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A04224	The vvorkes of the most high and mightie prince, Iames by the grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. Published by Iames, Bishop of Winton, and deane of his Maiesties Chappel Royall; Works	James I, King of England, 1566-1625.; Montagu, James, 1568?-1618.; Elstracke, Renold, fl. 1590-1630, engraver.; Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver.	1616 (1616)	STC 14344; ESTC S122229	618,837	614

likewise to make himselfe so to be trusted in these little things that he may haue the better commoditie thereafter to deceiue them in the end with a tricke once for all I meane the euerlasting perdition of their soule and body Then laying this ground as I haue said these coniurations must haue fewe or moe in number of the persons coniurers alwayes passing the singular number according to the qualitie of the circle and forme of apparition Two principall things cannot well in that errand be wanted holy-water whereby the deuill mockes the Papists and some present of a liuing thing vnto him There are likewise certaine seasons dayes and houres that they obserue in this purpose These things being all ready and prepared circles are made triangular quadrangular round double or single according to the forme of apparition that they craue But to speake of the diuers formes of the circles of the innumerable characters and crosses that are within and without and out-through the same of the diuers formes of apparitions that that craftie spirit illudes them with and of all such particulars in that action I remit it to ouer-many that haue busied their heads in describing of the same as being but curious and altogether vnprofitable And this farre onely I touch that when the coniured Spirit appeares which will not be while after many circumstances long prayers and much muttring and murmuring of the coniurers like a Papist Priest dispatching a hunting Masse how soone I say he appeares if they haue missed one iote of all their rites or if any of their feet once slyde ouer the circle through terrour of his fearefull apparition hee payes himselfe at that time in his owne hand of that due debt which they ought him and otherwise would haue delayed longer to haue payed him I meane hee carries them with him body and soule If this be not now a iust cause to make them weary of these formes of coniuration I leaue it to you to iudge vpon considering the long somnesse of the labour the precise keeping of dayes and houres as I haue said the terriblenesse of apparition and the present perill that they stand in in missing the least circumstance or freite that they ought to obserue And on the other part the deuill is glad to mooue them to a plaine and square dealing with him as I said before CHAP. VI. ARGV The Deuils contract with the Magicians The diuision there of in two parts What is the difference betwixt Gods miracles and the Deuils PHILOMATHES INdeed there is cause enough but rather to leaue him at all then to runne more plainely to him if they were wise hee dealt with But goe forward now I pray you to these turnes fra they become once deacons in this craft EPI From time that they once plainely begin to contract with him The effect of their contract consists in two things in formes and effects as I began to tell already were it not ye interrupted me for although the contract be mutual I speake first of that part wherein the diuel obliges himselfe to them By formes I meane in what shape or fashion he shall come vnto them when they call vpon him And by effects I vnderstand in what speciall sorts or seruices he binds himselfe to bee subiect vnto them The qualitie of these formes and effects is lesse or greater according to the skill and art of the Magician For as to the formes to some of the baser sort of them he obliges himselfe to appeare at their calling vpon him by such a proper name which he shewes vnto them either in likenes of a Dog a Cat an Ape or such-like other beast or else to answere by a voice onely The effects are to answere to such demands as concerne curing of diseases their owne particular menagerie or such other base things as they require of him But to the most curious sort in the formes hee will oblige himselfe to enter into a dead bodie and there out of to giue such answeres of the euent of battels of matters concerning the estate of commonwealths and such like other great questions yea to some he will bee a continuall attender in forme of a Page Hee will permit himselfe to bee coniured for the space of so many yeeres either in a tablet or a ring or such like thing which they may easily cary about with them Hee giues them power to sell such wares to others whereof some will be dearer and some better cheape according to the lying or true speaking of the Spirit that is coniured therein Not but that in very deed all deuils must be lyars but so they abuse the simplicitie of these wretches that become their scholers that they make them beleeue that at the fall of Lucifer some Spirits fell in the aire some in the fire some in the water some in the land in which Elements they still remaine Whereupon they build that such as fell in the fire or in the aire are trewer then they who fell in the water or in the land which are all but meere trattles and forged by the authour of all deceite For they fell not by weight as a solide substance to sticke in any one part but the principall part of their fall consisting in quality by the falling from the grace of God wherein they were created they continued stil thereafter and shall doe while the latter day in wandring through the world as Gods hang-men to execute such turnes as hee employes them in And when any of them are not occupied in that returne they must to their prison in hell as it is plaine in the miracle that CHRIST wrought at Gennezareth therein at the latter day to be all enclosed for euer Matth. 