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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03080	The triumph of the Church over water and fire. Or A thankfull gratulation for that miraculous deliverance of the Church and state of Great Britaine, from the Romish Tophet: or, that barbarous and savage Powder-plot As it was delivered (for substance) in a sermon at Blacke Fryers in London on the fifth of November. 1625. By Theodor Hering, minister of the Word of God.; Triumph of the Church over water and fire.	Herring, Theodore, 1596-1645.	1625 (1625)	STC 13204; ESTC S104029	27,216	53

flame so vnsatiable it is that nothing but the heart-blood of the Lambe will content those rauenous Woolues Consider their cruelty as for craft they are foxes and for subtilty Serpents so for cruelty roaring ramping Lions that will leaue no designe be it neuer so barbarous vnattempted but will prosecute it to the vtmost of their power Consider their sedulitie as the Devill their Master himselfe goes about continually seeking whom hee may deuoure so his Impes they compasse Sea and Land to make a Proselite of their owne and to render him ten-sold more the childe of the Devill Their Enemies are many their name is Legion their enemies are mighty Ephe 6.12 they fight with Principalities and Powers which are in high places no marueile if their troubles be many and mighty Their enemies are many and mischeiuous cruell and barbarous needes must their tryals be many their case grieuous their estate dangerous Finally they may thanke themselues for it their sinnes are many their sinnes are mighty many sinnes cause many afflictions mighty sinnes procure mighty troubles Lay not the blame then on Religion but on thy Corruption Gods dearest children will venture on noisome meate and hurtfull poison they will drinke downe the very gall of Aspes they will be walking neare Hels mouth their Father therefore takes them by the heeles and makes them belieue he will throw them in They will bee dallying with the fire no marueile if they be scorched with the flame they will be running into the water no marueile if they be drenched in the waues they will be laying the Serpent in their bosome no marueile if they be stung with that Scorpion They defile them selues with grosse sins and therefore must haue much washing they take in the deadliest poison and therefore must haue working Physicke while coruption is so strong let them looke for it many and mighty corruptions will procure many and mighty afflictions Vse 1 The emprouement is made by the Apostles 1. Pet. 1.7 chap. 4.13 thinke it not strange concerning the fiery tryall so Peter Count it great ioy when you fall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 into divers temptations so Iames. Iames 1.2 If wee passe vnder seuere sharpe corrections and be forced to drinke of gall and wormewood this is no new thing Those whom hee loues most hee corrects most and if wee feele not the rod at all Heb. 12.8 well may we suspect we are bastards not children when wee reade of the troubles of David when we heare of the afflictions of Ioseph when we heare or see or reade of the calamities of our Brethren let it not dismay vs too much What though the Churches in Bohemia in the Palatinate in the Low-Countries be now floating in the midst of the water What though in the midst of the fire in thee furnace What if that fire which was kindled in Bohemia which flamed in France which hath burnt vp and deuoured the Palatinate some sparkles thereof should fly ouer-sea quod omen Deus avertat which God forbid why should they or we thinke much to pledge our Sauiour in that cup which he began to vs hee dranke the very lees and dregges of that mixed wine we doe but sip and tast the top of it Let our troubles be neuer so many Christs were more neuer so great Christs were greater He went through the water when he sweat drops of blood he went through the fire when like that good Phoenix he continued on the crosse fluttering his winges ouer the burning coales of his Fathers indignation till by suffering the extremitie of it he quenched that flame with his owne blood which els had burnt to the bottome of Hell Vse 2 This secondly affoords Comfort as to all the members of Christ in particular who 〈◊〉 are baptized whether Baptismo sluminis or baptismo slaminis with this Baptisme of fire or water so especially to these our Churches and this our State of Great Britaine in Generall If the mightie God of Iacob had not called vs by name and given to this Ioseph that parti-coloured coate the livery of his loue the Covenant of grace wee should neuer haue beene so maligned by Satan so hated of the world so persecuted by Sea and Land so driven through fire and water wee should never haue beene hated so mortally handled so cruelly butchered so barbarously plotted against so divellishly If any Nation vnder the Cope of Heauen can apply this prophecie this promise to themselues wee may challenge it and finde it verified literally spiritually euery way of these Churches of this State wee haue gone through the fire Psal 129.1.2 and through them water Many a time haue they afflicted me from my youth vp may England now say many a time haue they afflicted mee from my youth vp Remember Edom may England cry remember Edom O God which said Downe with it downe with it even to the ground wee will raze out their name and memoriall from vnder Heaven True indeede while wee carried the marke of the Beast in our foreheads while wee bare like Balaams Asse that Balaam of Rome and suffered his intolerable exactions giuing vp our selues our states goods soules as slaues and vassals of Antichrist who but the English Who more favoured at the Court of Rome While our treasure was inexhastus puteus as that Pope scoffingly a Mine that could not be dreined that which the Indies are to Spaine that was England to Rome now wee were his Holines white Sonnes he our Ghostly father what blessing had we from him What Immunities What red hattes What Indulgences What not the Devill smiles while he is pleased but ever since the time of Reformation so couragiously attempted by King Henry the eight so devoutly prosecuted by that Noble Iosias whose early holines King Edward the sixth and timely seeking of the Lord deserues an everlasting Monument so happily seconded promoted after some interruption by our famous Deborah that late match-lesse peere-lesse Queene of ever blessed memory Queene Elizabeth so constantly perpetuated consummated and to this day continued by our most wise and Renowned Soueraigne Lord King IAMES Ever since wee haue shaken off that thousand times worse then Egyptian bondage ever since wee brake off that iron yoke of Babel that so long held vs vnder the Devill hath shewed himselfe in his likenesse what Buls haue roared from Rome What Excommunications What Anathema's haue bin Thundred out by that Man of sinne What cursings with Bell Booke Candle How haue wee beene adiudged for Heretickes sentenced to flames reputed worse then Infidels then Dogges Vide Dr Hall One of their Iesuites giues vp himselfe for damnd if such Heretickes as wee can be saued How is it made a meritorious Act a worke of super-errogation to murther our King to blow vp our State to desolate and depopulate our Kingdome Many haue beene our Troubles many and great many secret conspiracies many open incursions many forraine attempts of enemies abroad many