The first part .

THe first part wee obserued , is the Pluralitie & the Qualitie of these Deliuerances : they be plures , and they be salutes : both which with the Fathers , ye may call the two handes of God , vz. Latitude and Fortitude : the first in the pluralitie , Giuing to all men , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , aboundantly , 1. Tim. 6.19 . that is , Manus expansa : The second in the qualitie , defending what he giues powerfully , there is Manus extensa . Or in Saint Paules Metaphor , The fulnesse of Gods riches . First , Diuitiae gratiae , Ephes. 1.17 . Giuing frankely and liberally . Secondly , Diuitiae bonitatis , Roman. 2.4 In that the thinges which he giueth , be [ Salutes ] For so it is , Mat. 7.11 . Your heauenly Father shall giue vnto you bona , good thinges ▪ and this comes nearer to Dauids sense , who , when he meditates of his Deliuerances from God , still attributes them to Gods right hand . Psalme 73. 23. I was alwayes with thee , and thou vpheldest me with thy right hand : but herein he obserueth two things : First , Plenitudo dextrae , Psalme 16.11 . the plentie of that hand . Secondly , salutare dextrae , Psal. 20.6 . the wholesomnesse of that hand . For the first vz. the pluralitie : it is not with God as Esau spake of his Father Isaac , Genes. 2● . 38 . Hast thou but ONE blessing my Father ? As if God had but one way to saue , or as hee said , 1. Kings 20.23 . that he were a God of the Mountaines onely , that is , coulde ridde vs from high & eminent daungers and not a God of the Valleis : ( yes , and of the vaultes too we may say , ) for with him , sayeth Dauid , there is copiosa redemptio , Psalm 131.7 . all maner of wayes to redeem . And therfore as there being diuerse kinds of sinnes , and for euery of them he hath mercies answerable and proportionable ▪ an abilitie to redeeme Israel from all his sinnes . Psal. 131 8. as for great sinnes ▪ he hath magnam misericordiam , and for many sins , multitudinem miseria um . psal. 51.1 so proportionable to euery mans dangers , or miseries , are Gods deliuerances : Be they great as Psalme 71.20 . great aduersities hast thou shewed vnto me , &c. Behold here Great deliuerances , Are they Many ? as Psalme 25 ▪ 17. Tribulationes multiplicasti , my sorrowes are multiplied , there is with him , Multitudo salutum , Ps. 94 19. In the Multitude of the sorrows which I had in my heart , thy comfortes haue refreshed mee : Particularly , to fore-prise a daunger , hee hath Salutem praeuenientem , Psalme 21.3 . Thou diddest preuent me with thy goodnesse , to meete with a daunger when it commeth , hee hath Salutem praeparantem , Psalme 18 , 43. Thou diddest Girde mee with strength vnto the battle , to assist at a pinch in the daunger , hee hath salutem suscipientem , Psalme 118.13 . I was thrust at sore that I might fall sed Dominus suscepit me , but the Lorde vphelde me , to stay a relapse after an escaped danger , hee hath salutem confortantem , Psalme 89.21 . My hand shall holde him vppe , and my arme shall stablish him . And this pluralitie might Dauid aboue all others acknowledge , and so he did , when Psalm 118.14 . he confessed , that God had so many wayes deliuered him , Vt totus factus esset in salutem , as if hee intended nothing else but to deliuer him : For Salus beeing eyther Redimens rescewing from daunger , or Redimiens , Dignifying or Crowning with Honour : the first , 1. Samuel 13.41 . shall Jonathan die , qui salutem tam magnam fecit , which hath giuen vs so great Deliuerance , that is , salus redimens , For the second , Psalme 21.5 . His Glory is greate in tua salute , Why ? Glory and Honour hast thou laide vppon him , There is Salus Redimiens , in both these , Dauid had his share from God more then any other . For the first , his Rescew from the Beares pawe , the Lions iawe , Saules iaueline , Goliahs speare , Achitophels counsell , Doegs slaunder , Schemi his reuiling , the mouth of the sword , the murren of his people , the multiplicitie of his sinne , the rebellion of his sonne , ( no meane nor ordinarie dangers ) is an euident demonstration , and accordingly hee confessed it , when Psalme 54.7 . hee sayeth , hee hath deliuered mee from all my feare : For the second , his Honours were as many as his daungers , the fauour with his Prince , the loue of the people , the designed heritage of a Kingdome , the glorious wearing of a Crowne , the triumphant victories ouer his enemies , the secure establishing of his Kingdome in his sonne while he liued : these Salutes it pleased GOD to affoorde him , and with an othe to assure him ; I will make him my first borne higher than the Kinges of the earth : himselfe putteth them both together , Psalme 10.1 . verse 4. Prayse the Lorde , O my soule , which saueth thy life from destruction , there is the first Salus , his acquitall from daunger : which crowneth thee with mercy and louing kindenesse ; there is the second , his requitall with Honour . And so much for the pluralitie [ Deliuerances , ] the summe whereof , is that of our Prophet in Psalme 34 , verse 19. Manie are the troubles of the righteous , but the Lord deliuereth them out of all , this is Plenitudo dextrae .

