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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

and obdurate in sinne desperate and incorrigible when men are given up of God to a reprobate sense as the Apostle saith and to offend of meere malic●o●s wickednesse as the Psalmist speaketh 〈◊〉 this case wee may pray against them and be seech God to bring them to a speedy confusion and destruction both for the ma●●festatio● of the Glory of his justice and the deliveran● of his poore Church from their divellish ma● chinations And such were these enemies spoken of in the Text as shall appeare by the description which is the second generall and which wee are now by the helpe of GOD 〈◊〉 enter upon Remember the Children of Edom c. There is in this Psalme mention made 〈◊〉 two sorts of enemies the Children of Edom and the Daughter of Babylon And I grant that the Text is principally meant of the Edomites and Babylonians which afflicted Ierusalem or the Church of the Iewes then in their sore captivity for to those dayes this Psalme hath reference But yet as I take it it reacheth farther and may very fitly be applyed even to all such as bandy themselves against the Church of God in any age or at any time whatsoever So that upon this reckoning the Powder-Traytors above twenty yeeres agoe were these Edomites and that scarlet Whore of Rome was this Daughter of Babylon as both our Church signifies not obscurely in the first Collect of the Service for this day having relation to this Psalme and as I trust to make it plain unto you in my following discourse For the better conceiving of this take a distinction There are three sorts of Children I meet withall in holy Writ 1. Children by naturall generation 2. Children by spirituall adoption 3. Children by morall imitation 1. By the naturall course of generation so wee are the Children of our naturall parents which begat us 2. By the grace of spirituall adoption so the Elect and servants of GOD are called the Children of God 3. By the likenesse of morall imitation and that two wayes either in good or in evill in good so the faithfull are said to be the Children of Abraham being followers of the faith of Abraham in evill so the wicked miscreants of the world and enemies of the Church may be said to be the Children of Edom being imitators of Edoms sinnes and wretched courses Now there are two things in Edom especially to be observed wherein his posterity doe imitate him and walke directly in his steps the first is carnality the second is cruelty of both these in their order For the first Edom which is Esau you know was a carnall man a man al●gether addicted to his belly cheare prefer●ing it to his Birth-right for hee sould his Birth-right for a messe of Pottage and upon this the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrewes gives him the Title of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a profane fellow Heb. 12. 16. So these Children of Edom they are a company of carnall men little carefull of the maine but altogether taken up with the profits and pleasures of this life This is true whether wee understand it of Worldlings in generall who are out of the Church and so are enemies unto it or of the Popish faction in particular who under the cloake and colour of the Church doe persecute the Church and waste it extremely As for Worldlings generally their carnality is too well knowne they are just of the humour of the rich Glutton in the Gospell to climbe to great wealth and to be richly clad and to fare deliciously every day and to say to their soule Soule thou hast much goods laid up for many yeeres Ede bibe lud● post mortem nulla voluptas Eat drinke and take thy pastime God fils their bellies with his hid treasure and in these earthly things they hug themselves little caring to enter into the heavenly Canaan they plant themselves here and set up their rest on this side the River for they have their portion in this life whereas contrarily the Saints of God are Citizens of heaven in this world they are but strangers and pilgrims A●d this is the reason why the world hateth them and why these carnall men of the wo●ld persecute them even because they are contrary unto them because they are strangers to their sinfull courses So saith our Saviour If you were of the world the world would love his own but I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hateth you Ioh. 15. 19. As touching the Popish faction I meane those that addict themselves to the Pope and make it there onely study to hold up and inlarge the Sathanicall pompe and pride the Sardanapalicall riot and luxury of that man of sinne and his rablement I say they are carnall and fleshly minded men What other manner of persons I pray you were those that had their hands ●oule in the gunpowder-treason I come not here to blazon their works or to set ou● the story of their lives This I am sure of that the arch-Traytor Garnet the Priest was noted for an ambitious fellow aiming at a Cardinals Hat such an one as did indulgere genio love his belly too wel such an one as would oftē use to sacrifice to Bacchus being very usually cup shotten yea the very night before he was to be executed mark the holines of this stramineous Saint the very night I say before his execution hee was observed to be as drunke as a begger and so sottish that hee could not speake a wise word as the worthy Bishop of Salisbury relates it out of the mouth of faithfull witnesses in his Antilogia written against Eudaemon Iohannes the Grecian Bishop The Religion of Popery as it is most agreeable to the corrupt nature of man so I verily thinke there is not any religion in the world except it be Mahometisme the yonger sister to Papisme that gives more way to the flesh and opens 2 greater gap to sensuality and carnality and all manner of licentiousnesse than the Doctrine of Popery doth as it is taught in these dayes Witnesse first their doctrine of dispensations whereby they teach that the Pope hath power to dispence with the Word of God and with every Co●mandement of the Law and not only with the Law but with the Gospell too and the Epistles of S. Paul Now to what horrible loosenesse and lewdnesse of life doth this tend and what sinne is there be it never so hainous which a carnall man will not be encouraged to commit by this licentious doctrine incest sodomy adultery perjury rebellion all these have bin dispensed with by the Popes holines there are such evident and apparent instancesto prove this that it cannot be denied Witnesse 2. their doctrine of Pardons and indulgences which are impudent and shameles Their taxa poenitentaria Apostolica whereby impurity is granted to every sinner and pardon for every sin be it never so grievous so be that the party payeth according