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A57829	Mirmah, or, The deceitful witness a prophecy of Solomon, now first and seasonably discovered, wherein the deceitful witnesses of Rome are made manifest to all, and our Protestant witnesses are justified, praised, and defended, chiefly the late happy discoverers of the Romish plots & deceits : being a sermon preached Novemb. 5 on Prov. 14.25 : a true witness delivereth souls, but a deceitful witness speaketh lies, or, as the original signifies, the lord of Rome speaketh lies / by William Ramsay ...	Ramsay, William, B.D.; Ramsay, William, fl. 1680. Mirmah, Maromah, Maroum.	1679 (1679)	Wing R219; ESTC R13073	11,934	34

glory in it Not one Priest confess'd it to repent of it Which is more wonderfull than our present case They dyed glorying openly in that horrid Plot as one of them boasted that he had wrought under ground in his Shirt till he sweat But now in this plot the eyes of the Nation are so open'd and all discern so clearly the horrour of such Facts that the most impudent Devils of Hell could not openly glory in such things The Jesuits then and Romish Plotters had good reason to change their Council since the Powder-plot and to prescribe to their Martyrs another Form of Confession to be us'd at their Martyrdoms and that they did so is to me a certain thing Indeed the Form they us'd was very subtilly contrived but is not wonderful at all to them that are acquainted with their methods of Equivocation which is an Art of no small Circle and teacheth how to equivocate most when they most protest against it as the Liar never lies more than when he swears he lyes not at all And what is Equivocation but the most deceitful Art of Lying proper to these deceitful Witnesses Yet I say this That holding the Principles of the Church of Rome to be true as these men certainly held even at their death they might protest themselves to be innocent from all manner of plotting or acting against the King or Kingdom without any Equivocation at all For without all Equivocation this is certainly true in their principles that the Pope has the Right of the Kingdom of England and he that acts for the Pope cannot act against the Kingdom And I dare say that for this very principle there are hundreds of Priests ready to dye and would expect the Worship and Crowns of Martyrs should they dye so For among them he that dyes for the Cause of the Pope is a more glorious Martyr than he that dyes for the bare Cause of Christ So Anselm and Becket those Rebels are as glorious Saints as any in the Romish Kalendar and Beckets Feast is primae Classis equal to Christs but the Feasts of the Apostles are secundae Classis a Form below I say then those that dyed for this Plot made more Confession than those of the Powder-plot For those of the Powder-plot made but one Confession of the Fact glorying openly in it But these have confest both Fact and Crime for by a subtle artificial Form of Justification they made a Confession of the thing And also by not daring to boast in it openly as their Brethren had done before they made a Confession of the Crime and of the shamefull horrour of it And certainly the horrour of the Fact and publick shame was the only reason why these new kind of Martyrs Martyrs of Maromah made no more open Confession And I verily believe if England do its part to make this Romish plot evident to the world it will prove sufficient to make Rome and her Religion stink that no King or people in the World shall endure it Thus we have all the Evidence we can require concerning these horrid plots of Rome And this plot of 78. has no less yea much more Evidence than that of the Powder-treason and greater Evidence cannot reasonably be demanded yet greater Evidence I doubt not but a short time will produce But we have produced enough to our purpose to shew that according to Solomons Prophecy the Protestant Witnesses are true Witnesses but Maromah's Witnesses deceitfull I need not say much more to explain the Epithete of the Prophecy That the Protestant Witness delivereth Souls but Maromah's Witness speaketh lies For it 's plain our Witnesses God be bless'd have deliver'd our Souls even the Soul of our King and of the best of his people from most fearfull destruction And in this late Plot our Witness has deliver'd us not from one way but from many wayes of destruction For the Plotters had prepared all the Instruments of Death that Hell could produce Fire and Sword Jesuit-powder and Balls and all the new Ignatian Inventions Nay Poyson and Dagger too even for the King Armies at home Armies from abroad They had gather'd men of all Professions and almost of all