those that were ignorant see that is vnderstand and learne knowe that which you know not now it is videte of an higher reach you that know alreadie acknowledge consider apply make vse of that you knowe What shall they knowe that you your selues are but men put theÌ„ in minde o Lord that they may knowe they are but men wormes vanitie nothing Ego Deus it is I that am God Ego ego I even I et non est alius praeter me and there is none besides mee And not a popular idle abiect God like the Gods of the gentiles which are not able to wipe the dust from their eies I wil be exalted Not onlie amongst my people of Israel but in gentibus amongst the nations if they receaue mee volentibus with their good contents if they reiect me inuitis maugre their wills And if there bee anie ground the lines wherof are extended farther then people and nations inhabit J wil be exalted there also Exaltabor exaltabor I wil be exalted J say againe I wil in the whole earth It maie be spokeÌ„ to two sorts of meÌ„ 1. to freinds and then it carrieth the same sense that the speech of Moyses to the children of Israel 14. Exod. 13. Feare yee not stand stil behold the saluation of the Lord which hee wil shew on you The Lorde shall fight for you therfore hold you your peace Trouble not you your selues with your enimies neither trust in your owne strength nor saie to your selues Manus nostra excelsa our owne high hande shall deliuer vs. These were Dauids conclusions 44. Psalm c. I wil not trust in my bow my sword shal not saue mee And an horse is but a vaine thing to saue a maÌ„ And some trust in horses other in chariots but wee wil remember the name of the Lord of hostes 3. it may bee applied to enimies after this sort vacate that is desistite cessate giue ouer your wicked purposes and plottinges it is harde for you to kick against the pricks of Gods prouideÌ„ce there is noe couÌ„saile noe streÌ„gth against his decrees Last of al followeth the conclusion a repetition of the first verse the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 like the iteruÌ„ dicâ— I say againe 4. Philip. Seruing in the first place for the prooeme in this last for an epiphoneÌ„e the Key of my whol speech it opened me a dore of entrance at the beginning now at my giuing oâ—er it closeth locketh vp all againe The Lord of hostes is our refuge This is the seale or staÌ„p wherof I told you before Spare me a while to applie it to effigiate shape forth to the patterne and tipe of my text that most prodigious de solation intended by the aduersarie but intercepted by God which this fift of Nouember so long as the sun and moone last shal be both famous and infamous for 1 First as touching the proposition and conclusion being both the same the carceres metam head and foot of my text as it were voice and echo a circular annular serpentine verse winding into it selfe againe like that in the 8. Psalme O Lord our God how excellent is thy name in al the world The two tropicks points betweene which the whole motion of this scripture goeth and like the two Cherubins ouer the mercie-seate which turned their faces each to other your selues giue sentence if euer anie nation or language vnder heauen had iuster cause to saie and saie againe once in their harts by beeleeuing once more with their mouthes by confessing to make it both their morning and euening sacrifice the proram puppim beginning and ending of their dailie meditations to common it in priuate with their owne spirits and to publish it forth in the greatest congregations and assemblies Dominus virtutum nobiscum The Lorde of hostes is with vs with the presence of his power wheÌ„ there was opus Deo a worke euen of the deity to bee wrought a knot worthie the finger of God and Deus Iacobi the God of Iacob assisted vs with his grace Iacobi seminis Iacobi populieius euen the God of the seed people of Iacob Say whither hee loued not the tents and habitations of Iacob more then al the taber nacles and conuenticles of Mesek vngodlines superstition idolatrie whether he gaue not ample testimonie to the world that hee loued Iacob his house his issue and hated Esau and the whole Esauitical hairie rough barbarous sauadge generation of meÌ„ which said The daies of mourning are come venite occidamus IACOBVM let vs kil Iacob subvert his Kingdome And whether wee maie not adde in the end of our praiers and thanksgiuing as the strength and sting of the bee that lieth behind as a goad to awake vs stir vs vp a naile to fasten it in our harts as in a sure place a diapsalma rest to our song a pawse to our meditaons that wee passe not lightlie awaie for qui credit noÌ„ festinet and lastlie the amen the fiat the