A
MAPPE
OF
ROME
:
LIVELY
EXHIBITING
HER
MERCILESSE
MEEKNESSE
,
and
cruell
mercies
to
the
Church
of
God
:
Preached
in
fiue
Sermons
,
on
occasion
of
the
Gunpowder
Treason
,
by
T.
T.
and
now
published
by
W.
I.
Minister
.
-
1.
The
Romish
Furnace
.
-
2.
The
Romish
Edom.
-
3.
The
Romish
Fowler
.
-
4.
The
Romish
Conception
.
-
To
which
is
added
,
5.
The
English
Gratulation
.
APOC.
17.6
.
I
saw
the
Woman
drunken
with
the
blood
of
Saints
,
and
with
the
blood
of
the
Martyrs
of
Iesus
.
AT
LONDON
Imprinted
by
Felix
Kyngston
,
for
Iohn
Bartlet
,
and
are
to
be
sould
at
signe
of
the
Talbot
in
Pater-noster
Row
.
1620.
TO
ALL
THAT
WISH
WELL
TO
OVR
SYON
,
HEARTILY
AND
VNfainedly
:
Grace
be
multiplied
and
peace
in
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
.
BRethren
,
beloued
in
the
Lord
:
You
see
by
the
Title
,
what
you
may
expect
in
the
booke
following
.
I
hope
what
it
promiseth
,
shall
be
indeede
performed
.
I
wish
it
were
more
complete
and
accurate
for
your
sakes
:
as
it
might
haue
beene
,
if
the
graue
and
diligent
Author
could
himselfe
haue
set
it
forth
:
but
blessed
be
God
,
that
his
weightier
employments
doe
not
giue
him
leaue
or
leasure
.
I
am
glad
I
haue
it
for
you
as
it
is
,
through
my
earnest
request
to
him
:
whose
modesty
thought
it
vnworthy
the
publication
,
and
my
paines
in
writing
it
.
Reasons
of
this
my
request
and
paines
,
I
can
giue
you
many
.
First
,
I
thinke
it
necessary
,
that
our
God
,
our
gracious
and
louing
God
,
may
haue
the
praise
of
all
his
mercies
(
and
namely
that
of
this
day
)
still
reserued
to
himselfe
wholly
.
His
workes
are
glorious
,
and
the
benefit
of
them
not
confined
to
a
scantling
of
time
.
Therefore
these
Gratulations
cannot
be
lesse
seasonable
now
than
they
were
at
the
day
of
Deliuerance
.
Secondly
,
this
I
hoped
might
be
a
meanes
to
restraine
our
declining
times
from
gazing
and
doting
on
that
pompous
Harlot
,
the
Church
of
Rome
.
For
when
our
nation
shall
see
,
and
consider
a
fresh
,
how
insatiable
she
hath
alwaies
beene
of
blood
,
and
English
blood
!
I
cannot
thinke
we
can
be
so
inconsiderate
,
as
to
dreame
of
any
toleration
,
much
lesse
any
sound
reconcilement
with
so
implacable
an
enemie
.
Thirdly
,
I
thought
it
not
altogether
impossible
hereby
to
stop
the
slanderous
mouthes
of
misse-conceiuing
persons
,
scattered
abroade
through
all
the
Country
,
yet
pleasing
themselues
in
the
common
error
:
who
seeing
in
some
good
men
a
difference
of
iudgement
in
some
small
matters
,
presently
conclude
them
enemies
of
the
State
,
&c.
For
this
I
will
say
of
the
Author
,
(
and
I
say
the
truth
in
Christ
,
I
lie
not
,
my
conscience
bearing
me
witnesse
in
the
holy
Ghost
:
)
that
hauing
beene
partaker
of
his
Ministery
some
hundreds
of
times
,
I
neuer
heard
him
more
earnest
,
or
more
faithfull
,
than
in
this
Argument
.
And
the
whole
Towne
of
Reding
will
testifie
with
me
of
his
holinesse
,
lowlinesse
,
peaceablenesse
,
vnweariable
painfulnesse
,
and
other
graces
beseeming
his
calling
:
which
no
ill-willer
could
euer
yet
impeach
.
Fourthly
,
and
lastly
,
my
intent
is
hereby
to
stirre
vp
our
drowsie
and
forgetfull
hearts
to
due
thankfulnesse
for
so
great
a
Deliuerance
.
And
this
(
me
thinks
)
is
more
than
necessary
.
For
when
I
behold
the
generall
view
of
the
Land
,
and
the
quality
of
peoples
manners
,
the
memory
of
that
wonderfull
day
seemes
vnto
me
quite
blotted
out
:
And
I
know
not
whom
better
to
resemble
our selues
vnto
,
than
those
of
whom
the
Psalmist
speakes
,
Psalm
.
106.11.12.13.14
.
The
waters
couered
their
enemies
:
there
was
not
one
of
them
left
.
Then
beleeued
they
his
words
:
they
sang
his
praise
.
But
they
soone
forgat
his
workes
:
they
waited
not
for
his
counsell
:
but
lusted
exceedingly
in
the
wildernesse
,
and
tempted
God
in
the
Desert
.
Doe
we
not
so
euen
in
our
Canaan
,
a
Land
flowing
with
milke
and
hony
?
What
horrible
prouocations
are
there
daily
and
hourely
amongst
vs
,
in
all
places
,
in
euery
corner
?
Who
can
complaine
sufficiently
of
the
grieuous
temptings
and
out-brauings
of
God
,
which
our
eyes
doe
see
?
Who
would
iudge
by
our
strange
demeanours
,
that
God
had
euer
done
any
thing
for
vs
,
either
by
sea
or
land
,
either
against
water-workes
or
fire-workes
?
Ah
sinfull
nation
,
laden
with
iniquity
!
Doe
we
thus
requite
the
Lord
for
his
louing
kindnesse
?
Is
this
his
reward
for
so
great
fauours
?
Hearken
ye
children
of
Syon
,
and
consider
:
Though
Israel
play
the
harlot
,
yet
let
not
Iudah
transgresse
.
Though
carnall
persons
,
reall
thankfulnesse
.
Let
your
moderation
and
discretion
be
quickned
by
zeale
:
and
let
your
zeale
be
bounded
by
discretion
.
You
shall
(
perhaps
)
mee●e
with
shame
,
in
the
fulnesse
of
the
blessing
of
the
Gospell
.
that
Antichrist
:
pray
for
the
dissolution
of
their
Kingdome
:
especially
see
it
be
vtterly
defaced
in
your selues
and
yours
.
Giue
all
diligence
to
leaue
an
holy
seede
behinde
you
,
which
shall
praise
the
Lord
in
earth
,
while
your selues
praise
him
in
heauen
.
Reding
.
Oct.
12.
1619.
Your
seruant
in
the
Gospell
of
Christ
,
WILLIAM
IEMMAT
.
The
Authors
Apologie
.
CHristian
Reader
,
as
I
esteemed
not
the
Sermons
following
sit
for
so
publique
a
●iew
,
so
neither
meant
I
to
purc●ase
to
my selfe
so
much
enuie
&
wrath
from
the
●atholiques
,
as
these
Sermons
may
(
perhaps
)
bring
vpon
me
.
But
the
opportunity
of
the
Publisher
,
who
hath
taken
paines
in
them
,
and
of
some
others
desirous
of
them
,
drew
out
at
last
my
consent
to
their
request
.
If
any
phrases
may
seeme
more
warme
and
earnest
,
the
subiect
may
pleade
for
pardon
,
which
is
a
fierie
and
furious
Powder-treason
:
and
fire
vseth
to
warme
and
kindle
.
If
any
straines
or
phrases
be
met
with
oftner
than
once
,
consider
these
Sermons
were
preached
many
yeares
asunder
;
and
euery
yeare
the
same
matter
in
substance
was
to
be
renewed
among
my
Auditory
.
If
I
might
heereby
winne
of
some
Catholiques
,
but
to
consider
of
the
grounds
of
their
Religion
,
which
(
as
they
say
of
Nilus
)
breedeth
almost
yearely
such
monsters
,
I
should
be
glad
to
gather
that
f●ui●
of
my
paines
:
whose
hearts
desire
for
my
seduced
Country-men
,
is
(
as
Pauls
for
his
)
that
they
might
be
saued
in
the
day
of
the
Lord
:
to
whose
grace
I
heartily
commend
thee
,
and
desire
to
be
commended
by
thee
.
THO.
TAYLOR
.
THE
ROMISH
FVRNACE
.
Daniel
3.22
.
&c.
22
Therefore
because
the
Kings
commandement
was
straite
,
that
the
furnace
should
bee
exceeding
hote
,
the
flame
of
the
fier
slew
those
men
,
that
brought
foorth
Sadrach
,
Meshach
,
and
Abednego
.
23
And
these
three
men
,
Sadrach
,
Meshech
,
and
Abednego
,
fell
downe
bound
in
the
middest
of
the
hote
fiery
furnace
.
24
Then
Nebuchadnezzar
the
King
was
astonied
,
and
rose
vp
in
hast
,
and
spake
,
and
said
vnto
his
Counsellors
,
Did
not
we
cast
three
men
bound
,
into
the
midst
of
the
fire
?
Who
answered
and
said
vnto
the
King
,
It
is
true
,
O
King
.
25
And
he
answered
and
said
,
Lo
,
I
see
foure
men
loose
,
walking
in
the
midst
of
the
fire
,
and
they
haue
no
hurt
;
and
the
forme
of
the
fourth
is
like
the
Sonne
of
God
.
NEbuchadnezzar
maketh
an
image
of
gold
,
straitly
enioyneth
the
worship
,
prescribeth
the
nanner
of
it
,
with
all
manner
of
musicke
to
draw
and
affect
the
simple
and
superstitious
:
Himselfe
beginneth
the
daunce
;
his
Nobles
,
Princes
,
Dukes
,
Iudges
,
Counsellors
,
Officers
,
Gouernours
,
But
certaine
Iewes
,
disordered
fellowes
(
against
whom
in
all
likelihood
the
image
was
purposely
erected
,
that
such
Chaldeans
as
Daniel
had
set
ouer
the
Prouince
of
Babel
,
See
chap.
2
49.
might
by
this
meanes
be
remoued
from
their
places
and
charges
:
)
are
accused
to
the
King
,
Vers.
12.
Sadrach
,
Meshach
,
and
Abednego
are
with
expedition
conuented
,
vers.
13.
charged
vpon
paine
of
present
death
,
to
conforme
to
the
worship
of
the
Land
,
vers.
15.
But
it
is
not
the
commandement
of
the
King
,
nor
the
consent
of
Princes
,
nor
seuerity
of
Lawes
,
nor
threats
,
nor
allurements
of
Tyrants
,
that
can
preuaile
to
draw
the
Elect
from
God
:
they
will
craue
none
,
nor
take
any
time
of
deliberation
if
it
were
offered
in
this
thing
:
they
boldly
protest
against
that
horrible
idolatry
to
the
Kings
face
,
Wee
will
not
serue
thy
gods
,
nor
worship
the
golden
image
which
thou
hast
set
vp
,
vers.
18.
Heereupon
as
against
confessed
rebels
(
for
so
were
Gods
children
euer
accounted
in
the
world
)
the
sentence
of
death
,
without
respite
or
further
forme
of
law
passeth
vpon
them
;
that
they
should
be
cast
into
a
fiery
Furnace
,
seuen
times
hotter
than
euer
it
vsed
to
bee
:
not
that
the
King
would
quickly
thereby
dispatch
them
out
of
their
paine
,
but
partly
to
shew
his
owne
great
indignation
conceiued
against
them
;
and
partly
to
terrifie
and
affright
them
the
more
:
for
Tyrants
(
if
they
could
)
would
rather
torment
the
minds
of
the
Saints
,
than
their
bodies
.
●ra
furor
br●uis
est
.
—
But
they
abiding
vndaunted
at
this
sentence
,
the
wrath
of
the
King
proceedeth
into
a
fury
and
short
madnesse
,
precipitating
euery
thing
,
and
with
more
hast
than
good
speed
,
executeth
his
wicked
sentence
:
and
lest
any
fauour
should
be
shewed
them
,
he
commandeth
his
strong
men
and
warriours
to
bring
them
before
his
eyes
,
and
throw
them
into
the
Furnace
,
that
hee
might
feed
himselfe
in
their
destruction
:
and
so
they
did
.
Diuision
of
the
Text.
Now
of
all
this
proceeding
,
these
verses
,
and
the
other
following
,
shew
the
euent
;
which
is
twofold
.
First
,
concerning
the
enemies
of
the
Iewes
,
that
the
flame
licked
them
in
,
who
were
the
instruments
of
this
wicked
Tyrant
:
which
is
set
downe
with
the
accusation
in
the
first
words
.
1.
Because
the
Kings
commandement
was
straite
,
they
were
so
intent
vpon
the
Kings
charge
,
as
(
in
likelyhood
they
forgate
their
owne
safety
.
2.
Because
the
Furnace
was
so
extraordinary
hote
,
the
flame
licked
them
in
ere
they
were
aware
.
The
second
euent
is
concerning
the
persons
of
the
Iewes
,
and
that
is
their
escape
and
euasion
,
euen
in
the
middest
of
the
Furnace
.
Wherein
three
things
are
to
be
considered
.
First
,
the
manner
of
it
;
it
was
miraculous
,
in
that
the
flame
had
no
power
,
either
vpon
their
bodies
,
or
on
their
apparell
,
but
onely
on
their
bonds
:
whereby
being
cast
in
bound
,
they
were
able
to
walke
loose
in
the
middest
of
the
Furnace
.
Secondly
,
the
meanes
of
this
escape
,
a
Sonne
of
God
,
whom
the
Tyrant
saw
walking
in
the
Furnace
with
them
.
Thirdly
,
the
effect
of
this
deliuerance
,
the
acknowledgement
of
the
true
God
,
by
Nabuchadnezzar
,
and
all
his
Nobles
.
Wherein
we
haue
an
expresse
type
of
our
owne
present
estate
,
and
of
Gods
dealing
with
vs
;
which
when
I
haue
in
one
or
two
words
parallelled
,
I
will
come
to
the
seuerall
parts
.
The
Romish
Nabuchadnezzar
,
Affinity
between
Romish
and
Babylonish
Nabuchadnezzar
.
head
of
that
whore
of
Babel
,
not
sitting
ouer
an
hundreth
seuen
and
twenty
Prouinces
,
as
this
,
but
challenging
the
power
of
both
the
swords
,
ouer
all
the
Princes
and
Prouinces
of
the
earth
,
hath
set
vp
an
Idoll
,
in
that
the
whole
chaos
and
vast
body
of
Popery
,
is
as
base
an
idolatry
as
euer
was
among
the
Gentiles
:
but
especially
their
[
*
](A13544-e1250-b)
*
Moulded
first
in
the
Laterane
Councell
vnder
Pope
Innocent
the
third
.
Popish
Priests
worse
than
Iudas
,
who
valued
Ch●ist
at
thirty
pence
;
for
they
buy
40.
cakes
(
euery
one
of
which
is
Christs
body
)
for
one
halfe-penny
.
Breaden
God
in
the
Masse
,
(
which
the
Gentiles
would
bee
ashamed
to
fall
downe
before
.
)
Hee
hath
sent
out
his
Edicts
,
that
all
people
,
nations
,
and
languages
,
should
worship
the
image
which
hee
hath
set
vp
:
and
whosoeuer
receiue
not
the
mark
of
that
Beast
in
their
hands
,
and
in
their
fore-heads
,
these
he
excommunicateth
,
and
adiudgeth
to
fier
and
faggot
,
(
as
witnesse
all
the
bloody
Martyrdomes
,
and
fiery
trials
in
other
,
and
in
our
owne
countrey
)
his
owne
Kings
,
Princes
,
Dukes
,
and
Gouernours
in
Italy
,
Spaine
,
France
,
and
other
Popish
countreys
,
bow
downe
to
this
beast
.
But
a
few
reformed
Churches
,
as
England
,
Scotland
,
Ireland
,
Germanie
,
Belgia
,
Hel●●tia
,
Bohemia
,
Saxony
,
Denmarke
,
and
Sweueland
,
doe
not
deliberate
in
this
matter
,
that
they
will
not
doe
this
thing
.
He
also
hastily
sends
out
his
Bulles
of
Excommunication
,
and
furiously
threatens
worse
matters
,
of
blood
and
slaughter
,
which
(
by
his
hands
of
mischiefe
stretched
into
all
countries
)
hee
putteth
in
execution
against
Princes
and
people
,
who
conforme
not
to
the
worship
of
his
image
.
Plentifull
experience
hereof
we
haue
had
in
our
owne
countrey
:
witnesse
those
many
and
outragious
conspiracies
,
both
in
the
dayes
of
her
late
Maiesty
,
(
blessed
in
all
memory
)
as
also
of
his
Excellent
Highnesse
,
both
before
and
since
his
solemne
Inauguration
.
But
all
these
prouing
no
better
than
paper-shot
,
This
was
preached
Nouemb.
5.
1612.
and
nothing
so
terrible
and
and
deadly
as
he
intended
:
seuen
yeeres
agoe
hee
set
his
Captaines
on
worke
,
for
the
heating
of
a
Furnace
seuen
times
hotter
than
euer
before
;
yea
seuenty
times
seuen
times
hotter
than
euer
Nabuchadnezzars
was
.
Romish
cruelty
surmounts
the
Babylon●sh
,
3.
wayes
.
For
that
was
prepared
onely
for
three
persons
;
but
this
,
for
the
sudden
burning
and
blowing
vp
of
three
Kingdomes
,
England
,
Scotland
,
and
Ireland
:
That
,
by
heathens
sanguinary
and
bloody
men
,
without
the
knowledge
of
God
;
but
this
,
by
men
(
howsoeuer
more
bloody
,
yet
)
professing
such
a
religion
as
out-boasteth
all
other
for
sanctity
of
life
,
and
workes
of
mercy
.
That
,
openly
as
in
a
course
of
iustice
,
where
prayer
,
or
strength
,
or
change
of
mind
in
the
parties
,
might
haue
preuented
the
extremity
;
but
this
,
in
the
depth
of
blacke
darknesse
,
against
all
iustice
in
the
fountaine
,
against
the
liuing
Law
,
his
Maiesty
himselfe
;
against
the
honourable
Iudges
,
which
are
speaking
Lawes
;
against
all
the
Records
and
instruments
of
iustice
,
which
are
silent
Lawes
;
and
against
the
whole
Parliament
,
the
makers
of
these
Lawes
;
and
all
this
in
such
secret
and
vndermining
manner
,
as
any
league
might
assoone
be
made
with
hell
it selfe
,
as
with
these
pioners
,
who
digged
to
the
bottome
of
hell
for
mischiefe
.
But
marke
,
when
all
things
were
thus
prepared
,
and
these
three
flourishing
countries
(
after
a
sort
)
a
casting
into
that
hellish
flame
:
the
selfe
same
euent
,
wickednesse
returning
vpon
the
heads
of
wicked
doers
:
wicked
counsels
,
the
worst
to
the
counsellors
:
sowers
of
wickednesse
,
straite
commandement
of
their
Master
,
as
forgetting
their
owne
danger
,
were
some
of
them
licked
into
the
flame
,
others
eaten
vp
by
the
gallowes
,
others
deuoured
by
the
mouth
of
the
sword
;
all
of
them
made
spectacles
of
confusion
,
which
they
most
intended
;
while
those
,
Now
to
the
seuerall
parts
.
Therefore
because
the
commandement
of
the
King
was
straite
,
that
the
furnace
should
be
exceeding
hote
,
&c.
Hence
we
note
first
,
Idolatry
and
cruelty
alwayes
coupled
together
what
spirit
it
is
that
raigneth
amongst
idolaters
,
euen
the
same
which
is
heere
discouered
in
Nabuchadnezzar
,
namely
,
the
spirit
of
malice
,
rage
,
and
cruelty
;
which
,
when
things
succeed
not
to
their
mind
,
doth
breathe
out
nothing
but
threatning
,
slaughter
,
and
blood
,
against
the
Saints
of
God
.
Pharaoh
a
notable
idolater
,
who
professed
that
he
knew
not
the
Lord
,
heauie
burthens
,
and
hard
taske-ma-masters
?
But
when
that
succeded
not
,
but
the
more
they
were
vexed
,
the
more
they
encreased
,
hee
added
to
the
former
cruelty
a
charge
,
that
the
Midwiues
should
kill
all
the
males
of
the
Hebrewes
in
the
byrth
.
But
neither
did
this
prodigious
cruelty
prooue
so
successefull
as
hee
desired
;
for
the
Midwiues
feared
God
,
and
did
not
as
the
King
commanded
them
,
but
preserued
aliue
the
men
children
.
And
therefore
transported
by
rage
,
as
one
that
had
lost
humanity
it selfe
,
he
makes
a
more
publike
&
general
law
,
charging
all
his
people
,
that
euery
man-child
that
was
borne
,
they
should
cast
into
the
riuer
,
and
drowne
it
:
With
what
furie
and
violence
,
after
he
had
made
them
weary
of
their
liues
by
sundry
oppressions
,
did
follow
them
into
the
bottome
of
the
sea
,
thinking
belike
that
God
had
diuided
the
sea
for
no
other
purpose
,
than
for
him
to
pitch
his
field
in
,
against
his
people
?
It
is
plaine
,
that
had
not
God
taken
him
off
,
he
would
neuer
haue
taken
his
rod
from
off
the
Israelites
.
being
full
of
wrath
against
Mordecai
,
for
not
bowing
vnto
him
,
he
thought
it
too
little
to
lay
hands
onely
on
Mordecai
,
but
sought
to
destroy
all
the
Iewes
that
were
throughout
the
whole
Kingdome
of
Ahashu●rosh
,
euen
the
people
of
Mordecai
:
and
to
this
purpose
procured
letters
from
the
King
,
which
he
sent
by
Postes
into
all
the
Prouinces
,
to
root
out
,
to
kill
,
and
to
destroy
all
the
Iewes
both
young
and
old
,
children
and
women
in
one
day
.