8. and as they deceiue their Schollers in this so doe they in imprinting in them the opinion that there are so many Princes Dukes and Kings amongst them euery one commanding fewer or moe Legions and impiring in diuers artes and quarters of the earth For though that I will not deny that there be a forme of order amongst the Angels in Heauen and consequently was amongst them before their fall yet either that they bruike the same sensine or that God will permit vs to know by damned diuels such heauenly mysteries of his which he would not reueale to vs neither by Scripture nor Prophets I thinke no Christian will once thinke it But by the contrary of all such mysteries as he hath closed vp with his Seale of secrecie it becommeth vs to be contented with an humble ignorance they being things not necessary for our saluation But to returne to the purpose as these formes wherein Satan obliges himselfe to the greatest of the Magicians are wonderfull curious so are the effects correspondent vnto the same For he will oblige himselfe to teach them artes and sciences which he may easily doe being so learned a knaue as he is to carry them newes from any part of the world which the agilitie of a Spirit

that it can neuer be blotted out the writing the writing of the Law in our hearts In two Tables for our double duty to God and Man on both sides to take vp our heart so wholly that nothing contrary to those Precepts should euer haue any place in our Soules And certainely from this little Library that God hath erected within vs is the foundation of all our Learning layd So that people Ciuillized doe account themselues depriued of one of the best abilities of nature if they be not somewhat inabled by writing to expresse their mindes And there is no Nation so brutish or Barbarous that haue not inuented one kinde of Character or other whereby to conuey to others their inward Conceptions From these Tables of God wee may come to the writing of our Blessed Sauiour which we may put in the next place though not for order yet for Honour His Diuine Maiestie left behinde him no Monument of writing written by his owne hand in any externall Booke for he was to induce and bring in an other maner of the writing of the Law of Loue not in Tables of stone written not with incke and paper but in the Tables of our fleshly hearts written by the Spirit of the Liuing God Yet did he once with his owne finger write on the Pauement of the Temple of Ierusalem What he writ J will not now discusse S. Ambrose saith he wrote this Sentence Festucam in oculo fratris cernis trabem in tuo non vides Beda thinkes he wrote that Sentence that he spake He that is without sinne let him cast the first stone at her Haymo hath a pretty Conceit He thinketh he wrote certaine Characters in the Pauement which the Accusers beholding might see as in a glasse their owne wickednesse and so blushing at it went their wayes What euer it was sure we are our Sauiour would haue false accusations written in dust to bee troden vnder foote of them that passe by But howsoeuer I say our Blessed Sauiour did leaue behind him no writing of his owne hand Yet we may not deny but that God in the old Testament and our Sauiour in the New haue left vs many bookes of their owne inditements For all the Bookes of holy Scripture were written by inspiration and the Prophets and Apostles were but their Amanuenses and writ onely as they were led and actuated by the Spirit of God So that we may not make the Author of any of those Bookes any other then God Himselfe The old world before the flood wil afford vs no writings neither did that aage require them for the liues of Men of that aage were liuing Libraries and lasted longer then the labors of Men doe in this aage Yet S. Iude doeth insinuate somewhat of the writings of Enoch who though he were not in Stile a King Yet there is no reason to contend with him for that Title for his Dominion would beare it standing Heire-Apparent to the greater part of the world Origen Tertullian and Augustine report many things out of the supposititous writings that went vnder his name And Iosephus and that Berosus that wee haue tell vs that hee erected two pillars the one of Stone the other of Bricke wherein he wrote of the two-fold destructions of the world the one by Water the other by Fire But howsoeuer that be trew it is very probable he wrote something of that matter which though it perished with that world yet doubtlesse the memory thereof was preserued by Tradition vnto the dayes of the Apostles J will not here insist vpon the writings of Moses who was not onely a Priest and a Prophet but was as himselfe records amongst the people a King and was the first that euer receiued authoritie from GOD to write in Diuinitie Neither will J insist vpon the Example of King Dauid in whose Psalmes and Himnes are resounded out the praises of GOD in all the Churches for that J finde nothing that these men writ but what they writ as the Scribes of GOD acted as I said euen now by GOD his Spirit and not guided by their owne Yet I suppose wee may safely collect thus much from them that if GOD had thought it a matter derogatory to the Maiestie of a King to bee a Writer he would not haue made choice of those as his chiefe Instruments in this kinde who were