who are mad against soundnesse of grace and yet most wittie to combine their malice and madnesse against Gods people 2. To trie them to the vttermost and proue their soundnesse in faith and patience Fire that must trie gold must be quicke and piercing and seeme vtterly to burne and consume it 3. That the Lord may herein haue occasion both to vphold his chosen in the affliction with strong inward consolation and also to put foorth this his omnipotent power in some strong and glorious deliuerance 4. That his children being driuen out of all other expectations may be vehement in prayer and fetch helpe from heauen which they want in themselues That extremitie of the Israelites at the sea made Moses to crie vnto the Lord with vehemencie Exod. 14.15 and when Iehosaphat knew not what to doe his eyes were to the Lord 2. Chron. 20.12 Mistake not the estate of the Church when it seemes to be oppressed nor yet of the members God for these ends suffers Satan and his instruments so cunningly to carie their malice and matters as oftentimes Gods deare children are in the eyes of the world helplesse But did Christ cease to be the Sonne of God because the Iewes said Let God helpe him now if hee will haue him or the Saints of olde who receiued no corporall deliuerance but a better resurrection or our owne Martyrs who seemed helplesse in their hands and flames No the Lord was their helpe and he will not suffer the soules of the righteous to perish which we shall further see in the next obseruation III. Note that the Church and people of God are neuer so helplesse but that they haue an omnipotent power with them and for theÌ„ euen his Name who made heauen and earth This is their priuiledge and sanctuarie The name of God is a strong tower the righteous slie vnto it are exalted Prou. 18.10 Psal. 33.17 An horse is a vainâ— thing in battell shall not deliuer any by his strength Why what shall helpe them The eye of the Lord is on them that feare him and vpon them that trust in his mercie to deliuer their soules from death and preserue them in the time of famine 2. Tim. 4.16 At my first appearing no man assisted me small helpe indeed Notwithstanding the Lord assisted me and strengthened me c. Reason 1. This comes to passe by Gods promise of his constant presence with his people to be with them in sixe troubles and in seuen in fire and water and extremest perils All which promises although they runne with exception of the crosse yet are neuer frustrate but made good one time or other one way or other This promise is their safe conduct And it is equall seeing they labour in his seruice and cast themselues vpon his hand 2. What else is it that keepes the Church as an Arke vpon the waters from drowning and perishing among so many tyrants enemies and persecutors as thick as waues but this most helpfull hand and power of God the Pilot of it The Church hath mightie power against it all the helpe of the wicked and the gates of hell But his eye and wing is neerer theÌ„ than the hens to preserue her silly chickens Psal. 91.2 3. As it was with the Son of God our head so is it with the members who faithfully follow his steps in patient labouring and enduring What his estate was see Ioh. 16.32 Behold the houre commeth and is now already that yee shall be scattered euery man to his owne house and shall leaue me alone but I am not alone for the Father is with me Christ was very helplesse when his followers fled for feare and his Disciples durst not tarrie with him but left him alone yet then hee had this presence and power of his Father And so haue the godly both Pastors and people 4. They can neuer be so helplesse as they shall not be able to crie for helpe and bemoane their case to God Neither want they friends to solicite their cause at the highest Court but haue all the godly petitioners for them The faith of the doctrine is a chiefe part of worship and honour giuen to God when the Saints referre the whole work of their saluation and safetie to the Lord as Psal. 3.8 Saluation belongeth vnto the Lord and thy blessing is vpon thy people And when they can commend their whole safetie for the continuance and preseruation of it vnto the Name of the Lord wherein all helpe lieth It is a most firme prop to stay and leane vpon in all trials able to sustaine the heart continually with strong comfort when we can oppose this helpe of God against all the threats and boysterous proceedings of Gods enemies As subiects haue no way but to flie to the King for refuge and helpe against the oppressor so Gods people haue a way of helpe by which they lie safe in the midst of danger and shall haue the better end of the staffe against their aduersaries because they may say as Dauid against Goliah 1. Sam. 17.45 I come to thee in the Name of the Lord. A godly heart grounded in the truth of this doctrine may securely contemne whatsoeuer Satan or his instruments doe machinate against it Looke at any thing in heauen or earth it hath in it matter of strength and comfort He that made them hath power to commaund all things in them for thy safetie and good Here is a faithfull helper a very sure refuge in trouble men may promise helpe and faile or helpe on the trouble of the Saints but God will not Here is a powerfull helper men would helpe oftentimes but are weake and cannot where the enemie hath fortified himselfe with aduantages and resolutions but the Lords Name is a strong helper if Nebuchadnezzar shall say Who shall or who is able to deliuer you out of my hands wee may say with the three children Our God is able He can say to the raging sea Thus farre shalt thou come and here shall thy proud waues stay He can drie vp Ieroboams arme stretched out against the Prophet Finally here is a constant helper men are vnconstant and light one speech or suspition may driue away many from following Christ himselfe and mâ—ny in daies of triall slip away and are helplesse but the Lord helpeth constantly our helpe is euer in the Name of the Lord hee is vnchangeable in his goodnesse toward the Church neuer wearie of well-doing as men bee And without this ground in the heart men must needs shake like trees in the forrest with euery winde and feare where no feare iâ— but those shall not neede to feare any euill tidings whose heart is fixed on the Lord. Labour to be a member of the Church stand in the way and station in which God hath set thee Goe on in thy holy course keepe the way of vprightnesse For in this way God hath promised helpe and