Manasses
was
a
wretched
idolater
,
who
did
euill
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord
,
after
the
abomination
of
the
Heathen
;
he
built
the
hie
places
,
which
his
good
father
Hezekiah
had
destroyed
;
hee
erected
altars
for
Baal
,
and
made
a
groue
,
he
worshipped
all
the
hoast
of
heauen
,
and
serued
them
;
he
built
altars
for
all
the
host
of
heauen
,
and
that
in
the
Court
of
the
house
of
the
Lord
:
Moreover
Manasses
shead
innocent
blood
exceeding
much
,
till
hee
replenished
Ierusalem
from
corner
to
corner
.
See
1.
Mach.
1.
&
Iosephus
de
bello
Iud.
lib.
1.
cap.
1.
Nequ●
tantae
caedes
satis
fuêre
,
sed
Iudaeos
cogere
coepit
,
vt
abrogato
more
patrio
nec
infantes
suos
circumciderent
,
porcósque
super
aram
immolarent
;
quibus
omnes
quidem
aduersabantur
,
optimus
verò
quisque
propterea
tru●cidabatur
.
Antiochus
Epiphanes
,
that
monster
of
men
,
both
for
his
horrible
idolatry
,
and
sauage
cruelty
against
the
Iewes
,
called
Epimanes
;
forced
the
Iewes
to
lay
aside
the
institution
of
God
in
circumcising
their
children
;
as
also
in
hatred
of
God
to
offer
swines
flesh
vpon
the
altar
,
and
eate
swines
flesh
in
their
houses
;
in
stead
of
Gods
worship
hee
set
vp
the
worship
of
Iupiter
Olympius
,
and
this
within
the
Temple
of
Ierusalem
.
The
bookes
of
Moses
and
the
Prophets
hee
burnt
,
&c.
All
which
horrible
rage
against
God
himselfe
was
attended
with
such
barbarous
and
despightfull
wasting
,
and
oppressing
of
the
Church
of
God
,
such
murther
and
slaughter
of
the
people
of
God
,
as
neuer
was
since
there
began
to
be
a
nation
till
that
time
;
as
witnesseth
Daniel
,
chap.
12.1
.
Insomuch
as
stories
report
,
that
Ierusalem
was
left
desolate
and
void
of
all
good
men
.
In
both
which
high
wickednesses
(
by
the
consent
of
all
writers
)
he
was
an
expresse
type
of
that
great
Antichrist
which
was
to
come
after
him
,
and
is
now
in
the
world
,
consuming
the
Saints
of
the
most
High
,
and
working
no
lesse
misery
to
the
Church
of
God
than
he
did
;
as
we
shal
in
part
anon
declare
.
What
shall
I
speake
of
the
tyranny
and
cruelty
of
those
Heathen
Romane
Emperours
,
within
the
first
300.
yeeres
after
Christ
?
of
whom
not
only
the
Apostles
themselues
suffered
violent
death
;
but
whosoeuer
made
any
profession
of
their
doctrine
,
were
most
ignominiously
tormented
,
no
respect
had
of
sexe
,
nor
reuerence
of
age
,
in
so
much
as
the
dead
bodies
of
men
,
and
women
,
and
children
,
old
and
young
together
,
were
cast
out
and
lay
naked
in
the
streets
like
the
pauement
thereof
.
And
(
if
we
may
beleeue
history
)
in
the
dayes
of
one
of
those
ten
Persecutors
were
ten
thousand
Christians
crucified
in
one
mount
,
crowned
with
crownes
of
thornes
,
Rome
Christian
as
cruell
as
Heathen
Rome
.
Now
to
apply
this
note
to
our
occasion
and
purpose
.
This
very
spirit
of
cruelty
is
the
spirit
of
Antichrist
,
which
raigneth
in
Popery
at
this
day
;
which
one
religion
exceedeth
and
outstrippeth
all
other
religions
,
in
barbarous
blood-shead
and
cruelty
(
not
the
Turkish
excepted
.
)
Long
it
were
to
recite
,
and
incredible
to
beleeue
those
horrible
slaughters
,
which
might
be
induced
to
prooue
this
part
:
there
is
neither
writer
that
can
bee
so
diligent
,
or
writing
so
exact
,
as
can
make
a
sufficient
relation
,
of
the
barbarous
butcheries
made
vpon
the
Saints
by
these
enemies
of
God
and
nature
.
But
yet
so
much
as
may
giue
a
generall
view
,
and
(
as
it
were
)
a
glimmering
light
,
must
be
set
downe
for
the
euincing
of
this
truth
,
which
so
gladly
they
would
auoid
.
the
sonne
of
perdition
,
but
the
head
of
this
Romish
Apostasie
?
which
title
is
commonly
taken
passiuely
,
for
that
he
is
appoynted
,
destinated
,
and
borne
to
perdition
:
in
which
sense
it
is
(
besides
this
man
of
sinne
)
onely
giuen
to
Iudas
,
the
lost
child
,
because
being
reiected
and
destinated
vnto
destruction
,
he
could
not
be
kept
by
Christ
as
the
rest
of
the
Disciples
were
.
But
it
is
also
fitly
ascribed
vnto
this
man
of
sinne
actiuely
,
in
that
he
is
a
destroyer
,
and
an
author
of
destruction
vnto
others
,
not
onely
by
seduction
,
and
infection
;
but
also
by
persecution
,
wasting
the
Church
of
God
with
all
his
might
.
If
any
man
stand
in
doubt
hereof
,
let
him
further
consider
how
the
King
of
locusts
is
called
Ab●ddon
,
and
Apollyon
,
A
Destroyer
from
his
effect
.
Now
it
is
made
as
cleare
as
the
Sunne
,
from
the
apt
connexion
of
all
the
circumstances
of
the
place
,
that
by
these
locusts
are
m●ant
the
Popish
Clergie
,
who
are
bred
of
ignorance
,
heresie
,
superstition
,
and
error
,
which
is
the
smoake
of
the
bottomlesse
pit
out
of
which
they
ascend
.
thirty
thousand
strong
warriours
,
which
they
might
well
spare
without
hinderance
of
their
holy
Obseruances
.
And
well
might
they
so
doe
,
if
that
of
Polydore
Virgill
be
true
,
that
this
one
family
of
Franciscans
suddainly
filled
the
whole
world
,
no
otherwise
then
locusts
couer
the
face
of
the
earth
.
How
can
it
then
be
other
,
but
that
these
locusts
,
with
all
the
other
swarmes
of
Abbats
,
Monks
,
Fryars
,
Pulchra
prosecto
pulliti●s
,
&
aulae
Antichristianae
decora
familia
.
Grass
.
reg.
p.
34.
B.
Vers.
4.
Priests
and
Iesuites
,
must
needs
sodainly
destroy
&
eate
vp
the
fruites
of
the
earth
?
not
the
grasse
of
God
,
which
hath
the
greennesse
and
moysture
of
grace
,
nor
the
trees
of
righteousnesse
,
which
are
the
planting
of
the
Lord
,
(
for
ouer
such
no
power
is
giuen
them
:
)
but
only
ouer
such
as
the
heauenly
Father
neuer
planted
,
and
whose
names
were
neuer
written
in
the
booke
of
life
.
But
,
were
this
more
obscure
;
whither
tend
all
those
Prophesies
,
and
where
were
they
euer
accomplished
(
if
not
in
this
man
)
whereof
the
Reuelation
is
full
?
It
is
said
of
the
second
Beast
,
which
rose
out
of
the
earth
,
and
had
two
hornes
like
a
Lambe
,
but
spake
like
a
Dragon
,
that
hee
caused
so
many
to
be
killed
as
would
not
receiue
the
image
of
the
beast
in
their
hands
,
and
in
their
foreheads
.
This
Beast
can
be
no
other
but
the
Pope
of
Rome
,
who
riseth
out
of
the
earth
,
that
is
,
out
of
most
base
beginnings
,
and
steppeth
or
riseth
aboue
the
earth
,
and
all
earthly
power
.
He
hath
hornes
like
the
Lambe
,
that
is
,
professeth
the
meekenesse
and
innocencie
of
Christ
(
which
the
Turke
neuer
did
:
)
but
speaketh
like
the
Dragon
,
that
is
,
not
with
outward
force
and
power
,
but
euen
by
his
word
and
speech
exerciseth
all
the
power
of
the
Dragon
,
that
is
,
of
the
Emperour
:
for
,
not
the
greatest
Emperours
or
Monarchs
in
all
the
world
can
translate
and
remooue
Kings
and
Kingdomes
by
all
the
power
they
can
make
,
which
hee
can
by
his
word
alone
.
The
same
is
the
Beast
that
commeth
out
of
the
bottomlesse
pit
,
two
witnesses
,
and
ouercommeth
and
killeth
them
:
By
which
two
witnesses
whether
we
vnderstand
the
Scriptures
in
the
two
Testaments
(
as
some
)
which
are
now
ouercome
in
Popery
,
AntiChrist
an
enemie
both
to
Scriptures
and
Scripture-men
.
and
their
owne
Traditions
made
equall
,
or
rather
set
aboue
them
,
as
triumphing
ouer
them
;
or
else
we
vnderstand
the
zealous
and
sincere
Professours
of
the
Word
of
God
,
who
both
by
their
Doctrine
and
Conuersation
giue
witnesse
vnto
the
truth
of
it
;
it
commeth
all
to
one
:
for
the
Beast
that
dare
make
warre
vpon
,
and
professe
hostility
to
the
Scriptures
,
will
warre
with
,
ouercome
,
and
kill
also
the
sincere
louers
of
them
,
and
vpright
liuers
after
them
.
To
conclude
this
point
:
that
one
Prophecie
may
serue
for
all
,
Reuel.
17.6
.
where
is
affirmed
of
the
great
Whore
,
with
whom
the
Kings
of
the
earth
haue
committed
fornication
,
&c.
that
this
woman
was
drunke
with
the
blood
of
the
Saints
,
and
with
the
blood
of
the
Martyrs
of
Iesus
.
By
this
woman
the
Iesuites
themselues
,
will
they
●ill
they
,
confesse
is
meant
their
Rome
,
Rib●ra
.
Bellarm.
but
olde
Rome
(
say
they
)
such
as
it
was
vnder
the
Heathen
Emperours
.
But
,
where
are
the
scarlet
coloured
Fathers
but
in
the
present
Rome
?
In
whose
forehead
is
the
name
mysterie
written
,
but
in
the
present
Romish
Babylon
?
Testantur
hoc
Iac.
Brocardus
Venetus
in
Apoc.
et
monachus
quidam
Celestin●s
.
The
Heathenish
Emperours
proclaimed
open
warre
against
Christianity
,
and
carried
not
their
enmity
in
secret
,
and
in
a
mysterie
.
These
with
sundry
other
circumstances
in
the
Text
,
will
(
perhaps
)
draw
them
one
step
further
one
day
,
and
force
them
to
a
free
confession
of
the
whole
trueth
,
when
they
can
no
longer
withstand
it
.
And
thus
hauing
briefely
propounded
the
Prophecies
of
this
Antichr●stian
cruelty
,
Prophecies
of
Romish
cruelty
accomplished
to
the
full
.
let
vs
in
as
few
words
see
it
in
the
accomplishment
of
them
:
Which
if
out
of
most
approued
Histories
we
should
enlarge
as
wee
might
,
it
would
easily
appeare
to
be
most
matchlesse
,
and
that
no
Scythian
cruelty
was
euer
comparable
vnto
it
.
But
I
must
keepe
a
measure
,
and
giue
but
a
taste
of
that
cup
filled
and
running
ouer
with
blood
,
which
the
Saints
of
God
in
all
Countries
haue
drunke
vp
to
the
bottome
.
The
Romish
History
teacheth
vs
,
that
Romulus
layde
the
foundations
of
the
Citie
of
Rome
in
the
blood
of
his
brother
Rhemus
.
And
as
the
foundation
was
layd
by
him
,
so
hath
the
frame
been
vpheld
by
his
bloody
brood
vntill
this
day
.
Whence
were
the
Emperours
,
who
shed
so
much
Christian
blood
in
the
first
300.
yeares
after
Christ
?
were
they
not
Romane
?
Whence
hath
almost
all
the
blood
,
Pandolph
.
Colonutius
ex
Aenea
Sylu.
hist.
Austr
.
et
Nicol.
Machiauel
.
that
hath
beene
shed
vpon
the
earth
since
that
time
,
issued
,
but
either
from
the
edicts
,
perswasions
,
approbations
,
or
encitements
of
these
firebrands
of
Babylon
?
Who
committeth
Kings
and
Princes
together
,
making
them
Woolues
and
tyrants
one
against
another
,
but
this
Romish
Nebuchadnezzar
?
Who
bloweth
vp
massacres
,
rebellions
,
seditions
,
treasons
,
in
all
Countries
,
but
this
scarlet
whore
of
Babylon
?
Who
sendeth
out
cut-throates
and
villaines
with
pardons
,
to
stab
and
poyson
Kings
and
Potentates
of
the
earth
,
yea
to
blow
vp
whole
States
and
Kingdomes
with
one
terrible
blow
,
but
the
holy
Father
of
Rome
?
Where
is
the
Lord
crucified
euery
day
in
his
Saints
,
or
where
are
the
Saints
condemned
for
heretiques
,
and
consumed
with
fire
,
but
in
the
furnace
which
is
made
so
hot
by
the
ministers
of
this
idolatrous
Romish
Tyrant
?
What
Doctrine
besides
,
Romish
is
a
teacher
and
maintainer
of
cruelty
,
of
homicide
,
of
parricide
in
the
highest
and
most
vnnaturall
degree
,
so
as
the
greatest
Rebell
or
Traytor
is
Poperie
it selfe
?
Whose
Priests
,
or
spirituall
guides
(
who
should
be
men
of
peace
)
besides
Romish
▪
be
the
nimble
and
actiue
hands
and
instruments
of
all
the
former
mischiefe
,
especially
their
Iesuites
,
who
not
onely
doe
these
things
,
but
as
stout
patrons
defend
those
that
doe
them
?
If
wee
looke
at
the
generality
of
this
cruel●y
,
it
hath
beene
almost
without
bounds
or
banks
:
What
Country
in
all
the
world
haue
the
Papists
set
foo●e
into
,
but
they
haue
left
behind
them
the
steps
,
impressions
,
and
monuments
of
their
tyrannie
?
Manasseh
made
the
streetes
of
Ierusalem
onely
runne
with
the
blood
of
the
Saints
:
but
there
is
neuer
a
corner
in
all
Europe
,
which
these
Idolaters
haue
not
washed
with
streames
of
the
blood
of
Martyrs
,
as
History
sheweth
.
If
wee
consider
the
multitudes
of
men
,
women
,
and
children
,
on
whom
this
cruelty
hath
fed
,
it
will
appeare
to
be
most
mercilesse
.
I
will
not
say
how
true
that
is
of
some
,
who
say
there
is
not
a
day
in
the
yeare
which
might
not
be
dedicated
to
an
hundreth
seuerall
Martyrs
,
whose
blood
the
Romanists
haue
shed
:
But
true
it
is
,
that
with
the
cup
of
death
,
Babylon
hath
serued
thousands
and
ten
thousands
at
once
,
and
yet
her
insatiable
thirst
hath
not
beene
satisfied
.
Ex
Hermanno
Mutio.
Innocentius
3.
anno
.
1212.
See
this
story
at
large
in
the
booke
of
Martyrs
,
pag.
868.
Out
of
which
booke
I
haue
picked
some
choise
examples
,
that
our
common
people
hauing
the
booke
by
them
,
may
see
I
belye
them
not
in
the
things
which
seeme
most
incredible
,
Foeminea
in
pugna
victoria
nulla
est
.
One
of
their
Innocent
Popes
with
his
Bishops
made
but
one
Bonfire
of
an
hundreth
Nobles
and
others
in
the
Country
of
Alsatia
in
one
day
.
That
mercilesse
Minerius
one
of
the
Popes
Captaines
,
dispatched
with
his
bloody
designes
against
the
innocent
Merindolians
,
caried
himselfe
in
the
execution
more
like
a
diuell
,
feeding
on
the
bowels
of
men
,
than
a
man
that
had
any
bowels
in
him
:
Who
destroying
a
number
of
Townes
before
him
,
to
the
number
of
two
and
twenty
,
slew
and
murthered
with
all
the
cruelty
that
could
be
deuised
,
the
Inhabitants
,
whether
they
resisted
,
or
not
.
The
women
and
maydens
were
rauished
;
the
women
with
childe
,
and
Infants
borne
and
to
be
borne
were
lamentably
destroyed
:
the
paps
of
many
women
which
gaue
sucke
,
were
cut
off
,
and
the
children
looking
for
sucke
at
their
mothers
breasts
,
dead
before
,
died
also
for
hunger
.
And
as
a
monster
that
had
neuer
come
of
a
woman
,
hee
waged
warre
against
that
seely
sexe
that
could
least
resist
him
.
For
when
the
men
of
Merindoll
fled
from
his
Armie
,
and
thought
it
best
to
leaue
behinde
them
(
for
their
better
expedition
and
safety
)
their
tender
wiues
and
children
,
hoping
that
the
enemie
would
shew
mercie
to
such
a
multitude
of
destitute
and
helplesse
women
and
children
;
this
enemie
of
mankinde
euertaking
this
seely
prey
,
practised
such
villany
and
cruelty
vpon
fiue
hundred
women
,
at
once
,
besides
the
children
,
as
hath
beene
vnheard
of
.
In
another
of
those
Townes
named
Cabriers
,
which
vpon
composition
,
and
condition
,
that
hee
would
lay
downe
his
armour
,
and
vse
no
violence
against
them
,
was
yeelded
into
his
hands
,
he
no
sooner
entred
but
falsifying
his
promise
he
raged
(
as
Maister
Fox
saith
)
like
a
beast
▪
Hee
picked
out
thirty
choise
men
presently
,
and
caried
them
into
a
meddow
,
and
caused
them
to
bee
hewen
in
pieces
by
his
souldiers
:
Hee
tooke
forty
seely
women
,
(
some
of
them
with
childe
)
and
put
them
into
a
Barne
full
of
straw
and
hay
,
and
caused
it
to
be
set
on
fire
at
the
foure
corners
;
whose
lamentable
out-cry
when
a
souldier
heard
,
he
in
pitie
opened
a
doore
to
let
them
out
;
but
as
they
were
comming
out
,
the
Tyrant
caused
them
to
be
slaine
and
cut
in
pieces
,
opening
their
bellies
,
that
their
children
fell
out
,
whom
they
troad
vnder
their
feete
.
And
,
lest
he
should
be
vnlike
to
Dioclesian
(
who
set
a
Church
on
fire
,
and
burnt
in
it
many
thousand
Christians
:
)
he
sent
also
a
band
of
Ruffians
,
not
with
fire
(
as
in
the
former
instance
)
but
with
the
sword
into
the
Church
,
wherein
as
in
a
Sanctuarie
were
hid
a
great
number
of
women
,
children
,
and
young
Infants
,
who
without
all
respect
of
place
or
persons
,
slewe
all
they
found
.
In
this
one
Towne
were
thus
mercilesly
murthered
aboue
a
thousand
Protestants
.
In
the
yeare
1560.
vnder
Pope
Pius
(
or
,
Acts
&
Mon.
pag.
859.
Impius
rather
)
the
fourth
,
were
two
Townes
in
the
parts
of
Calabria
taken
,
and
condemned
at
one
time
,
to
the
number
of
a
thousand
and
sixe
hundred
Protestants
:
Of
them
in
one
day
were
executed
fourescore
and
eight
in
this
manner
:
They
being
all
thrust
into
one
house
together
,
as
into
a
sheepe-fold
,
the
executioner
commeth
in
and
taketh
one
,
and
blinde-foldeth
him
with
a
muffler
about
his
eyes
,
and
so
leadeth
him
into
a
larger
place
hard
by
;
and
commanding
him
to
kneele
downe
,
hee
cutteth
his
throat
,
and
leauing
him
halfe-dead
,
and
taking
his
Butchers
knife
and
muffler
all
of
a
gore-blood
,
he
commeth
againe
to
the
rest
,
and
so
leading
one
after
another
,
hee
dispatcheth
them
all
.
A
direfull
and
lamentable
spectacle
to
see
,
insomuch
that
a
Romanist
professed
in
a
letter
to
his
friend
at
Rome
,
that
he
could
not
write
it
without
weeping
:
Another
Preacher
,
one
Simon
Florellus
writing
to
an
Italian
Doctor
of
Phisicke
in
the
Vniuersity
of
Basill
,
telleth
vs
what
became
of
the
rest
.
These
two
Townes
(
saith
he
)
are
vtterly
destroyed
,
and
eight
hundred
of
the
Inhabitants
,
or
(
as
some
write
from
Rome
)
no
lesse
then
a
full
thousand
.
And
this
yeare
were
the
residue
of
that
godly
fellowship
martired
.
But
if
we
reade
ouer
the
whole
Turkish
History
,
and
all
the
Records
of
the
Heathen
Emperours
themselues
,
we
shall
not
be
able
to
match
,
no
not
in
the
Lion
Nero
,
nor
Decius
,
Gathered
out
of
Ianus
August
Thuanus
President
of
the
Parliament
of
Paris
.
nor
Dioclesianus
,
that
most
wicked
furie
and
rage
which
euer
the
sunne
saw
committed
by
the
Papists
in
the
Massacre
of
France
,
wherein
in
the
space
of
three
dayes
were
tenne
thousand
Protestants
not
more
cruelly
then
perfidiously
slaine
and
murthered
:
and
in
the
space
of
thirty
dayes
to
the
number
of
thirty
thousand
.
The
furies
of
hell
were
neuer
more
furious
than
these
blood-sucking
Romanists
.
What
reioycing
was
there
at
Rome
for
this
Massacre
,
what
solemne
Processions
and
Masses
were
by
the
Pope
and
his
Cardinals
,
(
for
so
notable
a
stratagem
)
celebrated
,
what
generall
ioy
in
Rome
,
appeared
in
the
publishing
of
a
Iubile
presently
,
in
shoo●ing
off
great
Ordinance
in
way
of
triumph
,
in
gratuit●es
and
large
gifts
to
those
that
brought
the
newes
of
it
?
insomuch
as
the
History
reporteth
,
that
the
Cardinall
of
Loraine
gaue
him
a
thousand
crownes
that
first
brought
him
the
tydings
of
it
.
