did not demand with grones of heart Misericors quid facit VVhat meaneth his Maiestie to deale so graciouslie with them Some iustice with mercy and lenitie woulde doe wel Some frostes with the fire that warmeth these snakes in the bowels of your lande Some pluckes at these thornes and prickles in our eies the meane time and wil bee hereafter in our â—ides and hearts Least if iustice goe on to sleepe as â—t were hir dead sleepe the tares of disloialty treasons and seditions be so thicke sowen in the field of your kingdomes by those envious men the seedes-meÌ„ of Rome that it wil be difficulty and maistry afterwards to remoue them The foundations you haue heard before were in sundry acceptions I omitted one of all the rest that fundamenta were retia nets which the wicked spred to entrappe the righteous their crafty and clandestine couÌ„sailes whervpon they built the whole frame of their mischiefes These were cast downe al their proiects descried their purposes frustrated But by whom For iustus quid fecit What hath the righteous done to breake those snares and to deliver himselfe That is the path which Basill with some others walke in so they make the connexion The answere is nihil nothing lesse then nothing Ad dominum ceu anchoram sacram confugit hee fled to the Lord as his anker altar sanctuarie cittie of refuge tower of defence mons in vertice montium mountaine aboue all mountaines that is to saie helper aboue all worldelie helpers The Lorde is in his holy temple The Lordes seate is in heaven Our soule hath also escaped as a birde from the snare of the fowler The snare is broken and vvee are delivered By whome Benedictus d. Blessed be the Lorde that hath not giuen vs vp a pray to their teeth That is Dominus in templo suo sancto If the Lord had not bin on our side may England now saie if the Lord had not beene on our side what then Our foundations had beene cast downe and theirs had beene reared vp But adiutorium nostrum Our helpe standeth in the name of the Lord which made heauen and earth Dominus in templo sancto suo But what will the wicked saie Dominus in templo sancto suo Dominus in coelo c. What is that to vs populus in scabello maie doe what they list Dominus deseruit terram The Lorde hath forsaken the earth Not so Jt is answered in my text Oculi eius respiciunt his eies behold nay palpebrae eius interrogant his very eylidds consider hee siteth not idly in heaueÌ„ as the wicked imagin There is apertio oculorum saith S Austin and opertio OpeÌ„ning and shutting the eie in God his eie his eielid God seeth with his open eie when hee discouereth a thing at the present and causeth vs also to see it But considereth with his eielid when he maketh as if he slept winketh at the waies of sinners taketh leasure and respite before he bring them to light It is not to be thought but that oculus respexit if you coÌ„sider himselfe the bright eie of the Lord was vpon the first thought and imagination of this Salmonean thunder and lighning and followed theÌ„ in the whole course therof went with them when they trudged to Doway and gadded to Spaine marked the hissing of the bee of Aegypt to the fly of Assur all the intelligeÌ„ce I meane that past betwixt the Leiger Iesuite in England with the leigers of Flaunders and Spaine yet he bewraied not this at the first but palpebrae eius explorarunt he sate with his eies shut considered vnder his eieliddes bare himselfe silent and stil let them runne on til they had runne themselues to perdition You see what palpebrae are I could giue you strange examples perhapps not proper to this daie more then others yet neither impertinent to my duty nor vnacceptable to a loiall auditorie nor strangers to my text where palpebrae are mentioned nor aliene from the worke we haue in hand our greate Hallelüiah and solemne sacrifice of praise thanksgiuing For doe we blesse God for preseruing the life of our King and shal we not blesse him for preseruing the honour of our King I verilie assure my selfe that discrimen and narrow exigent of life which his Maiestie was put vnto when he was in the fanges of the Lion in the very armes gripes of death did not so much afflict him as an vndeserued crime imputation cast vpoÌ„ him of a dishonorable fact done Qui negligit famaÌ„ homicida est It was 8. years since vpoÌ„ the fifth of August last that the Gowries conspired against the life of the Lordes annointed and receaued their deserued meed There haue beene oculi nequam in the world mistrustfull eies that haue looked awry vpon that fact euer since would not beleeue it But what hath the Lord done the meanetime Albeit oculus non respexit his eie did not open out of hand and giue them present satisfaction yet palpebrae explorarunt his eieliddes considered he thought vpon it in secret in the counsaile of his owne heart and by a posthumous penitent tonfession after the conspirators were most of them dead and almost