A MAPPE OF ROME LIVELY EXHIBITING HER MERCILESSE MEEKNESSE and cruell mercies to the Church of God Preached in fiue Sermons on occasion of the Gunpowder Treason by T. T. and now published by W. I. Minister 1. The Romish Furnace 2. The Romish Edom. 3. The Romish Fowler 4. The Romish Conception To which is added 5. The English Gratulation APOC. 17.6 I saw the Woman drunken with the blood of Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Iesus AT LONDON Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Iohn Bartlet and are to be sould at signe of the Talbot in Pater-noster Row 1620. TO ALL THAT WISH WELL TO OVR SYON HEARTILY AND VNfainedly Grace be multiplied and peace in our Lord Iesus Christ. BRethren beloued in the Lord You see by the Title what you may expect in the booke following I hope what it promiseth shall be indeede performed I wish it were more complete and accurate for your sakes as it might haue beene if the graue and diligent Author could himselfe haue set it forth but blessed be God that his weightier employments doe not giue him leaue or leasure I am glad I haue it for you as it is through my earnest request to him whose modesty thought it vnworthy the publication and my paines in writing it Reasons of this my request and paines I can giue you many First I thinke it necessary that our God our gracious and louing God may haue the praise of all his mercies and namely that of this day still reserued to himselfe wholly His workes are glorious and the benefit of them not confined to a scantling of time Therefore these Gratulations cannot be lesse seasonable now than they were at the day of Deliuerance Secondly this I hoped might be a meanes to restraine our declining times from gazing and doting on that pompous Harlot the Church of Rome For when our nation shall see and consider a fresh how insatiable she hath alwaies beene of blood and English blood I cannot thinke we can be so inconsiderate as to dreame of any toleration much lesse any sound reconcilement with so implacable an enemie Thirdly I thought it not altogether impossible hereby to stop the slanderous mouthes of misse-conceiuing persons scattered abroade through all the Country yet pleasing themselues in the common error who seeing in some good men a difference of iudgement in some small matters presently conclude them enemies of the State c. For this I will say of the Author and I say the truth in Christ I lie not my conscience bearing me witnesse in the holy Ghost that hauing beene partaker of his Ministery some hundreds of times I neuer heard him more earnest or more faithfull than in this Argument And the whole Towne of Reding will testifie with me of his holinesse lowlinesse peaceablenesse vnweariable painfulnesse and other graces beseeming his calling which no ill-willer could euer yet impeach Fourthly and lastly my intent is hereby to stirre vp our drowsie and forgetfull hearts to due thankfulnesse for so great a Deliuerance And this me thinks is more than necessary For when I behold the generall view of the Land and the quality of peoples manners the memory of that wonderfull day seemes vnto me quite blotted out And I know not whoÌ„ better to resemble our selues vnto than those of whoÌ„ the Psalmist speakes Psalm 106.11.12.13.14 The waters couered their enemies there was not one of them left Then beleeued they his words they sang his praise But they soone forgat his workes they waited not for his counsell but lusted exceedingly in the wildernesse and tempted God in the Desert Doe we not so euen in our Canaan a Land flowing with milke and hony What horrible prouocations are there daily and hourely amongst vs in all places in euery corner Who can complaine sufficiently of the grieuous temptings and out-brauings of God which our eyes doe see Who would iudge by our strange demeanours that God had euer done any thing for vs either by sea or land either against water-workes or fire-workes Ah sinfull nation laden with iniquity Doe we thus requite the Lord for his louing kindnesse Is this his reward for so great fauours Hearken ye children of Syon and consider Though Israel play the harlot yet let not Iudah transgresse Though carnall persons who haue no true sence of the grace of Christ set themselues out in their colours and fashions and Epicurisme and Heathenisme yet let it not be so with them that professe the feare of God Though others loathe the word and the meanes of saluation yet let not Professors loathe them Let it neuer be said that Professors are proud earthly contentious vaine fantasticall or willingly sweruing from the Rule of Piety You are his peculiar people and if hee lose his honour in you also he loseth it altogether Therefore consider you the workes of the Lord and his intent in them Stirre vp your hearts and frame your liues to a reall thankfulnesse Let your moderation and discretion be quickned by zeale and let your zeale be bounded by discretion You shall perhaps meeâ—e with shame that is reproches and ignominies despise these You shall meet also with the crosse that is persecutions and dammages these endure Here is patience and magnamity Let your patient minde be knowne