And
as
these
barbarous
Butcheries
were
committed
by
secret
fraud
and
conspiracie
,
so
haue
they
by
open
hostility
and
professed
warre
made
waste
of
Gods
people
,
powring
out
the
blood
of
Protestants
as
waters
on
the
earth
;
and
that
with
such
fierce
assaults
,
as
they
haue
slaine
in
one
battell
an
hundred
thousand
,
and
made
their
glory
of
it
.
How
many
fewer
had
tasted
of
the
same
cup
in
England
,
if
their
inuincible
nauie
in
88.
had
not
beene
broken
by
God
?
and
in
England
,
Scotland
,
and
Ireland
,
how
many
aboue
that
number
,
if
their
fire-works
had
preuailed
in
1605.
That
5.
of
Nouember
shold
haue
beene
Englands
dismall
,
and
doomes
day
,
a
fearefull
and
terrible
day
like
the
day
of
the
Lord
,
which
shall
burne
like
an
Ouen
,
I
would
passe
this
point
of
their
insatiable
thirst
after
blood
,
but
that
I
cannot
omit
to
adde
a
word
or
two
of
that
infinite
effusion
of
blood
,
which
the
Popish
Spaniards
haue
made
among
the
poore
Indians
,
vnder
pretence
of
conuerting
them
to
the
faith
:
and
that
confirmed
by
their
owne
[
*
](A13544-e3290-b)
*
Metellus
Sequanus
.
Bartholomaeus
Casas
,
a
Bishop
that
liued
in
that
Country
.
This
booke
written
in
Latine
is
wel
worth
translating
:
but
these
with
a
number
more
ins●ances
of
their
hellish
cruelty
are
o●●racted
by
M.
White
in
his
way
to
the
Church
,
the
50.
digression
,
where
the
Reader
may
further
acquaint
himselfe
with
the
Spanish
conuersion
or
rather
vtter
subuersion
of
the
Indies
.
writers
,
who
report
,
that
neuer
since
the
beginning
of
the
world
was
there
made
such
an
hauock
of
people
as
the
Spaniards
haue
made
there
:
That
of
two
thousand
thousand
persons
inhabiting
one
country
Hispaniola
,
in
the
yeare
1580.
are
not
left
aboue
500.
or
an
hundred
and
fifty
:
That
more
then
tenne
Realmes
greater
then
all
Spaine
,
with
Arragon
and
Portugall
,
and
those
swarming
with
multitudes
of
people
,
as
Emme●s
on
an
Emmet
hill
,
are
all
turned
to
a
Wildernesse
:
That
within
the
space
of
forty
yeares
seauen
and
twenty
millions
of
people
are
destroyed
;
in
Hispaniola
three
millions
,
in
another
Country
fiue
millions
in
fifteene
yeares
,
in
another
fiue
millions
,
in
Perne
foure
millions
,
in
fiue
small
Iles
fiue
hundred
thousand
.
They
haue
throwne
downe
from
the
top
of
a
steepe
mountaine
700
men
together
,
and
dashed
them
all
to
pieces
.
In
three
moneths
they
famished
7000.
children
.
At
one
time
they
massacred
2000.
Gentlemen
that
were
the
slower
of
all
the
Nobility
of
that
Country
.
And
all
this
with
such
cruelties
as
were
neu●r
heard
of
before
:
Which
to
auoid
,
the
poore
men
would
hang
themselues
with
their
wiues
and
children
,
the
women
did
destroy
their
conceptions
,
and
in
griefe
and
despaire
dash
their
owne
childrens
braines
against
the
stones
,
lest
they
should
come
into
the
Spaniards
hands
.
The
Prince
of
the
I
le
Cuba
so
answered
the
Fryar
that
came
to
shrine
him
at
the
slake
.
Some
of
them
professed
,
that
if
the
Spaniards
went
to
heauen
when
they
were
dead
,
they
would
neuer
come
there
:
that
they
did
carie
themselues
neither
like
Christians
nor
men
,
but
like
diuels
:
and
,
that
it
had
beene
better
the
Indies
had
beene
giuen
to
the
diuels
of
hell
,
than
to
the
Spaniards
.
All
which
are
the
words
of
their
owne
Writers
,
and
confirmeth
the
point
in
hand
,
that
the
Romish
Woolues
are
neuer
satisfied
with
blood
,
nor
can
be
;
seeing
they
must
bee
nourished
of
that
whereof
they
are
ingendred
.
Secondly
,
their
cruelty
is
not
onely
euident
in
such
direfull
and
tragicall
outrages
in
all
Countries
,
nor
onely
in
that
(
like
rough
Esaus
)
their
hand
is
against
euery
man
;
but
also
in
their
cruell
and
barbarous
manner
and
minde
in
effecting
their
bloody
proiects
.
Farnesius
,
hee
voweth
to
ride
his
horse
to
the
saddle
in
the
blood
of
the
Lutheranes
.
Minerius
the
diuels
Proctor
,
or
Factor
.
but
he
would
send
them
to
hell
to
dwell
among
the
diuels
.
Here
was
a
more
eager
thirst
,
not
onely
for
the
blood
of
their
bodies
,
but
of
their
soules
too
;
the
death
of
these
poore
Christians
was
a
small
thing
in
his
eyes
,
vnlesse
it
be
accompanied
with
their
damnation
.
Adde
hereunto
the
exquisitenesse
of
the
torments
,
and
the
vnnaturalnesse
of
the
tortures
,
Acts
and
Mon.
pag.
869.
See
another
history
of
like
cruelty
,
p.
805.
●
.
by
which
they
held
men
in
death
so
long
as
possibly
they
could
:
arguing
,
that
if
they
could
inflict
a
thousand
deaths
on
them
,
or
could
hold
them
in
dying
a
thousand
yeares
,
they
would
.
Hence
commeth
their
burning
by
piece-meale
,
and
that
not
with
fire
onely
,
but
with
fat
,
Brimstone
,
Pitch
and
Tarre
also
dropping
on
their
heads
:
And
thus
was
that
meeke
and
innocent
Martyr
George
Marsh
burned
,
with
a
barrell
of
Pitch
and
Tarre
dropping
vpon
his
head
:
neither
when
hee
was
thus
tormented
and
dead
,
was
it
thought
sufficient
;
vnlesse
the
Bishop
should
solemnly
in
a
Sermon
affirme
,
that
hee
was
now
a
fire-brand
in
hell
.
Iohannes
de
Roma
a
Monke
(
his
name
tels
vs
what
house
he
was
of
)
got
a
Commission
to
examine
the
Lutherans
;
In
the
History
of
the
Andrognians
wee
reade
of
one
Odul
G●met
,
a
man
of
60.
yeares
of
age
,
See
the
exquisite
torments
deuised
,
and
suffered
by
Bertrand
,
p.
817.
and
by
Rich.
Atkins
,
p.
1948.
for
whom
they
deuised
a
strange
kinde
of
death
and
torment
,
after
this
manner
:
When
they
had
taken
and
fitly
bound
him
,
they
tooke
a
kinde
of
vermine
which
breedeth
in
horse-dung
,
and
put
them
vpon
his
nauell
,
couering
them
there
with
a
dish
,
which
within
short
space
pierced
into
his
belly
,
and
killed
him
.
But
what
had
these
men
done
?
Had
they
killed
their
Kings
,
or
blowne
vp
whole
Parliament
houses
?
Surely
either
their
facts
were
haynous
,
or
the
furie
of
their
aduersaries
ridiculous
.
As
cruelty
neuer
wanted
cause
of
putting
forth
it selfe
,
so
here
were
no
small
causes
pretended
.
The
most
horrible
torments
that
any
Protestant
suffered
among
them
,
was
for
casting
downe
an
Idoll
,
not
able
to
defend
it selfe
,
as
in
the
examples
of
Betrand
and
Atkins
:
others
put
to
most
cruell
death
for
not
acknowledging
more
Christs
then
one
,
which
was
the
first
of
those
sixe
bloody
Articles
,
whereby
it
was
capitall
not
to
professe
,
that
either
there
were
not
so
many
Christs
,
or
that
one
Christ
should
not
be
according
to
his
body
in
so
many
places
,
as
there
were
seuerall
hoasts
distributed
through
the
world
.
Marriage
punished
among
Papists
,
whoredome
escapeth
.
Others
were
murthered
for
marrying
a
wife
according
to
the
examples
of
the
Apostles
:
many
for
reading
the
Scriptures
:
sundry
for
hauing
them
,
or
some
small
parts
of
them
in
the
English
tongue
,
as
Robert
Silkeb
,
and
one
Mistresse
Smith
at
Couentry
,
Adde
hereunto
that
lamentable
merriment
of
a
rich
Merchant
in
Paris
,
who
for
a
iest
which
hee
brake
vpon
the
Fryars
of
S.
Francis
,
lost
his
life
;
hee
in
merriment
told
them
,
that
they
w●re
a
rope
about
their
bodies
,
because
S.
Francis
should
once
haue
beene
hanged
,
mercilesse
men
,
to
whom
iudgement
without
mercy
belongeth
!
Thirdly
,
the
cruelty
of
these
idolatrous
Papists
bewrayeth
it selfe
to
be
most
inhumane
,
in
that
it
spareth
nor
,
respecteth
not
,
nor
pittieth
any
degree
,
order
,
sexe
,
age
,
or
condition
of
men
,
whom
they
take
to
be
their
enemies
;
but
as
rough
Ismaels
,
their
hands
are
against
euery
man
,
that
is
,
euery
sort
of
men
.
Duke
Medina
professeth
,
that
his
sword
knowes
no
difference
betweene
Hereticks
and
Catholickes
:
What
no
?
will
you
not
know
your
own
?
no
not
Catholicks
?
We
read
in
the
history
of
the
Germane
Martyrs
,
Acts
and
Mon.
pag
814.
how
Alphonsus
Diazius
came
from
Rome
to
Neoberge
,
to
kill
his
owne
brother
Iohn
Diazius
,
because
he
was
a
Protestant
:
which
most
barbarous
fact
he
with
another
cut-throat
so
cruelly
performed
,
as
hath
scarce
beene
heard
of
since
Cain
killed
his
brother
Abel
for
Religion
.
With
what
despightfull
cruelty
haue
the
poore
Protestants
beene
compelled
to
carrie
Faggots
,
to
burne
their
faithfull
and
painefull
Pastors
?
as
two
women
of
S.
Germain●
were
forced
to
doe
by
Iacomell
the
Inquisitor
,
and
other
his
Monkes
.
Robert
Bartlet
,
plainely
appeareth
.
I
will
adde
hereunto
that
,
to
which
no
parts
of
vnnaturall
cruelty
can
be
added
:
that
they
haue
compelled
the
children
to
set
fire
to
the
burning
of
their
owne
fathers
,
against
all
lawes
of
God
and
nature
it selfe
;
as
appeareth
in
the
example
of
William
Tilesworth
,
to
the
burning
of
whom
his
owne
daughter
Ioane
Clerke
was
forced
to
set
fire
:
as
also
of
Iohn
Scriuener
,
A
woman
forced
to
kill
her
husband
by
Papists
.
Acts
and
Mon.
pag.
1951.
was
forced
by
others
who
ordered
her
hand
,
to
giue
her
husband
a
deadly
wound
,
whereof
he
died
.
Oh
vnnaturall
tyrants
of
mankinde
,
in
whom
naturall
affection
is
so
dried
vp
,
as
not
one
drop
of
it
must
be
reteined
in
those
who
are
knit
in
the
straytest
bonds
,
but
,
whom
God
and
nature
haue
made
one
,
euen
these
by
Popish
cruelty
must
be
the
executioners
one
of
another
.
Our
owne
vipers
,
who
like
so
many
Nero's
wrought
hard
night
and
day
in
the
bowels
of
the
earth
,
to
eate
out
the
bowels
of
their
owne
mother-country
,
spared
neither
King
,
nor
Queene
,
nor
Prince
,
nor
Nobles
,
nor
Senate
,
nor
Gentry
,
nor
young
nor
olde
,
no
not
their
owne
friends
and
fauorites
,
whom
they
would
haue
sent
to
heauen
with
one
iumpe
for
the
loue
they
bore
them
.
No
plea
sufficient
against
the
cruelty
of
Romanists
.
Adde
hereunto
,
that
in
the
madnesse
of
their
rage
and
furie
they
chased
away
all
pittie
and
respect
of
seely
persons
,
who
in
respect
either
of
their
impotencie
of
minde
,
or
tender
age
,
might
by
all
lawes
of
nature
and
nations
haue
layd
claime
to
mercy
,
if
the
Ocean
of
Heathenish
(
I
meane
,
Popish
)
cruelty
had
not
broken
all
bankes
and
bounds
.
To
cleare
this
point
,
we
might
be
large
to
set
out
the
vnnaturalnesse
of
their
cruelty
against
the
liuing
and
dead
,
which
could
not
hurt
them
any
way
.
Most
lamentable
was
that
spectacle
of
the
childe
which
sprung
out
of
the
wombe
of
a
woman
burnt
at
Garnsey
,
which
being
saued
out
of
the
fire
was
by
the
bloody
executioners
cast
in
againe
,
Acts
and
Mon.
pag.
1864.
Fel●yes
childe
.
Dauies
Boy
vnder
12.
yeares
condemned
for
the
6.
articles
,
p.
1879.
because
it
was
a
young
hereticke
,
and
so
baptized
in
the
mothers
flames
and
it
owne
blood
.
What
hurt
could
that
Boy
of
eight
yeares
olde
doe
vnto
them
or
their
religion
,
which
was
scourged
to
death
in
Bonners
house
for
religion
?
What
madnesse
was
it
to
apprehend
a
mad
man
,
as
Collins
,
who
seeing
the
Priest
holding
his
hoast
ouer
his
head
,
and
shewing
it
to
the
people
,
held
vp
a
little
dogge
by
the
legges
ouer
his
head
;
for
which
he
was
taken
,
and
immediatly
condemned
to
be
burned
with
his
dogge
as
Hereticks
:
A
wofull
meane
to
bring
a
mad
man
into
his
wits
.
With
how
little
reason
could
they
demand
a
reason
of
one
Cowbridge
a
mad
man
of
his
faith
,
and
make
the
words
of
a
mad
man
without
vnderstanding
to
be
heresie
,
for
which
hee
was
burned
at
Oxford
?
But
ala●
!
How
vnnaturall
is
that
wrath
that
sticketh
not
neither
to
bury
the
quicke
,
as
Marion
at
Burges
was
condemned
to
be
buried
aliue
;
nor
to
vnbury
,
Fox
.
Richard
Hun
,
who
was
first
apparently
hanged
and
murdred
in
prison
by
their
wicked
hands
,
Peter
Martyrs
wife
the
Diuinity
Reader
at
Oxford
,
Iohn
Glouer
was
not
onely
excommunicate
,
Iohn
Tooly
was
cited
by
Bonner
after
he
was
dead
and
buried
,
to
appeare
before
him
by
such
a
day
,
and
the
time
of
citation
limited
being
expired
,
and
he
not
appearing
,
he
was
excommunicate
,
&
strait
charge
giuen
,
that
no
man
should
eate
or
drink
with
him
,
or
if
any
met
him
he
should
not
bid
him
God-speede
,
and
if
hee
came
to
Church
in
diuine
seruice
hee
must
be
thrust
out
●
After
this
excommunication
hee
was
condemned
and
committed
to
the
secular
power
to
be
burnt
for
an
Heretick
,
and
so
by
the
Sheriffes
the
poore
dead
man
was
the
second
time
executed
.
Now
out
of
all
this
I
conclude
,
that
the
spirit
of
N●buchadnezz●r
is
quickned
or
reuiued
in
these
Romanists
,
and
,
that
they
are
of
the
number
of
those
whose
mercies
are
cruell
.
the
fruits
of
the
Spirit
are
meekenesse
,
gentlenesse
,
peace
;
neither
by
the
spirit
of
Christ
;
for
he
was
meeke
and
lowly
of
spirit
.
He
and
his
Apostles
put
none
to
death
.
Obiect
.
You
put
Catholickes
to
death
,
and
not
for
any
thing
but
for
maintaining
the
ancient
religion
of
their
fathers
.
Answer
.
This
is
a
cunning
wile
of
Satan
,
to
put
this
imputation
from
his
deare
Antichrist
vpon
others
:
for
it
cannot
be
shewed
,
that
euer
any
Romanist
suffered
death
amongst
vs
for
his
religion
,
but
for
rebellion
,
and
denying
his
allegiance
:
there
being
no
law
in
England
to
put
a
Papist
to
death
for
his
conscience
.
Yet
yeeld
that
which
can
neuer
be
graunted
,
(
without
betraying
our
innocencie
:
)
and
compare
which
of
our
religions
be
more
vnmercifull
,
it
must
needes
fall
vpon
their
pate
:
for
M.
Fox
in
the
fiue
yeares
of
Queene
Mary
hath
reckoned
vp
towards
three
hundred
,
and
so
the
truth
is
,
as
eye-witnesses
will
testifie
:
whereas
a
Writer
of
theirs
hath
raked
vp
in
fifty
yeares
vnder
two
hundred
,
namely
193.
Compare
the
oddes
.
I
hasten
to
things
that
remaine
;
wherein
I
will
be
more
briefe
.
Note
here
how
farre
the
Lord
suffers
the
wicked
to
bring
their
purposes
,
Mans
extremity
,
Gods
opportunity
.
euen
to
the
point
of
execution
:
for
,
here
was
the
rage
of
the
King
vnplacable
,
till
the
furnace
was
prepared
,
and
his
seruants
put
in
,
whom
the
Lord
would
not
deliuer
till
they
were
in
the
furnace
;
and
,
not
in
some
corner
of
it
,
where
the
fire
came
not
,
but
in
the
midst
of
the
flames
.
This
the
Lord
doth
,
1.
In
respect
of
the
wicked
,
to
glorifie
himselfe
through
them
,
both
in
his
long
patience
toward
them
,
forbearing
them
till
there
be
no
remedie
,
as
also
in
his
iustice
,
when
they
make
all
cock-sure
,
and
glory
in
their
vngodly
purposes
,
then
to
confound
them
,
and
dissipate
their
counsels
,
recompencing
his
leaden
feete
with
brazen
hands
,
2.
In
respect
of
the
godly
,
either
to
try
their
patience
,
and
faith
,
and
loue
of
himselfe
,
or
else
to
declare
his
mighty
power
in
their
deliuery
,
when
all
other
meanes
are
hopelesse
.
This
may
stirre
vs
vp
to
the
greater
thankfulnesse
for
the
great
mercie
of
this
present
day
:
Let
vs
learne
hereby
euer
to
wayte
for
the
Lords
deliuerance
,
though
hee
seeme
to
delay
:
Note
further
,
how
the
prouidence
of
God
guides
all
euents
,
Man
purposeth
,
God
disposeth
.
and
ouer-rules
all
designements
of
all
his
creatures
.
Nebuchadnezzar
purposed
to
burne
the
bodies
of
the
Saints
:
but
the
Lord
disposed
,
that
the
wicked
should
be
burnt
in
their
stead
.
He
cannot
burne
whom
he
will
:
He
cannot
saue
whom
he
would
.
He
may
command
the
furnace
to
be
made
,
and
to
be
made
seauen
times
hotter
than
ordinary
;
yet
can
hee
not
commaund
it
to
burne
whom
he
would
,
he
cannot
forbid
it
to
consume
whom
he
would
not
.
This
ouer-ruling
power
of
God
makes
fire
and
water
,
which
(
we
say
)
haue
no
pitie
,
more
mercifull
and
pittifull
then
tyrants
&
wicked
men
:
as
flames
of
fire
here
more
fauourable
than
Nebuchadnezzar
,
as
the
sea
it selfe
more
calme
than
Pharaoh
.
Nay
more
,
this
prouidence
makes
the
vngodly
meditate
a
vaine
thing
,
the
wicked
digges
a
pit
for
others
,
but
falls
into
it
himselfe
:
hee
layeth
snares
for
others
,
but
himselfe
is
taken
;
he
whetteth
his
sword
against
the
innocent
,
but
it
shall
pierce
his
owne
heart
.
The
wicked
deuise
of
Haman
against
the
Iewes
,
was
turned
vpon
his
owne
head
;
The
selfe
same
thing
we
see
experience
of
in
the
Popes
and
Percies
barbarous
deuise
against
the
Church
:
they
could
make
their
furnace
,
but
could
not
kindle
the
fire
:
nay
some
of
the
actors
were
marked
with
their
powder
,
but
none
against
whom
it
was
layd
:
though
they
carried
it
a
long
time
in
their
resolutions
and
plots
,
yet
did
not
they
meditate
a
vaine
thing
?
yea
did
not
the
Artizans
of
death
perish
in
their
owne
Art
?
yes
most
iustly
.
And
so
of
D.
Stories
iron
Cage
,
which
was
turned
into
an
hurdle
and
halter
against
himselfe
.
Let
vs
all
therefore
(
to
the
praise
of
God
)
acknowledge
,
Foecundi
sunt
Martyrum
ci●eres
.
which
was
sowen
in
the
blood
and
ashes
of
our
Fathers
?
Was
not
that
most
hellish
massacre
in
France
a
meanes
vtterly
to
haue
abolisht
the
mention
of
religion
for
euer
?
but
haue
wee
not
great
hope
,
that
the
Lord
will
giue
them
to
reape
in
ioy
for
such
sorrowfull
sowing
?
and
in
sight
,
France
was
neuer
so
furnisht
with
Protestants
as
at
this
day
.
Against
our
owne
Country
did
not
they
bragge
and
beare
themselues
vpon
their
Inuincible
Nauie
of
88.
to
destroy
young
and
olde
,
Religion
and
Iustice
on
a
day
?
Yet
what
was
the
end
but
this
,
the
Lord
brake
their
ships
,
and
so
weakened
their
strength
,
as
they
haue
halted
euer
since
,
neuer
able
to
gather
such
forces
together
againe
?
