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A02487	A comparison betvveene the dayes of Purim and that of the Powder treason for the better continuance of the memory of it, and the stirring vp of mens affections to a more zealous observation thereof. Written by G.H. D.D.	Hakewill, George, 1578-1649.	1626 (1626)	STC 12615; ESTC S103633	13,103	40

supplications hee heard and granted and yet herein it must be acknowledged that mercy was shewed them But alas that mercy towards vs farr exceeded this For the Lord wrought our deliuerance when we were so farr from sackcloth and ashes as we dreamed not of any danger approching but were rather puffed in pride and wantonnesse promising to our selues by the entrance of his maiesty and his royall issue a setled continuance of peace plenty and prosperity Euen then when wee were lulled a sleepe in the depth of security and yet our enormious sinnes were crying alowd in his eares for vengeance and vrging his Iustice to poure downe the full viols of his wrath vpon vs euen then did the eye of his speciall prouidence and mercy watch ouer vs and for vs and deliuered vs from the very brinke of the graue from the iawes of death which had opened her mouth wide to haue swallowed vs vp quicke Herein God setteth out his loue towards vs that while wee were yet sinners Christ died for vs saith the Apostle surely herein if euer God shewed the riches of his mercy towards vs that when wee were in the hight of our sinnes he so wonderously deliuered vs when wee had no will to desire much lesse meanes to deserue it And for our enemies their owne tongues as the Psalmist speakes or rather their owne penns made them fall insomuch as who so considereth ●t shall laugh them to scorne and all men that see it shall say this hath God done for they shall 〈◊〉 that it is his worke But yet much more if we consider the issue which is the next point of Cōparison the issue I meane as well in regard of the end of the Conspiratours as the consequences of the Conspiracyes had they taken effect Touching the end of the Conspiratours for Haman himselfe wee know he 〈◊〉 on the same gibbet that he prouided for Mordecai as Catesby the first inuenter of the powder treason was scortcht and 〈◊〉 and likely to haue beene slaine by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 about the time that they intended the acting of their plott Hamans sonnes went the same way that their Father did before thē Garnet the ghostly Father of these powder men went the same way his sonnes had gone before him The end of them all being a like Vpon the same day that the innocent bloud of the Iewes should haue beene poured out by their Enimies and the friends of Haman the Iewes slew of them thorowout Assuerus his dominions and in Susan the Imperiall Citty seuenty sixe thousand And I haue often wondred that the people of this land vpon the first discouery of this damnable Conspiracie being knowne to be vndertaken wholly by Romish Catholiques and for the advancement of the Catholique cause had not violently run vpon the knowne professors of that religion But that God restrained both their hearts their hands that our mercy might remaine as an argument of the goodnesse of our religion as their Cruelty shall to the Worlds end of the badnesse of theirs It was a short but a sufficient answere returned by a Professor of ours to one of theires demaunding what reason he had not to bee of their religion why quoth he because you eate your God and kill your King And as their cruelty is a sufficient reason to keepe vs from them so me thinkes it should worke somewhat specially this most bloudy and barbarous conspiracy to bring them to vs. Wee reade in the last verse of the eight chapter of this booke of Ester that when the people of the land saw the vnexpected downefall of Haman and his adherents and the wonderfull deliuerance of the Iewes many of them became Iewes that is made themselues Proselites conforming themselues to the Iewish religion And I haue many times not a little marueiled that the manifest detection and knowledge of this foule Conspiracy had not turned the hearts of many Romish Catholiques to our profession But againe when I call to minde that of our Apostle Because they receaued not the loue of the truth that they might be saued God shall send them strong delusions that they should beleeue lies I cannot but therein acknowledge the iust iudgement of God in their Wilfull obstinacy Now for the consequences of these conspiracies had that of Haman taken effect it would doubtlesse haue beene very grieuious to behold but worse to feele the children should haue beene slaine in their Parents sight the poore infants haue beene drawn from their mothers breasts and dasht against the stones It must needs haue giuen a great blow and a deepe wound to the Church of God yet not so deepe but the body of the Iewish nation and the life of their religion the state of their gouernment would still haue beene preserued there being at that tyme a great number of that people liuing in their owne countrey of Iudea But if this of ours had taken effect Lord what a marueilous confusion must needes haue suddainely followed through out the whole kingdome both in religion and ciuill gouernment as well in Church as state affaires what bitter outcries and lamentation what sheeding of teares and wringing of hands in euery quarter of the land sonnes and daughters mourning for their slaughtered fathers fathers and mothers for their sonnes brothers and sisters for their brothers wiues for their husbands and seruants for their masters that such masters such husbands such brothers such sonnes such fathers as were both for nobility in bloud ability in estate and sufficiency in wisdome the pict choice men of the land of whom they could neither take their leaues aliue nor interr their bodies being dead It is precisely noted in the ●●ve of the eighteenth and ninteenth chapters of the booke of Iudges that in those daies there was no King in Israell and thereupon follow those abominable outrages there after recorded What then was our case like to haue beene when wee should haue had neither King nor Queene neither Prince for this present King they intended presently vpon the blow to haue made away nor great officer of the Kingdome nor Counsellor of state nor Bishop nor Iudge what publique exercise of religion what administration of Iustice could any where haue taken place what cutting of throats what rifling what rauishing should wee haue seene in euery corner by rogues ruffians without any check or controll Wee should neither haue lyen quietly in our beds nor haue sate quietly at our tables nor haue walked quietly in our streets nor haue trauelled quietly in our waies much lesse haue mett quietly in our temples but euery place would haue beene full of feare and danger and horror and bloud and surely I am perswaded that in such a generall confusion of all things the Cōspirators themselues could not haue promised security to their owne goods and houses to their owne sonnes and daughters to their owne wiues and persons and if this should haue beene our case in the countrey what would