rotten of one of the complices themselues laid it as it were in the sunne-beames and put it past al question It were strange to giue you a parallele to this coetaneous I thinke in time and of the same standing It was eight yeares since likewise in the daies of Clement the eighth that Letters were sent vnto Rome to the Pope and two Cardinals Aldobrandine and Bellarmine wherein the hande of the King was abused his heart neuer coulde I doe but touch by the way I am vox clamantis the voice to a famous crier and lowde trumpetter of these thinges The matter hath long slept yeares after yeares haue expired and Pope deceased after Pope But palpebrae eius explorârunt though the eie of the Lorde hath not seemed to stirre al this while his Eie-liddes haue considered and bethought of the meanes and opportunitie to bring all forth And now at length truth the daughter of time or rather of the euerliving God though not by that miracle in the Psalme Ex ore infantium yet by an other not inferiour Ex ore malignantium out of the mouthes and hearts of enimies which intended a scandall to his sacred person hath as strangely discouered this as that other to the glorie of his great name and the honour both of king and kingdome Both these haue the eie-liddes of the Lorde considered and revealed the one after eight yeares and the other after eight the one by an actor or accessarie to the fact the other by the actour the one by occasion of papers and skrolles the other by occasion of papers and pamphlets And now to the seruice of this happie day wherein wee sing our Hosanna and commemorate our great and general iubilee Let this bee added as not the
but when they were sicke I put on sackcloth and mourned for them as for mine owne mothers sonne this was all the hurt I euer did them 1. Sam. 12. Behold saith Samuell here am I beare recorde VVhose Oxe haue I taken Or whose Asse haue I taken Or to whom haue I euer done wrong They answere Thou hast neuer done vs wrong Wherfore then do yee call for a king VVhat iniquity haue your fathers found in me saith God 2. Ier. VVherein hane I grieved thee Testifie against me 6. Mich. Many good deeds haue I done amongst you for which of my good deedes saith our Sauiour in his Gospell The conclusion of all is Oderunt me gratis The righteous Lord and his righteous Christ and their righteous seruants suffer these wrongs from the wicked without cause You see what aggrauateth Men as innocent as innocēcy it selfe yet persequuted with mortal immortall hatred both by force and fraud and that to their vtter extinguishment and eradication from the face of the earth So much of the distresse the deliuerance which was my latter part I referre to conclude with The wicked bend their bowe c Haue I spoken all this while as to men that slept Or doth any man aske me in fine narrationis at the ende of my tale quis est hic what meaneth the man As when the high Preist adiured our blessed Sauiour Art thou the Christ the sonne of The liuing God Pilate the like about his kingdome Art thou the King of the Iewes His answere was Thou saiest it what need more words So the very words of my text only read and recited in your eares doe sufficiently declare what my meaning is J say againe which were enough for application The wicked had bent his bow and made ready his arrowes vpon the string to shoote privily at the vpright in heart and our foundations must haue bin cast downe and what had the righteous done Certè it was as sure as that we haue breath and being to praise the name of our God who are heare mett together It is no fictiō as that they wil tell you of Squire out of Spaine you know the author It is no questiō betweene them and vs for Catholikes they say no lesse then Protestāts admit the due detestation Ergo the true concession conviction of it It was not done in a corner It was a spectacle to God and Angells and men It is not so auncient superannate as the story of Pope Iore which hath gained by the age of it now skarsly to be beleeued This was recenti memoriâ factum a matter of yesterday this very day three yeares the fift of Nouēber blessed be Gods holy name did this popish prodigious brat suffer abortion I must adde the Eccè to Behold But an eccè of an higher straine thē any other in the booke of God not an eccè as at a pyramis or Pharos ' or Colossus solis or any the like wonderfull but with all delectable and pleasing obiect rather an eccè as at some portentuous comet or fearfull firie meteor in the aire which men behold both with wōder horror Eccè I may be bold with the tongue of Moyses Deut. 4. to saie Aske of the daies of olde that haue beene before you since the daie that God created man vpon the earth and from the one ende of heauen to the other sifacta est aliquandò huiuscemodi res if euer the like thing were done and it may bee answered by that of the 12. tribes of Jsraell concerning the dismembred Levites