And
of
what
attempt
almost
euer
so
wicked
could
they
blush
at
,
saue
this
most
execrable
deuise
,
And
,
as
it
is
bootlesse
,
so
is
it
a
dangerous
thing
to
be
an
instrument
against
any
good
man
,
Haue
nothing
to
do●
against
that
iust
man
.
come
with
what
humane
authoritie
hee
can
come
.
These
seruants
of
Nebuchadnezzar
might
thi●ke
they
had
warrant
enough
for
their
fact
,
by
the
Kings
commaundement
;
but
yet
the
fire
licked
them
in
suddainly
and
irrecouerably
.
The
Prophet
Zachary
calls
the
Church
(
and
so
the
members
of
it
,
)
an
heaui
stone
:
neuer
man
lifted
at
it
,
but
was
torne
in
pieces
.
The
th●eatning
is
passed
,
they
shall
be
couered
with
shame
which
warre
with
Sion
.
A
wofull
thing
it
is
for
any
man
to
hatch
mischiefe
against
the
Church
:
he
carries
his
owne
coales
,
and
a
sentence
of
condemnation
with
him
,
although
hee
goe
in
with
Haman
to
the
Kings
banquet
.
See
Esa.
33.1
.
and
41.14.15
.
and
Obad.
18.
So
much
for
the
enemies
:
Now
in
the
persons
deliuered
,
the
Text
affordeth
three
notable
points
,
1.
The
manner
,
it
was
miraculous
:
2.
The
meanes
,
a
Sonne
of
God
walking
with
them
:
3.
The
effect
,
namely
the
acknowledgement
of
the
true
God
by
Nebuchadnezzar
and
all
his
Nobles
.
Of
all
these
very
briefly
.
I.
For
the
manner
:
they
were
cast
in
bound
,
and
the
fire
onely
loosed
their
bonds
,
consumed
them
,
and
set
their
bodies
free
,
yea
their
garments
did
not
so
much
as
sauour
or
smell
of
the
fire
.
Gods
children
,
and
the
children
of
the
Church
,
Gods
people
,
g●yners
by
fiery
trials
.
by
fierie
trials
get
more
liberty
,
and
walke
more
enlarged
;
they
haue
their
chaines
of
sinne
consumed
,
and
so
walke
more
gloriously
in
persecutions
than
euer
before
,
and
themselues
like
gold
come
out
more
purified
.
We
must
learne
by
the
Papists
furnace
to
take
good
,
as
we
haue
taken
no
harme
:
II.
For
the
meanes
of
their
deliuerance
.
Some
ascribe
it
to
virginity
,
as
Damascene
;
some
to
fasting
,
as
Basill
:
but
the
word
of
God
ascribeth
it
to
faith
in
the
Sonne
of
God
;
Heb.
11.34
.
By
faith
they
quenched
the
violence
of
the
fire
.
And
so
in
this
place
:
Nebuchadnezzar
saw
a
fourth
like
the
Sonne
of
God
;
speaking
indeede
like
an
Heathen
,
whose
Gods
were
begotten
one
of
another
:
not
vnderstanding
the
Sonne
of
the
eternall
Father
,
but
an
Angell
,
vers.
18.
Yet
hence
we
may
note
many
good
things
,
as
First
,
that
the
Lord
Iesus
the
Sonne
of
God
,
and
the
protection
of
his
people
,
by
whose
onely
power
a
true
miracle
can
be
wrought
,
then
affords
his
most
gracious
presence
,
when
his
members
are
in
extreamest
dangers
:
as
the
head
most
bestirres
it selfe
in
the
exigence
of
the
least
member
.
He
tooke
not
the
quality
of
fire
from
this
fire
,
(
which
did
burne
wood
,
and
fewell
,
and
the
enemies
bodies
,
and
the
bolts
of
Daniels
fellowes
:
)
but
onely
restrained
and
repressed
it
from
these
subiects
.
And
hence
it
is
,
that
the
Martyrs
neuer
finde
such
a
chearefull
presence
of
Gods
Spirit
with
them
,
as
in
the
midst
of
flames
:
whose
consolations
swallow
vp
all
their
feares
,
and
all
the
horrour
of
those
flames
.
Of
this
trueth
if
our selues
had
not
had
experience
in
their
hellish
conspiracie
,
we
had
not
beene
here
at
this
time
.
Secondly
,
let
vs
ascribe
that
saluation
vnto
the
Sonne
of
God
,
who
walked
with
vs
in
that
Furnace
.
The
wicked
tyrant
could
espie
a
fourth
like
the
Sonne
of
God
in
the
furnace
:
much
more
let
vs
,
and
acknowledge
,
that
it
was
no
fore-sight
,
wisedome
,
merit
,
or
humane
meanes
whereby
we
were
preserued
,
but
onely
the
Sonne
of
God
,
who
by
themselues
reuealed
it
.
And
for
time
to
come
let
vs
hide
our selues
vnder
his
wing
,
which
if
wee
doe
,
fire
shall
cease
to
burne
,
and
water
to
drowne
,
rather
than
we
shall
perish
.
Thirdly
,
as
this
tyrant
by
this
sight
of
this
Sonne
of
God
in
the
furnace
did
acknowledge
,
that
hee
neither
ought
to
haue
commanded
such
an
vniust
command
,
nor
his
Ministers
obayed
it
;
so
wee
wish
the
Romish
N●buchadnezzar
would
at
length
come
(
by
such
euents
as
haue
befall
●n
him
)
to
acknowledge
the
Sonne
of
God
with
vs
,
protecting
and
defending
his
owne
religion
among
vs
:
and
that
the
tyrant
would
but
come
to
aske
that
Iewish
question
,
Who
is
this
whom
the
windes
and
seas
obey
,
as
in
88.
and
what
is
that
fourth
,
hard
to
kicke
against
such
prickes
.
III.
For
the
effect
or
euent
of
all
:
It
is
the
acknowledgement
and
praise
of
the
true
God
,
euen
among
his
enemies
:
much
more
should
this
be
among
vs
,
who
professe
our selues
friends
,
and
had
the
sweet
of
the
mercie
.
Note
Dauids
practice
on
the
like
occasion
,
Psal.
7.16.17
.
His
mischiefe
shall
returne
vpon
his
owne
head
,
and
his
crueltie
,
shall
fall
vpon
his
owne
pate
:
I
will
praise
the
Lord
according
to
his
righteousnesse
,
and
will
sing
praise
to
the
name
of
the
Lord
m●st
high
.
Let
vs
also
praise
the
iustice
of
God
in
defending
the
good
,
and
reuenging
the
wicked
:
As
he
hides
not
his
righteousnesse
,
but
drawes
it
out
for
our
safety
,
so
let
vs
not
hide
his
saluation
,
but
draw
it
out
for
his
glory
:
Let
fathers
tell
their
children
,
and
so
let
it
be
in
euerlasting
memory
,
that
the
Lords
grace
and
the
Papists
wickednesse
may
neuer
be
put
out
.
And
let
vs
not
onely
speake
of
it
as
a
wicked
intent
,
and
so
force
one
another
to
malice
them
,
but
driue
our selues
forward
to
such
duties
,
of
faith
,
loue
,
obedience
,
as
beseeme
those
who
looke
for
such
saluation
.
becomes
the
iust
to
be
thankefull
.
To
this
blessed
Sonne
of
God
,
who
is
alwayes
present
with
his
Church
in
the
hottest
flames
,
together
with
the
Father
of
mercies
,
and
Spirit
of
all
consolation
,
be
all
honour
and
glory
,
now
and
euermore
.
Amen
.
Amen
.
The
end
of
the
first
Sermon
.
ROMISH
EDOM
.
Amos
1.11
,
12.
Thus
saith
the
Lord
,
For
three
transgressions
of
Edom
,
and
for
foure
,
I
will
not
turne
to
it
,
because
he
did
pursue
his
brother
with
the
sword
,
and
did
cast
off
all
pitie
,
and
his
anger
spoyled
him
euermore
,
and
his
wrath
watched
him
alway
.
Therefore
will
I
send
a
fire
vpon
Teman
,
and
it
shall
deuoure
the
palaces
of
Bozrah
.
IN
these
verses
is
contained
the
fourth
example
of
Gods
seuere
iudgement
against
the
neighbour
nations
of
his
people
Israel
:
namely
vpon
the
Edomites
,
which
dwelt
in
Arabia
,
and
confined
vpon
the
South
coast
of
Iudea
.
Wherein
wee
will
obserue
three
generall
poynts
.
1
A
threatning
:
For
three
transgressions
of
Edom
,
Diuision
of
the
text
.
and
for
foure
,
I
will
not
turne
to
it
.
2
The
equitie
of
it
:
Because
hee
pursued
his
brother
,
&c.
3.
The
execution
of
iudgement
,
vers.
12.
Therefore
will
I
send
a
fire
,
&c.
I.
First
of
the
threatning
:
For
three
transgressions
of
Edom
,
and
for
foure
:
]
Here
is
a
certaine
number
put
for
an
vncertaine
:
and
it
may
be
considered
either
ioyntly
,
and
so
three
●nd
foure
make
seuen
,
I
will
punish
you
seuen
times
more
for
your
sinnes
.
Or
seuerally
:
and
then
this
is
the
sense
:
If
after
once
or
twice
their
prouoking
of
me
they
had
returned
,
I
was
readie
to
returne
and
giue
them
pardon
:
but
now
the
fourth
time
prouoking
me
,
that
is
,
going
on
in
sinne
still
,
and
adding
obstinacie
and
impenitencie
to
their
sinne
,
I
will
beare
them
no
longer
.
Here
note
by
the
way
,
that
the
Lord
is
not
suddenly
moued
to
punish
euen
his
enemies
.
He
speakes
to
a
man
(
saith
Iob
)
twice
and
thrice
.
I
will
not
turne
to
it
.
]
First
,
I
will
not
turne
my selfe
any
more
in
my
loue
,
nor
by
my
Spirit
,
vnto
them
:
I
will
not
offer
my selfe
in
patience
to
expect
them
any
more
.
Secondly
,
I
will
not
turne
them
to
my selfe
by
repentance
,
but
leaue
them
to
themselues
,
to
enioy
their
sinnes
so
many
and
so
enormious
,
till
my
swift
and
seuere
iudgement
ouertake
them
.
Note
here
,
that
of
all
iudgements
the
most
seuere
is
to
be
left
and
forsaken
of
God
;
when
he
is
so
farre
prouoked
as
he
will
not
returne
.
This
one
threat
(
I
will
not
turne
to
it
)
is
an
epitome
of
all
miserie
.
II.
Now
of
the
equitie
.
These
Idumeans
were
stubbornly
wicked
,
and
heaped
vp
sinne
vpon
sinne
.
But
especially
they
are
here
threatned
because
of
their
crueltie
and
fiercenesse
against
the
Church
of
God
,
set
downe
in
foure
particulars
:
1.
In
respect
of
the
persons
:
He
pursued
his
brother
.
Esau
was
the
naturall
brother
to
Iacob
,
yea
a
twinne
of
the
same
wombe
at
the
same
time
;
so
as
the
Edomites
and
Israelites
were
cousin-germans
,
of
two
brethren
,
Esau
and
Iacob
:
yet
as
Esau
hated
his
brother
extremely
,
with
deadly
hatred
plotting
his
death
,
euer
after
he
got
the
blessing
from
him
:
so
was
this
imbred
hatred
deriued
into
his
posteritie
against
the
posteritie
of
Iacob
,
forgetting
they
were
brethren
,
and
of
brethren
.
Therefore
it
is
said
,
he
cast
off
all
pitie
,
and
put
off
all
humanitie
,
naturall
affection
and
all
bowels
were
laid
aside
:
so
is
the
word
,
violating
euen
the
law
of
nature
.
N●
.
ham●n
.
2.
In
respect
of
the
extent
of
his
wrath
:
it
turned
to
fiercenesse
and
crueltie
,
no
sparke
of
compassion
left
;
called
furie
and
rage
,
Psal.
137.3
.
while
they
cried
,
Downe
with
it
,
downe
with
it
,
euen
to
the
ground
.
3.
In
respect
of
the
effects
:
which
in
the
text
are
two
:
first
,
sword
and
slaughter
:
secondly
,
spoyle
and
robberie
:
They
spared
neither
life
,
nor
goods
,
but
as
theeues
both
slew
and
rifled
them
.
4.
In
respect
of
the
time
:
His
anger
was
euermore
,
and
his
wrath
alway
;
as
a
cruell
beast
hauing
taken
his
prey
will
neuer
let
it
goe
:
so
Edom
neuer
let
Israel
goe
free
,
no
time
wasted
his
wrath
,
which
continued
,
perpetuall
,
and
irreconciliable
.
Obiect
.
There
was
often
truce
and
peace
betweene
them
.
Answ.
No
:
in
warre
he
spoyled
,
in
peace
he
watched
him
,
saith
the
text
.
he
that
is
after
the
flesh
persecutes
him
that
is
after
the
spirit
with
an
endlesse
hatred
;
the
wicked
,
the
elect
;
the
Edomites
,
the
Israelites
.
III.
The
third
generall
is
the
execution
of
iudgement
:
Therefore
I
will
send
a
fire
]
God
will
send
.
God
reuengeth
his
.
Fire
in
Scripture
is
vsually
put
for
a
most
grieuous
plague
,
by
sword
,
or
famine
,
or
pestilence
.
A
fire
is
gone
out
of
Hesbon
,
and
a
flame
out
of
Sihon
,
that
is
,
the
enemie
wasting
the
fields
and
countrey
,
as
an
outragious
fire
.
Vpon
Teman
]
The
Metropolis
of
Idumea
,
so
called
of
Teman
the
sonne
of
Eliph●s
,
the
sonne
of
Esau
,
Gen.
36.
Palaces
of
Bozrah
.
]
A
citie
in
the
borders
betweene
Moab
and
Idumea
:
sometime
ascribed
to
one
people
,
and
sometime
to
the
other
,
for
their
vicinitie
.
This
notes
the
extent
of
the
iudgement
,
which
shall
reach
to
the
vttermost
border
of
Edom
,
no
part
shall
escape
.
This
iudgement
is
at
large
described
,
Obad.
10.11
.
Thy
strong
men
,
O
Teman
,
shall
be
afraid
,
because
euery
one
of
mount
Esau
shall
be
cut
off
by
slaughter
:
for
thy
crueltie
against
thy
brother
Iacob
,
shame
shall
couer
thee
,
and
thou
shalt
be
cut
off
for
euer
.
So
much
for
the
sense
of
the
words
:
Now
to
the
application
.
Edom
is
a
speciall
type
of
the
kingdome
of
Antichrist
,
aboue
all
other
the
enemies
here
threatned
,
Antichrist
resembled
by
Edom.
who
were
all
more
open
,
lesse
hurtfull
and
hatefull
.
The
Hebrewes
thinke
,
that
the
Romans
came
of
the
Idumeans
:
how
true
that
is
,
I
will
not
dispute
:
Sure
I
am
,
if
they
bee
not
of
the
naturall
discent
,
they
are
of
the
spirituall
(
or
vnnaturall
)
and
so
like
as
by
the
one
wee
may
see
the
expresse
picture
of
the
other
:
that
looke
as
it
is
said
in
Gen.
36.8
.
This
Esau
is
Edom
,
so
wee
may
as
truly
say
,
This
Romish
and
Antichristian
Esau
is
Edom.
The
similitude
betweene
them
we
will
consider
,
1.
In
their
persons
:
2.
In
their
sinnes
:
3.
In
their
iudgement
.
First
,
for
their
persons
they
are
as
like
as
like
may
be
;
in
foure
respects
:
Antichrist
and
Edom
like
in
their
persons
,
foure
waies
.
1.
Esau
stroue
with
Iacob
in
the
womb
:
whereof
when
Rebecca
asked
the
Lords
counsell
,
the
answer
was
,
Two
manner
of
people
shall
be
diuided
out
of
thy
bowels
.
Noting
a
continuall
fight
in
the
wombe
of
the
Church
.
Antichrist
worketh
already
,
2.
Thess.
2.7
.
although
the
Romane
Empire
held
him
then
by
the
heele
,
and
hindred
his
birth
:
but
not
long
after
he
was
borne
into
the
world
,
and
the
man
of
sinne
reuealed
,
vers.
8.
2.
Esau
was
red
,
and
therefore
called
Edom
,
betokening
his
bloody
dis●osition
:
And
the
Romish
Edom
is
figured
by
a
woman
in
skarlet
,
and
a
purple
whore
,
whose
garments
are
died
in
the
blood
of
the
Saints
;
wherwith
she
also
her self
is
drunken
,
〈◊〉
.
17.6
.
3.
Esau
was
rough
,
hairie
as
a
beast
;
which
betokened
his
sauage
,
truculent
,
and
cruell
nature
:
so
a
right
owner
of
mount
Seir.
Besides
,
he
was
a
mightie
hunter
,
as
hungrie
as
an
hunter
,
rauenous
,
insatiable
:
feed
me
(
saith
he
)
or
let
me
swallow
at
once
thy
pottage
:
so
the
word
signifies
:
as
Camels
are
fed
by
casting
gobbets
into
their
mouthes
.
The
Romish
Edom
and
kingdome
of
Antichrist
is
described
(
Reuel.
13.1
.
)
by
an
hideous
and
monstrous
beast
,
which
was
like
a
Leopard
,
most
cruell
,
vntamed
,
and
most
hurtfull
to
mankinde
,
which
(
as
Basil
reports
)
will
most
furiously
teare
in
peeces
men
,
yea
a
paper
that
hath
but
the
image
of
a
man
.
This
beast
of
Rome
is
likest
vnto
the
diuel
,
who
prosecutes
with
most
deadly
hatred
the
image
of
God
in
man
.
The
feete
of
this
beast
are
like
Beares
feete
,
for
roughnesse
,
and
crueltie
,
and
tearing
:
and
his
mouth
as
the
mouth
of
a
Lion
,
for
rauening
and
deuouring
of
Christian
men
:
which
the
lamentation
of
the
whole
Christian
world
can
better
expresse
than
my
words
,
or
all
Rhetoricke
in
the
world
.
This
was
prophecied
of
Esau
in
his
fathers
blessing
,
Gen.
27.40
.
Thou
shalt
liue
by
the
sword
:
so
did
the
Idumeans
,
a
sauage
and
cruell
people
.
So
do
the
Romish
Idumeans
only
support
themselues
by
fire
and
sword
,
the
surest
arguments
when
all
other
meanes
faile
.
Intimated
also
by
the
ten
hornes
.
4.
Esau
was
a
cauiller
at
Iacobs
name
,
and
a
liar
,
in
that
he
said
he
had
taken
away
the
blessing
and
birthright
,
both
which
,
himselfe
had
passed
away
;
and
a
false
perfidious
person
,
who
,
though
he
sold
the
birthright
,
and
passed
it
away
by
an
oath
,
yet
he
made
but
a
scoffe
at
it
,
and
had
no
purpose
to
performe
it
:
nay
he
contriued
and
hatched
the
death
and
murther
of
his
brother
,
if
once
the
daies
of
his
fathers
mourning
would
come
,
so
to
recouer
his
birthright
againe
.
The
Romish
Edom
will
not
allow
the
true
Church
of
Christ
the
name
of
Christ
,
but
calles
the
religion
by
which
we
worship
the
God
of
our
fathers
,
seuen
h●ads
,
that
is
,
fulnesse
of
fraud
and
subtiltie
,
to
ouer-reach
and
abuse
the
Church
of
Christ
:
and
,
to
recouer
his
power
againe
,
will
plot
the
death
of
so
many
Kings
and
Kingdoms
as
stand
in
his
way
.
Thus
are
they
like
in
respect
of
their
persons
.
●●tichrist
and
Edom
like
in
their
sinnes
.
Secondly
,
they
are
as
like
in
respect
of
their
sinnes
:
that
the
Lord
may
say
,
For
three
transgressions
of
the
Romish
Edom
▪
and
for
foure
,
I
will
neuer
returne
to
it
in
mercie
,
Quid
non
regina
pecuma
donat
?
and
now
all
sinnes
are
set
to
sale
;
any
thing
lawfull
for
mony
;
they
can
pardon
for
mony
that
which
God
will
neuer
pardon
,
yea
and
sinnes
before
they
bee
committed
.
Now
that
this
is
a
sinne
in
these
Romish
Edomites
,
for
which
God
will
neuer
returne
vnto
them
,
let
vs
see
in
our
owne
glasse
,
and
compare
Edoms
crueltie
in
the
text
with
our
owne
Champions
of
Antichrist
,
and
Dukes
of
the
Romish
Edom
:
and
wee
shall
see
the
face
,
fauour
,
affection
of
the
one
in
the
other
:
nay
we
shall
see
old
Edom
red
,
but
our
late
Edomites
in
skarlet
,
of
a
farre
deeper
dye
in
blood
than
they
.
They
are
like
one
another
in
that
:
Crueltie
of
our
Edomites
and
old
Edomites
compared
.
1.
Old
Edom
pursued
his
brother
,
to
whom
all
naturall
bonds
did
binde
him
,
and
to
whom
he
owed
homage
:
New
Edom
pursued
neerer
brethren
than
they
.
Iudea
was
but
a
neighbour
to
Idumea
(
neere
neighbours
indeede
,
but
fortie
miles
from
Ierusalem
,
and
so
in
all
humanitie
should
haue
been
louing
to
them
:
)
but
these
were
neerer
than
neighbours
,
vipers
within
our
owne
mothers
bowels
,
bound
to
our
Common-wealth
in
all
bonds
of
loyaltie
and
subiection
,
as
Edom
should
haue
been
an
homager
to
Iudea
,
being
subdued
by
Dauid
,
1.
Chron.
18.13
.
yet
against
all
lawes
of
God
,
na●u●e
,
and
nations
they
crie
,
Downe
with
it
,
&c.
2.
Edoms
chiefe
spight
was
not
against
any
ignoble
place
,
or
village
,
but
against
Ierusalem
the
citie
of
God
,
for
pleasure
a
paradise
,
for
spatiousnesse
sixe
miles
about
,
Downe
with
it
,
downe
with
it
euen
to
the
ground
.
The
same
was
the
voyce
and
practice
of
our
late
Edomites
,
against
our
Ierusalem
the
eye
of
the
world
,
against
our
Temple
,
Church
,
State
,
and
Land
;
they
strucke
at
the
heart
,
and
sought
to
let
out
the
life-blood
.