to all men yet let it be valorous in the causes of your God saint not neither be afraid You may well take occasion to grow the faster by this Antiperistasis and vnite your forces the more strongly Are you so spighted and maligned on euery side by profane Ismaelites then let your loue toward one another encrease the more solidly and abound toward your selues mutually in the fulnesse of the blessing of the Gospell Liue fruitfully and peaceably in the Communion of Saints here the Lord hath appointed the blessing and life for euermore Watch against Satan and his eldest sonne that Antichrist pray for the dissolution of their Kingdome especially see it be vtterly defaced in your selues and yours Giue all diligence to leaue an holy seede behinde you which shall praise the Lord in earth while your selues praise him in heauen A disgrace it is to godly Parents to haue vngodly children especially by their owne default Make your houses houses of God by setting vp and then establishing his pure worship therein Cast vp your accounts before-hand and prepare for the comming of Christ in the clouds Accept my endeauours for your good and helpe me with your prayers Reding Oct. 12. 1619. Your seruant in the Gospell of Christ WILLIAM IEMMAT The Authors Apologie CHristian Reader as I esteemed not the Sermons following sit for so publique a â—iew so neither meant I to purcâ—ase to my selfe so much enuie wrath from the â—atholiques as these Sermons may perhaps bring vpon me But the opportunity of the Publisher who hath taken paines in them and of some others desirous of them drew out at last my consent to their request If any phrases may seeme
Esau was red and therefore called Edom betokening his bloody disâ—osition And the Romish Edom is figured by a woman in skarlet and a purple whore whose garments are died in the blood of the Saints wherwith she also her self is drunken 〈◊〉 17.6 3. Esau was rough hairie as a beast which betokened his sauage truculent and cruell nature so a right owner of mount Seir. Besides he was a mightie hunter as hungrie as an hunter rauenous insatiable feed me saith he or let me swallow at once thy pottage so the word signifies as Camels are fed by casting gobbets into their mouthes The Romish Edom and kingdome of Antichrist is described Reuel 13.1 by an hideous and monstrous beast which was like a Leopard most cruell vntamed and most hurtfull to mankinde which as Basil reports will most furiously teare in peeces men yea a paper that hath but the image of a man This beast of Rome is likest vnto the diuel who prosecutes with most deadly hatred the image of God in man The feete of this beast are like Beares feete for roughnesse and crueltie and tearing and his mouth as the mouth of a Lion for rauening and deuouring of Christian men which the lamentation of the whole Christian world can better expresse than my words or all Rhetoricke in the world This was prophecied of Esau in his fathers blessing Gen. 27.40 Thou shalt liue by the sword so did the Idumeans a sauage and cruell people So do the Romish Idumeans only support themselues by fire and sword the surest arguments when all other meanes faile Intimated also by the ten hornes 4. Esau was a cauiller at Iacobs name and a liar in that he said he had taken away the blessing and birthright both which himselfe had passed away and a false perfidious person who though he sold the birthright and passed it away by an oath yet he made but a scoffe at it and had no purpose to performe it nay he contriued and hatched the death and murther of his brother if once the daies of his fathers mourning would come so to recouer his birthright againe The Romish Edom will not allow the true Church of Christ the name of Christ but calles the religion by which we worship the God of our fathers heresie He hath passed away his right to the blessing by being the head of Apostasie and complaines that we challenge it He is false and perfidious no way to be held to any promise by oaths or vowes but he hath euer a secret tricke or reseruation to play fast or loose at his pleasure Hence the beast is said to haue seuen hâ—ads that is fulnesse of fraud and subtiltie to ouer-reach and abuse the Church of Christ and to recouer his power againe will plot the death of so many Kings and Kingdoms as stand in his way Thus are they like in respect of their persons Secondly they are as like in respect of their sinnes that the Lord may say For three transgressions of the Romish Edom and for foure I will neuer returne to it in mercie but will send a fire and vtter desolation One transgression is prophanenesse as Esau preferring the present profits and pleasures of this world yea their belly before true religion and now all sinnes are set to sale any thing lawfull for mony they can pardon for mony that which God will neuer pardon yea and sinnes before they bee committed Another transgression of Romish Edom is idolatrie as base idolatrie as euer was in Edoms posteritie which hath quite cut them off from God who for their spirituall whoredome will neuer returne to them any more A third transgression for which God will neuer returne to it is vaine confidence in their owne merits which cuts them from Christ and quite casts them out of Gods fauour Gal. 5.4 The fourth and last transgression is deadly and endlesse crueltie against the people of God and the Church of Christ as the Lord would not returne to Edom especially for his extreme crueltie against his brother in word and deed neuer dated by sword and spoyle euermore Now that this is a sinne in these Romish Edomites for which God will neuer returne vnto them let vs see in our owne glasse and compare Edoms crueltie in the text with our owne Champions of Antichrist and Dukes of the Romish Edom and wee shall see the face fauour affection of the one in the other nay we shall see old Edom red but our late Edomites in skarlet of a farre deeper dye in blood than they They are like one another in that 1. Old Edom pursued his brother to whom all naturall bonds did binde him and to whom he owed homage New Edom pursued neerer brethren than they Iudea was but a neighbour to Idumea neere neighbours indeede but fortie miles from Ierusalem and so in all humanitie should haue been louing to them but these were neerer than neighbours vipers within our owne mothers bowels bound to our Common-wealth in all bonds of loyaltie and subiection as Edom should haue been an homager to Iudea being subdued by Dauid 1. Chron. 