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A03080	The triumph of the Church over water and fire. Or A thankfull gratulation for that miraculous deliverance of the Church and state of Great Britaine, from the Romish Tophet: or, that barbarous and savage Powder-plot As it was delivered (for substance) in a sermon at Blacke Fryers in London on the fifth of November. 1625. By Theodor Hering, minister of the Word of God.; Triumph of the Church over water and fire.	Herring, Theodore, 1596-1645.	1625 (1625)	STC 13204; ESTC S104029	27,216	53

Poeticall Fictions as farre as they exceed the Truth Their Tenet is that the Bread is transubstantiate● into the body of Christ No marvaile if they who crash their Saviour betweene their teeth make no bones to crush their Soveraigne No marvaile if those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 GOD-eaters that make and bake their GOD and champe him when they haue done prooue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 MAN-eaters worse then Cannibals STATE-devourers What may they not doe to advance the Catholike Cause I shall not need to aggravate their Crueltie Trecherie their owne Acts proclaime it to the World Store of this Coyne is dayly Minted at ROME New proiects are daily forged on the Anvills of the Iesuites braines So iust is it with GOD to giue them over that their owne tongues and handes should be the chiefe Heralds to blazon the barbarous and savage disposition of these Blood-suckers to the whole World Thus doe they paint themselues in such Orient colours that no Oratour can more liuely set them out whose Mercy is Crueltie Pietie Butchery Religion Vide Acts of Parliam Witnesse Garnet and others who being iustly executed for Traytors in England are Canonized for Saints at Rome Faction Devotion Sedition whose Zeale is Fire Prayers Powder Teares Death Martyrs Traytors Saints Devils Incarnate But my lines swell I must breake off though abruptly least the garment proue too wide for the bodie least the Preamble exceed the Treatise Iudge 〈…〉 THE TRIVMPH OF THE CHVRCH OVER FIRE AND WATER ISAIAH 43.2 When thou passest through the Waters I will be with thee and through the Rivers they shall not overflow thee When thou walkest through the Fire thou shalt not be burnt neither shall the flame kindle vpon thee IN this Chapter wee receiue some Sermon-notes the Preacher was Isaiah the Hearers the Inhabitants of Iudah and Ierusalem The Sermon is worthy such a Teacher for descent of the blood-royall for Oratory he goes beyond all the Prophets of his time in elegancy of stile His discourse begins as learned Iunius obserues at the two and fortieth Chapter and reaches to the foureteene Verse of this Chapter which howsoever vniustly out and dismembred from the former must be redintigrated and added to the precedent Chapter to make vp a full and entire discourse The maine passages of his speech may be reduced to three Heads A Propheticall Prediction A sharpe Reprehension A sweete Consolation In his Prediction this Evangelicall Prophet and Propheticall Evangelist not vnworthily so stiled by some of the Antients as having the Honor of all that ever went before him in his cleare Revelations seeming rather Histories of what was already past then Prophesies of such things which after many Centuries of yeares were to be accomplished giues a liuely and excellent description of the Messias from the last Verse of the fortie-two Chapter to the seaventeenth of this Chapter 1. His Qualification in the administration of his office Verses 1.2.3.4 2. His Commission to warrant the execution of his office grounded on the vocation of his father from the fifth to the ninth verse 3. The reciprocall office of the Church towards Christ breaking forth into Songs and Hymnes of prayse and thanks-giuing verses 10.11.12 4. The effect of all in respect of the Church and the enemies of the Church which are layd downe inner so ordine The last first 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Touching his enemies their Confusion is threatned in a high Rhetoricall straine vers 13.14.15 Touching the Church her Conversion is promised in a Metaphoricall allusion vers 16.17.18 Then he fals very appositly by way of interrogation into a sharpe Commination his second maine passge laying downe the sinne first the blindnesse and heedlesnesse of those carelesse and secure both Priests and people who profited nought neither by the mercies nor iudgements of the Lord ver 19.20.21 The iudgements next which for the further aggravation of their sinne and punishment are amplified first from the Greatnesse of them in many phrases very Emphaticall they were robbed spoyled snared made a prey vers 22. the wrath of