The second part .

NOw we come to the Quality , that is , salutare dextrae , For as GODS Deliuerances are many , so they bee Salutes , they haue health in them , they bee as Dauid sayeth , Psalme 21. Verse 3. Benedictiones dulcedinis sweete blessinges : Vsque in delicias amamur , sayeth Seneca : this is GODS Syntaxis , ( as the vulgar English reades , Psalme 28. verse 8. The wholesome Deliuerance of his annointed . It is not so with the sonnes of men , in whom there may be help ▪ sed non est salus in eis : Psalme 146.3 . there is no health in their helpe : trust them not . Munera quae putas , insidiae sunt , their Deliuerances are not without some annoyance , Euen the verie Saluere of the tongue , like the Saliva thereof , hath some venome in it , Psalme 28. 3. They speake friendly to their neighboures , but imagine mischiefe in their heartes , But their reall Deliuerances , much more noxious : For as it is in the Apologue ( to which the Poet alludeth ) of the Combat betweene the Stagge and the Horse , viz. That , the Horse beeing too weake for the Stagge , required the helpe of the man , which hee easily obtained ; who getting vpon the Horse backe , driued the Stagge to flight , but after that , non equitem dorso , non fraenum depulit oze , he could neuer since quit his backe of the rider , nor his mouth from the bit : so is it with the helps of worldly Potentates , beneficia viscata : as the birde hauing escaped the snare , percheth vpon the tree for refuge , and there shee findes bird-lime to intangle her , from whence she cannot flie , but with losse of her feathers , if not of her members : so is it with the helps of States and Nations , aske their helpe in distresse they will graunt it ; but withall , eyther they exact a tribute , which exhausteth the Treasury , or impose conditions , which infringe the Liberty , or require a future aide , which weakeneth the Power , or betray vpon aduantage , which redoubles the Misery , or vpbraide the benefite , which exulcerates the minde . This is Saluatio ab Optimatibus , ( as the Latines reade ) Ieremy , 25.35 . which as the Vsurers loane ( to speake for the capacity of the Citty ) freeth a man from the prison for the time , but inuellops him in bondes more miserable , more durable than the prison . Herein differing from God , for his blessing , sayeth Salomon , giueth riches , yea and Deliuerances ; nec addit molestiam , and ioyneth no sorrowes with them . For if it bee salutare ex Sion , Ps. 53.6 . Then shall Iacob reioyce , and Ifrael shall bee glad .

And thus much for the word Salutes ; the summe whereof is , Psalme 85.9 . that if it be Salutare Domini , there concurre with it , omnes salutes Glory , Mercy , Righteousnesse , Peace , as the Prophet there noteth . The conclusion that in psalme 3.8 . Domini est salus , it is the Lord onely that giues true Deliuerance , and withall a blessing vpon his people . And this for the Pluralitie and Qualitie of the Deliuerances .

