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A33996	A word in season being a parallel between the intended bloody massacre of the people of the Jews, in the reign of King Ahasuerus and the hellish powder-'plot against the Protestants in the reign of King James : together with an account of some of the wicked principles and practises of the Church of Rome, demonstrated in their barbarous and cruel murders and massacres of the Protestants in the Netherlands, France, Ireland, Piedmont, the Albigenses, &c. : also shewing that the present Church of Rome is an apostate church ... / by H.C., a lover of true Protestants.	Care, Henry, 1646-1688.	1679 (1679)	Wing C537; ESTC R13082	42,613	54

so that nothing was wanting to carry on their wicked Design Neither were the Jesuites and Priests slack on their parts who usually concluded their Masses with Prayers for the success of that Good day as they called it 2. The chief Conspirator in King Ahasuerus's days was wicked Haman a Person of no small note So in like manner those that had a hand in this Gun-powder Plot were great Men men of Note some that could give many Hundreds to carry it on Mr. Percy and Mr. Catesby finding the Charge lay heavy call in Sir Everard Digby of Rutlandshire and Francis Tresham Esquire Catesby also took in Ambrose Rockwood and John Graunt two Recusant Gentlemen besides Winter Fanks John Writh And Sir Edmund Baynam an attainted Person who stiled himself Prince of the damned Crew was sent to the Pope to acquaint him of the Gun-powder Plot. These were some of the Instruments imployed in this Design 3. And as Haman was willing to be at vast Expences to have the Jews Massacre'd for he offers ten thousand Talents of Silver for the accomplishing the thing Esther 3. 9. So those men and many more did not care what Expences they were at Sir Everard Digby offers one thousand five hundred Pounds and Tresham two thousand and Percy four thousand to forward the Action And they were in great hopes of having in a few Months ten times as much The Pope himself was willing to give one Million of Money to compleat the Spanish Armada which he called the Invincible Armada but God made it vincible for of one hundred and thirty four sail of Ships that came for England Sir Francis Drake with eight Fire-ships by God's blessing destroyed so many of them that but fifty four returned to Spain But will the Pope give this Million of Money gratis and expect nothing for it No I 'le warrant you for he lays but one half down and the other half when they had won any notable Haven in our Dominions and with this proviso that the Crown of England should be held Tributary to the See of Rome in token whereof he bestows on the King of Spain his Apostolical Benediction and the Title of Defender of the Faith Not at so little Charge was the King of Spain whom the Pope animated to the Work by persuading him that the Church of God could not be more gloriously nor meritoriously propagated than by the Conquest of England extirpating Heresie and planting the Catholique Roman Religion and that the subduing England was but a just thing considering that the Queen of England Queen Elizabeth was Excommunicated and persisted contumaciously against the Church of Rome By this means the King of Spain like Haman was willing to be at vast Expence to please the Pope whom indeed he dared not to displease for it was as much as his Crown was worth And so that word is verified that she Raigneth over the Kings of the Earth Rev. 17. 18. His Charges must needs be great for they were five Years a preparing their Fleet which consisted of an hundred thirty and four Sail containing fifty seven thousand eight hundred and eight Tun wherein were eight thousand and forty five Mariners nineteen thousand two hundred and ninety five Souldiers to cut the poor Protestants Throats had they been landed Two thousand eighty eight Gally-Slaves and so sure were they that England should pay the Shot they spared no cost for Furnishing they were provided for Sea and Land they had Bullets of great shot two hundred and twenty thousand of Powder four thousand and two hundred Kintals every Kintal containing one hundred pound weight Musquets seven thousand of Partizans and Halberts ten thousand with store of other murthering Pieces as double Cannon they had also store of Torches Lamps Lanthorns Whips Butcherly Knives to murder and torment the poor English This Army cost the King of Spain thirty two thousand Ducats every day Oh who would be at such charges to do God service as the Pope and King of Spain Catesby Tresham Percy Haman c. were to do the Devil service Don Pedro being asked the question of the intent of