18.13 yet against all lawes of God naâ—uâ—e and nations they crie Downe with it c. 2. Edoms chiefe spight was not against any ignoble place or village but against Ierusalem the citie of God for pleasure a paradise for spatiousnesse sixe miles about for multitude of people fifteene hundred thousand inhabitants for beautie the eye of the world Adde hereunto the Temple the Sanctuarie Aarons Rod Vrim sacrifices praises and worship whereby it became Gods delight Yet old Edom cries Downe with it downe with it euen to the ground The same was the voyce and practice of our late Edomites against our Ierusalem the eye of the world against our Temple Church State and Land they strucke at the heart and sought to let out the life-blood 3. Old Edom when strangers cast lots vpon Ierusalem was as one of them Obad. 11. that is when Babel made sure of Ierusalem Edom being too weake of himselfe ioyned with Babel and when the Babylonians entred Edom was farre more cruell than they for whereas Babel would haue been contented with the citie and the spoyle the Edomites would not be contented but with blood for so saith the Prophet Thou shouldest not haue stood in the crosse waies to cut off them that should escape Our late Edomites when the Spanyards or any enemie should cast lots vpon England were as they and that nothing but blood would serue them appeared not only in the bloody terrible blow but also by standing in the crosse waies readie prepared to the slaughter when the blow should be giuen 4. Old Edom spared none he shewed no pitie to his brother but was altogether without naturall affection And these vnnaturall Edomites were pitilesse not onely to such as they made their enemies but euen to their friends allies kindred both in the flesh and in their faith
thee This Daniel one of the children of the captiuitie regards not thee nor thy decree They proclaime him seditious rebellious and a traitor that hath no respect either of King or law but despiseth authoritie and edicts well and wisely deuised and published These are ordinarie nets laid against godly men by vngodly Then must the law of the Medes and Persians sealed with the Kings signet be executed vpon him He is cast into the denne They haue him in their net But they cannot hold him Nor can he be deliuered but with the destruction of them all by the lions Here by plausible speeches what did they but make their owne rods And so was it in our owne instance in whom Gods iustice shined most eminently All the while they digged a pit for themselues and fell into the pit they had digged for others according to that of the Psalmist He hath digged a pit and is fallen into the pit hee hath made his mischiefe shall returne vpon his head and his crueltie vpon his owne pate As their heads and pates vpon stakes are still eye-witnesses 3. Gods iustice is herein manifest that for the deliuerie of his Church hee not onely breakes their nets but makes them breake their owne nets and neckes And this is the greater confusion when the authors of sin are made the authors of their own punishment For example Such is their thirst after the ouerthrow of the Church and godly that they still call in more company and take in more partners that if one misse another may hit and all may be sure not to faile But Gods hand now ouerruleth the matter and makes their owne carnall counsell their confusion that whereas one could keepe counsell company shall reueale it As in the many conspirators about the powder-plot in which one of them furthered the punishment of another but not the performance This shewes vnto vs that the Church is altogether inuincible no net shall long hold it but it shall breake thorow all nets It may bee pressed not oppressed oppugned not expugned It is an heauie stone to heaue against Zach. 12.3 For 1. The enemies cannot worke wisely enough to preuaile but as the more the Egyptians oppressed Israel the more they incresed so is it here 2. Though the godly be in themselues fewer weaker more simple more shiftlesse yet are they strangely and strongly preserued and may say with the Prophet there be more with them than against them 3. The Church stands vpon two sure pillars like Boaz and Iachin first Gods promise which is that the gates of hell shall not preuaile against her Secondly her foundation is on a rocke against which if the floods beate and the windes blow it shall surely stand Matth. 