Now we come to the Quantitie , [ Great ] wherein wee will not goe further than this Psalme , nor there speake of his Salus coronans , eyther the Celsitude of his honour , verse 35. He hath set me vp on high places : nor of the Amplitude of his honour , verse 45. Thou hast made mee the head of the heathen , a people remote & vnknowne nor of his Triumphs ouer his enemeies , verse 42. Driuing them , as the winde the dust before him trampling them as the clay in the streetes vnder him : ( though this bee also the Salus coronans of our dread Soueraigne and glorious King ) but onely shew the greatnesse of the dangers which Dauid escaped , as more sutable to this late horrible occurrent , both in respect of the dangers themselues as first , Dolores mortis , verse 4. the pangs of death which the imminent expectation put him vnto ( for the expectation of death , is more bitter then death it selfe . Secondly , Laquei mortis , funes inferni , verse 6. daungers in the darke , treasons in secret , treacheries of the Vault . Thirdly , aquae multae , one danger in the necke of another , verse 16. And also of the Authors , as verse 4. Torrentes iniquitatis , streames of wickednesse , a concurrence of Conspirators . Secondly , ( which is our late case ) vers. 48. Vir iniuriarum , or rapinae , a cruell blood-thirstie wretch , like our Vault-enginer . All these of Dauids were great indeed , but compared to this of our gracious King : ( the last , I trust , for a worse there cannot be ) is but as a minium to a large , whether we consider therein , eyther the Plot it selfe , or the Con-comitance with it , or the Consequences of it .

Plot.

FIrst in the Plot , obserue I pray you a cruell Execution , an inhumane crueltie , a brutish immanitie , a diuelish brutishnes , & an Hyperbolicall , yea an hyperdiabolicall diuelishnes .

First , Cruelty in the effusion of blood , cursed both of God and man : for Cursed art thou from the earth saith God to Cain , Genes. 4.11 . for one mans blood spilt ▪ Cursed be the rage , for it was cruell , saith Iacob of his sonnes , Gen. 49.7 . in the slaughter of the Shechemites .

Secondlie , Immane crueltie , in the multitude of the slaine , to make himselfe drunke with the blood of so many Worthies , and so innocent : ( for by the reporte of militarie men ) his prouision was so large , that if fire had beene giuen , ( beside the place it selfe at the which hee aymed ) the Hall of Iudgement , the Courtes of Recordes , the Collegiate Church , the Cittie of Westminster , yea , White-Hall the Kinges house , had beene trushed and ouerthrowne , such heapes hee had layde in , of Billets , Fagots , huge stones , Iron-crowes , Pike-axes , great Hammer-heades , besides so many barrels of Gun-powder , fiue and thirtie in number small and great , as I am credebly informed .

Thirdly , his brutish immanity ▪ in the manner of the death , not man-like to kill , but beast-like to discerpe , and teare parcell meale , the bodies of such personages , Ferina rabies est , saith Seneca , dilaniare non occidere .

Fourthly , his diuelish feritie ; first , for the materials of the death intended ( Gun-powder ) which they say none but the diuell , the King of the sulphurious pit did inuent : secondly , for the fierie massacre it should haue made , not from heauen , as the fire that came downe from aboue vppon Iobs substance , Iob. 1.16 . For which cause it is there called Ignis Dei , but vnder the earth , out of a Caue , as kindled and sent from the infernall pit : The Apostle sayeth , That the member which sets on fire , Rotam generationis , Iames , 3.6 . The whole course of generation ( as this shoulde haue done ) it selfe is set on fire by Hell .

Fiftly , But this more then diuelish , for this Diuell of the Vault , contented not himselfe with the death of the bodie , but reached in his Proiect at the second death , of the soule ; by taking away many , so suddenly in their sinnes vnrepented , with their mindes vn-prepared : I trust that this escape will make many to like the better of the prayer against suddaine death , for though I doubt not , but if it had beene effected , that this whirling blast woulde haue beene vnto our sacred King , ( so Religious in his profession , so innocent from wrong , so cleare in his conscience ) as the Whirle-wind and fiery chariot of Elias , to haue carried vppe his soule to heauen , and that God in his mercy , woulde haue made this Deluge of Bloode , as Baptismum sanguinis , a Baptisme of Martyrdome , to haue washt away our sinners ; and as a Holocaust , an whole burnt sacrifice , to propitiate his wrath for our Transgressions , yet as much as in this Fury it lay , he wold haue sent vs all to hell .