principalls in that other Order J would easily beleeue that such men as haue had the honour to be GOD his Pen-men should neuer vouchsafe to write any thing of their owne for as we hold in a pious opinion that the blessed Virgine hauing once conceiued by the holy Ghost would neuer after conceiue by man So surely men that had deliuered nothing but the conceptions of that Spirit should hardly be drawne euer to set out any of their owne labours But we see the flat contrary both in Samuel and Solomon the one the greatest Iudge the other the most glorious King that euer that Kingdome had Samuel who writ by GODS appointment the greatest part of those two Bookes that beare his name writ also by his owne accord a Booke contayning the Law of a King or Institution of a Prince whereby hee laboured to keepe the King as well from declining to Tyrannie as the people from running into Libertie Solomon besides the Bookes of Scripture which remaine writ many likewise of his owne accord which are lost For to say nothing of his 3000. Parables his 5000. Songes that ingens opus as the Hebrues call it of the nature of all things Birds and Beasts Fowles and fishes Trees and plants from the Hysop to the Cedar All these were rather workes to manifest humane wisedome then Diuine knowledge written rather for the recreation of his owne spirit then for the edification of the Church For I cannot conceiue but those Bookes would rather haue taught vs the learning of Nature for which GOD hath left vs to the writings of men then edified vs in the gifts of Grace for which hee hath giuen vs his owne Booke Neither let any man suggest that these writings that are lost and as they say were destroyed in the destruction of the Temple by the Babylonians were of the same authoritie as those that doe remaine for J can hardly be induced to beleeue that the writings that were indited by the Spirit of GOD layed vp in the Arke receiued into the Canon read publikely in the Church are vtterly perished Jt is a desperate thing to call either the prouidence of GOD or the fidelity of the Church in question in this point For if those that haue bene are perished then why may not these that remaine as well be lost which is contrary to our Sauiours assertion that one Iota shall not perish till all bee fulfilled Therefore J rather incline to thinke that what euer was Scripture still is then that any is lost Neither is this opinion so curious to hold as the other is dangerous to beleeue Better it

contrary qualities to the intemperate inclination of that part being wisely prepared and discreetly ministred may be both necessary and helpfull for strengthning and assisting Nature in the expulsion of her enemies for this is the trew definition of all profitable Phisicke But first these Cures ought not to be vsed but where there is need of them the contrary whereof is daily practised in this generall vse of Tobacco by all sorts and complexions of people And next I denie the Minor of this argument as I haue already said in regard that this Tobacco is not simply of a dry and hote qualitie but rather hath a certain venemous facultie ioyned with the heat therof which makes it haue an Antipathy against nature as by the hateful smel therof doth well appeare For the nose being the proper Organ and conuoy of the sense of smelling to the braines which are the only fountaine of that sense doth euer serue vs for an infallible witnesse whether that odour which we smell be healthfull or hurtfull to the braine except when it fals out that the senseit selfe is corrupted and abused through some infirmitie and distemper in the braine And that the suffumigation thereof cannot haue a drying quality it needs no further probation then that it is a smoke all smoke and vapour being of it selfe humide as drawing neere to the nature of the aire and easie to be resolued againe into water whereof there needs no other proofe but the Meteors which being bred of nothing else but of the vapors and exhalations sucked vp by the Sun out of the earth the sea and waters yet are the same smoakie vapors turned and transformed into raines snowes deawes hoare frosts and such like waterie Meteors as by the contrary the rainie cloudes are often transformed and euaporated in blustering windes The second Argument grounded on a shew of reason is That this filthy smoake aswell through the heat and strength thereof as by a naturall force and quality is able and fit to purge both the head and stomack of rhewmes and distillations as experience teacheth by the spitting auoiding fleame immediatly after the taking of it But the fallacie of this Argument may easily appeare by my late preceding description of the Meteors For euen as the smoakie vapours sucked vp by the Sunne and stayed in the lowest and cold Region of the aire are there contracted into clouds and turned into raine and such other watery Meteors So this stinking smoake being sucked vp by the nose imprisoned in the cold and moyst braines is by their cold and wet facultie turned and cast forth againe in waterie distillations and so are you made free and purged of nothing but that wherewith you wilfully burdened your selues and therefore are you no wiser in taking Tobacco for purging you of distillations then if for preuenting the Cholicke you would take all kind of windie meats and drinkes and for preuenting of the Stone you would take all kinde of meates and drinkes that would breed grauell in the kidneys and then when you were forced to auoide much winde out of your stomacke and much grauell in your Vrine that you should attribute the thanke therof