3.
Old
Edom
,
when
strangers
cast
lots
vpon
Ierusalem
,
was
as
one
of
them
,
Obad.
11.
that
is
,
when
Babel
made
sure
of
Ierusalem
,
Edom
being
too
weake
of
himselfe
ioyned
with
Babel
,
and
,
when
the
Babylonians
entred
,
Edom
was
farre
more
cruell
than
they
:
for
,
whereas
Babel
would
haue
been
contented
with
the
citie
and
the
spoyle
,
the
Edomites
would
not
be
contented
but
with
blood
:
for
so
saith
the
Prophet
,
Thou
shouldest
not
haue
stood
in
the
crosse
waies
to
cut
off
them
that
should
escape
.
he
shewed
no
pitie
to
his
brother
,
but
was
altogether
without
naturall
affection
:
And
these
vnnaturall
Edomites
were
pitilesse
,
not
onely
to
such
as
they
made
their
enemies
,
but
euen
to
their
friends
,
allies
,
kindred
,
both
in
the
flesh
and
in
their
faith
.
For
one
asking
the
question
what
should
become
of
the
Catholikes
in
the
House
,
&c.
Answer
was
made
,
they
would
send
them
all
to
heauen
in
a
fierie
chariot
,
and
so
prouide
for
their
ease
.
Yong
Edomites
with
vs
farre
surpasse
the
old
in
crueltie
:
fiue
arguments
.
But
will
you
see
wherein
old
Edom
was
farre
inferiour
in
crueltie
to
the
late
Edomites
?
All
Arts
(
they
say
)
are
growne
to
perfection
of
late
daies
:
and
so
is
the
art
of
Iesuitical
rebellion
and
treason
.
These
Iesuites
or
Esauites
goe
beyond
all
their
predecessors
in
their
art
.
As
for
example
.
1.
Neuer
was
any
wickednesse
acted
so
cruell
,
but
a
man
by
studie
could
giue
it
a
fit
name
,
as
the
Spanish
Inquisition
,
the
Massacre
in
France
,
the
butcherie
of
the
Merindolians
,
all
by
Papists
.
But
this
was
so
matchlesse
a
crueltie
,
as
no
name
can
fit
it
:
a
chaos
of
confusion
,
a
masse
of
euill
,
The
powder-plot
a
villany
without
name
.
a
sinke
,
a
roote
of
mischiefe
,
a
contempt
of
all
laws
,
diuine
&
humane
;
it
was
euery
thing
that
hath
any
wickednes
in
it
,
perfidiousnes
,
robbery
,
sacriledge
,
homicide
,
parricide
,
fratricide
,
regicide
,
idolatrie
,
paganisme
;
the
whole
traine
of
iniquitie
,
and
diuellishnes
it self
in
the
Abstract
;
a
Catholike
crueltie
,
a
crying
,
a
roring
,
yea
a
thundring
sinne
of
fire
and
brimstone
,
as
his
Maiestie
calles
it
,
in
his
speech
,
1605.
2.
Edoms
indeede
was
an
vnnaturall
crueltie
:
but
they
were
heathens
,
without
the
true
knowledge
of
God
.
These
late
Edomites
professe
religion
,
and
such
a
religion
as
out-boasteth
all
in
sanctitie
and
piety
:
nay
,
they
were
their
religious
men
.
Obiect
.
Why
,
but
they
were
but
a
few
vnfortunate
Gentlemen
.
Answ.
Happie
wee
they
were
so
vnfortunate
.
But
these
were
but
the
lesse
wheeles
:
Catesby
,
Faux
,
Percy
,
and
their
fellowes
were
but
petty
traytors
,
nimble
and
actiue
as
mischiefe
vseth
to
be
;
but
the
Priests
and
Iesuites
were
the
great
wheeles
,
which
not
seeming
to
moue
,
moued
them
.
But
what
should
moue
these
?
Answ.
That
ponderous
and
waighty
plummet
and
Lead
,
the
Popes
Breue
.
The
Popes
leadden
Bull
sets
all
mischiefe
on
worke
.
For
the
primus
m●tor
of
all
these
treasons
is
the
Pope
and
Popery
it selfe
.
Faux
in
his
confession
said
it
was
meerely
and
only
for
religion
,
and
for
his
conscience
sake
,
denying
the
King
to
be
his
Soueraigne
,
as
being
an
hereticke
:
and
,
for
reliefe
of
the
Catholique
cause
:
and
,
hee
had
heard
Masse
and
receiued
the
Sacrament
,
for
acting
the
matter
and
for
secrecie
.
3.
Edom
exercised
his
cruelty
by
open
warre
,
wherein
either
warning
to
prepare
,
or
intreaty
,
or
truce
,
or
flight
,
or
deliuering
the
Citie
vp
,
might
haue
satisfied
the
enemie
,
and
saued
their
liues
.
But
these
Edomites
(
more
cruell
then
euer
any
Scythian
)
digged
out
of
the
depth
a
pit
of
mischiefe
,
yea
out
of
the
bottome
of
hell
;
no
more
league
could
be
made
with
them
than
with
hell
it selfe
,
or
the
graue
which
is
inexorable
.
Olde
Edom
ioyned
with
Babylonians
,
men
whose
designes
might
haue
beene
preuented
:
Late
Edom
ioyned
himselfe
with
furies
and
hellish
ghosts
in
the
caues
of
darknesse
,
digging
a
new
hell
of
sulphurious
fire
,
with
wide
mouth
to
open
it selfe
,
and
deuoure
three
Kingdomes
at
once
.
Olde
Edom
cried
of
Ierusalem
,
Downe
with
it
,
downe
with
to
the
ground
:
young
Edom
would
raise
it
from
vnder
ground
.
4.
Olde
Edom
,
although
they
shewed
no
pitie
to
their
brethren
,
yet
they
spared
Zedekiah
the
King
,
and
the
Prophet
Ieremiah
,
and
many
Nobles
liues
whom
they
carried
into
Babel
.
Our
young
Edomites
spared
neither
King
,
who
had
neuer
drawne
blood
of
them
for
their
religion
,
nor
Queene
,
nor
Prince
,
nor
Nobles
,
nor
Counsell
,
nor
Iudges
,
nor
Bishops
,
nor
Gentrie
,
nor
young
,
nor
olde
,
no
not
their
owne
;
the
stroke
of
the
blow
had
beene
like
the
blow
of
Duke
Medina
his
sword
,
of
which
he
professed
,
his
sword
knew
no
difference
between
Catholicks
&
hereticks
.
5.
Old
Edom
raised
but
the
materiall
walls
of
the
Citie
and
Temple
:
these
digge
to
blow
vp
the
foundation
not
onely
of
stately
Palaces
,
but
of
all
Churches
,
and
of
the
whole
Common-wealth
:
especially
that
foundation
layd
in
Syon
,
of
Gods
pure
worship
:
And
,
rather
than
this
true
religion
shall
stand
on
the
foundation
,
his
Maiestie
defending
it
,
his
Nobles
guarding
it
,
his
Lawes
strengthening
it
,
the
Ministerie
preaching
it
,
and
his
Subiects
professing
it
,
all
shall
by
one
vnexpected
and
terrible
blow
be
vtterly
and
pittilesly
destroyed
:
and
,
when
they
had
done
this
,
they
would
like
honest
men
lay
it
all
on
the
Pu●itanes
,
whose
throats
must
be
all
cut
for
it
.
That
religion
good
,
which
Antichrist
persecutes
.
This
speaks
for
our
religion
,
that
certainly
it
is
Christs
,
seeing
Antichrist
and
his
limmes
doe
so
rage
against
it
.
It
was
Gods
Israel
,
his
sonne
,
his
Lot
,
his
hallowed
thing
,
which
Edom
was
so
cruell
against
.
Therefore
wee
say
of
Romish
Edom
as
Tertullian
said
of
Nero
,
That
religion
must
needes
be
good
which
Nero
so
persecuteth
,
which
the
Pope
so
persecuteth
.
Bloody
religion
,
wicked
religion
.
To
detect
and
detest
so
wicked
and
bloody
a
religion
,
set
vp
by
subtilty
,
held
vp
by
violence
and
cruelty
:
for
it
is
not
from
the
bad
constitution
of
their
persons
,
but
of
their
doctrine
,
and
refined
religion
by
the
fiery
wits
of
late
Iesuites
and
Priests
;
as
I
can
cleare
in
an
hundred
seuerall
positions
of
theirs
,
if
there
were
any
doubt
.
Christ
would
not
haue
his
Disciples
call
for
●i●e
from
heauen
against
that
Citie
which
receiued
him
not
,
the
abhomination
of
desolation
.
burnt
〈◊〉
an
Ouen
,
Mal.
4.1
.
What
had
a
Bonfire
of
200.
in
one
day
beene
to
this
?
The
Massacre
of
France
,
in
which
thirtie
thousand
were
murdered
in
one
moneth
,
had
beene
but
a
play
vnto
it
.
Farnesius
might
now
haue
had
his
minde
fulfilled
,
and
haue
ridden
his
horse
to
the
saddle
in
English
blood
.
But
God
for
his
owne
Name
sake
turned
it
into
an
honourable
and
glorious
day
,
a
day
of
ioy
and
gladnesse
to
all
true-hearted
English-men
.
When
Esau
came
with
400.
men
toward
his
brother
Iacob
,
minding
no
doubt
to
performe
his
long-intended
malice
,
God
so
ordered
the
matter
,
that
he
was
not
able
to
giue
him
an
ill
word
.
Why
?
what
was
the
reason
?
Iacob
had
all
night
before
wrasted
with
the
Angell
,
and
preuailed
,
and
got
a
blessing
from
him
,
which
was
,
Thou
hast
preuailed
with
God
,
thou
shalt
also
preuaile
with
men
.
deuout
women
,
who
raised
Tragedies
against
Paul
.
Well
,
when
Iezabell
proclaimes
a
Fast
,
Thus
farre
of
Edoms
sinne
:
Now
of
Edoms
punishment
,
and
the
similitude
of
it
with
our
Edomites
.
Edoms
punishment
is
set
downe
in
the
Text
,
1.
By
the
certainty
,
Antichrist
and
Edom
like
in
their
punishment
.
2.
By
the
seuerity
of
it
:
It
is
certaine
;
For
,
1.
God
will
doe
it
,
2.
He
will
not
returne
.
And
it
is
seuere
;
1.
Hee
will
send
a
fire
,
2.
A
deuouring
fire
,
vnresistable
,
3.
Vpon
Teman
,
the
Metropolis
or
mother
Citie
,
4.
On
the
Palaces
of
Bozrah
:
a
fire
wasting
the
whole
land
.
In
all
these
we
haue
a
liuely
pourtrayture
of
Gods
iust
iudgement
vpon
the
Romane
Edomites
,
which
shall
not
be
lesse
certaine
than
seuere
.
For
certainty
.
The
certainty
of
the
destruction
of
the
Kingdome
of
Antichrist
is
manifest
:
I.
In
that
the
Lord
will
doe
it
:
for
he
hath
spoken
it
,
Reuel
.
17.17
.
The
words
of
God
must
be
fulfilled
concerning
the
destruction
of
Babylon
.
Now
by
Babylon
in
that
Chapter
and
Prophecie
,
is
not
to
be
vnderstood
the
Babel
of
Chaldea
,
neither
do
the
threats
befit
that
Babel
,
which
was
fallen
and
destroyed
before
:
but
the
mysticall
Babel
of
Rome
,
which
succeedeth
and
exceedeth
that
in
cruelty
.
This
I
will
not
stand
to
proue
,
because
we
haue
it
plainely
confessed
both
by
Bellarmine
and
Ribera
,
the
learnedst
of
the
Romish
Church
,
that
Rome
present
,
is
mysticall
Babel
.
Iohn
(
saith
Bellarmine
)
euery
where
in
the
Apocalyps
calleth
Rome
Babylon
;
because
(
saith
hee
)
onely
Rome
in
Iohns
time
had
the
rule
ouer
the
Kings
of
the
earth
,
and
secondly
,
was
the
Citie
set
on
seauen
hills
,
which
agrees
to
no
other
Citie
.
What
therefore
I
am
to
speake
of
Babylon
in
the
Reuelation
,
I
shall
aptly
and
properly
speake
of
Rome
,
by
the
learnedst
of
the
Papists
owne
confession
.
And
the
reason
,
why
the
Spirit
of
God
by
allusion
doth
call
it
Babylon
,
Rome
termed
Babylon
,
why
?
is
by
way
of
similitude
;
Because
as
that
Easterne
and
Chaldean
Babylon
did
a
long
time
oppresse
the
Church
of
the
Iewes
,
so
this
Western
and
Italian
Babylon
hath
kept
,
vnder
most
horrible
oppression
and
thraldome
the
Church
of
the
Christians
.
This
Babylon
must
be
so
certainely
destroyed
as
if
it
were
done
already
:
Reuel.
14.8
.
It
is
fallen
,
it
is
fallen
,
saith
the
Angell
.
True
indeede
,
it
is
already
accomplished
in
part
:
it
is
fallen
,
1.
In
the
purity
of
doctrine
,
2.
In
the
estimation
which
once
it
had
.
3.
In
authority
:
but
this
prophecie
notes
the
certainety
of
her
fall
by
an
outward
ouerthrow
.
And
this
Babilon
must
be
certainely
destroyed
,
because
God
the
great
Iudge
of
the
world
hath
passed
sentence
against
her
,
which
only
waites
the
execution
;
Reuel.
18.20
.
Reioyce
ye
heauens
ouer
her
,
for
God
hath
giuen
your
iudgement
on
her
.
Againe
,
if
any
meanes
can
bring
hir
destruction
,
she
shall
be
destroyed
:
If
death
,
sorrow
,
famine
or
fire
can
destroy
her
,
these
shall
come
on
one
day
;
and
if
all
these
were
vnable
,
the
strength
of
God
is
able
to
pull
her
downe
,
Reuel.
18.8
.
for
strong
is
the
Lord
,
which
will
condemne
her
:
Now
if
God
set
against
a
man
who
can
rescue
him
?
Iob.
33.13.14
.
II.
The
iudgement
is
certaine
,
because
,
as
the
Lord
would
not
returne
to
Edom
,
so
neither
wil
he
returne
to
Romish
Edom
:
for
,
1.
He
is
too
far
prouoked
:
the
sentence
is
past
and
therefore
irreuokable
.
2.
This
leopard
,
as
shee
is
called
,
Reuel.
13.2
.
cannot
change
her
spots
.
3.
Edoms
teares
found
no
repentance
,
Heb.
12.16.17
.
no
more
shall
these
,
nor
by
any
meanes
will
God
call
back
his
anger
.
The
seuerity
of
Gods
wrath
against
the
Kingdome
of
Romish
Edom
is
not
vnproportionable
to
the
iudgement
of
the
Syrian
Idumea
.
1.
In
the
kinde
,
a
fire
;
For
seuerity
by
which
is
signified
an
vtter
desolation
:
2.
A
deuouring
fire
,
which
signifies
the
incurablenesse
of
her
estate
,
she
shall
neuer
rise
from
vnder
the
iudgement
.
3.
The
chiefe
subiect
is
Teman
,
the
Metropolis
,
signifying
the
vtter
ruin
of
Rome
it selfe
:
4.
It
shall
reach
to
the
Palaces
of
Bozrah
,
noting
the
generality
of
the
iudgement
through
all
the
Kingdome
of
Antichrist
.
Most
probable
that
Rom●
shall
be
destroyed
with
materiall
fire
,
for
fiue
reasons
.
First
,
the
destruction
of
Rome
shall
be
by
terrible
fire
,
euen
in
the
letter
it
is
most
likely
;
though
some
of
great
note
thinke
not
so
:
for
,
1.
It
is
said
,
Reuel.
17.16
.
the
ten
hornes
which
thou
sawest
,
shall
hate
the
whore
,
and
make
her
desolate
,
and
naked
,
and
burne
her
with
fire
:
and
chapter
18.8
.
she
shall
be
burnt
with
fire
.
By
which
oracle
of
the
holy
Ghost
it
plainely
appeares
,
that
the
Christian
Princes
,
which
haue
been
in
such
league
with
Rome
,
shall
at
length
make
warre
against
the
very
city
of
Rome
,
take
it
captiue
,
spoile
it
,
famish
it
,
and
at
last
burne
it
with
fire
.
2.
Harlots
by
the
law
of
God
were
to
bee
burnt
with
fire
,
as
we
see
in
the
example
of
Iudah
and
Thamar
,
Gen.
38.24
.
But
Babylon
is
the
mother
of
whordoms
and
abhominations
of
the
earth
,
Reuel.
17.5
.
yea
the
great
whore
,
with
whom
the
Kings
of
the
earth
haue
committed
fornication
,
verse
2
therefore
&c.
3.
She
as
Ashur
hath
a
long
time
bene
the
rod
of
Gods
wrath
,
by
which
the
Church
hath
beene
scourged
,
and
corrected
for
many
ages
:
and
now
must
bee
cast
into
the
fire
,
broken
and
burnt
.
4.
There
is
no
other
nitre
or
meane●
to
purge
that
idolatrous
city
:
We
would
haue
cured
Babell
,
but
she
would
not
bee
cured
therefore
she
shall
neuer
be
purged
,
As
thou
hast
done
,
it
shall
be
donne
to
the
,
thy
reward
shall
returne
vpon
thine
own
head
;
and
of
the
Romane
.
Wi●ked
Papists
make
the
furnace
seuen
times
hotter
than
Nebuchadnezzars
but
here
is
a
furnace
heated
by
God
himselfe
for
themselues
.
They
deuise
an
vnnaturall
fire
and
furnace
vnder
the
Parliament
,
to
consume
the
innocents
of
three
Kingdomes
:
but
giue
her
double
(
saith
the
Spirit
)
to
that
she
hath
done
:
first
,
burne
her
with
fire
,
and
after
this
,
God
himselfe
shall
cast
her
in
to
an
hellish
and
supernaturall
si●e
,
for
all
the
cruell
and
blasing
fires
which
shee
hath
kindled
in
all
countries
,
pitil●sly
to
consume
the
bodies
of
God●
Saints
The
preludium
here
of
was
seen
in
our
Edomite
Captines
;
they
lay
fire
and
powder
for
others
,
but
the
fired
powder
flies
in
their
owne
face
.
Obiect
.
Antichrist
must
be
destroyed
with
the
sword
of
the
Spirit
,
and
the
breath
of
the
Lords
mouth
,
not
by
carnall
weapons
.
Answ.
Antichrist
to
be
ouerthrowne
with
the
sword
temporall
as
well
as
spirituall
.
but
that
the
Princes
of
Europe
(
seeing
the
infinite
wrongs
sustained
by
him
)
shall
ioyne
to
set
the
seate
of
Antichrist
on
fire
:
considering
the
Scripture
affirmes
it
so
manifestly
,
as
euen
the
Papists
themselues
subscribe
to
the
generall
truth
of
it
:
for
these
be
the
words
of
Ribera
:
Romam
non
solùm
ob
pristinam
impi●tatem
,
sed
&
propter
ea
quae
postremis
temporibus
commissura
est
,
magno
incendio
perflagraturam
,
adeo
perspicuum
est
&
manifestum
,
vt
ne
stultissimus
quidem
id
negare
possit
.
And
the
text
is
plaine
,
that
the
Kings
,
Marriners
,
and
Merchants
shall
stand
and
see
the
smoake
of
her
burning
,
Reuel.
18.9
.
Obiect
.
But
this
seemes
impossible
:
for
we
see
Kings
and
Princes
sticke
fast
to
support
her
,
as
Spaine
,
France
,
and
many
Kings
of
Europe
.
Answ.
God
can
and
will
doe
it
,
Euen
by
Kings
that
are
or
were
his
friends
.
who
hath
horses
and
chariots
of
fire
to
besiege
her
withall
,
if
meanes
should
faile
.
But
God
will
doe
it
by
them
,
Reuel.
17.17
.
For
he
hath
put
into
their
hearts
,
to
fulfill
his
will
.
And
by
many
meanes
God
can
effect
it
:
1.
Hee
can
soone
conuert
them
from
their
Antichristian
and
Papisticall
superstitions
to
the
truth
,
as
sundrie
of
them
are
already
.
2.
It
may
be
,
that
sundrie
of
them
which
yet
retaine
Romish
idolatrie
,
may
for
some
other
causes
turne
against
the
Pope
and
waste
Rome
,
as
for
his
vniust
claimes
,
his
horrible
pride
and
tyrannie
,
his
treasonable
practices
against
them
,
pardons
to
kill
them
,
&c.
and
thus
by
Charles
the
8.
and
Lewis
the
12.
Kings
of
France
,
was
Rome
sacked
and
spoyled
,
and
the
Pope
opposed
:
as
also
by
Charles
the
5.
his
armie
.
And
is
this
vnlikely
,
when
not
onely
the
Popes
Agents
and
Priests
shall
giue
the
Sacrament
and
absolution
to
gunpowder-traytors
?
but
Iesuites
teach
it
lawfull
,
yea
meritorious
to
kill
Christian
princes
,
nay
Popes
themselues
so
proclaime
it
,
as
Sixtus
Quintus
of
the
villaine
that
murthered
Henry
the
3.
of
France
.
Obiect
.
But
then
this
prophecie
may
seeme
to
be
in
part
fulfilled
.
Ouerthrow
of
Rome
not
partiall
,
but
totall
.
Answ.
No
,
this
fire
of
Edom
must
be
a
deuouring
fire
(
which
is
the
other
part
of
the
similitude
)
that
must
quite
consume
Teman
the
Metropolis
:
so
this
first
against
Rome
must
be
as
a
fore-runner
of
the
fire
of
hell
,
it
must
be
vnquenchable
,
and
agreeing
with
that
fire
of
the
Syrian
Edom
:
Obad.
18.
A
fire
shall
be
kindled
in
Edom
,
and
deuoure
them
,
and
there
shall
be
no
remnant
of
the
house
of
Esau
:
for
the
Lord
hath
spoken
it
.