Secondly , And still I say , a Rage more then diuelish : for the Diuell when hee is described to haue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Apoc. 12.12 . to bee in his extreamest rage , yet then hee is saide , verse 4. to haue drawne with his tayle , but the third part of the starres , and that from heauen to earth , but this Diuell , with his traine would at once haue pulled downe all the glorious Starres , both fixed , and erraticall ( those that are fastened to the Court , and those which come and goe as they are called and dismissed ) yea euen the Sunne & the Moone themselues , not from heauen to earth , but to the bottomlesse pit , as much as in him lay .

Thirdly , and still I say , more then diuelish : For as the Fathers ( alluding vnto that speech of the King of Sodome , Da mihi animas , caetera cape tibi Genes. 14.21 . ) doe well obserue , that the diuell is contented with the soules of men , for if Iob would haue cursed God to his face , Iob. 1.11 . he would not haue cared , though his substance and honour had beene encreased , and his life continued , but this Satanicall miscreant , must haue body and goods , and life , and soule , and all .

Lastly , marke in this Plot , a prodition without a match ( and yet it shoulde haue beene effected with a match ) but I meane , a Treason without Paralell ; a slaughter beyonde comparison . For the Treason , the neerest that I find to it , is that in the Roman Historie of the schoolmaister among the Falerians , whose Citty Camillus besieged , who hauing the sonnes and youth of all the Nobility , and the Chiefe of that Cittie in his tuition , drawing them into the fieldes a little without the Walles , vnder pretence for their recreation , betraide them all at once into the handes of Camillus : and yet herein there is a great disparison , for they were but children , but in this case olde and young , parents and progenie , all at once , should haue beene betrayed , they were aliue , and so might be eyther raunsomed or recouered , or if slaine yet they should haue seene their death : but here without ransom or recouery ; or seeing who had hurt them ( for so the letter boasts ) a death suddaine and invisible : there but the sprowtes of one Cities Nobilitie , a small territorie : heere the stem and seede Royall , with the Honour and Hope of this whole Ilands Gentry and Nobility .

But Slaughter none can I thinke of matchable therewith . Pharao slew the Males of Israel , but that was by Edict , and they were Children , and of his Vassalles . Herod massacred the infantes , but that was to secure him of his State , shaken ( as he thought ) by a prediction , Math. 2. Abimelech and Athaliah , killed all the allies of the bloud , but their furie was stanched in the issue Royall . Of Achilles his furie , it is saide by the Poet , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , that he sent many worthy men to the graue : but that was in open warre , and in the compasse of many yeares .

And all these were Kinges and Tyrants , and so their mind the same with Polynices in the Tragaedy , Imperia precio quonis constant bené , that Kingdomes are to bee bought at any rate : but what shoulde moue this , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , a vermine of the basest sorte , a very Tenebrio , the slaue of darkenesse , like a Mole vnder the grounde , to subuerte at one push as the Prophet speaketh , Esay . 9.14 . heade & tayle , braunch and roote , all in one day ? Caligula , was but a shadow ; for he wished that all the Cittizens of Rome , had but one necke , that at one blow hee might cut it off : but this Blood-sucker , not only wished it , but contriued it , prepared for it , and was ready to execute it . There was but one famous Nero , which for his Crueltie got the name of Nero from all the rest , him hath he matched in Affection : for when one of Nero his dissolute company , had said Me mortuo , when I am deade , let heauen & earth goe together ▪ Nay said Nero , Me viuo , while I am aliue . So ment Guy Faulkes ( the true name of a false traytor ) to haue beheld as ( hee said ) the houses and bodies flying vp ; he liuing & laughing at it If hee had solde vs for bond-slaues & hand-maides , saith Hester of Haman , yet there had been life , and so hope of returne , but to make an vtter dissolution of the whole State , had beene a misery incurable , was a proiect most damnable .

Here was read the parties confession , so much as concerned the Plot.

ANd so much of the Plot.