to such nourishments as bred those within you that behooued either to be expelled by the force of Nature or you to haue burst at the broad side as the Prouerbe is As for the other two reasons founded vpon experience the first of which is That the whole people would not haue taken so generall a good liking thereof if they had not by experience found it very soueraigne and good for them For answere thereunto how easily the mindes of any people wherewith God hath replenished this world may be drawen to the foolish affectation of any noueltie I leaue it to the discreet iudgement of any man that is reasonable Doe we not daily see that a man can no sooner bring ouer from beyond the seas any new forme of apparell but that he cannot be thought a man of spirit that would not presently imitate the same And so from hand to hand it spreads till it be practised by all not for any commodity that is in it but only because it is come to be the fashion For such is the force of that naturall selfe-loue in euery one of vs and such is the corruption of enuy bred in the brest of euery one as we cannot be content vnlesse wee imitate euery thing that our fellowes doe and so prooue our selues capable of euery thing whereof they are capable like Apes counterfeiting the maners of others to our owne destruction For let one or two of the greatest Masters of Mathematicks in any of the two famous Vniuersities but constantly affirme any cleare day that they seesome strange apparition in the skies they wil I warrant you be seconded by the greatest part of the students in that profession So loth will they be to be thought inferior to their fellowes either in depth of knowledge or sharpnes of sight And therfore the generall good liking and imbracing of this foolish custome doth but only proceed from that affectation of noueltie and popular errour whereof I haue already spoken The other argument drawn from a mistaken experience is but the more particular probation of this generall because it is alledged to be found trew by proofe that by the taking of Tobacco diuers and very many doe finde themselues cured of diuers diseases as on the other part no man euer receiued harme thereby In this argument there is first a great mistaking and next a monstrous absurditie For is it not a very great mistaking to take non causam pro causa as they say in the Logickes because peraduenture when a sicke man hath had his disease at the height hee hath at that instant taken Tobacco and afterward his disease taking the naturall course of declining and consequently the Patient of recouering his health O then the Tobacco forsooth was the worker of that miracle Beside that it is a thing wel known to all Physicians that the apprehension and conceit of the patient hath by wakening and vniting the vitall spirits and so strengthening nature a great power and vertue to cure diuers diseases For an euident proofe of mistaking in the like case I pray you what foolish boy what silly wench what olde doting wife or ignorant countrey clowne is not a Physician for the toothach for the cholicke and diuers such common diseases Yea will not euery man you meet withall teach you a sundry curefor the same sweare by that meane either himselfe or some of his neerest kinsemen and friends was cured And yet I hope no man is so foolish as to beleeue them And all these toyes do only proceed fro the mistaking Non causam pro causa as I haue already said and so if a man chance to recouer one of any disease after hee hath taken Tobacco that must haue the thanks of all But by the contrary if a man smoke himselfe

Honour some to places of seruice about mee and by rewarding to enable some who had deserued well of mee and were not otherwise able to maintaine the rankes I thought them capable of and others who although they had not particularly deserued before yet I found them capable and worthy of place of preferment and credit and not able to sustaine those places for which I thought them fit without my helpe Two especiall causes moued mee to be so open handed whereof the one was reasonable and honourable but the other I will not bee ashamed to confesse vnto you proceeded of mine owne infirmitie That which was iust and honourable was That being so farre beholding to the body of the whole State I thought I could not refuse to let runne some small brookes out of the fountaine of my thankefulnesse to the whole for refreshing of particular persons that were members of that multitude The other which proceeded out of mine owne infirmitie was the multitude and importunitie of Sutors But although reason come by infusion in a maner yet experience groweth with time and labour And therefore doe I not doubt but experience in time comming will both teach the particular Subiects of this Kingdome not to be so importune and vndiscreete in crauing And mee not to be so easily and lightly mooued in granting that which may be harmefull to my Estate and consequently to the whole Kingdome And thus hauing at length declared vnto you my minde in all the points for the which I called this Parliament My conclusion shall onely now be to excuse my selfe in case you haue not found such Eloquence in my Speech as peraduenture you might haue looked for at my hands I might if I list alledge the great weight of my Affaires and my continuall businesse and distraction that I could neuer haue leasure to thinke vpon what I was to speake before I came to the place where I was to speake And I might also alledge that my first sight of this so famous and Honourable an Assembly might likewise breede some impediment But leauing