This
ruine
of
Rome
shall
be
like
the
ruine
of
Iericho
,
which
can
neuer
bee
re-edified
:
and
is
notably
shadowed
in
Reuel.
18.21
.
by
the
casting
of
a
milstone
into
the
sea
:
noting
both
the
swiftnesse
and
irrecouerablenesse
of
their
estate
,
no
more
to
be
raised
againe
than
a
milstone
can
rise
out
of
the
bottome
of
the
sea
and
float
againe
.
Yea
the
eternall
desolation
of
Rome
is
noted
by
denying
such
things
to
be
euer
any
more
in
her
,
which
a
citie
cannot
be
without
,
viz.
A
milstone
shall
not
be
heard
in
her
,
nor
the
light
of
a
candle
seene
,
nor
any
crafts-man
,
nor
any
voyce
of
ioy
,
nor
any
bridegroome
,
or
marriage
,
or
procreation
.
A
poore
citie
it
is
,
or
none
at
all
,
where
none
of
these
are
.
Obiect
.
But
the
state
of
Rome
is
the
strongest
state
in
the
world
,
Magnificence
of
Rome
no
whit
secureth
it
.
for
wisedome
,
wealth
,
strength
,
and
many
of
our
great
ones
goe
backe
to
them
:
so
as
you
speake
vnlikely
things
.
Answ.
1.
God
will
honour
himselfe
by
eff●cting
his
will
in
vnexpected
and
vnconceiuable
meanes
:
Hee
is
wise
of
heart
to
lay
vnknowne
pipes
and
meanes
for
his
purposes
.
In
that
day
I
will
destroy
the
wise
men
out
of
Edom
,
and
vnderstanding
from
the
mount
of
Esau
,
and
thy
strong
men
O
Teman
shall
be
afraid
:
neither
is
there
wisdome
or
strength
that
shall
helpe
against
the
Lord
.
2.
God
by
themselues
,
if
others
be
sla●ke
,
can
hasten
their
destruction
;
as
it
was
with
Edom
,
Obad.
7.
The
men
of
thy
confederacie
,
and
they
that
were
at
peace
with
thee
,
deceiued
thee
.
So
our
late
Edomites
were
detected
by
themselues
,
euen
by
their
owne
confederacie
.
3.
What
if
some
go
to
them
,
and
giue
them
a
little
lightning
before
their
death
?
See
we
not
such
infamie
cast
vpon
them
all
by
their
daily
practices
and
plots
,
as
all
the
water
in
the
sea
can
neuer
wash
away
?
Yes
,
we
see
with
our
eyes
,
that
they
gaine
not
,
but
fall
,
notwithstanding
all
their
supplies
of
succours
.
To
comfort
the
poore
Church
of
God
,
in
that
,
Comfort
for
the
Church
of
God
.
when
the
enemie
marcheth
furiously
like
Iehu
,
God
sets
in
,
and
prouides
for
his
safetie
.
Reuel.
10.10
.
Iohn
hauing
before
prophecied
of
many
mischiefes
to
befall
the
Church
,
by
Antichrist
and
the
Turkes
,
both
conspiring
against
it
,
in
this
Chapter
brings
Christ
in
a
vision
for
the
comfort
of
the
Church
,
thus
described
:
An
Angell
,
namely
of
the
Couenant
,
our
great
Mediatour
;
comming
from
heauen
,
to
make
himselfe
better
knowne
,
and
neerer
to
his
Church
;
clothed
with
a
cloud
,
not
onely
in
our
humane
nature
clouding
&
vailing
his
Deity
,
but
still
obscured
by
the
world
;
with
a
rain-bow
on
his
head
,
a
signe
of
reconciliation
,
an
assurance
that
he
will
remember
his
couenant
,
as
Genesis
9.15
.
and
a
token
,
that
although
stormes
and
tempests
be
vpon
the
Church
,
yet
Christ
at
length
will
driue
them
away
,
and
reduce
the
calme
of
it
,
and
a
faire
season
;
his
face
as
the
Sunne
,
shining
as
in
his
transfiguration
,
to
his
Church
;
his
feete
as
pillars
,
for
strength
,
of
fire
,
because
of
his
efficacie
and
force
to
ouercome
all
difficulties
.
He
is
a
constant
stander
as
a
pillar
,
and
fierce
,
for
his
Churches
good
.
A
sweete
meditation
against
all
fierie
,
furious
,
and
sulphurious
plots
of
the
enemies
of
the
Church
.
He
hath
the
Rain-bow
on
his
head
,
his
feete
are
pillars
of
fire
,
and
further
,
he
sets
his
foote
on
the
sea
and
earth
,
to
note
the
subiection
of
the
sea
,
and
earth
,
and
all
the
creatures
,
and
all
the
world
vnto
him
.
Terror
for
the
Church
of
Rome
.
The
iustice
of
God
shall
one
day
magnifie
it selfe
against
that
bloodie
seate
,
citie
,
and
kingdome
of
Antichrist
:
for
,
1.
He
that
is
the
vnmercifull
maintainer
of
all
treasons
,
and
supreme
head
of
all
heretikes
,
must
needes
be
fearefully
destroyed
.
2.
He
that
is
concluded
to
be
more
merciful
than
Christ
,
because
Christ
deliuered
none
out
of
Purgatorie
;
and
more
powerfull
than
God
,
because
God
makes
but
creatures
,
he
makes
the
Creator
,
shall
dearely
buy
that
and
other
such
blasphemies
.
3.
Pride
(
wee
say
)
must
haue
a
fall
,
and
,
the
higher
the
pride
,
the
lower
the
fall
.
He
that
hath
fought
against
the
Kings
of
the
earth
,
the
King
of
Kings
,
the
tenne
hornes
shall
fight
against
him
.
Hee
that
out
of
his
horrible
ambition
hath
made
mightie
Princes
hold
his
stirrop
,
leade
his
horse
,
become
his
footmen
and
foot-stoole
,
shall
one
day
be
paid
for
all
.
He
that
hath
taken
from
them
,
Imperiall
Crownes
,
Purple
,
Scepters
,
Kingdomes
,
shall
by
them
(
ere
long
,
I
doubt
not
)
be
left
desolate
and
naked
.
Hee
that
hath
long
ouerborne
them
with
the
bragge
of
his
primacie
,
and
set
himselfe
aboue
all
that
is
called
God
,
shall
by
them
be
made
to
drinke
of
the
cup
of
their
Supremacie
.
They
that
haue
giuen
the
Saints
blood
to
drink
,
shall
haue
blood
to
drink
,
herein
like
to
old
Edom
,
Obad.
16.
Edom
drunke
vpon
mine
holy
mountaine
:
and
the
heathen
must
drinke
them
vp
,
and
swallow
them
,
and
they
shall
bee
as
though
they
had
not
been
.
Pharaoh
drownd
the
Israelites
children
,
and
was
drownd
himselfe
.
The
same
fire
lickt
in
the
enemies
,
which
they
made
so
hot
for
the
three
children
of
God
.
Humans
gallowes
catcht
himselfe
.
Catesby
,
Rockwood
,
Grant
,
deuisers
of
the
powder-plot
,
by
their
owne
powder
were
almost
blowne
vp
,
yea
made
vnable
for
their
own
defence
:
and
the
same
day
Catesby
the
first
deuiser
,
and
P●rcy
the
chiefe
actor
were
killed
with
one
bullet
shot
with
powder
.
As
I
haue
done
(
said
great
Adoni-bezek
)
so
God
hath
done
to
me
.
From
all
this
it
followes
,
All
deuices
of
Papists
insufficient
to
susteine
their
bloody
monarchy
.
that
all
the
balme
in
Gilead
cannot
heale
them
:
not
the
ten
hornes
or
Kings
,
not
the
seuen
heads
,
not
his
power
and
bloody
war●es
,
his
Spanish
Inquisition
,
his
Massacres
,
his
two
trayterous
Colleges
,
his
Buls
and
Excommunications
,
his
Councell
of
Trent
,
his
Order
of
Iesuites
;
not
his
blacking
of
the
liues
and
practices
of
his
aduersaries
,
not
his
iugling
with
Images
,
his
false
miracles
and
legends
,
his
lies
and
equiuocations
,
his
falsifying
of
all
authoritie
,
and
the
like
,
can
still
vphold
his
tottering
state
,
down
he
must
for
all
his
props
,
he
must
dye
in
the
midst
of
his
Physicians
;
we
must
expect
it
,
pray
for
it
,
and
reioyce
in
it
.
Come
out
of
her
,
my
people
,
come
out
of
her
:
Separate
from
them
spiritually
and
corporally
.
for
it
is
a
people
ordained
to
destruction
:
Reuel.
18.4
.
Be
not
partakers
of
her
sinnes
,
lest
yee
partake
in
her
plagues
.
Come
out
in
affection
,
in
action
,
and
in
habitation
,
both
by
spirituall
and
bodily
departure
.
God
is
carefull
of
his
people
:
he
would
not
haue
Lot
destroyed
with
Sodome
,
nor
Israel
in
Babylon
,
Iere.
51.45
.
nor
the
Iewes
in
Ierusalem
at
the
destruction
thereof
:
A
voyce
was
heard
(
saith
Iosephus
)
to
leaue
the
citie
,
which
many
beleeued
,
and
fled
into
Pella
,
and
they
that
would
not
,
were
al
miserably
destroyed
.
Little
Mice
(
they
say
)
presaging
the
ruine
of
an
house
,
doe
flie
out
before
hand
.
Let
vs
by
diuine
instinct
be
so
wise
for
our
owne
safetie
:
flie
communion
&
companie
with
Papists
.
an
habitation
of
diuels
:
if
a
man
would
dwell
among
diuels
,
let
him
dwell
among
Romanists
.
And
it
is
no
schisme
,
but
Gods
commandement
.
Neuer
heare
such
whisperings
,
as
speake
of
a
reconciliation
of
our
religions
,
for
that
cannot
be
.
Yet
hate
not
their
persons
,
but
their
sinnes
;
and
pray
for
the
men
.
It
is
dangerous
to
trauell
among
them
,
much
more
to
intertaine
neere
and
intimate
acquaintance
with
them
.
Therefore
feare
to
make
or
meddle
with
them
:
leaue
them
to
Gods
iudgement
,
which
must
needs
be
executed
.
The
end
of
the
second
Sermon
.
THE
ROMISH
FOWLER
.
Psalm
.
124.7
.
Our
soule
is
escaped
euen
as
a
bird
out
of
the
snare
of
the
fowlers
:
the
snare
is
broken
,
and
we
are
deliuered
.
THE
matter
of
this
Psalme
is
gratulatory
:
the
occasion
,
some
great
deliuerance
of
the
Church
,
from
some
deadly
plot
,
and
imminent
danger
:
Or
(
as
some
thinke
)
Dauid
recounteth
and
collecteth
all
those
speciall
deliuerances
,
which
God
had
wrought
for
Israel
,
since
their
comming
forth
of
Egypt
,
till
this
time
:
which
being
many
and
great
,
he
compiles
this
Psalme
,
and
giues
the
Lord
the
glory
of
them
all
.
In
the
words
of
my
Text
are
two
things
considerable
:
-
Diuision
of
the
Text.
1.
A
danger
,
the
extremity
whereof
is
set
downe
by
a
similitude
.
-
2.
A
deliuerance
:
in
it
-
1.
The
meanes
:
the
snare
is
broken
.
-
2.
The
end
:
wee
are
deliuered
.
The
danger
is
set
out
by
comparison
of
a
Fowler
,
who
hath
layd
his
nets
,
and
hath
caught
a
silly
bird
within
the
meashes
of
it
,
of
which
himselfe
and
euery
man
else
thinks
he
hath
it
sure
enough
.
Where
the
danger
is
amplified
,
1.
By
the
Authors
of
it
,
Fowlers
:
2.
Their
instruments
,
nets
and
snares
:
3.
The
crafty
laying
of
them
,
so
as
they
haue
compassed
the
seely
bird
within
the
snare
.
I.
The
Scriptures
compare
the
enemies
of
the
Church
(
the
seely
Doue
of
Christ
)
to
Fowlers
,
Fishers
,
Hunters
:
Enemies
of
the
Church
compared
to
Fowlers
,
in
4.
respects
.
1.
In
respect
of
their
purpose
,
which
is
to
take
and
catch
that
they
hunt
for
:
they
intend
to
kill
and
destroy
ere
they
returne
.
This
was
Cains
purpose
against
Abel
,
if
hee
could
get
him
alone
;
Pharaohs
against
Israel
;
Nero
,
Dioclesian
,
and
the
other
Emperours
against
the
Primitiue
Church
.
2.
The
Fowler
makes
but
a
sport
of
taking
his
prey
:
as
also
the
Hunter
:
So
the
enemies
of
the
Church
count
it
but
a
sport
to
destroy
and
waste
the
Church
and
people
of
God
.
Yea
,
as
they
feede
vpon
the
seely
birds
they
catch
,
with
delight
;
so
these
feede
on
Gods
people
as
on
bread
,
Psal.
14
4.
3.
Fowlers
are
so
cruell
,
that
they
spare
none
,
young
nor
olde
,
male
nor
female
;
all
goe
together
into
the
bagge
.
And
Popish
Persecutors
spare
no
age
or
sexe
,
neither
olde
men
nor
children
,
but
haue
pulled
them
out
of
the
belly
to
the
fire
;
neither
vnlearned
nor
learned
,
but
haue
cut
off
Pastors
,
Doctors
,
Bishops
,
Archbishops
;
neither
the
liuing
,
nor
yet
the
dead
.
Most
barbarous
inhumanity
.
4.
Fowlers
and
Hunters
will
be
at
great
cost
to
maintaine
their
game
,
and
count
no
paines
painefull
,
through
frost
and
snow
;
they
will
endure
much
hardnesse
in
hope
of
their
prey
.
So
the
enemies
of
the
Church
care
not
what
cost
and
charge
they
be
at
,
what
paines
they
take
,
to
waste
and
destroy
the
Church
:
they
cannot
sleepe
,
till
they
haue
done
euill
;
their
sleepe
departs
from
them
,
that
is
,
nothing
else
troubles
them
but
to
be
disappointed
.
Such
great
Fowlers
of
the
Church
in
the
olde
Testament
were
the
enemies
on
euery
side
:
On
the
East
:
Ammonites
,
Moabites
,
Chaldeans
,
Assyrians
:
on
the
West
:
the
Philistims
:
on
the
North
:
the
Syrians
:
on
the
South
:
Egyptians
,
Arabians
,
and
Idumeans
:
and
the
Church
of
God
as
a
little
bird
in
the
midst
of
them
all
.
Haman
hath
ten
thousand
talents
for
the
Kings
treasurie
,
Romish
Nimrod
a
mighty
Hunter
of
the
Lords
flocke
.
and
especially
that
great
Nimrod
of
Rome
,
who
with
his
Popish
Kings
,
Tyrants
,
and
persecuting
Bishops
,
hath
eaten
vp
the
poore
Saints
of
Christ
in
all
Countries
;
as
did
their
Predecessors
the
ancient
Tyrants
,
Psal.
83.4
.
Come
,
let
vs
cut
them
off
from
being
a
nation
,
and
let
the
name
of
Israel
be
no
more
in
remembrance
.
Our
owne
booke
of
Martyrs
records
,
that
one
of
our
Popish
Bishops
was
so
violent
a
fowler
to
furnish
his
Maisters
dishes
,
Bonner
,
a
Bonfire
.
that
himselfe
in
fiue
yeares
space
tooke
and
rosted
300.
seely
Martyrs
,
most
of
them
in
his
owne
walke
and
dioces
.
Such
were
our
Fauxes
and
Fawkners
,
who
made
sure
account
of
such
a
prey
as
was
neuer
before
layd
▪
for
,
namely
for
three
whole
Kingdomes
at
once
:
which
would
haue
filled
all
their
nets
.
For
God
and
man
concurred
to
punish
the
iniquity
of
this
time
,
Great
labour
and
cost
for
the
powder-treason
.
said
the
Letter
to
L.
Mounteagle
:
for
the
obtaining
whereof
they
despised
all
danger
,
and
all
labour
is
thought
little
in
digging
halfe
a
yeare
together
through
hard
foundations
;
they
will
bestow
any
cost
whatsoeuer
,
of
their
owne
and
other
mens
;
Digby
promised
1500.
pounds
,
Tressam
2000.
Percy
all
that
he
could
get
of
the
Earle
of
Northumberlands
rents
,
besides
tenne
galloping
Horses
.
And
nothing
troubled
Faux
,
Foure
thousand
pounds
.
Practises
of
the
wicked
termed
snares
,
1.
for
secrecie
,
2.
suddainnesse
.
but
that
he
was
disappointed
.
II.
The
Scripture
both
here
and
else
where
compares
their
meanes
and
instruments
,
to
snares
,
nets
,
and
ginnes
,
which
are
set
in
the
wayes
of
Gods
Saints
to
take
them
And
that
for
two
causes
.
1.
It
notes
the
secrecie
of
the
danger
,
which
makes
it
farre
more
dangerous
and
ineuitable
:
for
nets
and
snares
vse
to
be
layd
in
secret
,
and
out
of
sight
.
In
vaine
were
the
net
layd
before
the
eyes
of
all
that
hath
wings
,
Prou.
1.17
.
As
therfore
the
fowlers
or
fishers
go
about
their
matters
craftily
and
subtilly
,
they
will
stand
priuily
behinde
a
tree
,
they
dissemble
all
,
they
will
lay
meate
as
though
they
intended
to
feed
the
seely
bird
,
which
they
meane
to
feed
vpon
;
they
haue
a
Lure
or
Call
,
as
if
they
were
friends
and
birds
themselues
;
but
the
end
is
to
kill
and
destroy
:
So
doe
the
Fowlers
of
Gods
Church
,
Psal.
83.3
.
They
haue
taken
crafty
counsell
against
thy
people
,
and
haue
consulted
against
thy
secret
ones
.
So
euer
haue
done
the
Romish
Antichristian
Fowlers
,
who
haue
beene
taught
by
their
great
Nim●od
,
leoninae
pelli
assuere
vulpinam
,
Alwayes
to
match
together
the
Lyon
and
the
Foxe
.
The
Syrian
Antiochus
Epiphanes
was
a
liuely
type
of
the
Romish
Antiochus
:
of
whom
it
is
sayd
,
Dan.
8.24.25
.
His
power
shall
be
mighty
,
but
not
in
his
strength
:
he
shall
destroy
wonderfully
,
and
shall
prosper
,
and
practise
,
and
shall
destroy
the
mighty
and
the
holy
people
,
and
by
his
policie
shall
cause
craft
to
prosper
in
his
hand
.
A
liuely
description
of
the
Romish
Antiochus
or
Antichrist
,
that
beast
arising
out
of
the
sea
,
hauing
as
well
the
hornes
of
the
Lambe
as
the
speech
of
the
Dragon
.
seruant
of
seruants
,
True
onely
in
No●hs
sence
of
Cham.
Gen.
9.25
.
while
he
sets
himselfe
aboue
all
Kings
and
Commanders
:
as
Boniface
the
8.
in
the
yeare
of
Christ
1300.
before
a
great
concourse
in
a
solemne
Iubilee
,
one
day
shewed
himselfe
in
his
Priestly
Pontificals
,
with
the
crosse
carried
before
him
:
the
next
day
in
an
Emperours
roabes
,
with
a
naked
sword
before
him
,
and
this
title
proclaimed
,
Ego
sum
Pontifex
&
Imperator
:
terrestre
ac
coeleste
imperium
habeo
:
What
is
the
whole
religion
of
Rome
but
a
mysterie
of
iniquity
▪
a
bundle
of
policie
,
Are
his
emissaries
and
such
as
he
sends
out
,
of
better
disposition
than
himselfe
?
No
,
witnesse
Gregory
the
great
:
As
Christ
sent
out
simple
and
seely
plaine
men
to
raise
vp
his
Kingdome
,
so
shall
Antichrist
make
choise
of
crafty
,
and
double
,
and
deceitfull
persons
for
his
businesse
.
How
subtilly
did
these
two
friars
,
Clement
and
his
Associate
lay
their
snares
,
when
they
flew
the
French
King
,
Henry
the
3.
pretending
great
good
businesse
for
the
Church
and
State
?
When
the
Papists
in
France
could
not
by
open
force
oppresse
the
Prince
of
Condy
,
and
Casper
Colignius
the
Admirall
of
France
:
they
could
by
fraude
and
cunning
,
as
by
a
lure
,
pretending
peace
and
nuptiall
solemnity
,
raise
a
sudden
Massacre
,
by
which
thirty
thousand
Protestants
fell
into
their
snare
,
who
most
perfidiously
were
slaine
,
against
all
laws
of
God
,
nature
,
and
nations
,
not
much
without
the
space
of
one
moneth
.
What
Potentate
euer
layd
the
foundation
of
obedience
in
conscience
,
Srange
fetches
of
the
Pope
to
vphold
his
throne
.
or
could
ouercome
his
enimies
without
warre
,
by
a
parchment
Bull
,
or
maintaine
himselfe
and
his
pompe
at
all
mens
costs
and
deuotions
,
or
conquer
opposite
Princes
by
their
owne
subiects
,
or
stabl●sh
himselfe
by
dispensing
with
vnlawfull
marriages
and
lawfull
oaths
,
or
mainetaine
so
many
Intelligences
by
Confession
,
or
pleasure
all
men
in
their
humours
,
by
wealth
,
pouertie
,
austerity
,
voluptousnesse
?
What
a
notable
combination
of
knaueries
is
there
in
that
religion
,
wherein
all
these
things
and
many
more
,
are
most
eminent
,
most
vsuall
?
To
come
to
our
owne
Country
:
what
did
those
trayterous
bandits
and
emissaries
,
All●n
,
Harding
,
Sanders
,
Parsons
,
Campion
,
and
others
,
but
by
writing
and
speaking
pretend
singular
loue
,
Instruction
,
and
care
ouer
their
Country-men
,
whose
religion
they
left
?
yet
indeed
what
intended
they
but
destruction
of
Prince
and
State
,
being
trumpets
to
rebellion
,
raising
vp
armes
,
some
out
of
Spaine
,
some
out
of
Ireland
,
some
desperate
cut-throts
at
home
,
to
take
away
the
life
of
that
blessed
Lady
Elizabeth
of
eternall
happy
memory
?