their coming to England by some of the Privy Council stoutly answered To subdue your Nation But what would you have done with the Papists We would have sent them good men in the Nation to Heaven and you Hereticks to Hell But what meant you to do with your Whips of Cord and Wyer We meant to whip Hereticks to death But what would you have done with the young Children Answer Them that were above seven years old should have gone the same way their Fathers did them under should have lived only we would have branded them in the Forehead with the letter L. for Lutherans and reserved them for perpetual Bondage This Rome's cruelty is one infallible mark of her being the Whore of Babylon which is a better sign of her being a false Church than her pretence of Unity Antiquity Universality Infallibility and Miracles will render her to be a true one For these Denominations do as rightly belong to the Devil himself as to her I conceive to both alike 4. The chief cause and reason why Haman sought the lives of the Jews was because Mordecai the Jew would not bow and stoop to him He was so full of Ambition that all the Honour the King conferred on him signified nothing so long as Mordecai would not bow Esther 5. 13. So in like manner because we will not bow to the Pope and acknowledg him to be Head of the Church who is a great Enemy to God by worshipping Idols to Christ by its new-found Mediators to the Holy Ghost by putting a Pope in his room to the Scripture by its Legends and corrupt Traditions to Reason by its imposed Absurdities to Common Sense by its most foolish and Idolized Transubstantiations to all tender dissenting Consciences by Fire and Faggot an Enemy also to all Civil Government that refuses to be subject to it by Plots Assassinations and horrid Massacres Shall we stoop to her that will not stoop to God Let Rome know that as Mordecai which was a Jew would not stoop to Haman Son of Hamadatha the Agagite Esther 3. 1. The Heathen King the Person and People whom God sent Saul to destroy 1 Sam. 15. 2 3. which People were called Amalekites Agag being King of them they were a People hated by the Lord and of whom God said Numb 24. 20. That Amalek was the first of the Nations but his latter end should be that he perish for ever Now Mordecai knowing that they were a People of God's hatred and knowing Haman to be one of them Mordecai out of Conscience I conceive would not bow to him and also considering that they had been Enemies to the People of God So in like manner we knowing Rome to be an Enemy to the People of God and that God hath purposed to destroy her and give her Blood to drink being worthy Rev. 18. 6. because she hath

drunk deep of the Blood of the Martyrs of Jesus and also because she sets at nought God 's holy Word therefore we cannot we will not bow to her Golden Image that she hath set up notwithstanding all her Threats As Nebuchadnezzar threatned the three Worthies with a burning fiery Furnace if they would not bow down to the Image of Gold which he had set up So this Mother of Harlots if you will not put your Necks under her Yoke then comes an Armada an Inquisition a Massacre a Powder-plot Fire Faggot Racks Assassinations Stranglings witness Justice Godfry Who for taking but an Examination which was his Place and Work and Sworn to it those Men of Blood could not sleep quietly till their malice was vented on his Body by strangling and other Tortures they put him to as is more than probable to protract his misery and after a considerable time thrust a Sword into his Body to make the World believe it was his own Act. Surely had he done it himself some Blood would have appeared on the Ground where he lay but the Sword being run into his Body some considerable time after Strangling the Blood being coagulated nothing appears but a black Water which usually followeth after the Bloods coagulating And that Act inhumane and horrid Act was done by the Papists is clear from their taking his Pocket Book where the Depositions and Examinations were which was that they wanted though not his Gold nor Silver 'T is true his great Lace Band he went out withal in the Morning was taken away the Gentleman being strangled doubtless the Band was torn in the Fray and to have let that gone would have told the Story too plainly But this Blood as well as the Blood of many millions more crieth for Vengeance That one instance in Ireland in that most inhumane Massacre in 1642 wherein were more than three hundred thousand in a few days put to Death some burnt some slain with the Sword some shot to Death some smothered some starved and pined to Death some killed with Staves some cut in pieces some hanged twice or thriee many