closure of al our deuotion Selah as much as to saie o rempraeclaraÌ„ admirabilem Deum habere defensorem o magnum inexpugnabilem defensorem O happy thrice happy we that are in such a case Blessed thrice blessed people that haue the Lord of hostes the God of Iacob for our defense Doth anie man doubt of this or is anie ignorant Venite videte opera Come from the vttermost ends of the earth as far as the fowre windes blowe one against the other if you wil see a worke a straÌ„ge worke wherof you wil saie when you see it wee neuer saw it after this sort and when it shal bee told you you will not beleeue it Come And you that turne your backs to the temple of the Lord and are euer departing from vs and our congregations you whose motion is not comming Eamus in domum Domini but going our feet shal stand within thy gates o thou sinagogue of Roome you that cannot perswade your selues that God is the God of Protestants Tush say you God hath forsaken them God and man haue concurred to punish the wickednes of this time you knowe the text you prophecied against vs terrible things quandocunque contingeret miseram illam faeminam e vitâ excedere and saw in the visions of your heads our streets flowing with bloud c. And magnuÌ„ annum Platonis a returne and reuolution of al things your temples altars sacrifices restored reformed secundum vsum after the forme of Romish superstition Come and bee not incredulous but beleeue harden not your hartes as in the daies of idolatrie and blindnes behold the mightie hand of the Lord the workes hee hath wrought for vs we follow not deceauable fables we haue seen them with our eies handled them with our hands nor were they done in a
corner but in the light of the sun that al the world may take notice of them O that my words were now written O that they were written in a booke and engrauē with an iron pen in lead or stone for euer I knowe that my Redeemer liueth said Iob. We know our Protector liued and you your selues knowe it and heauen and earth knowe King and captiue knowe yea the stones in the wals and timber in the beames knowe that our Protector liued and that the Lord of hostes was with vs and the God of Iacob was our defense whē mē were so furiously set against vs and meant to haue destroyed flesh and arme head and members in one daie and at one instant I could lead you by a long tract of the works of God in the daies of that glorious Saint our late soueraigne of happie memorie Queene Elizabeth a woman after Gods heart who walkt in the waies and ouerliued the daies of hir father Dauid and led hir people as a flock forty fiue years through a wildernes of many distresful dangers a Queene of Queenes a Paragon whilest she liued of mortal Princes the diamond in the ring of the monarches of the earth the glorie of hir sexe the pleasure of mankind the miracle of the christian the mark scope euē of the infidel world for they had an eie after hir who notwithstanding al the rorings of the bulls of Basan Centaures and Minotaures of Rome their thundrings lightnings excommunications execrations incantations conspiracies rebellions drugges daggers dagges yet liued to out-liue the malice of hir enimies drew vp hir feet vnto hir in hir bed of peace had hir eies closed with the fingers of hir seruants frends and was buried with Regal burial in the sepulchers of the Kings and Queenes of England hir noble Progenitours When we had exchāged hir for our gracious Soueraigne that now is Luciferum roseo cum sole how glorious were the workes of God in his most peaceable entrance not so much as a fly mouing the whinge or hissing against him Besides manie vnexpected escapes of manie vnsuspected dangers Al these were his workes of desolatiō But there is one behind aboue al the rest which I maie call the desolation of abomination in the hart and purpose of the enimie the most abominable detestable vnmatchable that euer was thought vpon It was not solitudo in terra with them but subter terram itum est in viscera terrae for the perpetration of it they went downe into the bowells of the earth but for the inuentiō to the very vmbilicke and centre of the earth I had almost askt qui gurges aut quis tartarus hoc scelus est ausus attrectare sith in so many thousāds of years from the fal of the reprobate and faithlesse angels it neuer came into the head of anie deuil to suggest to the hart of any mā before this time so nefarious flagitius portentuous a wickednesse as this was Actors it had vpon the earth with whome I must acquaint you 1. that Lateran Iupiter that Balaam Caiphas high-preist of Rome the great Antichrist the maine Alastor Abaddon destroier of the christian world whose first prize