What
a
number
haue
they
snared
vnder
the
pretext
of
peace
,
truce
,
and
friendship
,
as
Duke
Alba
in
the
Low
Countries
?
and
as
the
King
of
Spaine
in
88.
while
he
was
prouiding
that
invincible
nauy
against
our
Prince
and
Country
,
he
sent
the
Duke
of
Parma
to
intreat
of
peace
;
as
if
it
were
honesty
in
Catholikes
,
whome
they
cannot
kill
by
warre
,
to
delude
and
spoile
them
vnder
the
name
of
peace
,
not
without
villany
and
per●ury
.
How
secretly
did
our
late
foolish
fowlers
lay
their
nets
and
traines
?
with
what
faire
pretences
?
Papists
bound
in
conscience
to
kill
Gods
Anoynted
.
It
was
meerely
and
only
for
religion
,
sayd
Faux
:
and
he
was
bound
inconscience
to
do
it
,
because
the
King
was
an
heriticke
:
he
was
sent
by
the
name
of
Iohn
Ionson
to
Percy
,
to
conferre
for
releefe
of
the
Catholike
cause
.
All
of
them
tooke
an
oath
for
secrecy
,
yea
heard
Masses
,
and
tooke
the
Sacrament
neuer
to
reueale
any
thing
.
Now
to
the
laying
of
snares
as
deep
as
hell
:
36
,
barrels
of
gunpouder
are
prouided
,
&
numbers
of
iron
bars
,
to
blow
vp
with
one
deadly
blow
,
in
time
of
peace
,
in
time
of
Parliament●al
England
,
Scotland
,
and
Ireland
,
in
their
King
and
posterity
,
in
their
lawes
and
gouernments
,
in
their
Church
and
Religion
,
in
their
common welths
and
Iustice
,
in
their
tenures
and
records
,
yea
in
their
whole
State
and
policy
:
that
he
that
could
carry
his
heart
into
the
suruey
of
the
consequents
,
might
clerely
see
a
fearefull
doomesday
of
all
these
three
goodly
kingdomes
.
And
,
as
before
it
was
done
it
was
cloked
vnder
the
title
of
some
famous
exployt
for
the
deliuerance
of
persecuted
Catholikes
:
So
afterward
,
to
turne
the
odiousnesse
of
so
foule
a
fact
as
might
haue
turned
the
sunne
into
darknes
,
&
the
moone
into
blood
,
they
had
prepared
their
Proclamations
,
to
lay
it
vpon
Puritans
,
vnder
which
title
they
would
haue
reuenged
it
by
the
Massacre
of
all
the
godly
in
the
Land
,
within
their
reach
.
Here
be
cunning
Fauxes
and
Foxes
indeed
,
in
whom
we
may
see
the
true
picture
and
pourtraiture
of
euery
sound
Catholike
:
who
by
the
principles
of
Popery
are
taught
to
be
as
true
to
their
Soueraigne
as
Iudas
to
our
Sauiour
.
Surely
he
will
deliuer
thee
from
the
snare
●f
the
hunter
.
The
poore
bird
is
safe
no
where
abroad
,
but
in
the
nest
:
and
the
Church
is
no
where
safe
in
earth
,
but
onely
in
heauen
,
while
it
saith
with
the
Prophet
Dauid
,
Thou
art
my
secret
place
,
Psalme
32.7
.
So
much
for
the
secrecie
of
fowlers
.
2.
Their
instruments
of
mischiefe
are
compared
to
snares
and
nets
,
in
respect
of
the
suddennesse
of
that
destruction
,
which
they
intend
to
Gods
people
.
A
snare
or
a
net
windes
in
a
bird
suddenly
,
thinking
on
no
such
thing
:
Nay
sometime
,
while
the
poore
bird
is
playing
or
singing
,
as
if
it
were
without
all
danger
,
the
net
or
grin
wraps
it
in
on
all
sides
.
So
the
enemies
of
the
Church
,
knowing
,
that
sudden
and
vnexpected
euills
can
hardlyest
be
preuented
,
and
wound
the
deepest
,
commonly
effect
most
deadly
stratagems
when
Gods
people
least
expect
them
.
This
is
the
guise
of
Antichristian
enemies
to
the
Church
of
God
:
which
while
it
is
not
suspicious
,
but
sometimes
too
charitable
and
credulous
,
they
lay
their
snares
where
no
man
can
possible
suspect
.
Would
any
man
think
the
Pope
would
instigate
to
kill
Christian
Princes
at
the
very
Masse
?
yet
by
the
counsell
of
Pope
Sixtus
the
4.
the
two
Princes
of
Medices
were
hurt
and
slaine
euen
at
Masse
;
and
the
lifting
vp
of
the
hoast
was
made
a
signe
of
the
murder
by
the
Popes
Legate
:
Henry
the
6.
Emperor
,
by
Bernard
a
Monke
,
vnder
Pope
Clement
the
5.
as
their
owne
Volateran
writes
.
Would
a
Prince
thinke
to
be
poysoned
(
of
purpose
)
in
receiuing
the
Sacrament
,
by
these
charitable
Catholikes
?
yet
one
was
by
the
powder
of
diamonds
tempered
with
the
wine
of
the
Sacrament
.
Would
a
Catholique
King
,
most
deuoted
to
Romish
religion
,
and
a
champion
for
it
,
expect
to
be
slaine
by
Catholiques
,
and
men
of
peace
,
before
excommunication
?
yet
this
was
iust
(
saith
Reinolds
)
and
the
charitable
Pope
Sixtus
the
5.
said
,
A
true
Fryar
had
slaine
a
countefeit
Fryar
.
Could
any
man
haue
expected
that
suddaine
terrible
blow
,
and
an
vniuersall
destruction
from
vnder
the
Parliament
house
,
from
which
the
honor
,
iustice
,
happinesse
,
life
and
soule
of
our
Country
(
vnder
God
)
hath
beene
so
long
maintained
and
preserued
?
This
shewes
vs
,
that
Papists
are
not
to
bee
trusted
,
though
neuer
so
fawning
,
neuer
so
flattering
.
in
the
straitest
bond
of
conscience
.
5.
Euen
a
secret
hereticke
is
ipso
iure
deposed
,
and
all
his
leaprous
posterity
,
saith
Symancha
.
6.
It
is
a
iust
and
honourable
warre
for
the
Nobles
to
rise
vp
in
Armes
against
Queene
Elizabeth
,
saith
Cardinall
Allan
.
Such
also
are
their
dispositions
:
and
such
are
their
practices
.
We
haue
seene
the
Fowlers
,
and
their
nets
:
now
let
vs
proceede
.
III.
The
crafty
laying
of
these
snares
is
such
,
as
they
haue
compassed
the
bird
,
Dangerous
and
mischieuous
plots
may
prosper
for
a
while
.
and
it
seems
impossible
any
way
to
escape
.
For
the
danger
was
,
as
if
the
Prophet
had
said
:
We
were
on
euery
side
included
in
the
nets
of
the
fowlers
,
that
what
way
so
euer
we
could
turne
vs
,
we
were
hemd
in
;
the
danger
met
vs
on
euery
hand
,
and
death
euery
way
layd
hold
vpon
vs
.
Thus
Dauid
(
Psal.
18.4.5
.
)
confesseth
,
that
the
snares
of
death
compassed
him
:
hee
was
euen
as
a
man
bound
and
piniond
to
execution
,
so
as
hee
saw
nothing
but
death
before
him
.
And
the
snares
or
cords
of
the
graue
beset
him
:
so
hopelesse
was
his
estate
,
as
if
hee
were
laid
forth
already
,
and
wrapped
in
the
bands
and
cloathes
of
death
to
the
buriall
,
both
in
his
enemies
conceit
,
and
his
owne
.
The
same
was
our
condition
in
that
Gunpowder
treason
:
the
enemies
made
sure
of
their
prey
:
they
saw
their
expectation
euen
in
their
hands
:
and
brought
their
wicked
conception
to
the
very
birth
:
the
Crowne
and
Kingdome
was
theirs
:
they
had
disposed
of
the
chiefe
Offices
,
the
chiefe
holds
,
and
reuenue
of
the
Land
:
onely
one
terrible
blow
was
to
be
giuen
,
and
the
hand
of
wickednes
lifted
vp
on
high
,
reaching
fire
to
the
fewell
,
which
should
haue
turned
three
Kingdomes
into
one
Bonfire
.
There
is
an
houre
of
darknesse
for
the
wicked
to
worke
in
,
foure
reasons
.
Quest.
Why
doth
the
Lord
suffer
the
enemies
thus
to
ensnare
his
people
,
that
the
Case
seemes
desperate
,
the
deliuerance
impossible
?
Answer
.
1.
That
wee
may
see
our
owne
simplicity
,
who
cannot
obserue
or
preuent
their
snares
,
the
crafty
wiles
of
Satan
and
his
instruments
against
the
Church
.
2.
That
wee
may
take
notice
of
Gods
patience
toward
his
enemies
,
suffering
them
as
long
as
he
may
,
and
then
his
iustice
in
taking
them
at
the
height
.
3.
That
we
may
learne
to
depend
on
Gods
power
and
wisedome
,
for
safety
and
defence
;
who
onely
is
able
to
match
and
ouermatch
the
enemies
in
both
:
for
there
is
no
power
or
policie
against
the
Lord
.
4.
That
the
greater
the
dangers
be
,
Gods
goodnes
may
be
the
more
manifest
,
and
that
in
most
desperate
euils
we
may
acknowledge
our
deliuerance
to
be
miraculous
,
and
so
the
praise
of
all
may
be
referred
to
the
Lord
,
a
very
present
refuge
in
the
troubles
of
his
Church
;
as
our selues
found
in
this
our
danger
.
Now
we
come
to
the
second
generall
part
of
the
Text
,
namely
the
deliuerance
of
the
Church
,
Our
soul●
is
escaped
.
]
that
is
,
our
liues
were
hunted
,
our
heads
euen
on
the
block
,
&
the
stroke
a
giuing
,
and
death
fetching
his
blow
:
but
yet
we
are
deliuered
,
wee
haue
escaped
with
our
liues
.
Herein
consider
,
1.
the
manner
,
2.
the
meanes
of
the
deliuerance
.
The
manner
,
as
a
bird
escaped
out
of
the
net
:
The
meanes
,
the
net
is
broken
.
For
the
manner
:
1.
Beyond
and
aboue
the
expectation
of
the
Church
,
when
all
things
seemed
desperate
,
when
all
counsell
and
meanes
failed
among
men
,
and
no
hope
was
left
,
euen
then
came
deliuerance
.
How
can
a
poore
bird
,
wound
in
the
nets
of
the
Fowler
,
expect
but
to
be
taken
?
And
this
is
matter
of
more
ioy
&
gladnesse
,
than
if
the
danger
had
bin
lesse
.
2.
Beyond
and
beside
the
expectation
of
the
fowlers
themselues
,
to
their
greater
disappointment
&
confusion
.
How
will
the
fowler
rage
and
storme
,
when
a
silly
bird
is
gotten
away
out
of
his
net
?
so
doe
the
enemies
of
the
Church
,
who
haue
beene
at
great
cost
,
and
charge
,
and
paines
,
and
beaten
all
their
wits
to
lay
their
nets
,
to
be
disappointed
euen
then
when
they
haue
their
expectation
betweene
their
hands
;
as
the
case
of
these
Conspirators
was
.
For
the
meanes
:
the
net
is
broken
.
]
God
alone
hath
broken
in
pieces
their
crafty
counsels
and
deuises
:
God
hath
frustrated
all
their
purposes
:
when
they
had
hemd
in
the
people
of
God
,
as
a
bird
in
a
net
,
on
euery
side
,
God
himselfe
makes
a
way
out
;
as
when
the
net
is
broken
asunder
,
the
bird
escapeth
.
Doctr.
The
Lord
in
his
season
powerfully
deliuers
his
Church
,
by
breaking
the
nets
of
the
enemie
.
God
still
findes
a
time
to
rescue
his
Church
from
the
snares
of
the
wicked
.
Psal.
33.10
.
The
Lord
breakes
the
counsell
of
the
Heathen
,
and
brings
to
nought
the
deuises
of
the
people
.
Reasons
.
1.
Because
GOD
is
euer
present
with
his
Church
,
in
the
midst
of
it
,
to
helpe
it
at
the
greatest
pinches
.
Esa.
8
9.10
.
Gather
together
on
heapes
,
ye
people
,
and
ye
shall
be
broken
in
pieces
,
&c.
for
God
is
with
vs
,
namely
as
our
shield
and
protection
:
and
,
if
God
be
with
vs
,
who
can
be
against
vs
?
Zeph.
3.14
.
Reioyce
O
daughter
of
Syon
,
be
ioyfull
O
Israel
,
reioyce
with
all
thy
heart
O
daughter
Ierusalem
:
the
Lord
hath
taken
away
thy
iudgement
,
and
cast
out
thine
en●mies
:
the
King
of
Israel
,
euen
the
Lord
is
in
the
midst
of
thee
;
thou
shalt
see
no
more
euill
.
The
Lord
is
euery
where
present
,
but
not
euery
where
as
in
his
Church
:
he
is
the
King
,
and
the
shelter
of
it
by
a
speciall
prouidence
.
2.
The
Church
is
Gods
darling
and
delight
:
his
people
is
deare
vnto
him
:
he
that
toucheth
them
,
toucheth
the
apple
of
his
eye
,
Zach.
2.8
.
In
all
their
troubles
he
is
troubled
,
and
taketh
wrong
done
to
them
as
done
to
himselfe
:
and
therefore
must
needes
reuenge
vpon
the
enemies
one
time
or
other
.
See
Nahum
.
1.2.9
.
because
the
Lord
is
iealous
ouer
his
people
,
hee
reserues
wrath
for
their
enemies
:
he
shall
come
vnto
them
as
vnto
thornes
.
The
cause
also
is
his
:
they
hate
the
godly
for
his
sake
:
and
therefore
he
takes
their
part
.
3.
As
God
is
willing
to
saue
his
people
,
so
also
he
is
euery
way
most
able
.
1.
Hee
is
more
watchfull
for
his
Church
,
than
all
his
enemies
can
be
against
it
:
Hee
that
keepeth
Israel
,
doth
neither
slumber
nor
sleepe
:
in
which
he
out-matcheth
the
enemies
,
who
,
though
they
often
break
their
sleepe
through
greedinesse
of
the
prey
,
yet
sometime
they
must
sleepe
.
Hee
is
a
more
watchfull
guard
than
Sauls
,
when
Dauid
came
and
tooke
away
his
speare
and
pot
from
his
head
.
seauen
eyes
,
Zach.
4.10
.
2.
He
is
wiser
than
all
his
enemies
,
and
herein
ouer-matcheth
them
,
that
he
knowes
all
their
counsels
,
they
know
none
of
his
:
which
aduantage
the
King
of
Israel
had
of
the
King
of
Syria
by
reason
of
Gods
Prophet
.
My
father
is
stronger
than
all
:
no
one
,
no
nor
all
together
can
resist
his
power
.
And
therefore
when
great
men
haue
banded
and
bended
all
their
forces
against
Christ
and
his
Church
,
they
imagine
but
a
vaine
thing
,
Psal.
2.1
.
4.
God
hath
waies
enow
to
deliuer
his
Church
,
euen
when
things
seeme
very
desperate
.
He
hath
seuen
pipes
to
his
seuen
lampes
,
5.
The
Lord
commonly
delighteth
in
such
a
deliuerance
of
his
Church
,
The
righteous
shall
dip
his
foot
in
the
blood
of
his
enemies
.
as
is
ioyned
with
the
confusion
of
his
enemies
:
as
in
the
red
sea
,
the
same
way
and
waters
,
which
were
the
preseruation
of
the
one
,
were
the
destruction
of
the
other
.
Esai
.
33.11.12
.
Ye
shall
conceiue
chaffe
,
and
bring
foorth
stubble
:
the
fire
of
your
breath
shall
deuoure
you
.
And
the
people
shall
be
as
the
burning
of
li●e
:
&
as
the
tho●nes
cut
vp
,
shall
they
be
burnt
in
the
fire
.
And
hereby
the
Lord
manifesteth
his
power
and
iustice
.
1.
That
the
wicked
,
while
they
take
craftie
counsell
together
,
should
be
pauing
a
way
to
their
owne
destruction
.
Hee
takes
the
wise
in
their
craftinesse
,
O
King
,
liue
for
euer
:
none
so
obseruant
of
the
Kings
edicts
as
they
,
All
the
rulers
of
the
kingdome
,
officers
,
gouernours
,
counsellors
and
Dukes
haue
made
a
decree
concerning
the
worship
of
thee
O
King
,
that
none
shall
aske
any
thing
for
thirtie
daies
,
saue
onely
of
thee
.
This
Daniel
,
one
of
the
children
of
the
captiuitie
,
regards
not
thee
nor
thy
decree
.
They
proclaime
him
seditious
,
rebellious
,
and
a
traitor
that
hath
no
respect
either
of
King
or
law
,
but
despiseth
authoritie
and
edicts
,
well
and
wisely
deuised
and
published
.
These
are
ordinarie
nets
laid
against
godly
men
by
vngodly
.
Then
must
the
law
of
the
Medes
and
Persians
,
sealed
with
the
Kings
signet
,
be
executed
vpon
him
.
He
is
cast
into
the
denne
.
They
haue
him
in
their
net
.
But
they
cannot
hold
him
:
Nor
can
he
be
deliuered
but
with
the
destruction
of
them
all
by
the
lions
.
Here
,
by
plausible
speeches
what
did
they
but
make
their
owne
rods
?
And
so
was
it
in
our
owne
instance
,
in
whom
Gods
iustice
shined
most
eminently
:
All
the
while
,
they
digged
a
pit
for
themselues
,
and
fell
into
the
pit
they
had
digged
for
others
:
according
to
that
of
the
Psalmist
,
He
hath
digged
a
pit
,
and
is
fallen
into
the
pit
hee
hath
made
:
his
mischiefe
shall
returne
vpon
his
head
,
and
his
crueltie
vpon
his
owne
pate
.
As
their
heads
and
pates
vpon
stakes
are
still
eye-witnesses
.
3.
Gods
iustice
is
herein
manifest
,
This
shewes
vnto
vs
,
Church
of
God
inuincible
.
that
the
Church
is
altogether
inuincible
:
no
net
shall
long
hold
it
,
but
it
shall
breake
thorow
all
nets
.
It
may
bee
pressed
,
not
oppressed
:
oppugned
,
not
expugned
.
It
is
an
heauie
stone
to
heaue
against
,
Zach.
12.3
.
For
,
1.
The
enemies
cannot
worke
wisely
enough
to
preuaile
,
but
,
as
the
more
the
Egyptians
oppressed
Israel
,
the
more
they
incresed
;
so
is
it
here
.
2.
Though
the
godly
be
in
themselues
fewer
,
weaker
,
there
be
more
with
them
than
against
them
.
This
is
a
ground
of
comfort
for
vs
,
when
wee
see
enemies
leaguing
themselues
against
Gods
people
,
that
they
make
no
spare
of
destroying
either
by
secret
meanes
,
or
open
.
Gods
helpe
and
deliuerance
will
shew
it selfe
in
due
season
:
he
is
a
present
helpe
in
trouble
.
Is
he
a
God
a
farre
off
,
and
not
at
hand
?
on
the
mountaines
,
and
not
in
the
vallies
?
Doth
he
heare
his
people
before
he
call
,
and
not
when
they
call
?
destroy
the
law
,
then
is
it
high
time
for
the
Lord
to
put
to
his
hand
.
How
shall
I
giue
thee
vp
,
O
Ephraim
?
how
shall
I
deliuer
thee
,
O
Israel
?
how
shall
I
make
thee
as
Admah
?
how
shall
I
set
thee
as
Zeboim
?
Mine
heart
is
turned
within
me
:
my
repentings
are
rowled
together
.
For
this
is
the
condition
,
2.
Chron.
7.14
.
If
my
people
,
among
whom
my
Name
is
called
vpon
,
doe
humble
themselues
,
and
pray
,
and
seeke
my
presence
,
and
turne
from
their
wicked
wayes
,
then
will
I
heare
out
of
heauen
,
and
be
mercifull
to
their
sinne
,
and
will
heale
their
land
.
When
we
haue
receiued
such
a
seasonable
deliuerance
,
it
becommeth
vs
to
breake
out
into
the
praise
of
God
,
Praise
is
comely
for
the
vpright
.
and
perpetuate
the
memory
of
it
,
and
prouoke
our selues
vnto
thankfulnesse
.
So
doth
our
holy
Prophet
in
this
Psalme
:
he
sings
out
the
praise
of
God
to
all
posterity
,
for
so
great
a
deliuerance
in
so
present
a
danger
.
Motiues
heereunto
:
1.
How
many
monuments
hath
the
Lord
himselfe
erected
from
time
to
time
,
to
preserue
in
memory
speciall
mercies
bestowed
on
his
people
?
2.
Hath
he
not
taken
order
to
write
them
in
his
booke
of
mercies
and
monuments
?
Psalm
.
102.18
.
This
shall
be
written
for
the
generations
to
come
and
the
people
which
shall
be
created
,
shall
praise
the
Lord
.
3.
Hath
he
not
established
and
appointed
speciall
dayes
for
the
memorie
of
speciall
mercies
,
most
worthy
to
be
had
in
euerlasting
remembrance
?
And
surely
(
my
brethren
)
if
Moses
and
Israel
had
cause
to
compile
a
song
for
their
so
strange
a
deliuerance
,
and
the
ouerthrow
of
their
enemies
;
as
Exod.
15.1
.
—
If
Deborah
had
cause
to
praise
the
Lord
with
voyces
and
instruments
,
for
the
ouerthrow
of
the
Canaanites
,
and
victory
ouer
Sisera
;
as
Iudg.
5.1
.
—
.
If
the
good
women
came
with
Timbrels
and
dances
to
praise
the
Lord
,
when
the
Lord
brought
an
horrible
slaughter
vpon
the
Philistians
,
and
their
chiefe
Champion
Goliah
,
who
defied
the
hoast
of
Israel
,
and
railed
vpon
the
God
of
Israel
,
and
so
saued
Israel
that
day
;
as
1.