A COMPARISON BETVVEENE THE DAYES OF PVRIM and that of the Powder treason for the better Continuance of the memory of it and the stirring vp of mens affections to a more Zealous observati on there of Written by G. H. D. D. OXFORD Printed by IOHN LICHFIELD WILLIAM TVRNER Printers to the Famous Vniuersity Ann. Dom. 1626. I said I would scatter them into Corners I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemie least their adversaries should behaue themselues strangely and least they should say our hand is high and the Lord hath not done all this For they are a nation voyd of Counsell neither is there any vnderstanding in them Deut. 32. 26. 27. 28. A COMPARISON BETWEENE THE DAIES OF PVRIM AND THAT OF THE POWDER TREASON c. THese dayes of Purim or of Lots mētioned in the ninth chapter of the booke of Ester were the fourteenth and the fifteenth dayes of the moneth Adar answering in parte to our February inioyned to be kept Festiuall of the Iewes first by Mordecayes letter and then by Queene Esters decree in remēbrance of there wonderfull deliuerance from Hamans bloudy designe for their vtter extirpatiō at that time These daies the like being scarcely to be found againe in holy Scripture I purpose to compare with our day of the Powder plott together with the Authority the Causes and Reasons of the institution of both that from thence it may appeare that the mercy of God was more cleerely manifested in our Deliuerance then in theirs and that consequently we haue greater cause religiously with thankfull acknowledgement to obserue our day then they theires In the opening whereof I will compare plott with plott persons with persons motiue with motiue assurance With assurance preuention with preuention issue with issue moneth with moneth day with day First then for Hamans plot vpon the Iewes it was vndoubtedly a very cruel one thinking it too little too small a satisfaction to hishonor reuenge to lay hands vpon Mordecai he purposed in one day to haue put them all to the sword as the Sicilians did the French in one night young and old women and children without distinction of age or sexe throughout all the large dominions of Ahafhuerosh reaching from India to Ethiopia and comprising an hundred 7 twenty Prouinces yet putting to the sword is not so cruell as blowing vp with powder in as much as in the former some hope is left by teares or prayers or guifts to staie the executioners hand but in the latter none at all For as men are presumed to haue more mercie then beasts and beasts then insensible Creatures Which are altogether inexorable so among them all the two elements of fire and water haue the least mercy and of the two fire specially if it be enraged with store of powder least of all Againe Hamans project vpon the Iewes was not so suddainly to be acted but that they had leasure giuen them to appease the fury of their Aduersary or to procure the Kings fauour as afterwards they did they had oportunity to stand for their liues or to saue themselues by flight or if it came to the worst they had respite to cast vp their accounts and make all things leuell betweene God and their owne Consciences But this proiect of our conspiratours should haue beene acted in a moment in the tourne of an hand in the twinckling of an eye the parties aimed at should neither haue had time to flie nor to fight to intreat nor to threaten to let fall a teare or castvp a sigh for their sinnes or so much as to say or to thinke in manus tuas Domine The cruelty of Haman then extended onely to mens bodies but this of our Conspiratours to their soules they held the maine body of that assembly to be hereticall and that for an heretique so departing this life there is no possibility of salvation and consequently they could not but make account to send all so affected quicke to hell And for the bodyes of the Iewes though after the shedding of their bloud the loosing of their liues they could not haue promised to themselues any decent kind of buriall yet was their case better then to bee torne in a thousand peeces and to haue the shiuers of their bones the sprinkling of their bloud and gobbets of their flesh if any such remained to be cast into far distant places and exposed as a prey to dogs and rauens Besides the cruelty of Haman extended not to insensible creatures as this did to the vtter demolishing of that famous Senate house in which the Ancestors of the Conspiratours themselues had often met to consult about the making of wholsome lawes for the suppressing of vice and the advancing of the honour of the English name We count it but madnesse in a dog to snarle at a stone and can we count it lesse in men to fight with stones and timber Surely if wee should haue held our peace these verie beames stones would haue cried for vengeance and the rather being to haue bin stained with the bloud of so many right noble and worthy personages which is the second point of Comparison The Iewes though at that time the Church of God was in a manner impaled within their nation yet liued they but as strangers nay as vassals Captiues among the Persians as at this day for the greatest part they doe aswell among the Turkes as the Christians It was true though by Haman malitiously vrged that their lawes were diuers from all people neither did they obserue the Kings lawes Haman himselfe the chiefe plotter against them was not onely an Infidel but an Amalakite a mortall enemy to their religion and moreouer being of great place and command he had gotten both the King and the whole state to countenance his designe against them But in this of our Conspiratours the case vvas contrary There Pagans and Infidels Persians Amalakites conspired against the Israelites heere natiue English professed Christians though in truth most vnvvorthy the name of either conspired against their ovvne Countreymen baptized and reioycing in the glorious name of Jesus Christ nay I make no doubt but that some of their ovvne neere kinsmen and of their ovvne romish profession at leastvvise in heart and affection should for company haue perished by that blovve There superiours those of Eminent note and ranke conspired against their inferiours and those of the lovvest and meanest degree in that state Here inferiours against their superiours subiects against their liege Lord and lawfull Soueraigne seruants against their masters for so was one of them at least and that in honourable place and as if it had beene too little to lay hands vpon the King alone they all conspired against that venerable Court the highest in the Land consisting of their lawfull and competent Iudges the murthering of the least of which