in the Church of God was that he might be Episcopus episcoporum cheife and vniuersal Bishop a proud prophane sacrilegious Luciferian name afterwards Rex regum King of Kings and Terror regum terrour of Kings and the hammer of nations turning the keies of the Kingdome of heauen into the keyes of the kingdomes of the earth and not medling with the crimes and sinnes of the people but crownes of Princes not soules but scepters nor contenting himselfe with his first commission though corrupted with false glosses pasce oues vnlesse there were added occide mandūca that is excōmunicate depose dispoliate Eagle Falkons Emperor inferiour Kings not onlie of their dominions possessions but of their liues too It were infinit to follow histories They were not so readie to chandge their names at their first inuestiture into their sees and to be called Vrbanes Bonifaces and the like as afterwards the christian world to change them againe and to call their Vrbanes Turbanes Bonifaces Malefaces Eugenies Dusgenies Hildebrandes titiones infernales hell brandes indeed Pios Impios Clementes Inclementes instead of Caput Ecclesiae to tearme him Caudam Ecclesiae and fūdamētum detrimentū they proued so pernicious both to Church and Christian policies 2 Al other ministers of this man of sin pillers props of his Chaire of pestilence I let passe There is a generation of men more degenerate then euer Nabuchodonoser was not men into beasts but verie deuills incarnate of al the sectes in that Popish Sodome which haue beene multiplied as the monsters of Africke the most pestilēt You cal them Iesuites Bar-Iesuites you wel may of that damned Sorcerer Act. 13. or Iebusites Esaüites Suites as some haue done the disloiall broode of Ignatius Loiola the notorious Incendiaries Bustuaries of Christian states they thinke one daie to be rulers even over heauen it selfe satanicum genus one stiled them the ofspring of Satan the fallest Sinons impostors couzeners of the world 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Stelliones Bispelliones you knowe not what to make them their liues their tongues their harts their habits all are so false 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as hee said of the Spartanes Nulla fides nisi quantū expedit as the rule of the Parthians was The new Priscilianistes of our age of whom St Austin cōplained soli inuenti sunt dogmatizare mendacium the onlie men that are found to dogmatize defend lying yea and periurie also and that in the worship of God Cū Dei nomen Deus testis Dei sacramentum interponitur Wherof St Austin added o vbi est is fōtes lacrymarū quo ibimus vbi occult abimus nos a facie veritatis O where are you fountaines of teares whether shall wee go or where shal we hide our selues frō the face of truth whose mixt Hermaphroditical epicaene half-borne and half-vnborne propositions are like J say not there seruations of the Gentiles Iuraui lingua but the oracles of the deuiles themselues Jn a worde they are the marow and spirit of the mystery of iniquitie the trumpets of sedition and rebellion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their crie is dirumpamus vincula proijciamus funes let vs breake their bonds and cast away their cordes Noe bond of nature consanguinitie allegiāce alliāce affiance wedlock oath sacrament stādeth good if they list to dissolue it Of al the religions in the world J denounce vnto you let me a little inuert the wordes of the Psalme Nolite fieri sicut equus mulus they differ not much in kind in quibus non est intellectus Bee not like Iesuite Priest they are not far a sunder in whō there is noe conscience no religion whose mouthes thou canst not hold in with bit or bridle of anie either ciuil or sacred
A SERMON PREACHED IN OXFORD the 5. of November 1607. By JOHN KINGE Doctor of Divinity Deane of Christ Church and Vicechancellor of the Vniversity At Oxford Printed by Ioseph Barnes 1607. The Text. 46. Psal. vers 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 7 The Lord of hostes is with vs the God of Iaakob is our refuge 8 Come and behold the workes of the Lord what desolations he hath made in the earth 9 He maketh warres to cease vnto the ends of the world hee breaketh the bow and cutteth the speare and burneth the Chariots with fire 10 Be stil and knowe that I am God I will be exalted among the heathen and I will be exalted in the earth 11 The Lord of hostes is with vs the God of Iaakob is our refuge MY travaile for the choice of my text parallel to this daies worke was as the flying of Noahs doue or floting of his arke the one had no footing til it came to the arke againe the other noe restinge place but on the mountaines