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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52285	The cabinet of Hell unlocked, or, The late grand conspiracy emblazon'd with practical reflections thereon : in a sermon / preached at Havant April 16th 1696, being the publick day of thanksgiving, published at the importunity of the hearers by C.N. ...	Nicholets, Charles.	1696 (1696)	Wing N1085; ESTC R38116	25,348	31

THE Cabinet of HELL UNLOCKED OR THE LATE Grand Conspiracy EMBLAZON'D With Practical Reflections thereon IN A SERMON ●●●●ched at HAVANT April 16th 1696. Being the Publick Day of Thanksgiving Published at the Importunity of the Hearers By 〈…〉 Minister of the Gospel there 〈…〉 1696. To the Honourable Richard Norton Esq Knight of the Shire for the County of SOUTHAMPTON SIR THIS Sermon Preached upon a Publick Occasion and now Printed for a Publick End the Law of Custom requires it should be Presented to a Publick Person and to whom more sit than your self our Worthy Representative in Parliament But besides their is a more particular reason which obliges this Dedication your Candid Expressing your self to some Friends who waited on you before the last Election in such a manner as have secured your Interest in the Affections of the Best and most Sober Inhabitants in Hampshire So that a New Election will be but a repeated Confirmation of the same Person Your Generous Presenting the Dissenting Ministers Association to his Majesty has bound me in Gratitude to return you Publick Thanks SIR It has been very delightful to me to hear of your Exemplary ●briety and great Civility above the common rate of the Gentle●en of our Age. Now may that God who has made you Great ●●ke you Good and incline your heart to the Purity of Religion which as it is the Greatest Comfort of a Christian so it will be the best Ornament of a Gentleman You have a great Coppy to write after if you survey the Life of your Renowned Grandfather whose memory is precious in the hearts of the best among us As you enjoy his Estate my hearty prayer is that you may Inherit his Vertues which to our comfort you have given no small hopes of Go on Worthy Sir to do Worthily in Ephrata that you may be for ever Famous in our Bethlehem So begging Pardon for my Presumption I shall trouble you no further but Subscribe my self A Real Honourer of Your Worth A Thanksgiving SERMON Acts 23. v. 13. There were more than Forty which had made this Conspiracy IF a Man would give liberty to his Thoughts to expatiate upon so odious a Theme as Malice What direful what unaccountable what incredible Effects as so many frighting Spectrums would immediately present to his view Innocent Abel weltring in his Blood through the envy of his Inhuman Brother Cain Poor Unthinking Abner falling a Bleeding Sacrifice to the imperious ●ust of Inveterate Joab The Women of Ramah in Horrible Amazment and Confusion Venting their heart-breaking dolours in gastly Accents for the Tragical Exit of their Tender Babes snacht out of their arms and Massacred before their eyes to satisfie the Ambitious Humour of a more than Barbarous Herod But what need we stand upon instances when there are legions or rather many legions of them What need we turn over the leaves of Aged Records Or ransack the Caverns of Antiquity When we have examples more than enough recent in our own memories and without troubling our selves to cast an eye over the water for entertaining our thoughts with the melancholy subject of the Desolation of Towns and Families of Churches and Societies the proper genuine effects of one Tyrants Malice We may have enough and to spare in restraining our conceptions to our own Land and to our own Day There are a sort of Vermin Men I cannot call them without begging ●●rdon even of the race of Cham known by the name of Jesuits or ra●●er better known by their black Physiognomy I mean the very surface 〈◊〉 their Actions every of which is black indeed through the tincture of 〈◊〉 sulpherous soot that Infernal Smoak with which their Souls are wholly stained by which they have arrived to the highest perfection of baseness and are in truth become the greatest I had almost said the only plague to Mankind so implacable in their Rage so boundless in their Malice so restless in their Attempts to advance the Devils Kingdom or which is all one the Popes Interest that they have not stuck to foment National Wars to encourage Private Assassinations and to commit such tremenduous and unheard of Abominations as have made the Heavens blush the Earth to groan and all People with horror to be Amazed so that I think it hardly an Hyperbole to conclude They have out done their Father the Devil Could we only hear of these Wretched Caitifs playing their pranks in some remote corner of the Earth or shining in their proper Sphere circled within the tropicks of their own Cloister we might stand alo●● off and gaze without much sensitive apprehension or perticular reflection on our danger at home But alas These Egyptian Locusts these limbs of the Devil these firebrands of Hell that embroil Crowned Heads that desturb the peace of Europe that turn the World upside-down have set their cloven f●●● in this our Island also and made it their Theatre to act their Tragi-com●●dies on I call them so for though they designed them purely Tragical Heaven hath made the Event Comical in detecting their Devices i● blasting their Contrivances and in bringing all their deep laid Project to nought To pass by all others I shall six upon the design of this day which 〈◊〉 it is the latest so I hope the last I am sure the blackest of all the rest the hand of Joab was in all this the finger of the Jesuite in every part 〈◊〉 it not one or two but many a great many For there were more th● Forty that made this Conspiracy Contriving the ruine of Good Men is no new thing or of yesterday Invention no no it was long since hatched in Hell and practiced o● Earth so the spirit of God tells us Psal 37.12 The Wicked plott●● against the Just and gnasheth upon him with his teeth they are always bea●ing their brains to bring the Righteous into Trouble but the want o● success in the accomplishment makes them gnash their teeth out of madness and vexation Eliphas declares the vanity and insignificancy of such Contrivances from the determined purpose of God to countermine them Job 5.12.13 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty so that their hand cannot perform their Enterprizes he taketh the wise in their own craftiness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 counsel of the froward is carried headlong They that go out of God's way into the devils dark chamber to Plot cannot expect the light of Heaven to guide them to a fair event No wonder then that Councils though never so deep that Projects though never so crafty are still blasted like grass upon the house top that never comes to maturity and that not only the single conceptions of one or two but the united Combinations of never so many yea though there were more than Forty in it I shall as introductory to my following discourse give you some account of Plots in former times which may serve as a soil to set off the lustre of this late one for we must not ascribe