7.25 Why then doe the Pope and Papists and that Antichristian league still trauell with wickednesse and conceiue mischiefe to bring foorth a lye What doe yee imagaine against the Lord Nahum 1.9 This is a ground of comfort for vs when wee see enemies leaguing themselues against Gods people that they make no spare of destroying either by secret meanes or open Gods helpe and deliuerance will shew it selfe in due season he is a present helpe in trouble Is he a God a farre off and not at hand on the mountaines and not in the vallies Doth he heare his people before he call and not when they call No the Church is neuer so neere some great deliuerance as when her enemies are at the top of their pride and rage For when they will roote out the name of Israel and destroy the law then is it high time for the Lord to put to his hand When they haue power in their hand and no arme of flesh to represse them when none will offer himselfe in the cause of God then the Lords owne arme shall saue it but so as wee be found in the way of deliuerance carrying our selues in this affliction as children when they see the father hath taken vp the rod runne vnto our father confesse our sins bewaile them begge mercie and sue for it as for life and death This is the way to stay our fathers blow to obtaine compassion and cause him to throw his rod into the fire as the Prophet brings him in relenting for his people Hos. 11.8 How shall I giue thee vp O Ephraim how shall I deliuer thee O Israel how shall I make thee as Admah how shall I set thee as Zeboim Mine heart is turned within me my repentings are rowled together For this is the condition 2. Chron. 7.14 If my people among whom my Name is called vpon doe humble themselues and pray and seeke my presence and turne from their wicked wayes then will I heare out of heauen and be mercifull to their sinne and will heale their land When we haue receiued such a seasonable deliuerance it becommeth vs to breake out into the praise of God and perpetuate the memory of it and prouoke our selues vnto thankfulnesse So doth our holy Prophet in this Psalme he sings out the praise of God to all posterity for so great a deliuerance in so present a danger Motiues heereunto 1. How many monuments hath the Lord himselfe erected from time to time to preserue in memory speciall mercies bestowed on his people 2. Hath he not taken order to write them in his booke of mercies and monuments Psalm 102.18 This shall be written for the generations to come and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord. 3. Hath he not established and appointed speciall dayes for the memorie of speciall mercies most worthy to be had in euerlasting remembrance And surely my brethren if Moses and Israel had cause to compile a song for their so strange a deliuerance and the ouerthrow of their enemies as Exod. 15.1 If Deborah had cause to praise the Lord with voyces and instruments for the ouerthrow of the Canaanites and victory ouer Sisera as Iudg. 5.1 If the good women came with Timbrels and dances to praise the Lord when the Lord brought an horrible slaughter vpon the Philistians and their chiefe Champion Goliah who defied the hoast of Israel and railed vpon the God of Israel and so saued Israel that day as 1. Sam. 18.6.7 If that day were a day of ioy and gladnesse of light and reioycing wherein the Iewes preuailed against their enemies and saw the ruine of their chiefe aduersary Haman that cursed Amalekite as Hest. 9.17 Then surely haue we iust cause to sing out and declare abroad and reioyce both in Gods house and in our owne houses for the great things that the Lord hath done for vs in our admirable deliuerance out of a more admirable red sea not of water but of fire and brimstone and from the hands of those furious Champions of Antichrist those Romish Siseraes Goliahs that defied the hoast of British Israel and those cursed Amalekites against whom the sentence is passed that the name of Amalek shall
For he neuer striketh but withal prouides a remedy alwaies in iudgment remembring mercy And in this theâ— Returne there was great cause of ioy being so great a work of Gods mercy For 1. God seemed now to forget the causes of their Captiuity their idolatry their contempt of his Ministers with other hainous and foule sinnes which brake out so farre that there was no remedy 2. Cron. 36.15 But now he graciously returneth therefore certainly those sinnes are forgiuen them 2. They had now a long time beene exposed to all the enemies wrath who had vnmercifully oppressed and slaine them and cruelly dasht their infants braines against the stones carried them farre from house and home among heathens and strangers to them and to the Couenant strangely vsed them not suffering them any house or harbour but let them spend their time in weeping by the waters side exposed to all iniury of winde and wether of men and beasts But now as health is sweet after a long disease so is liberty after a long bondage Here is great cause to reioyce for temporall freedome from corporall misery 3. Their shame and reproch in captiuity was infinite the Aduersaries on one hand insult and call for their Hebrew songs on the other hand their Citie Babel whither they weâ—e carryed being the Metropolitan and head of the Monarchy at that time all the people of the knowne world resorted thither and carryed into all Countries the Iewes reproch But now the Lord hath remoued their shame and published from thence to all the world their glorious deliuerance 4. In Captiuity they were but ciues mundi men of the world but now they are ciuâ—s ecclesiae members of the Church that Country being a testimony to the godly that they belonged to Gods Couenant and to that heauenly Canaan of which that was a type Now their Captiuity was an abdication from the familie of God and being spoyled of these good things how could they thinke but that they were cast out from God from the Couenant from heauenly Canaan aswel as earthly But now they are receiued againe into the family and people and Country of God their title to heauenly Canaan is renewed and for this they reioyce 5. Whereas the Babylonians had robbed the Citie but especially had defaced and burned the Temple profaned both it and all holy things and set vp the abomination of desolation in stead thereof that now where God was worshipped of his owne people according to his will the diuell was worshipped by Heathens and Infidels Now the Lord hauing raised Syon out of the dust hee hath reared his Temple and his Worship againe hee hath cast out the filth and pollution by which they defiled his Temple