious Let Me present You with a few Incentives 1. Remember that 1. None but God could doe it none but the Almighty himselfe could possibly have wrought such a Deliverance for us d Psal 124.3 4. If it had not been the Lord who was on our side when men rose up against us they had swallowed us up quick when their wrath was kindled against us Let this first settle upon our spirits that e Psal 118.23 24. this was the Lords doing and then it will soone be marveilous in our eyes so as Wee cannot but rejoyce and be glad in it 2. Think seriously what manner of persons wee were 2. He did it for people altogether unworthy of any mercy for whom he did