Now for the Con-comitance , what would haue come to passe , euen with that blow . The olde Greeke Prouerbe is , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , that no great exploit can suddenly be effected , especially , alteration of States , doe aske a long time & must bee wrought by degrees : for omnis subita mutatio est periculosa , euen to the Conquerors themselues , and therefore in their purpose to change a State , they will begin with one thing at once , as with weakening the force , or exhausting the wealth , or altering the Religion , or remouing their Gouernors , but in this designe , Vno flatu , vno ictu , vno nictu , with one blast at one blow , in one twinkling of an eye , should haue bin crushed together , the Gouernement , the Councell , the wisedom , the Religion , the Learning , the strength , the Iustice ▪ of the whole land . The want of one of these is a blemish to a State , and bringes a miserie with it . A Realme without a Monarch as the Skie without the Sunne is a clowde of darkenesse , a darkenes of confusion .

A Monarch without counsell , as a head without eyes , obnoxius of it selfe to danger , and a burden to the members .

Counsell without Wisdome , as an arrow out of a childes bow , accidentally fortunate , but originally weake .

Wisedome without Religion , like Tullies Offices , politique but prophane .

Religion without Learning , like the Athenian Altar . Act. 17 superstitiously deuoute , but fundamentally vnsound .

Learning not guarded with strength , as a rich Citie without wals , naked & vnfenced .

Strength without Iustice , as a Lyon broke from his Cage , furious and vnsatiable . And yet this darkenes , this blindenes , this prophanes , this superstition , this weakenes , this lawles fury , had with this blowing vp , bin blown in & ouer this whole nation , a thing which neither the greatest Potentate of the world , with his strongest inuasion , nor the most dangerous rebel , though most popular & powerfull , coulde haue brought to passe after many repulses , & in many years , namely , to take away at once , the hope of succession , the Oracles of wisedome , the Chariots of Israel , the Beau-peeres of Learning , the buttresses of strength , the guardians of iustice ; the glory of the Nobilitie , and in one word , the Flower of the whole Kingdome , not , as Tarquinius , the poppy heades , one after one , but with Sampsons crush , al in a moment : And which makes the fact more odious , in the sanctuary of the Kingdom . These would haue gone with the blow , but what should the Issue haue been ?

If the light which is within thee be darkenesse , saith our Sauiour , Mat. 6.23 . how great is that darkenes ? and yet such had beene ours , when all the lights together were extinguished ▪ Begin first with the chiefest and brightest , Lucerna Israel , so is the King called , 2. Sam. 21. It is a wo to a land saith the Preacher , wher the king is a child Eccle. 10.16 . But Write this man childles , Ier. 22.30 . is a more dreadfull case : For vbi nullus gubernator , neither in act , nor hope , populus corruit saith Salomon , Pro. 11.14 . there followes a generall dissolution . Then come we to the inferiour lightes , 1. the lights politike , In the multitude of Counsellors there is health , Pro. 24.6 . Sed dissipantur cogitationes vbi non est consilium . Pro. 15.22 . The ioyntes of the whole State are loosened where there is no Counsel . 2. The Lightes Ecclesiasticall : The Priestes lips shall preserue knowledge , and at his mouth the Law must be learned , Mal. 2.7 . for they are Lux mundi . Mat 5 ▪ both for inlightning the mindes of men with knowledge , and directing their liues by good example . Now these Priestes to be slain by the sword , Psa. 78.64 . is a miserable calamitie , but to haue no Priest , no Teraphim , no Ephod , no Church-gouernor ( as our case had bin ▪ ) is that horrible desolation threatned by the prophet , Ose. 3.4 . Then the Lights Ciuil , Magistrates inferior , who being sub-ordinate to the greater , these being quenched , what light can the lesse giue ? what obedience could they haue ? their authority ( at the best ) is but deriued : when the fountaine therfore is stopped , the riuers are dried , the Chieftaine remoued , the Lieue-tenancie ceaseth . Lastly , Lux morum , Mat. 5.16 . Let your light so shine , &c. These lightes of good manners where had they bin ? in such a Cyclopicall Confusion , wherein as the Poet saith , Iudg. 17.6 , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , No-body heares nothing of No-body . As the Scripture speaketh , wherein euery man dooth what seemeth good in his own eyes , be it neuer so bad , what Rapes , what Rapines , what riflings , what slaughters had insued ? A thing more miserable to the suruiuors than to them which were slaine ? wherein , what could be any mans ? and yet what might not be euery mans ? wherein optimum misericordiae genus esset occidere , the best kind of pitty had bin to slay , and the happiest newes , to heare of death . The hedge lying open for the wild boare of the forrest to enter , a Forrener to inuade , or the slie Foxe of the wood to clime , a domesticall vsurper to intrude , this had bin the Cimmerian darkenesse of our nation , when these lightes had bin extinguished . And blowne out should they haue bin , vnlesse the father of lightes had caused light to shine out of darkenesse by discouering and reuealing this worke of darkenesse : so that we may truely now conclude with Dauid , Psal. 97.11 . Lux orta est iusto , Light is sprung vp for the Righteous , and ioy vnto them that are true hearted .