hee hath set vp againe the shining lights in the Temple standing vp in golden Candlestickes hee hath set the sweet-bread on his Table the booke of the Law is restored againe and the holinesse of the Lord shines againe in all his ordinances God enioyes his worship and glory They enioy their land and peace and sit safe vnder his protection as in times past And these are the great things whereof they now reioyce Now to the application This day are these things performed in our eares who may truly say with the Church of Israel The Lord hath done great things for vs whereof we reioyce We will not goe so farre backward as if time would giue leaue we might to compare the Lords generall mercies to vs with theirs wherein we are not inferiour giuing vs a land as rich more large peace more stable Kings and Princes as Sauiours and Iudges leading vs along to Canaan the couenant of grace as peculiar more sure to vs than to them What Oracles had they which we haue not yet we haue what they had not Had they worship in shadowes we haue it in substance Had they good things in promise and expectation we in the very thing and full accomplishment Christ was to come of them but he is come vnto vs. I will only speak of our deliuerance froÌ„ Babylon of which the Church here speaketh That Rome is Babylon the learned Iesuites themselues coÌ„fesse And if they did not we could easily shew that one egge is not liker another than Rome is to Babylon As in this Collation 1. Babel was the great Citie that must rule ouer all nations Gen. 10.10 And Rome is the great Citie that must rule ouer all Cities and Churches her Bishop must be Head and Monarch of the Church and set himselfe aboue all that is called God 2. At Babel was the first confusion of tongues Gen. 11.7 In and from Rome is the confusion of tongues and of errors one not vnderstanding another in the word or sacraments or other their seruices All is in a strange language to them 3. At Babel was horrible superstition and wickednesse in Priests and people and thence it spread all abroad Rome is a sinke of superstition and filthinesse and all nations haue drunke of her cup and beene made drunke with her horrible enchantments and wickednesse 4. Babel held the Church in slauery seauenty yeares so the Church of Christ hath beene oppressed a long time vnder the tyrannie of the Romish Church 5. Babel robbed and spoyled the Church of her treasures and the Temple of God and horribly polluted it Rome hath robbed the Christian world of infinite treasures by fraud and deceit selling for millions that which was not worth the dust of mens feet And the Church by her hath beene robbed of the word the Sacraments the offices of Christ and most comfortable doctrines the chiefe dowry and reuenew that Christ her Head gaue her 6. Babel most miserably intreated the Church Psalm 137.1 Her eyes did nothing but drop downe teares day and night And she prouided a furnace to cast such in as would not worship the image Dan. 3.6 All bookes and writings of the Church are full of the bloody cruelty by all instruments of cruelty and all plots of cruelty in the Romane Church both the head and the members Now that our deliuerance from Romish power and plots is as great a work to reioyce in as this of Israel from their captiuitie is easily proued 1. God hath broke the yoke of the King of Babel the Romish Nebuchadnezzar from off our neckes when we lay among the pots by that great Cyrus King Henry the 8. who thrust out the Pope and Papall power cut the sinewes of their strength cast out the Canaanites that were in the land pulled downe the dens of theeues and robbers and set his people to build an house for the Lord God of Israel As great a worke as euer the people of this nation saw either attempted or executed All the Kings before him durst not meddle well they might mourne vnder their bondage and murmure at the Oppressor but did nothing because they durst not 2. When Cyrus had begun the worke Darius commanded
it to be finished and performed Ezra 6.1 Euen so what King Henry had begun young Daâ—ius Edward the 6. as another Iosiah finished to good purpose For as Darius made a decree for the house of God in Ierusalem both for the building of it and for the rendring of the vessels of the house of God of gold and siluer which Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the house of God vers 3.5 So this Edward of blessed memorie imitating Darius in the first yeere of his raigne proclaimed the aduancement and building vp of the worship of the true God in a true manner and brought in the vessels of gold and siluer which Romish Nebuchadnezzar had taken away He set the lights in the Temple againe in many shining candlestickes The Sweet-bread was set againe on the Table of the Lord and the Cup of Christ his precious blood which had been stollen away by those theeues was now found and comfortably restored to the owners The booke of the Law was found and restored againe into a knowne tongue as in Iosiahs time by Hilkiah the Priest The sweete siluer sounding Trumpets sound continually in our eares in daily preaching the blessed word of God The holy Arke a signe of Gods presence dwels againe among vs and Dagon is fallen before it the house of Baal and his vestrie destroyed his groues cut downe and grubbed vp Are not these great workes which the Lord hath done for vs wherein wee must reioyce 3. After this for the vnthankfulnesse of this land as the building of the Temple was hindred for a while by Sanballat and Tobiah so in the daies of Queene Mary this great work of God was interrupted in which time what the Babylonians could not conquer by Scripture they could subdue by torture and now fire and sword was the Catholike and inuincible argument that the new Romanists might not degenerate from the old bloody Romans their fore-fathers