thousands drowned at Portendown-Bridg And when the poor Souls came swimming by the River side to save their Lives the Papists knockt them on the head with the But-end of their Musquets But the Instance I mind is that at Portendown-Bridg a Woman was seen to rise Brest-high out of the River her Hair hanging down with Skin as white as Snow often crying out Revenge Revenge Revenge which made the Persons much amazed that saw and heard it This was attested by one Elizabeth Price whose Husband was thrown into that River before the Commissioners appointed for that purpose with many more that might be named 4. Sudden Death was designed by wicked Haman after one Years provision and preparation for the Work as the Spanish Invasion was five Years before compleated so there was to be one Year For on the 13th day of the first Month the King's Scribes were called to make the Writings and on the 11th day of the twelfth Month the month Adar the Massacre was appointed and then nothing but sudden Death in one day Saith the Word They were to Destroy Kill and to cause to Perish all Jews both young and old little Children and Women in one day Esther 3. 12 13. So in like manner Sudden Death was like to be the portion of the Protestants in England Time for Repentance would have been reckoned too good for an Heretick To kill them and send them to Hell speedily is an act meritorious and cause of Triumph when there was near one hundred thousand lives in three days time taken away in France which it seems no less could quench the thirst of that unsatiable Whore and Harlot his Holiness at Rome at the same time made Bonfires rings his Bells shoots off his Guns and sang O horrid Blasphemy Te deum Laudamus We praise thee O God As if he would draw in the most Gracious God to be accessary to his Murders and an accomplisher of his Bloody and Abominable Impieties Sudden death is that they delight in when so many Barrels of Gun-powder were under the Parliament House and Chair of State Thirty six Barrels would soon have dispatcht the King Princes Clergie Nobles Knights and Burgesses the very confluence of the Flower of Glory Learning Prudence and Authority in the Land Fathers Sons and Brothers Foes Papists Protestants all at one blast and after that had been done then a sudden Massacre throughout the Nation and so would have altered Religion and Government and brought in a Foraign Power But our good God hath prevented them hitherto praised be his holy Name O what a settled Detestation and fixed Opposition should we have against that Religion whose Faith is Faction whose Promises are Equivocations whose Worship is Idolatry whose Principles are high Treason whose Mercies are Cruelties whose practices are Stabbing Strangling and poysoning of Kings whose frame of Government is a politick design to enslave the World and to bring the Necks of Princes under their Iron Yoke and whose God is a pretty little tiny thing which the Priests first create with a Charm of four Words long and then worship the Works of their own Hands and when they have done chop him up at a bit and make no Bones of him 5. Much Deceit and Hypocrisy was acted by wicked Haman when he intended to have the Jews Massacred For he pretended to the King Ahasuerus that this People had Laws diverse from the King's Laws and that they kept not the Laws of the King and besides that it was not for the Kings profit to suffer such People Est 3. 8. This he pretends to the King as the great reason why he would have them destroyed when indeed it was not out of love he had to the King's Honour but his own through the pride of his own Heart All the reason was because Mordecai would not bow to him Esther 3. 5. As hypocritical and deceitful hath Rome been in bringing about her wicked Designs at all times for concerning this Powder-plot the better to bring about her design Mr. Percy takes some Rooms of one Mr. Winyard which Rooms served for withdrawing Rooms in Parliament-time for the Lords for these Rooms adjoyned to the Wall of the Parliament-House and Percy took Fauks under pretence to be his Man who changed his name into Johnson he had the Keys and keeping of the Rooms and these Rooms were taken for Lodging Rooms They took also another House and a Seller just under the Parliament House under pretence to keep Coals and Wood which was to make the Serpents Nest in thus their deceit appears Yea further When they wanted to bring the Plot upon the Protestants for that they would have done one of the Conspirators Mr. Keys a Relation of Mr. Pickring of Tichmarsh Grove in Northamptonshire which Pickring was a Protestant and a great Favourite of King James's who had a very choice Horse This