wise 19. Iud. Nunquam res talis facta est in Israel ex quo c. The like was neuer done nor heard of in Israel nor throughout the world since the first day that mā was created When Sixtus quintus began his encomiasticall oration of the Jacobine that killed the French King he taketh the words of the Prophet Habbacuk for his entrance Behold a worke wrought in your daies you will not beleeue it when it shall be tolde you a poore Friar hath slaine a king not a king in paper a painted king but the great king of France c. Antisixtus returneth them vpon him againe Behold a worke wrought in our daies you will not beleeue it when it shall be tolde you Our holy father the Pope hath defended a most nefarious parricide regicide I haue more right to the words then they both togither with the preface vnto them Aspicite ingentibus videte admiramint obstupescite see and behold and wonder and bee astoed let me adioine from the 13. of the Acts where the place is alleadged 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vanish cease to haue power in your selues to see or thinke any more quia opus factum in diebus nostris shal I saie a worke done No it was the worke of the Lord in die illâ that it was not done but an attēpt parturitiō of a worke brought to the very instant of birth such as let strangers heare the report of they cannot beleeue it Behold that which so many millions of eies since those windowes were first opened in the head of man to behold the light of heauen I say so many millions of eies in their seueral generatiōn now sunke down into their holes and consumed within their tabernacles neuer saw neuer those glorious and constant lights of the firmament those cleare and christalline eies of nature which walke through the whole world and giue no rest to their temples the sunne that wardeth by daie and the moone that waketh by night they neuer saw the like I say not for the indiuiduum but not for the species though let them not deceaue themselues nor you this was not species but monstrū They wil bring you precedents to this from Antwerpe the Hage and I know not whence A succedent I graunt nearest vnto it of all others I thinke from hence it tooke light in the yeare 1606 whē Boris the vsurping Duke of Moscua foreseeing his death placed in a subterra neous vault of the pallace a statue with a burning lampe in the hand of it the burning to continue till it should take a traine of powder purposly hid there to haue blowen vp the Pallace destroied Demetrius his rightfull successor But it commeth far short of this The wicked and what God hath ioigned let not me put a sunder eccè impij behold the wicked wicked with an eccè demonstrable rather indemonstrable wicked we demonstrate not principia these were principles and first heads of impiety They may be articled as the deuill in the gospell 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the wicked the most abominably desolately deperditely wicked of all others in whome was the roote of wickednesse and the deepnes of Sathan had possest their hearts Mē of wicked witts wicked wills wicked hands wicked labours it was labor improbus indeed wicked dispositions wicked designes wicked names some of them
wicked vowes wicked othes wicked sacraments wicked praiers wicked religion wicked all things Their offrings of bloud wil I not offer saith the Psalme Apud Barbaros saith Lactantius sacrificatum cum humano cruore Barbarians sacrificed with mans bloud He goeth a step farther Latini non expertes The Latines are not free from it and addeth Latialis Iupiter etiam nunc sanguine colitur humano Etiam nunc even at this day but howlong Lord righteous and true before thou avenge it the Latine Laterane Iupiter or rather Saturne the deuourer of his children or rather Moloch must be sacrificed vnto with humane bloud O dementiam in sanabilem the same father incurable madnes when sacrifices are so sacred and execrable sacraments for assasinates masses for massacres Quid illis isti dij amplius facere possent si essent iratissimi quà m faciunt propitij cum suos cultores parricidijs inquināt Is this religion Nonne satius est pecudum more viuere quà m deos tam impios tam prophanos tam sāguinarios colere were it not better to be without religion I say no more of them Populus Romanus est Nec breuiùs potui nec apertiùs Bernard spake of the citizens I of the members and disciples of the Church of Rome They belong to Rome that Laerna malorum where Hydra the beast with many heads dwelleth the Colluuies and common sewer of all infande wickednes where no lawe of God nor man nature nor nation escapeth breaking where Dominus Deus noster papa with a plate of blasphemy nailed on his browe the greate Archimandrites of the worlde and his stables and stalles of vnhallowed breasts fax sacrificulorum grex monachorum armentum Cardinalium with their decrees and decretals canons and glosses bulles breues indulgences