Now doe as Assuerus did , cause the Records to be read , Hest , 6.1 . & Chronicles to be searcht , ancient , moderne , diuine , prophane , Greeke , Latin among the Turkes , in Paganisme , yea if Hell keepe any Records , search there , and looke if yee can patterne this conspiracie , or match this daunger , so desperate , so cruel , so ineuitable , and iudge , whether this Conclusion of Dauids , do not well sort with this escape of ours . [ Great deliuerances giueth hee vnto his king ] but this , perhaps you will say , was but one great indeed , euen a riddance as the Prophet speaketh , from the nethermost pit . Psal. 30. What is this to the plurall in the Text , [ deliuerances ? ] yes , because in this one there were many ; for had our gracious Soueraigne only escaped , the deliuerances had bin many , for that euen in the very person of the King , there are many liues , Thou art worth ten thousand of vs said the people to Dauid . ●● Sam. 18.3 . So many liues preserued by the kings safetie , so many deliuerances , but that speech , 1. Reg. 22. ●● . I saw all Israel scattered as sheepe wanting a shephearde , argueth that the liues of the whole Nation , are contained in the Kings person . But this was not all , for withall was deliuered both his fruitfull vine , and his Oliue branches , as Dauid calleth them . Psalm. 128. his Queene , and Children , the Crowne of his Table , the Diademe of his Crowne ; the glory of his Diademe , the hope of his glory , the assurance of his hope , and the pledges of his assurance . The slaughter of Zedekiah his sonnes , did more grieue him . Ieremy 52.9 . then the losse of his Kingdome , or the Captiuity of his owne person , and such being the affection of our louing King vnto his deare Children , hee accountes their escape , no meane part of his Deliuerances : Neither was this all , because the best part of his people were withall deliuered , besides the number which was very great . In the multitude of the people , is the Honour of the King , sayeth Salomon ; but a Realme dispeopled is presently ruined . Prouerb . 14.28 . Therefore it pleased his Maiestie to professe ( in his Royall , iudicious , graue , and learned speech vttered yesterday in the Parliament ) that the deliuerance of the Estates and Commons , ( which were aymed at ) whose liues and welfare , hee vowed , were more deare vnto him then his own safety , did more Comfort him then his Personall escape . But in this point of the Pluralitie If I woulde bee curious in an other Realme ( as then it was ) I might fill vppe the number of the King his Deliuerances , and match them with Dauids .

It seemeth by his Maiesties speach yesterday ; that his case & race hath bin the same with the Prophet , being preserued in Vtero , Psal. 139.13 . Ab Vtero , Psal. 22.10 . Ex vtero , Psal. 71.6 . For no sooner was hee conceiued in the wombe , but presentlie he was hazarded , no sooner deliuered from the wombe , but inuironed with daunger , and what perils he hath passed euer since he was borne , need not be related , they are so manifest : dismissed from those parts with a dreadfull farewell of a desperate Treacherie , and entertained among vs with a Conspiracie vnnatural & as dangerous : heere Crowned with Thornes , before hee coulde get on the Crowne of Golde . Now therefore , as for these rescues hee and wee may truely say with Dauid [ Magnificasti salutes , thou hast shewed great deliuerances ] : so , for the discouery of the danger ; we must needs adde with the same Prophet , Psal. 17.7 . Mirificasti misericordias , thy mercies thou hast made maruellous ▪ for surelie , there were wonders in the disclosing thereof : As first by a letter written without a name , in a disguised hand ( for mendax odit lucem ) to a Noble Gentleman ( affected that way in Religion ) who hath therin discharged the part both of a loyal and honourable Subiect : his duetie hee shewed , in reuealing what was written Here was the Letter read , and varied vpon with some notes . fearing some danger might be intended , his honour appeared in the detestation of such a horrible intention .