of Armenia nor I where to settle my diuided thoughts til I fel vpon this Psalme here I met with manie vniformities The event the same We maie as trulie and as happily say as these might of whō the Psalm treateth God is our hope and strength in angustijs auxilium praesētissimum or adiutor in tribulationibus quae invenerūt nos nimis our readiest help in our sorest dangers v. 1. Wee were the children of death and were euen come to the birth there wanted a verie little strength to bring vs forth Tempus faciendi domino it was then time for the Lord to put to his hand yea the time was almost past digitis à morte remoti quatuor aut septem there remained but a few houres to accomplish their mischeife The extent of the danger noe lesse Theirs was against both their Citie of God and the sanctuarie of his Tabernacles vers 4. Ours against both city sanctuarie the two sisters the Martha and Marie policie pietie Commonwealth and Church of our Countrie The thrones of Dauid chaire of Moyses golden sceptre golden candle stick our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 21. Act. 28. our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 also people law place temple must haue beene dissolued The places seeme to accord With them their citie of God so with vs too Our city of God the faierest the excellentest the absolutest that we had or contiguous to it our Ierusalē the Princesse of the thousands the mother of al the daughters of our land the Chāber of our famous Kings Queenes ioie of our English earth empresse of the Island and the renouned Emporie and Mart of the whole Kingdome And the Sanctuarie of our Tabernacles no lesse as theirs Our Bethel our Siloh our Hill of Sion where were our goodliest Tēples and Basilikes Chappels oratories where our verie oracles were wont to bee giuen the fountaine and spring of religion the arke of the presence of God aboue al other places of this land Omit not the season vers 5. Their deliuerance was verie earlie Manè diluculò ante auroram ad cōspectū aurorae So was ours For by fowre in the morning of that daie which had bin the evening and long night the blacknes of darknes to our state was the treasō discouered the Lords of the priuie Counsaile acquainted and the King in his bed chamber awaked and aduertised There wanted but a mornings worke which if it had sped sufficient vnto the daie the yeare and many ages of the world had the malice of that morning bin Betwixt the midnight of that eue whereon the Incendiarie kept his vigilles the middaie of their feast their greate Iubilee expected were but 12 houres and on of those twelue as of the 12. Apostles a devill so must haue been hora potestas tenebrarum the houre and power of the deuil the houre of firie trial hora nefasta nefanda the blackest that euer the eie of the sunne looked vpon worse then the worst Sodomiticall and Gomorrhean the most accursed and infamous that euer was accompted in anie Kalendar of time Mee thinketh the whole phrase of the Psalme hath great congruitie For surelie our ground had bin shakē vers ◠yea her ioints had bin shiuered in peices and our mountaines if not of nature of art monumēts of age and honor as stable and statelie as mountaines huge masses and piles of magnificent buildings roiall pallaces religious temples Mausolean sepulchers shrines which the holie Ghost calleth domos seculi houses of eternitie had beene throwne into the midst of the riuer if not the sea and our waters had raged beene troubled vers 3. yea the foundations of their chānels had been discouered And that Riuer of ours the streames wherof make glad our Citie of God vers 4. had changed hir gladnes into mourning died her christal into rubies and turned as the riuers of Egypt into a riuer of bloud running as a Maister-veine with a full tide of bloude along the sides of the city hir carriages in stead of wonted cōmodities had beene dead corpses manie a thousand discerpted limme both of men and buildings must it haue drank downe buried within hir bosome Lastlie and in a worde the subiect of the Psalme throughout is very like The incursiō of the enimie to both strong and furious the danger imminēt vast peremptorie the deliuerance strange glorious the preventiō of the mischeife suddaine the commemoration and thanksgiuing solemne and most generous heroical invincible as in them so in vs J hope the resolutiō The Lord is our refuge c. Therefore wil wee not feare though the earth be mooued c. Si fractus illabatur orbis Notwithstanding al these resemblances the reede metwand of that danger and deliuerance of theirs is far to short to bee the measure of ours Ours is casus omissus a transcendent of transcendents a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our danger a monster of dangers such as nature neuer brought forth our deliuerance a mirrour a miracle of deliuerances such as the finger of God neuer wrought But taking my text as it is you shal finde in the opening of it 1 A proposition professiō protestatiō as it were to the whol world The Lord of hostes is with vs v. 7 2 A probation or demonstration therof Come behold his workes vers 8. 