whose measure they filled to the full For in lesse than fiue yeeres three hundred of the faithfull seruants of Christ without respect of Nobilitie degree learning grauitie sexe age or naturall humanitie were in our Countrey burned to ashes But God had no delight in that bloody Religion It is as great a worke of mercie as any of the former that he made it as short as bloody For if violent things and times should continue the world could not And behold a greater worke which the Lord hath done for vs whereof wee reioyce in raising vs vp our ancient Deborah of England neuer-dying Elizabeth the wonder of the world and mirrour of nations who quickly quenched those hot and furious fires and her selfe being brought from a prisoner to a mightie Prince opened the prison-doores and deliuered them that were appoynted to death Now were the castles of their superstitions and hopes cast downe again and made euen with the ground What great workes God did for her and vs in her time were too long to recite how she out-stood the curses and Bulls of the Romish Nebuchadnezzar and saw in her time seuen of themselues tumbled out of their pretended chaire of S. Peter how wonderfull her many deliuerances were from many hellish treasons deuised by the armie of Priests sent from the King of pride and attempted by the Romish Captaines of that great Nebuchadnezzar How the Lord went out before our Armies and as in the daies of Israels Deborah so of Englands Deborah hee mâ—de the sea and windes fight for vs and by his owne right hand got vs the victorie that memorable yeere and ouerthrow of 88 shall be a perpetuall witnesse so long as the world standeth how God himselfe fights against that Religion which so furiously fights against him How she iudged and ruled in peace honour and happinesse fiue and fortie yeeres to the honour of God and his Gospell and terror of all enemies and in the same peace and happinesse exchanged her earthlie with an heauenly and euerlasting crowne of glory 4. A great worke of God it was for vs to reioyce in when at her decease the enemies who had long looked for a day found it the day of their greatest disappoyntment whilest the Lord setting himselfe for our good in our gracious King and the fruitfull plants renewed all our prosperitie gaue vs a new tenure of the Gospell and a new hold of our peace and liberties of whom we may say as was said of Dauid He is the light of Israel and of Iosiah the breath of our nostrils who by his power and pen hath shewed himselfe a Defender of the true Faith 5. To come to the great workes of this day That these Babylonians might keepe their hands in vre what foule and desperate designes haue they attempted against the life of the Kings Maiestie our gracious Soueraigne For while this light of Israel remaineth impossible they thinke it is for their kingdome of darknesse to preuaile Among other deuises that shame of Popish Religion that hideous gunpowder-treason shall neuer be put out from vnder heauen In which were many great workes of God for vs Englishmen whether wee consider the greatnesse of the danger or the greatnesse of the deliuerance First consider the greatnesse of the plot the greatest mischiefe that euer was wanting a fit name to expresse it vnlesse you will call it a Catholike villanie a plot of greatest and vniuersall danger to vs of greatest triumph to the Aduersarie Here the head and taile branch and root one and other Prince and people Nobles and Gentrie old and young Papists and Protestants should haue been destroyed together For as Duke Medina said his sword knew no difference betweene Catholikes and Heretikes no more should this hellish or hell-fire which it was a sparke of Besides the secret carriage and contriuing of it made it most dangerous more dangerous than the Babylonish captiuitie for the Babylonians dealt aperto marte there was some hope of safetie either by prayer or power or truce or preparing against them there a man knew his aduersarie but here is a crueltie digged out of the depth of darknesse all of them sworne to secrecie yea the Sacrament was a seale of their wickednesse sworne brethren in euill at league among themselues but no more league for vs to be expected than from hell it selfe Here we might say as Hanniball sometime said of two Romane Captaines one working by power the other by policie Magis se a non pugnante Fabio quà m à pugnante Marcello sibi metuere Wee are more afraid of slie and quiet Papists than of boysterous armed Turkes How these plotters would haue triumphed in the fact as the Babylonians ouer Israel Sing vs now one of the songs of Syon we may well perceiue by their glorying in the hopes of it God and man saith the Letter haue concurred to punish the iniquity of the time and The danger is past so soone as you haue burnt the letter and They shall receiue a terrible blow this Parliament
heard Winter himselfe fore-telling Therefore let vs reioyce in this great worke of God as his ancient people in this place For why The greatest rage of the enemie is turned to his greatest praise Psal. 76.10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee both in his glorie and his Churches deliuerance And what is the end of all Gods great deliuerances but to praise his name and glorie in his praise Psal. 106.47 Is not ours the benefit Haue not wicked men seene and felt that God hauing chosen our land to dwell in will not easâ—y be cast out of his lodging and will not this coole their blood and daunt their spirits from the like enterprises for time to come Doth not this hazard thus happily diuerted make addition to our strength and peace Oh blessed be God euen the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who for his owne sake by his owne hand hath heaped vp our happinesse He that is mightie hath done great things for vs and holy is