Nations to carry on the work We cannot now instance so much as future times may But this we can say Englishmen Irishmen Scotchmen Frenchmen and very probably men of the other neighbouring Nations not only Martial men but Divines Lawyers Physicians Astrologers Religious of all Orders all have been deeply plotting against us And from the mouths of all these devouring Beasts our Witnesses have deliver'd our Souls Well then may that be repeated to their praise A True Witness delivereth Souls I will add that in all probability the very Motive and End of the Testimony of our Witnesses was to deliver Souls not their own but ours For whosoever will consider the certain Dangers which these Witnesses underwent by offering such a Discovery and the uncertain Issue of making out their Evidence and withstanding their Adversaries which they could not be ignorant of must needs conclude that nothing could move these men to offer at such a Discovery but either the force of an affrighting Conscience or an invincible love of Truth or a natural Sympathy and heart-melting Compassion towards their King Countrey Friends and Acquaintance all ready to be fearfully Massacred or in fine an irresistible Impulse from God who by thus defeating the Plots of Men and Satan and by making their own Tongues to fall upon them would shew himself to be God indeed a God that loves to save and not to destroy a God that can punish the Wicked by their own works and preserve his own as it pleaseth him A God who loves to do good and great things by his own hand and for his own Names sake who exalts his Mercy above all his other Works who only disposeth of Kings and Kingdoms whom all Kings and Kingdoms ours especially ought to serve and fear to praise and magnifie for ever and ever Let then Solomons Proverb be spoken in earnest of our Witnesses by way of prophecy and of praise A true Witness delivereth Souls But of Romish Witnesses the other part is no less verified Maromah A Deceitful Witness speaketh lies He will do it on his Death-bed at the Barr on the Gallows and which is more at the Sacrament Nay these men were bound by the Sacrament to lye both in Life and in Death and that by a Triple Sacrament of an Oath of Confession and of the Eucharist They died like Judas as wickedly but more politickly He confest and was asham'd and hang'd himself They were asham'd and would be hang'd rather than confess I might add to seal the veracity of our Witnesses that whereas the Romish Witnesses even packs of them as that pack of St. Omers and that of Stafford-shire too have been overtaken in palpable Lies and Contradictions yet the minutest Criticks of our time and those not a few nor a little busie have not

them which concern Souls But I shall confine my Discourse to two most eminent causes of Fact that is the Powder-plot of Ann. 1605 and the Plot of 78. or of the last year if it may not rather be term'd a Plot of present being My business will be this To prove unto ye that in both Plots no less in this than in that the Prophecy of Solomon is fulfilled That the Protestant VVitness is the true VVitness and delivereth Souls but Mirmah the Romish VVitness is the deceitful Witness and speaketh lies First That our Protestant VVitness was the true VVitness as touching the Powder-plot VVe have three unquestionable Arguments 1. The Unanimous Declaration of the whole Kingdom by Publick Vote in Parliament by vertue whereof this Fifth of November has been observ'd now Seventy four years 2. Matter of Fact The Plot was not only contriv'd but carried so far on that there wanted nothing but the Sitting of the Parliament which scarce a day before was prevented by an obscure Letter which gave occasion to search under the Parliament-House and the Powder in sufficient quantity was found ready laid Man and Match ready nothing wanting to blow up King and both Houses of Parliament the first moment of their Meeting 3. The Confession of some eminent Plotters who gloried in the fact though the rest utterly denyed it or extenuated to nothing the guilt of the Roman Church and of late they seem ready to confess that Plot that they may better be believ'd in their obstinate denial of this But Secondly I say of this Plot of 78. We have no less yea we have greater Evidence of this than ever England had of that 1. As touching the first kind of Argument That of the Gunpowder-Treason was declar'd by the Vote of One Parliament which was sufficient but this by several Votes of several Parliaments Nemine contradicente And by publick Edict all the Churches of England kept solemn the 11 th day of April last and I doubt not but will have a Memorial as perpetual as that of