these excuses I will plainely and freely in my maner tell you the trew cause of it which is That it becommeth a King in my opinion to vse no other Eloquence then plainnesse and sinceritie By plainenesse I meane that his Speeches should be so cleare and voyd of all ambiguitie that they may not be throwne nor rent asunder in contrary sences like the old Oracles of the Pagan gods And by sinceritie I vnderstand that vprightnesse and honestie which ought to be in a Kings whole Speeches and actions That as farre as a King is in Honour erected aboue any of his Subiects so farre should he striue in sinceritie to be aboue them all and that his tongue should be euer the trew Messenger of his heart and this sort of Eloquence may you euer assuredly looke for at my hands A SPEACH IN THE PARLIAMENT HOVSE AS NEERE THE VERY WORDS AS COVLD BE GATHERED at the instant MY Lords Spirituall and Temporall and you the Knights and Burgesses of this Parliament It was farre from my thoughts till very lately before my comming to this place that this Subiect should haue bene ministred vnto mee whereupon I am now to speake But now it so falleth out That whereas in the preceding Session of this Parliament the principall occasion of my Speach was to thanke and congratulate all you of this House and in you all the whole Common-wealth as being the representatiue body of the State for your so willing and louing receiuing and embracing of mee in that place which GOD and Nature by descent of blood had in his owne time prouided for me So now my Subiect is to speake of a farre greater Thankesgiuing then before I gaue to you being to a farre greater person which is to GOD for the great and miraculous Deliuery he hath at this time granted to me and to you all and consequently to the whole body of this Estate I must therefore begin with this old and most approued Sentence of Diuinitie Misericordia Dei supra omnia opera eius For Almightie God did not furnish so great matter to his glory by the Creation of this great World as he did by the Redemption of the same Neither did his generation of the little world in our old first Adam so much set forth the praises of God in his Iustice and Mercy as did our Regeneration in the last second Adam And now I must craue a little pardon of you That since Kings are in the word of GOD it selfe called Gods as being his Lieutenants and Vicegerents on earth and so adorned and furnished with some sparkles of the Diuinitie to compare some of the workes of GOD the great KING towards the whole and generall world to some of his workes towards mee and this little world of my Dominions compassed and seuered by the Sea from the rest of the earth Foras GOD for the iust punishment of the first great sinnes in the originall world when the sonnes of GOD went in to the daughters of men and the cup of their iniquities of all sorts was filled and heaped vp to the full did by a generall deluge and ouerflowing of waters baptize the world to a generall destruction and not to a generall purgation onely excepted NOAH and his family who did repent and beleeue the threatnings of GODS iudgement So now when the world shall waxe old as a garment and that all the impieties and sinnes that can be deuised against both the first and second Table haue and shall bee committed to the full measure GOD is to punish the world the second time by fire to the generall destruction and not purgation thereof Although as was done in the former to NOAH and his family by the waters So shall all we that beleeue be likewise purged and not destroyed by the fire In the like sort I say I may iustly compare these two great and fearefull Domes-dayes wherewith GOD threatned to destroy mee and all you of this little world that haue interest in me For although I confesse as all mankinde so chiefly Kings as being in the higher places like the high Trees or stayest Mountaines and steepest Rockes are most subiect to the dayly tempests of innumerable dangers and I amongst all other Kings haue euer bene subiect vnto them not onely euer since my birth but euen as I may iustly say before my birth and while I was yet in my mothers belly yet haue I bene exposed to two more speciall and greater dangers then all the rest The first of them in the Kingdome where I was borne and passed the first part of my life And the last of them here which is the greatest In the former I should haue bene baptized in blood and in my destruction not onely the Kingdom wherein I then was but ye also by your future interest should haue tasted of my ruine Yet it pleased GOD to deliuer mee as it were

from the very brinke of death from the point of the dagger and so to purge me by my thankefull acknowledgement of so great a benefite But in this which did so lately fall out and which was a destruction prepared not for me alone but for you all that are here present and wherein no ranke aage nor sexe should haue bene spared This was not a crying sinne of blood as the former but it may well bee called a roaring nay a thundring sinne of fire and brimstone from the which GOD hath so miraculously deliuered vs all What I can speake of this I know not Nay rather what can I not speake of it And therefore I must for horror say with the Poet Vox faucibus haeret In this great and horrible attempt Three miraculous euents be to be obserued in the Attempt whereof the like was neuer either heard or read I obserue three wonderfull or rather miraculous euents FIrst in the crueltie of the Plot it selfe 1 The crucltie of the Plot. wherein cannot be enough admired the horrible and fearefull crueltie of their