God poured vpon them like water consumed them like fire vers 25. Secondly from their senselesse stupiditie they could not reade the indignation of God in those desolations so much is intimated in the question propounded vers 24. Who gaue Iacob to a spoyle So much is expressed in the reason annexed vers 25. He set him on fire round about yet he knew it not and it burned him yet he layd it not to heart Now least the children of God should be discouraged and frighted too much with those blowes that were dealt so thicke among the wicked hee hastens with all speede to strengthen the heart of the righteous and reacheth them this Cordiall to reviue their drooping spirits But now sayth the Lord c. The Prophet to approue himself a wise workeman giueth mercy to whom mercy iudgement to whom iudgement belongs and as hee had shewed himselfe a right Bonoarges a Sonne of thunder so now hee will approue himselfe a true Barnabas a Sonne of consolation He was not so terrible in his Commination but hee will be as sweete in his Consolation This Consolation is deliuered by way of Iniunction feare not Then the reason is annexed or certaine grounds propounded why we should not feare from verse the 2. to the 14. verse The reasons are drawne partly from The Nature of God His Workes From his Nature he is Iehovah constant to himselfe euer as good as his word From his workes Past Future Past he instances in three great and grand workes of Creation Redemption Vocation Future of Direction he would guide them through the Water Future of Protection he would guard them in the Fire All this Summarily propounded in the first and second verses The Iniunction or inhibition is repeated v. 5. The Arguments of confirmation they also are againe and againe vrged by former experiences and proofes of the power providence and goodnes of God v. 3.4.5.6.7 c. Notable it is to consider how these promises are pressed iterated inculcated such is the diffidence of our nature that in our extreamities wee are apt to reiect all comfort and therefore the Lord by his Prophet labours to force them on vs. I haue dwelt too long in the confines and borders now let vs draw neare to the body of my Text Consider briefly the scope and parts of it These wordes carry in them a promise of Protection an engagement royall where in the Great Lord of Lords King of Kings the High Mighty Monarch of Heaven and Earth giues a safe convoye to his Spouse passing through the Arabian desert the vast and roaring wildernes of this world that notwithstanding all oppositions and encounters of fire and water he would set her safe in the Heavenly Canaan This is the sum The parts into which the sentence naturally breakes it selfe as the principall branches are two Behold here the wrastling of Iacob the Conquest of Iacob after

is a depth of misery to note the extremitie deepe and deepe to note the varietie neither was this to some one member that might fall into these quag-myres but the whole Church makes her moane Many a time baue they afflicted me from my youth may Israel now say many a time have they afflicted me from my youth vp Psal 129.12 That chosen vessell forewarnes the Antiechians that through many tribulations they must enter into the Kingdome of God Act. 14.22 As for the Apostle himselfe he had his share as deepe as any perils by Sea perils by Land c. Strange it is to see what varietie of troubles what a world of afflictions as it were can Army of Pykes 2 Cor. 6.4.11.13 2 Cor. 4.9.13 or a thicket of thornes Paul ran through David a Man after Gods owne heart what troubles vnder-went he at home What dangers abroad What from his enemies What from his friends What inward affliction What outward persecution As a man borne to sorrow that scarse ever came where tranquilitie grew So that Mirrour of patience Iob how came his crosses and losses thicke and three-fold like showers of haile-shot Iob. 1.14.15 Velut vndam vndam sequitur as waue followes waue in the midst of the Sea Solomon Proverb 24.16 tels vs they come by troupes by seavens a certaine number put for an vncertaine many come that is certaine but how many that is vncertaine Who can number the starres of the skie Who can number the drops of the water Who can number the sparkles of the fire Who can count the dust of Iacob Or who can number the fourth part of the afflictions of Ioseph But it is their nature I must insist on rather then their number did not Experience the Mistresse of fooles saue me that labour The dearest children of God as wee often finde and feele are they not put to great extremities to shrewd plunges to desperate pinches What a strait was the Church brought to thinke you when the Edomits cryed Downe with it downe with it even