3 Confirmatiō explicatiō enumeratiō he maketh warrs to cease c. he breaketh the bow c. v. 9. 4 Exhortation aduise Be stil and know c. v. 10. 5 Conclusion acclamatiō The Lord of hostes c. vers vlt. Which being a repetition of the seauenth verse in the self same words and syllables carmen amaebaeum maie seeme to stand in the first place as a challendge and defiance to al aduersarie forces Dominus virtutū nobiscum we wil not feare for thousands and tē thousands whole armies of mē legiōs of deuills the gates of hel and when they haue
proued demonstrated cleared the truth of their assertion they singe it once more in the last place as their Paean their victorious and triumphāt songe Dominus virtutum nobi scū c. Looke not for much explication discourse at my hands you shal finde me a short paraphrast or scholiast application is my end My text seruing me to noe other vse then as a seal or stamp or mold which whē J haue set to the late storie of our times you shal find if not so liuelie in al points of collation yet some liklie expression and forme of my text sticking vpon it For the order then and connexion of the words in breife thus it standeth 1 They propose The Lord of hostes is with vs. How proue they that 2 Thus. Come and behold his works That were an endlesse taske 3 They giue Instance in a species VVhat desolations he hath wroght Yet this were to lardg a feild to range in 4 They exemplifie some one kind of them hee maketh warrs to cease How shal that appeare 5 By a sufficient enumeration He taketh awaie al instruments of warre breaketh the bow c. 6 Then followeth the counsaile Lastlie the conclusion Touching the proposition Dominus virtutum nobiscum c. They not onlie presume it laie it for their surest ground as a maxime and principle which they wil neuer bee driuen from but assume it vnto themselues in the hypothesis and appropriate it to their people persons Nobiscum noster Which are not onlie voces charitatis words of charitie whē by a stile of pluralitie and community they comprehend al the members of their state but voces fidei words of faith also when they make Iehouam exercituum the vniuersal Lord of the world whose power is over al to bee their proper peculiar God Like wise builders that build vpon the rocke al the winds and stormes in the world maie beate vpon their house either of Church or Kingdome but cannot shake them Wise Merchāts that sell al the substance they haue to buy one pearle more valuable and precious then al the rest Vnus omnia And omniam omnibus Compendiū mirabile One Lord of hostes is more vnto them then al the armes of flesh and bloud al armies of men and Angels all the powers in heauen and earth One God of Iacob more vnto them then al the Gods of Ammon Aram Moab and whatsoeuer is named God throughout the whole world But that which I obserue principally in the proposition is the wisdome and perfection of their speech For according to the two members of it so doe they stile God with two titles and ascribe vnto him two attributes or actions His titles are Dominus virtutum Deus Iacob That is to saie strong sweet The one virium the other voluntatis the on of ability the other of willingnes the on roboris the other faederis One of power an other of fauor one of maiestie an other of mercie on of puissāce another of promise in a word one vniuersal the other more special J remember the counsaile of the Sonn of Syrach Facito verbis tuis stateram Ballance thy words euē Was there euer speech in the book of God more equallie ballanced In the one skale you haue the Lord of Hostes virū or rather Deum bellatorem vvith whom it is al one to saue with manie or vvith few the God of Gods with his out streched arme of power and his right hande bringing terrible things to passe whose throne is the heauen of heauens the earth his footstoole the sea his washpot Angels his ministring spirits men his vessels of claie Deuils the vassals of his wrath and al the creatures in the vvorld euen the poore insectes flies the scorns of nature executioners of his vengance and able by his appointmēt to lay one sure strokes O this is a glorious and feareful skale who can abide it Who euer saw God in his strength liued What piller of heauen