2 By his Maiesties apprehension , who though he walketh securely , in the sinceritie of his Conscience , and innocency of his carriage ( which makes him lesse iealous and suspitious of daunger ) yet his heart gaue him ( by some wordes in that letter ) that there might bee some fiery Engine , perhaps remembring his Fathers Case , who was blowne vp with powder .

Here were such Papers read , as concerned the confession which was then knowne , and notes giuen vpon them by the Preacher .

THis solertia and ingeniositie of spirit ( which in his Maiestie I haue before obserued ) makes mee to thinke that speech of the heathen man to be true , Nullus vir magnus sine afflatu diuino , and that in Kinges there is a diuine inspiration . 3. In God almighty his iudgement , both vppon the Caitiffe of the Caue , who being not many houres before in the Celler ( when some of the Lordes came thether for some other occasions , as was thought ) had not the power to suspect , or the grace to flie : but when the Priuie watch came in the night , he was the first man that appeared at the dore , as if God himselfe had presented him vnto their handes , and also vpon the rest of the Conspirators . In whom hee verefied that speech of his sonne , Mat. 7 In qua mensura , &c. retaliating their purpose with the effect of their owne proiect , as if he would not suffer them to bee taken , till they were fired out of the house , who woulde haue fired vs within a house : striking some of their eyes out with Gunne-powder , ( the instrument of our death ) and some slaine with Musket . there also is Fire and Powder , the Engines of their owne Conspiracie ▪ Now surely , Mirificasti Misericordias , O Lorde thou hast made thy mercies wonderfull ▪ And thus much shall serue for the first generall , the intensiue parte . The Conclusion and vse whereof shall bee , that sithens GOD , hath beene good to vs in a double quantitie of Number and Dimention , for Many , for Great Deliuerances , wee againe aunswere him in the like proportion , quantitie for quantitie , as Dauid prescribeth , Psalme 150.2 . In multitudine magnitudinis . Hath GOD done great thinges for vs , Psalme , 126.3 ? Let vs with the Prophet aunswere him in the same kinde , and say ; Wee wil giue great thankes vnto the Lorde . Dooth hee fundere beneficia , powre out his benefites vppon vs , Psalm . 68.19 ? Let vs againe fundere Corda , powre out our heartes before him , for GOD is our hope , psalme 62.8 . Doth hee giue vs cause to triumph , it is our parts as Dauid here to aunswere him with an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , and that in all sortes as the word hath beene vsed , 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , to declare this deliuerance in triumphant speeches , 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , to giue Triumphantly our Almes to the poore , our dole to the needy ; for all shoulde haue beene taken from vs , therefore wee the better may part with some to so ʸ good vses , 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , to sacrifice in triumph the Calues of our lippes , the prayers of our heartes , the prayses of our tongues , and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , to eate triumphingly , to feast extraordinarily , For so did the people of GOD among the Iewes vppon any straunge deliuerance . The Father at the returne of his Sonne , Luke 15. did so , and why not wee ? Sithens that is verified of our most gratious King , which hee there spake of his recouered Sonne , Mortuus est , & reuixit , hee was dead and is aliue againe . Dead in the Cabinet of the Conspirators , dead in the intention of the Villaine in the Vault , dead in the preparation of false-hearted rebels , but reuixit , hee is aliue againe , 1. vixit , escaping manie daungers , Hee liued , vt induceretur ad nos , to bee brought in vnto vs , from Hebron vnto Ierusalem , from the Northerne climat to these Southerne partes , now reuixit , hee is aliue afresh , vt reduceretur ad nos , to bee brought againe vnto vs , Acherontis faucibus , as his Ma: yesterday said , from the very gates of death , from the Iawes of the deuourer , from the lowest pit . And long may he liue with vs , and raigne ouer vs , to the comfort of himselfe , to the ioy of his Realmes , to the confusion of his enemies , to the maintenance of the Gospell , to the glory of the highest .