deuice which was not onely for the destruction of my Person nor of my Wife and posteritie onely but of the whole body of the State in generall wherein should neither haue bene spared or distinction made of yong nor of old of great nor of small of man nor of woman The whole Nobilitie the whole reuerend Clergie Bishops and most part of the good Preachers the most part of the Knights and Gentrie yea and if that any in this Societie were fauourers of their profession they should all haue gone one way The whole Iudges of the land with the most of the Lawyers and the whole Clerkes And as the wretch himselfe which is in the Tower doeth confesse it was purposely deuised by them and concluded to be done in this house That where the cruell Lawes as they say were made against their Religion both place and persons should all be destroyed and blowne vp at once Three wayes how mankind may come to death And then consider therewithall the cruel fourme of that practise for by three different sorts in generall may mankinde be put to death The first by other men and reasonable creatures which is least cruell 1 By Man for then both defence of men against men may be expected and likewise who knoweth what pitie God may stirre vp in the hearts of the Actors at the very instant besides the many wayes and meanes whereby men may escape in such a present furie And the second way more cruell then that 2 By vnreasonable creatures is by Animal and vnreasonable creatures for as they haue lesse pitie then men so is it a greater horror and more vnnaturall for men to deale with them But yet with them both resistance may auaile and also some pitie may be had as was in the Lions in whose denne Daniel was throwne or that thankefull Lion that had the Romane in his mercie But the third which is most cruel and vnmercifull of all 3 By insensible things is the destruction by insensible and inanimate things and amongst them all the most cruell are the two Elements of Water and Fire and of those two the fire mostraging and mercilesse SEcondly 2 The small ground the Conspirators had to moue them how wonderfull it is when you shall thinke vpon the small or rather no ground whereupon the practisers were entised to inuent this Tragedie For if these Conspirators had onely bene bankrupt persons or discontented vpon occasion of any disgraces done vnto them this might haue seemed to haue bene but a worke of reuenge But for my owne part as Iscarcely euer knew any of them so cannot they alledge so much as a pretended cause of griefe And the wretch himselfe in hands doeth confesse That there was no cause moouing him or them but meerely and only Religion And specially that christian men at least so called Englishmen borne within the Countrey and one of the specials of them my sworne Seruant in an Honourable place should practise the destruction of their King his Posterity their Countrey and all Wherein their following obstinacie is so ioyned to their former malice as the fellow himselfe that is in hand cannot be moued to discouer any signes or notes of repentance except onely that he doeth not yet stand to auow that he repents for not being able to performe his intent THirdly 3 Miraculous euent the discouerie the discouery hereof is not a little wonderfull which would bee thought the more miraculous by you all if you were aswell acquainted with my naturall disposition as those are who be neere about me For as I euer did hold Suspition to be the sicknes of a Tyrant so was I so farre vpon the other extremity as I rather contemned all aduertisements or apprehensions of practises And yet now at this time was I so farre contrary to my selfe as when the Letter was shewed to me by my Secretary wherein a generall obscure aduertisement was giuen of some dangerous blow at this time I did vpon the instant interpret and apprehend some darke phrases therein contrary to the ordinary Grammer construction of them and in an other sort then I am sure any Diuine or Lawyer in any Vniuersitie would haue taken them to be meant by this horrible forme of blowing vs vp all by Powder And thereupon ordered that search to be made whereby the matter was discouered and the man apprehended whereas if I had apprehended or interpreted it to any other sort of danger no worldly prouision or preuention could haue made vs escape our vtter destruction And in that also was there a wonderfull prouidence of God that when the party himselfe was taken he was but new come out of his house from working hauing his Fireworke for kindling ready in his pocket wherewith as he confesseth if he had bene taken but immediatly before when he was in the House he was resolued to haue blowen vp himselfe with his Takers One thing for mine owne part haue I cause to thanke GOD in That if GOD for our sinnes had suffered their wicked intents to haue preuailed it should neuer haue bene spoken nor written in aages succeeding that I had died ingloriously in an Ale-house a Stews or such vile place but mine end should haue bene with the most Honourable and best company and in that most Honourable and fittest place for a King to be in for doing the turnes most proper to his Office And the more haue We all cause to thanke and magnifie GOD for this his mercifull Deliuery And specially I for my part that he hath giuen me yet once leaue whatsoeuer should come of me hereafter to assemble you in this Honourable place And here in this place where our generall destruction should haue bene to magnifie and praise him for Our generall deliuery That I may iustly now say of mine Enemies and yours as Dauid doeth often say in the