or what foundation of the vvorld could stand if there were not an nother skale to match and mitigate the rigor of his strength Behold then in the other part there is the God of Iacob in which name is comprised vvhatsoeuer belōgeth to mercie fauor compassion whatsoeuer to election dilection purchase inheritance promise couenant word sacrament Nay the prescription and antiquitie of his loue is exprest herein for Deus Iacob beareth an auncient date And these two together Lord of hosts God of Iacob make a iust aequi-libriū betweene greatnes and grace and bring al things to a faire medlie a sweet and acceptable harmonie like that in the 34. of Exod. The Lord the Lord Stronge there is the roote of all afterwards mercifull gracious c. a number of goodlie branches springing frō that roote The actions ascribed vnto him are likwise two The one of presēce Nobi scum the other of protection susceptor noster arx exaltatio locus editus the latter is an auxesis increase to the former Dominus nobiscum is not so much vnlesse you vnderstand that great mysterie which was hidden from the beginning of the world and reuealed in fulnes of time that is Emanuel Dominus nobiscum God in our nature God in our flesh for God is present to al his creatures Iouis omnia plena caelum terram impleo I fil heauen and earth VVhether shal I flie from thy spirit if I climbe vp into heauen c. Hee is present with those that shunne his presence that saie vnto him depart from vs and thinke they are safe from his sight Tush none seeth the God of Iacob regardeth not But when it is added that God is not onlie with vs but for vs nobiscum and pro nobis then are we safe secure from all possible dangers The assertion I confesse is verie audacious if it be not wel warranted Many haue trusted in lying words as the Prophet Ieremy speaketh Templum Domini Templum Domini and whie not these aswel brachium Domini brachiū Domini the arme of the Lord is with vs and perhaps noe such matter They are not the first that haue been deceaued There were that called thē selues the children of Abrahā the disciples of Moyses the sōnes of the most High were nothing lesse You saie the Lord of hostes is with you and the God of Iaakob your defense How proue you it Or why yours more then the whole world 's besides Assured it is there were noe outward apparant transient worke from God to perswade vs of his presence and defense if besides his promises which promises are yea amen besides his word othe which word and othe are 2. immutable things wee had nothing to stand vpon if he made as if hee slept and had thrust his hand of working into his bosome would not drawe it out but might seeme to haue forgotten to be gracious and to haue buried his mercies in euerlasting
restraint but they wil euade thee Dij talem terris auertite pestem Nec louis imperium nec Phlegetonta timent And therfore as they said in Rome Exeat ex vrbe Catilina Catiline must bee spewed out before the Citie could haue quiet so maie we saie if we wish peace to the Kingdomes and Countries of the earth Exe at ex vrbe and ex orbe Iesuita from whom there is noe peace but rebus sic stantibus and dum vires suppetunt til they be able to make their partes good Sed tua praecipuè non intret limina qui squam Frater vel monachus vel quâvis lege sacerdos And aboue al things take heed that you admit neither Preist nor Iesuite nor Iesuited busy Papist within your houses Of these there were sundrie in this bloudy attempt Some of them fixed as it were in their orbes staple Legier Iesuites like principal bad angels set ouer provinces Baldwin ouer Flanders Creswel ouer Spaine Garnet ouer England other planetory cursorie moueable from place to place as Gerard Tesmond Hammōd Hal with the like Their offices were to animate authorize warrāt absolue sacrifice pray yea prophecie too You remēber their psalmodie The memorie of nouelties shal perish with a CRACK and hee shall come as a flame that bursteth out beyond the fornace and his furie shal flie forth as a thunder in a moment shall hee crush their bones that when it had come to passe according to these predictions they might haue said dixit dominus os domini loquutum est The Lorde hath said it the mouth of the Lord foretold it There wanteth yet a third sort for execution Vlysses maie perswade but Diomedes must through with it There must bee hands as wel as heads Behold a number of Gentlemen with others their followers some of noble and worthie descent sed quantae tenebrae a quo fulmine al our countriemen and patriotes all fed with the fat of the land but a viperous generation not sparing the bowels of their mother that breed them some that are the salt of the