And now ( but that the time is so farre spent ) I should come to the seconde parte , which is the Extensiue , vz. to whome God hath shewed these deliuerances , namely , [ to his King and his annointed ] wherein I might truely haue taken occasion , to haue shewed how these titles doe agree to our dread Soueraigne , both that hee is a King , and that he is Gods King , as hauing in him all the partes that may concur either in a king , or in a good King , to whom that title , first attributed to Dauid , ( which once before I named ) the light of Israel , principally appertaineth , as one from whose resplendent brightnesse , al the kingdomes of Christendome may receiue their light . Whether wee looke vnto the light of nature ; of pregnant wit , of ready apprehension , of sound iudgement , of present dispatch , of impregnable memory .

Or the light of Art , being an vniuersall Scholler , acute in arguing , subtle in distinguishing , Logiclal in discussing , plentifull in inuenting ▪ powerfull in perswading , admirable in discoursing ,

Or the light of grace , whether intellectuall , for speculatiue Theology , a perfect Textuar , a sound Expositor , a faithfull Christian , and a constant Professor , or affectuall , for Regeneration , an assiduous prayer , a chast husband , of sweete carriage , of humble deportment , of mortified lusts , of sanctified life .

Or the light of gouernment , an vpright arbitrator in cases of Iustice , a louing father to his subiects , a carefull guardian of his kingdomes , a wise manager of his State , an especial fauourer of this Citty , an absolute Monarch both for Regiment & iudgment : And yet these lights thus gloriouslie shining in this golden candlesticke , this Nocturnus Ambulo , this diurnus Nebulo , this nightes gadder , this daies Pioner , would haue at once blowne out .

So would I also haue handled this worde Annointed , which makes a King a sacred person and therein I purposed , to haue shewed vnto you , that this practise of murthering princes , is made an Axiom of Theologie among the Romanists : who so reads Parsons , Dolman , Allen and Parsons their cases of conscience , Stapleton his quod libeticall Oration at Doway , Rossaeus , Reynoldes , Gyfford , or the bitter expostulation of Ludouicus of Orleance , in the case of the Guyses faction against Henry of Nauar , now King of France ; and lastly , the positions of the Iesuites of Salamanca , shall finde it a conclusion of positiue Diuinitie : Whereof , were there no other , this worde Annointeed , is an vnanswerable confutation . Touch not mine annointed , saith the Prophet , Psal. 105.15 . For this Dauid took as an inuiolable restraint , both when Saule was giuen into his handes , How should I lay handes vpon the Lords annointed , 1. Sam. 24. and as a sufficient reason to execute Saules murtherer at least the messenger of his death , 2. Sam. 1. Howe durst thou touch the Lords annointed ? Honorauit viuum , Vindicauit mortuum , saith Saint Augustin , only for this reason , because he was annointed : and yet , those which make Religion the stawking-horse for Treasons , pretend the Catholike Cause , ( as these Conspirators now did ) to murther the lords Annointed . Against whome , I would ( if the time had serued ) in this case haue beene more bitter , but that I remember there are some amongst vs , who challenge vnto themselues the quintessence of Annointing as He , Esay 65. Come not neere mee for I am Holier then thou , yet come very neare to the same dangerous position : not to speake of Knox and Buchanan , the two fiery spirites of that Church and Nation where they liued , what means that speech of some of our owne Countrie , extant in Print , in the late Queenes time of blessed memory ? that if their reformation shoulde not bee yeelded vnto there woulde bee shortly a bloody day in England But the time being so farre gone , I wil cut off that whole part ( being forced thereunto . In the meane time I shall desire you to ioyn with me in hearty prayer vnto Almighty God for the continuance of our good King , our State , and our Religion amongst vs , giuing him thankes for his wonderfull mercie , in preseruing vs from this terrible blow ( as they called it ) from this desperate , dreadfull and damnable attempt , saying , O Eternal God and our most mighty Protector , &c.

As it followeth in that prayer , beginning with those wordes , printed in the book of Thanksgiuing for this discouery and deliuery : But made by the Preacher .

And let all true Subiects say Amen .