haue concluded caused to be done after the doing dogmatized defended more outragious exorbitant wickednesse then euer hath beene red or heard of vnder the cope of heauen The woman iniquity Zach. 5. which was carried into the land of Sennaar vt aedisicetur ei domus hath bin long since transported into the cittie church of Rome vt ibi ponatur super basin suam there is hir surest dwelling The wicked bend their bowe when they wrest pervert scripture make ready their arrowes when they end forth sharpe and sophistical arguments witty wily pamphlets and shoot priuilie at the vpright in heart when with their subdolous sly insinuations of reconciling them to the mother church and converting their soules they overreach the simple credulous This they do daily But these are not the archers I now meane They are of an other band pyrobolarij they shoot wild-fire hell-fire Their arrowes haue spiritum in alis winde in their fethers they should haue flowen and blowne with a witnes miserable destruction in their heads Such archers such artillery neuer was No meruaile they were Roman archers and their artillery was shaped in the shop of Iesuits and Priests I seuer them not Iannes Iambres are fellowes in sorcery and the Libbard Lyonesse though of diuers kinds will company togither to make a Leopard Jesuits and Priestes to doe a mischiefe I say of Iesuits and Priests the cunning Pyracmons and Cyclopes fireworkers in the world and maisters of all villanies These shoot not at clowtes but Crownes Sceptres Monarchies Empires not at crowes but men Kings Queenes Princes peoples states not for wagers pastime but to make havock and wast vpon the earth and to bring al that withstādeth or offendeth to vtter destruction The bow that the wicked in my chase bent was neither of yron nor steele A man may flee from the iron weapons Iob. 20. a bow of steele hath beene broken by the arme Psal. 18. This was a bow of a stronger tougher making more vnresistable stuffe I meane a Cellar of strong sides impenetrably thicke wals darke and deepe closely compact that is as much as to say hard-bent where little or no vent and passage was left for the breath and furie to issue out like the amphora or pitcher in Zacharie wedged with a talēt of leade at the mouth of it to keepe in the strength Jt was as wel and as strongly strung with 36. barrels of gun-powder great and small for the more violenteiaculation vibration and speed of the arrowes Their arrowes were fagots billets peeces of timber barres of iron massy stones togither with all the timber in the beames and iuices al the tubble and stones in the wals of that great and glorious pile rather pallace of building where they framed their engine The Campus Martius they were to shoot in the soile the seat the very centre of the parliament-house Their marke the fairest in the field the tallest poppies in the gardē Fight neither with great nor small saue onlie with the king of Israel was the chardge 1. Reg. 22. here otherwise shoot not only at the king of Israell but at reginam à dextris the Queene at his right hand and principem haeredem at his knees at the counsaile both of secresie and state at Moses and Aaron prelate and potentate angulos populi angelos domini at all the worthies of David the first second and third rancke the great Sanedrim the strēgth flower of the land the whole land it selfe in collection and representation the 3. estats 3. essential parts like the head heart and liuer without either of which no life of pollicy is This was their archery and this had surely come to passe the arrow was euen then vpon the string their doome day was come the candle and match were in the hand to the vtter extirpation of the King and his race the alienation of the sceptre of Iudah the extinction of Preist and sacrifice eversion of Nobles and their families extermination of Christ and his Gospell out of the kingdome profligation of iustice and religion if our gracious Lord God by the reuolution returne of yeares now publikely and solēnly thrice blessed and to the latest generation of the world to be blessed for euer had not giuen warning to those that feared his name vt fugerent à facie arcus to fly from the rage of this bow by letters more then hieroglyphicall aenigmaticall interpreted by a wisedome more then humane not lesse then angelicall But ne glorietur let not the wiseman glory in his wisdome Da veniam imperator pardon me gracious Soueraigne it was not flesh and bloud that revealed these mysteries and riddles vnto you sed Pater qui in coelis angelus magni consilij your father Sauiour that is in heauen You haue seen their bow arrowes artillery weapons engines ordinance for battery more then double centuple Canon Iouius writeth of Alfonsus D. of Ferrara that hee made with his owne hands 2 peeces of ordinance invsitatae magnitudinis violentiae the one of which had to name terraemotus earthquake the other