November 5 th 2. As for matter of Fact we have more real evidence of Fact in this than was in the Powder-plot For though the Powder Man and Match were ready yet no Execution was done not a hair of any mans head singed nor did the smell of Fire pass on any man But in this Plot most fearful Execution has been done The chief of our Cityes and the chief Emporium of Europe turn'd to Ashes with the most dreadfull combustion that the Fire-works of Hell and Rome could effect Great Conflagrations of our best Burroughs and of many other most considerable and some re-built places Yea this Plot has drawn the Sword too to a dreadful Execution to the most horrid Murder of the most considerable and worthy Magistrate of the Royal City and County In whose Blood we may read aforehand the bloody Sentence which shall be pronounced against us if Papists by Plot Policy or Power can ever be Masters over us In the Gunpowder-treason the design was discover'd by way of Riddle only in one obscure Letter no man knew whence but in this Plot we read their horrid Designs at large in many Letters packets of Letters Colemans Harcourts and several others In the Powder-plot a few obscure Actors were discover'd but in this not a few nor obscure whereof several have been tryed with excess of Clemency and found guilty by the fairest Evidence Many yet expect a Tryal of whom we can say nothing but this is certain much more matter of Fact is already prov'd in this Plot than ever was prov'd in the Gunpowder-treason As to the third kind of Argument the Confession of the Guilty If we take not things superficially we shall find more considerable Confessions of the Papists and of the Plotters themselves in this Plot than was in the Powder-treason For 1. In the Powder-treason we find but One and him for a short time too that in abhorrence of that Plot which was evident before came and made discovery of the Complices and of their designs and proceedings But in this Plot we have at least six considerable persons who were for some years active among the Plotters and privy to all or most of their designs and these men in a Conscionable dread and abhorrency of the hellish plot have discover'd it to the full satisfaction of King and Kingdom as appears by many publick Declarations That we may truly say to the Papists and plotters We judge and condemn ye from your own mouths your selves are your own Witnesses 2. As for those executed Plotters who at their death and Execution denyed the Fact and with most fearful Execrations professed their Innocence if we weigh their words well which are but words we will find them to contain a Confession most suitable to themselves and more convincing to us than if they had confessed in plain terms as some of the Powder-plotters did For 1. The constant Form that they us'd in their Protestations did not deny the real thing which is the plot but they denyed that which we mean by the plot that is they denyed all design to murder the King or to subvert the Kingdom or by any rebellious way to alter Religion For in plain English according to their principles without Equivocation they deny our King to be King or that his is the Kingdom or that to Kill him is Murder or that to raise an Army against him is Rebellion or that to bring in Popery is to subvert the Kingdom or Church But on the contrary they are ready to maintain to death and to profess in flames that the Pope has the Right of this Kingdom and can give it to whom he pleaseth and that Charles Stuart is an Heretick and no King and which is an horrour to speak that it is no Murder but a most Godly and Heroick Act to stab shoot or poyson him Wherefore although they design'd all these things most earnestly yet this was not to plot against Church or State but to defend both Therefore they dyed not as guilty of the least Act or Thought against King Church or State but as the true Subjects and zealous Instruments of both and so they commended their Souls into the hands of God expecting a Crown of Martyrdom in Heaven and the Worship of Martyrs on Earth And as for some extern Acts of meeting consulting subscribing c. they were not bound to give their Enemies advantage by Acknowledging such things but rather utterly to Deny them all for the advantage of so good a Cause and for the glory of the holy Church Thus I say that very Form of Denyal which the dying plotters used is a fair Confession suitable to themselves and more convincing to us especially of the guilt of that Church than if they had confessed the fact in plain terms as some Powder-plotters did And I have yet further reason to say so For in the Powder-plot those that confess'd it confess'd it to