pallace and beheld the face of the King in place of neare attendance al drūck with the dregges of the cup of Babylon and ful as the spider with Iesuitical poyson they ouerflow with the gal of bitternes and want but meanes matter wherin to disgordg thēselues to the attaining wherof they lay their heads together and according to the worde of the Psalme scrutati sunt iniquitates defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio they beate wearie their brains to devise to some purpose At length they draw together into a knot as an impostume to an head close like the skales of Leuiathan that the breath cannot get betweene they take oath of secresie and persistance was euer the name of God so fowlie dishonoured they confirme it with the blessed sacrament o more then Iewish impietie they vowed they would neither eate nor drinke at their common tables till they had the head of Paul they would fast it out These eate drinke at the table of the Lord the bodie and bloud of our blessed Sauiour vpon a bargaine of bloud to haue the heads both of head and members and to make a poole a floud a whole red sea of bloud with the slaughter of manie thousands Busirides arae clementes Are these their sacrifices these their sacramēts In a word they vndertake they resolue they sweare they deuouer and execrate themselues with that tragick instigation Excede pietas awaie yee bowells of compassion natural affection begone thoughts of humanitie prickles of conscience sparkes of reason barrs of religiō feare of God reuerence of men difference of persons high low old yong nocent innocent al depart Sic sic iuvat ire our harts are fixed our harts are fixed to vndergoe a worke opus solitudinis a work of desolation opus mirabilitèr singulare singularitèr mirabile a work which whosoeuer heareth of his two eares shal tingle and his hart-strings shal tremble one for al a worke that containeth in it mille actus vetitos mille piacula to become paricides Reginides Regnicides at once with on catholike that is vniuersal blow to cut of all the heads of the land as it were vpon one the same shoulders The kind of desolation that Dauid giueth instance in is auferens bella he maketh VVarrs to cease Ours is not species but monstrum cannot be defined within anie kind Their first proiect was warre whilst our Debora was yet liuing to that purpose they had a treatie with Spaine for an other inuasion But then we would haue buckled our armour vnto vs and haue girt our swords vpon our thighes we would haue brought into the field pares aquilas alike forces and haue opposed bow vnto bow speare vnto speare chariot vnto chariot But maior mihi metus ex leone quam ex vulpe I euer feared their fraudes more then forces their warrs neuer did neuer could anoy vs Astus polenti or armis Their trust is in stratagemes and trecheries Insidiantur in abscondito quasi leones in spelunca sua They lie in waite in their the euish corners as a lion lurketh in his den They saie to the ground couer vs and to a subterraneous vault keep vs close Vt sagittent in occultis immaculatum that they may shoot at the innocent in secret and if their occultum speed it followeth in the Psalme subito sagittabunt eum they wil also do it suddenly They shal receaue a terrible blow and not see who hurt them They begin their worke with a mine vnder ground Romish pioners Antichistiā molewarps hellish Tenebrios and with improbitie of labour to speed the impietie of their harts half dig through a wale of three yards in thicknes Cursed bee their rage for it was cruel and their malice for it was verie painful They might haue plowed vpō the rock as wel Frō the mine to a cellar as fit for a dē of theeus as the mine was iust vnder the Capitol the higher house of Parliament that where the lawes had beene made said they there the lawmakers might receaue their punishment This cellar they store with 36. barrels great and smal of gunpowder the inuention of a Monke a deuill the daughter of salt and sulphure mother of the first borne of death nothing maketh a quicker end together with billets and fagots and peeces of timber and barres of iron and massie stones al deadlie and murthering artillerie and are now euen readie with match touchwood in the hād of FAVX a firebrand indeed against the 5. of Nouēber was two yeare at what time these smokie Locustes out of their mercilesse pit of more then Neronian Catilinarie dispositions crying 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and incendium ruina extinguam let heauē and earth burne and let nothing quench the fire but the ruine and downfal of al these audacious Phäetōs running a desperat dreadful course meant to haue made