his Name Oh praise we the Lord for he is good for his mercie endureth for euer Holy Father knit our hearts vnto thee that wee may feare thy great and dreadfull Name Teach vs to be truly and vnfainedly thankfull to thy holy Maiestie for this daies mercies and all heretofore that so we may receiue the continuance of thy fauours to our euerlasting comfort and euermore reioyce in thy great saluation Blessed be God FINIS Româ— 1 Hos. 4.15 Exod. 19.5 Heb. 12.2 Rom. 15.29 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vers. 3. Regis ad exemplum totus componitur orbis See chap. 2 49. â—ra furor brâ—uis est Diuision of the Text. Affinity between Romish and Babylonish Nabuchadnezzar * Moulded first in the Laterane Councell vnder Pope Innocent the third Popish Priests worse than Iudas who valued Châ—ist at thirty pence for they buy 40. cakes euery one of which is Christs body for one halfe-penny This was preached Nouemb. 5. 1612. Romish cruelty surmounts the Babylonâ—sh 3. wayes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Idolatry and cruelty alwayes coupled together Exod. 5.2 Chap. 1.17 Vers. 22. Hâ—st 3.6 Vers. 13. 2. King 21.3 See 1. Mach. 1. Iosephus de bello Iud. lib. 1. cap. 1. Nequâ— tantae caedes satis fuêre sed Iudaeos cogere coepit vt abrogato more patrio nec infantes suos circumciderent porcósque super aram immolarent quibus omnes quidem aduersabantur optimus verò quisque propterea truâ—cidabatur Hadrian Rome Christian as cruell as Heathen Rome 2. Thes. 2.3 Ioh. 17.12 Reuel 9.11 Triginâ—a bellatorum millâ—a qui bellica munera guauiter â—bire possent nihil interpellato sacrorum cultu Sabell Enead 9. lib. 6. Pulchra prosecto pullitiâ—s aulae Antichristianae decora familia Grass reg p. 34. B. Vers. 4. Reuel 13.11 Reuel 11.7 AntiChrist an enemie both to Scriptures and Scripture-men Ribâ—ra Bellarm. Testantur hoc Iac. Brocardus Venetus in Apoc. et monachus quidam Celestinâ—s Prophecies of Romish cruelty accomplished to the full Pandolph Colonutius ex Aenea Sylu. hist. Austr et Nicol. Machiauel Rom. 1.32 Ex Hermanno Mutio. Innocentius 3. anno 1212. See this story at large in the booke of Martyrs pag. 868. Out of which booke I haue picked some choise examples that our common people hauing the booke by them may see I belye them not in the things which seeme most incredible Foeminea in pugna victoria nulla est Acts Mon. pag. 859. 2. Tim. 4.17 Gathered out of Ianus August Thuanus President of the Parliament of Paris Mal. 4.1 * Metellus Sequanus Bartholomaeus Casas a Bishop that liued in that Country This booke written in Latine is wel worth translating but these with a number more insâ—ances of their hellish cruelty are oâ—â—racted by M. White in his way to the Church the 50. digression where the Reader may further acquaint himselfe with the Spanish conuersion or rather vtter subuersion of the Indies The Prince of the I le Cuba so answered the Fryar that came to shrine him at the slake Satia te sanguine quem sit isti cuius semper insacrabilis fuisti Thomyris de Cyri capite in vâ—re sang Minerius the diuels Proctor or Factor Acts and Mon. pag. 869. See another history of like cruelty p. 805. â— Pag. â—60 See the exquisite torments deuised and suffered by Bertrand p. 817. and by Rich. Atkins p. 1948. Marriage punished among Papists whoredome escapeth Pag. 887. Pag. 863. â—ag 831. Iam. 2.13 Acts and Mon. pag 814. Pag. 874. Pag. 751. Pag. 710. Pag. 766. A woman forced to kill her husband by Papists Acts and Mon. pag. 1951. No plea sufficient against the cruelty of Romanists Acts and Mon. pag. 1864. Felâ—yes childe Dauies Boy vnder 12. yeares condemned for the 6. articles p. 1879. Pag. 1035. Pag. 816. Pag. 1780. Pag. 739. Pag. 1785. Pag. 1556. Prou. 12.10 Gal. 5.22 Math. 11.29 Mans extremity Gods opportunity Vse 1. Vse 2. Man purposeth God disposeth Psal. 2 1.2 Psal. 7.15 Hest. 9.25 Vse Sanguis Martyrum semen ecclesiâ—e Foecundi sunt Martyrum ciâ—eres Hest. 9.26 Haue nothing to doâ— against that iust man Zach. 12.3 Gods people gâ—yners by fiery trials 1. Pet. 1.7 Vse Math. 8 â—7 Acts 9.5 Psal. 33.1 Diuision of the text Exposition Numerus septenarius iuxta aliquos est numerus â—â—rfâ—ctus Iob. 33.14 Nâ— hamâ—n Gal. 4.29 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Antichrist resembled by Edom. Antichrist and Edom like in their persons foure waies Gen. 25.23 Verse 30. Lagnat Acts 24.14 Nâ—n obstante â—â—tichrist and Edom like in their sinnes 1. Prophanenesse Quid non regina pecuma donat 2. Idolatrie 3. Merits 4. Crueltie Crueltie of our Edomites and old Edomites compared Iosephus Obad. 14. Yong Edomites with vs farre surpasse the old in crueltie fiue arguments The powder-plot a villany without name The Popes leadden Bull sets all mischiefe on worke Vse 1 That religion good which Antichrist persecutes Vse 2. Bloody religion wicked religion Luk. 9.54.55 Vse 3. 1. Sam. 4.21 Gen. 32.28 Acts 13.50 Antichrist and Edom like in their punishment 1. For certainty Rome termed Babylon why 2. For seuerity Most probable that Româ— shall be destroyed with materiall fire for fiue reasons Ierem. 51.9 Obadi 15. Reuel 18.6 2. Thess. 2. â— Antichrist to be ouerthrowne with the sword temporall as well as spirituall Euen by Kings that are or were his friends Ouerthrow of Rome not partiall but totall Magnificence of Rome no whit secureth it Zach. 4.2 Vse 1 Comfort for the Church of God Vsâ— 2. Terror for the Church of Rome Reuel 19.16 Iudg. 17. Vse 3. All deuices of Papists insufficient to susteine their bloody monarchy Vse 4 Separate from them spiritually and corporally Reuel 18.2 Diuision of the Text. Enemies of the Church compared to Fowlers in 4. respects Prou. 4.16 〈…〉 9. Romish Nimrod a mighty Hunter of the Lords flocke Bonner a Bonfire Great labour and cost for the powder-treason Foure thousand pounds Practises of the wicked