to the ground What should I protract time to instance in persons in places What meane these and the like phrases The plowers haue ploughed on my backe they made long furrowes Psal 129.3 And againe Psal 66.12 Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads wee went through fire and water the same allusion which is here in my Text. This is that bread of affliction that water of affliction that gall and wormwood wherewith he feedes his that Baptisme which our Saviour forespeakes to the Sonnes of Zebedeus Mat. 10.38.39 Luk. 12.50 Yee shall drinke indeed of that cup that I shall drinke of and be baptized with the baptisme wherewith I shall be baptized If you take it literally was not Noah carried through the water Gen. 7.18 Exod. 1.22 and the Hebrew babes did they not passe through the flouds The three Children went they not through the fire Dan. 3.23 howbeit the flame kindled not vpon them Those blessed Martyrs how many thousands were sent vp to heaven Elias-like in fiery Chariots If you take it spiritually these waters had even entred into Davids soule he was not drenched onely but almost swallowed vp of those waues Ps 69.1.2 Iob. 16.13 Iob. 7.12 Iob complaines that the Lord had set him as a Butt that the arrowes of the Almightie stucke stucke fast in his ribbes the venom whereof had drunke vp his bloud he was hedged in as a Whale Ionah cryes from the bottome of the Whale from the belly Hell Ionah 2.3.4.5 More Generall Gen. 4.8 when holy Abel lay bleeding vnder the bloudy knife of his butcherly brother Caine was not the Church at a desperate pinch When Isaac lay bound on the Altar Abrahams hand now stretched out and vp ready to giue the fatall stroake Gen 22.10 was not the Church at the last cast gasping for life When the Hebrewes were pressed in a manner oppressed with that sore intollerable Egyptian bondage when forced to march through the midst of that red Sea figuring the blood Exod 14.22 red Sea of persecution through which all the Israel of God must wade when those Assyrian Bandes the Caldean armies brake their bankes and like a violent ouerswelling torrent swept all before them as a generall inundation 2. Kings 18.11 was not Gods Ston in the middest of the waters when the Roman Troups put all to the fire and the sword not leauing one stone vpon a stone of that famous Citty and Temple the wonder of the world not throwne downe or rather in the times of those ten fiery persecutions when Nebuchadnezars Oven was heated seuen times hotter then ordinary was not the Bush all in a flame was not Sion in the middest of the fire What might be there reason will some demand that the troubles of the righteous should be so many and great the same in a manner with the former It fals out thus partly in respect of God partly in respect of their enemies in respect of thēselues partly not principally Iehovah permits it ordaines it orders it Why the more and the greater their afflictions are the more doth his mercy shine the greater doth his wisedome and power appeare in their deliuerance in their rescue When Israel was euery way distressed Exod. 14.12.12 the sea before them the army of the Egyptians behinde them pressing at their heeles the high towring Mountaines hemming them in on all sides now will the Lord get him honor vpon Pharaoh and all his hoast Exod. 14.4 Now will the Lord of Hoastes march valiantly and overthrow the horse and the rider When the people of God were scattered ouer the foure corners of the world now for God to turne againe the captivitie of Iacob Isaiah 43.12.14 as the streame back-ward to bring them home weeping with their faces toward Sion this shall be to mee sayth the Lord an euerlasting name ioy and honor now he shewes him-selfe a God The greater the streame is the skill of the Pilot if hee steere the shippe aright appeares to be the greater the more desperate the disease is the cure is the more glorious this may be one ground why the troubles of the righteous are many and mighty that the mighty and manifold wisedome power goodnes of Iehovah might shine out in their full glory to the admiration of Men and Angels Another reason followes because their enemies are many and great Their malice great their subtilty great their power great their sedulity great their cruelty great Consider their subtilty the slie Midianites haue a thousand wiles and wayes to vexe and beguile the plaine hearted downe-right Israelites Consider their malice there is an eternall enmity put by God himselfe between the seede of the woman and the seede of the Serpent which how euer smothered sometimes as it were in the ashes yet euer and anon is blowne vp by the bellowes of vnplacable malice Gen. 15. and breakes forth into an open