Sam.
18.6.7
.
If
that
day
were
a
day
of
ioy
and
gladnesse
,
of
light
and
reioycing
,
wherein
the
Iewes
preuailed
against
their
enemies
,
and
saw
the
ruine
of
their
chiefe
aduersary
Haman
that
cursed
Amalekite
;
as
Hest.
9.17
.
Then
surely
haue
we
iust
cause
to
sing
out
,
and
declare
abroad
,
and
reioyce
both
in
Gods
house
,
and
in
our
owne
houses
,
for
the
great
things
that
the
Lord
hath
done
for
vs
in
our
admirable
deliuerance
out
of
a
more
admirable
red
sea
,
not
of
water
,
but
of
fire
and
brimstone
,
and
from
the
hands
of
those
furious
Champions
of
Antichrist
,
those
Romish
Siseraes
,
Goliahs
,
that
defied
the
hoast
of
British
Israel
,
and
those
cursed
Amalekites
,
against
whom
the
sentence
is
passed
,
that
the
name
of
Amalek
shall
be
put
out
from
vnder
heauen
.
Looke
we
often
in
this
glasse
,
which
God
holdeth
this
day
before
our
eyes
;
O
come
and
behold
the
workes
of
the
Lord
,
redeemed
from
the
hands
of
our
enemies
to
serue
him
in
righteousnesse
and
holynesse
all
the
dayes
of
our
life
:
so
in
this
lesser
redemption
,
we
must
stirre
vp
our selues
to
the
cherefull
praise
of
God
,
not
in
word
and
tongue
,
but
in
heart
and
life
.
Let
vs
call
vpon
our selues
euery
one
apart
,
as
Dauid
,
Psal.
9.1.2.3
.
I
will
praise
the
Lord
with
all
my
heart
,
&c.
for
that
mine
enemies
are
turned
back
:
and
Psal.
116.12
.
what
shall
I
render
to
the
Lord
for
all
his
louing
kindnesse
towards
me
?
and
let
vs
call
vpon
one
another
,
as
he
doth
,
Psal.
34.3
.
Praise
the
Lord
with
me
,
and
let
vs
magnifie
the
Lord
together
.
He
hath
filled
our
hearts
with
gladnesse
,
our
mouthes
with
laughter
,
our
tongues
with
matter
of
triumph
:
when
we
were
as
a
bird
in
the
net
of
these
fowlers
,
he
brake
the
net
,
and
we
are
escaped
.
Verse
8.
Our
helpe
standeth
in
the
Name
of
the
Lord
,
who
hath
made
heauen
and
earth
.
THese
words
are
the
conclusion
of
the
whole
Psalm
,
wherein
the
whole
benefit
of
all
the
deliuerance
of
the
Church
,
both
for
time
past
and
future
,
is
ascribed
to
the
Lord
of
heauen
and
earth
.
He
had
sayd
before
,
the
snare
is
broken
but
had
not
told
vs
by
whome
,
now
hee
expresseth
him
,
Our
helpe
is
in
the
Name
&c.
Quest.
why
saith
he
not
in
the
Lord
,
but
,
in
the
Name
of
the
Lord
?
Answ.
By
the
Name
of
God
is
meant
that
by
which
he
reuealeth
himselfe
to
his
Church
,
as
a
man
is
knowne
by
his
name
.
And
in
this
argument
the
Name
of
God
signifieth
the
ayd
,
the
power
,
the
strength
,
and
the
goodnesse
of
God
:
so
it
is
vsed
,
Psalme
.
44.5
.
in
thy
Name
wee
shall
tread
downe
our
enemies
,
that
is
,
in
thy
strength
and
power
.
Our
helpe
consists
in
that
power
and
strength
which
the
Lord
putteth
forth
for
vs
.
Who
hath
made
heauen
and
earth
.
]
Qust
.
Why
is
this
added
?
Answ.
1.
To
aduance
the
Lord
in
his
Attribute
of
Omnipotency
.
2.
To
strengthen
our
faith
when
meanes
fayle
vs
:
for
this
power
is
not
tied
to
meanes
.
Therefore
these
are
set
the
first
words
of
the
Creed
,
I
beleeue
in
God
the
Father
Almighty
,
maker
of
heauen
and
earth
.
3.
To
shew
vs
to
what
end
the
world
,
the
heauens
and
the
earth
were
made
,
namely
that
it
might
be
a
Theater
and
glasse
of
the
diuine
power
and
glory
of
God
.
4.
To
intimate
how
easie
it
is
for
God
in
most
desperate
cases
to
helpe
his
children
:
much
mor
easie
than
to
make
heauen
and
earth
.
5.
To
shew
,
that
he
can
dispose
all
things
both
in
heauen
and
earth
for
their
safetie
.
I.
Note
hence
the
nature
and
worke
of
faith
in
euery
beleeuer
:
which
is
,
Faith
in
dangers
lifts
vp
the
hearts
to
Gods
promises
and
Atributes
.
to
eleuate
the
minde
to
God
in
perils
and
dangers
which
is
the
time
wherein
faith
most
bestirres
it selfe
,
and
to
apply
Gods
promise
of
ayd
,
his
presence
and
deliuerance
in
all
our
troubles
:
not
only
beleeuing
his
Omnipotency
and
goodnesse
,
but
that
he
is
so
vnto
vs
and
all
his
chosen
.
For
this
is
a
speech
of
faith
,
which
looketh
beyond
all
external
meanes
,
and
fixeth
the
eye
of
the
soule
only
vpon
God
,
in
whose
hand
help
is
.
And
farther
,
the
nature
of
faith
is
,
to
search
into
all
the
Atributes
of
God
,
whereby
it
may
fortifie
it selfe
and
become
inexpugnable
.
It
looketh
to
the
Name
of
the
Lord
.
It
considereth
him
as
Iehoua
,
one
that
is
willing
to
accomplish
all
his
promises
to
his
Church
;
else
he
could
not
bee
Iehoua
,
by
which
Name
he
would
be
knowne
to
his
people
.
It
beholdeth
his
power
and
omnipotency
at
the
same
time
:
and
then
what
shall
hinder
the
Churches
safety
,
if
God
be
both
able
and
willing
?
It
seeth
also
all
his
power
exercised
for
hir
safety
.
It
beholds
at
once
both
the
pillers
of
the
Temple
,
Boaz
,
with
him
is
strength
;
but
what
are
wee
the
better
,
if
we
apply
it
not
?
and
Iachin
,
that
is
,
the
Lord
will
establish
.
Vse
.
Hab.
2.4
.
Let
vs
liue
by
faith
at
all
times
,
especiall
in
dangers
,
stil
looking
beyond
the
means
:
and
giue
glory
to
God
with
Abraham
,
Rom.
4.20
.
who
was
strong
in
faith
,
and
fully
perswaded
,
that
he
who
promised
was
able
also
and
willing
to
performe
.
Obiect
.
What
then
?
must
we
reiect
meanes
?
Faith
and
the
vse
of
meanes
how
they
stand
together
.
Answ.
No
,
for
God
giueth
meanes
for
our
good
:
But
1.
No
meanes
can
helpe
vs
without
God
,
as
God
can
without
meanes
.
2.
Meanes
must
be
vsed
,
but
not
trusted
in
:
Psalm
.
20.7
.
Some
trust
in
chariots
,
and
some
in
horses
,
but
we
will
remember
the
Name
of
the
Lord
our
God
.
Heere
he
condemnes
not
the
vse
of
chariots
and
horses
,
but
trust
and
confidence
in
them
.
3.
Neuer
let
vs
stand
in
the
meanes
as
our
helpers
,
but
in
the
Name
of
God
,
who
affords
both
them
and
successe
in
them
.
Hence
it
is
,
that
God
sometimes
,
yea
for
the
most
part
worketh
his
greatest
workes
by
weakest
meanes
,
Meannesse
of
instruments
commends
the
vertu
of
the
Agent
.
that
the
meanes
might
be
as
a
glasse
through
which
we
might
behold
the
brightnesse
of
his
own
Maiesty
and
grace
.
Dan.
11.34
.
They
that
vnderstand
and
instruct
many
shall
fall
,
and
when
they
shall
fall
they
shal
be
holpen
with
a
little
helpe
.
Why
a
little
?
Because
through
weake
meanes
wee
may
see
Gods
greater
strength
.
So
in
the
yeare
88.
there
was
a
little
helpe
for
England
:
but
the
victory
was
Gods
.
So
in
the
Gunpowder
treason
,
a
little
helpe
and
meanes
by
his
Maiesties
singular
care
:
but
this
was
,
that
through
it
we
might
easier
see
that
Omnipotent
helpe
of
him
,
who
made
heauen
and
earth
.
Church
of
God
helplesse
in
it selfe
.
II.
Note
that
the
Churches
helpe
is
not
in
it self
:
and
the
dangers
of
it
,
and
harmes
threatning
it
,
are
farre
greater
than
it
is
able
,
without
better
help
than
it
own
,
to
withstand
.
So
was
it
with
the
Church
at
the
red
sea
:
so
with
the
three
children
of
God
in
the
fire
;
what
help
had
they
of
themselues
being
bound
?
So
it
was
in
Hamans
deuice
,
and
so
in
Per●ies
.
Reason
.
1.
That
the
members
of
the
Church
may
herein
acknowledge
the
sleights
of
Satan
and
wicked
men
,
who
are
mad
against
soundnesse
of
grace
,
and
yet
most
wittie
to
combine
their
malice
and
madnesse
against
Gods
people
.
2.
To
trie
them
to
the
vttermost
,
and
proue
their
soundnesse
,
in
faith
and
patience
.
Fire
that
must
trie
gold
,
must
be
quicke
and
piercing
,
and
seeme
vtterly
to
burne
and
consume
it
.
3.
That
the
Lord
may
herein
haue
occasion
,
both
to
vphold
his
chosen
in
the
affliction
with
strong
inward
consolation
;
and
also
to
put
foorth
this
his
omnipotent
power
in
some
strong
and
glorious
deliuerance
.
4.
That
his
children
being
driuen
out
of
all
other
expectations
may
be
vehement
in
prayer
,
and
fetch
helpe
from
heauen
,
which
they
want
in
themselues
.
That
extremitie
of
the
Israelites
at
the
sea
,
made
Moses
to
crie
vnto
the
Lord
with
vehemencie
,
Exod.
14.15
.
and
when
Iehosaphat
knew
not
what
to
doe
,
his
eyes
were
to
the
Lord
,
2.
Chron.
20.12
.
Mistake
not
the
estate
of
the
Church
,
Let
God
helpe
him
now
,
if
hee
will
haue
him
?
or
the
Saints
of
olde
,
who
receiued
no
corporall
deliuerance
,
better
resurrection
?
or
our
owne
Martyrs
,
who
seemed
helplesse
in
their
hands
and
flames
?
No
,
III.
Note
that
the
Church
and
people
of
God
are
neuer
so
helplesse
,
Church
at
weakest
is
made
strong
enough
to
hold
out
.
but
that
they
haue
an
omnipotent
power
with
them
,
and
for
them
,
euen
his
Name
who
made
heauen
and
earth
.
This
is
their
priuiledge
and
sanctuarie
.
The
name
of
God
is
a
strong
tower
,
the
righteous
slie
vnto
it
&
are
exalted
▪
Prou.
18.10
.
Psal.
33.17
.
An
horse
is
a
vain●
thing
in
battell
&
shall
not
deliuer
any
by
his
strength
:
Why
,
what
shall
helpe
them
?
The
eye
of
the
Lord
is
on
them
that
feare
him
,
and
vpon
them
that
trust
in
his
mercie
,
to
deliuer
their
soules
from
death
,
and
preserue
them
in
the
time
of
famine
.
2.
Tim.
4.16
.
At
my
first
appearing
no
man
assisted
me
:
(
small
helpe
indeed
:
)
Notwithstanding
the
Lord
assisted
me
,
and
strengthened
me
,
&c.
Reason
.
1.
This
comes
to
passe
by
Gods
promise
of
his
constant
presence
with
his
people
,
to
be
with
them
in
sixe
troubles
,
and
in
seuen
,
in
fire
,
and
water
,
and
extremest
perils
.
Behold
,
the
houre
commeth
,
and
is
now
already
,
that
yee
shall
be
scattered
euery
man
to
his
owne
house
,
and
shall
leaue
me
alone
:
but
I
am
not
alone
,
for
the
Father
is
with
me
.
Christ
was
very
helplesse
,
when
his
followers
fled
for
feare
,
and
his
Disciples
durst
not
tarrie
with
him
,
but
left
him
alone
:
yet
then
hee
had
this
presence
and
power
of
his
Father
:
And
so
haue
the
godly
,
both
Pastors
and
people
.
4.
They
can
neuer
be
so
helplesse
as
they
shall
not
be
able
to
crie
for
helpe
,
and
bemoane
their
case
to
God
.
Neither
want
they
friends
to
solicite
their
cause
at
the
highest
Court
,
but
haue
all
the
godly
,
petitioners
for
them
.
The
faith
of
the
doctrine
is
a
chiefe
part
of
worship
and
honour
giuen
to
God
:
Saluation
belongeth
vnto
the
Lord
,
and
thy
blessing
is
vpon
thy
people
.
And
when
they
can
commend
their
whole
safetie
,
for
the
continuance
and
preseruation
of
it
,
vnto
the
Name
of
the
Lord
wherein
all
helpe
lieth
.
It
is
a
most
firme
prop
to
stay
and
leane
vpon
in
all
trials
,
I
come
to
thee
in
the
Name
of
the
Lord
.
A
godly
heart
grounded
in
the
truth
of
this
doctrine
,
may
securely
contemne
whatsoeuer
Satan
or
his
instruments
doe
machinate
against
it
.
Looke
at
any
thing
in
heauen
or
earth
,
it
hath
in
it
matter
of
strength
and
comfort
.
He
that
made
them
,
hath
power
to
commaund
all
things
in
them
for
thy
safetie
and
good
.
Here
is
a
faithfull
helper
,
a
very
sure
refuge
in
trouble
:
men
may
promise
helpe
,
and
faile
,
or
helpe
on
the
trouble
of
the
Saints
;
God
is
a
faithfull
,
and
powerfull
,
and
constant
helper
.
but
God
will
not
.
Here
is
a
powerfull
helper
:
men
would
helpe
oftentimes
,
but
are
weake
and
cannot
,
where
the
enemie
hath
fortified
himselfe
with
aduantages
and
resolutions
;
but
the
Lords
Name
is
a
strong
helper
:
if
Nebuchadnezzar
shall
say
,
Who
shall
,
or
who
is
able
to
deliuer
you
out
of
my
hands
,
wee
may
say
with
the
three
children
,
Our
God
is
able
:
He
can
say
to
the
raging
sea
,
Thus
farre
shalt
thou
come
,
and
here
shall
thy
proud
waues
stay
.
shake
like
trees
in
the
forrest
with
euery
winde
,
heart
is
fixed
on
the
Lord
.
No
man
shall
hurt
you
,
while
you
follow
the
thing
that
is
good
.
Ionas
would
faine
auoid
trouble
by
flying
from
God
:
but
God
fetcheth
him
backe
againe
with
a
witnesse
.
Here
by
the
way
note
a
speciall
difference
betweene
the
wicked
and
the
godly
in
their
troubles
.
Difference
betweene
the
helpe
of
the
godly
and
wicked
.
One
hath
his
helpe
from
heauen
,
others
from
hell
,
or
not
higher
than
from
the
earth
.
One
from
the
Name
of
God
,
others
against
the
Name
of
God
.
The
wicked
expect
helpe
one
from
another
,
and
combine
against
the
righteous
,
and
can
helpe
themselues
by
lying
,
slandering
,
violence
,
and
turning
themselues
into
all
fashions
and
formes
for
aduantage
:
but
the
godly
,
expecting
helpe
from
the
name
of
God
,
keepe
themselues
in
Gods
right
waies
,
and
will
meet
with
helpe
onely
thence
.
Let
vs
trust
our selues
with
God
in
troubles
as
well
as
in
peace
,
Great
are
the
troubles
of
the
righteous
,
but
the
Lord
deliuereth
him
out
of
all
.
If
we
take
Gods
Name
with
vs
for
our
helpe
,
the
number
of
crosses
shall
not
foile
vs
,
nor
the
power
of
persecutors
daunt
vs
,
nor
the
continuance
of
trials
breake
vs
.
For
nothing
can
hinder
his
helping
hand
from
his
seruants
.
Nothing
but
sin
separates
betweene
God
and
vs
:
be
humbled
for
sinne
,
meete
God
in
repentance
,
keepe
not
silence
,
be
instant
in
prayer
,
and
all
shall
be
well
.
Christ
is
our
ship
:
if
we
be
neuer
so
tossed
,
wee
shall
not
be
drowned
;
come
to
him
,
awaken
him
as
his
Disciples
,
Master
saue
vs
,
helpe
vs
,
we
perish
:
and
he
will
in
due
time
stirre
vp
himselfe
,
and
speake
to
the
winde
,
and
the
sea
,
and
there
shall
be
a
great
calme
.
The
end
of
the
third
Sermon
.
THE
ROMISH
CONCEPTION
.
Psalme
.
7.14.15.16
.
He
hath
made
a
pit
and
digged
it
,
and
is
fallen
into
the
pit
that
he
made
.
His
mischiefe
shall
returne
vpon
his
own
head
,
and
his
cruelty
shall
fall
vpon
his
owne
pate
.
THe
occasion
of
the
Psalme
is
in
the
inscription
,
concerning
the
words
of
Cushi
,
one
of
Sauls
Courtiers
,
and
Dauids
accusers
to
Saul
,
as
if
hee
had
beene
a
Rebell
,
and
sought
Sauls
life
.
The
parts
of
it
are
three
.
1
A
prayer
for
deliuerance
from
his
enemies
,
and
that
God
would
cleare
his
innocency
,
to
the
12.
verse
.
2
A
Propheticall
prediction
of
the
destruction
of
the
wicked
,
to
the
17.
verse
.
3
A
vow
of
thankfulnesse
for
deliuerance
,
in
the
last
verse
.
These
three
verses
of
my
Text
,
being
part
of
the
se●ond
generall
,
hauing
in
them
two
particulars
:
First
,
that
all
the
labour
of
wicked
men
against
the
Church
is
●ut
labour
in
vaine
,
in
respect
of
their
owne
intent
and
expectation
,
verse
.
14.
Secondly
,
that
the
labour
of
wicked
men
is
turned
cleane
contrary
to
their
owne
intent
and
expectation
,
vers.
15.16
.
And
these
things
are
set
downe
two
waies
:
1.
In
Metaphor
and
similitude
.
2.
In
simple
and
expresse
speech
.
The
former
,
Plots
of
the
wicked
aptly
comp●red
to
a
womans
trauaile
.
that
all
their
labour
is
in
vaine
against
the
Church
,
is
expressed
by
a
Metaphore
frequent
in
Scripture
,
taken
from
the
trauell
of
a
woman
.
The
minde
of
a
wicked
man
is
compared
to
a
wombe
or
belly
.
The
conception
is
hurtfull
and
mischieuous
thoughts
and
enterprises
.
The
cunning
contriuing
,
carrying
,
and
watching
of
fit
opportunities
,
is
the
nourishing
,
perfecting
,
and
preparing
to
the
birth
,
while
they
carrie
it
the
iust
moneths
:
in
the
meane
time
swelling
with
their
own
presumptions
,
and
glorying
in
the
certaine
expectation
of
their
conceiued
hopes
.
The
attempting
of
their
enterprises
is
the
parturition
and
trauell
,
which
costs
them
no
small
paine
and
labour
.
The
birth
or
fruite
is
some
misshapen
monster
,
some
mischieuous
impe
,
some
treacherous
Massacre
,
some
inuincible
armie
or
powder-plot
,
borne
(
as
Onuphrius
writes
of
Pope
Alexander
the
6.
for
the
destruction
of
all
Italy
,
so
)
for
the
destruction
of
all
England
,
Scotland
,
and
Ireland
.
But
this
monstrous
shape
is
called
a
lye
,
because
mentiri
is
contra
mentem
ire
(
as
some
allude
.
)
When
they
looke
vpon
their
owne
childe
,
and
see
the
vgly
face
and
shape
of
it
,
in
all
the
deformed
members
:
it
is
not
to
their
minde
,
they
are
ashamed
and
confounded
,
and
would
faine
seeke
some
father
abroad
,
either
the
Hugonot
;
in
France
,
or
the
Puritans
in
England
,
but
that
it
is
so
like
the
fire
as
none
can
mistake
the
father
of
such
a
monster
.
The
latter
,
that
all
the
labour
of
the
wicked
is
turned
quite
contrary
to
their
owne
expectation
,
is
set
downe
by
another
similitude
,
taken
from
Hunters
,
who
as
they
lay
snares
,
and
ginnes
,
and
pitfalls
,
to
take
the
sillie
creatures
;
euen
so
wicked
men
digge
pits
,
and
delue
deepe
,
and
lay
their
traines
to
winde
in
the
godly
into
the
destruction
by
them
prepared
:
In
which
sense
it
is
said
of
Io●sh
and
I●hoiakim
,
Ezek.
19.4.8
.
that
the
nations
laid
their
nets
for
them
,
and
they
were
both
taken
in
their
pit
.
But
himselfe
falles
into
his
owne
pit
which
he
made
:
that
is
,
whatso●uer
mischiefe
the
cruell
Aduersaries
deuise
against
the
godly
,
it
catcheth
themselues
,
whereof
Dauid
had
good
experience
:
Sa●l
layes
his
traine
,
and
digs
a
pit
against
Dauid
.
1
Sam
18.21
.
I
will
giue
Dauid
Micoll
,
that
she
may
be
a
snare
to
him
,
and
the
hand
of
the
Philistims
may
bee
vpon
him
:
and
verse
.
25.
the
King
desireth
no
dowry
,
but
only
an
hundred
foreskins
of
the
Philistims
,
to
be
auenged
of
his
enemies
,
for
Saul
(
saith
the
Text
)
thought
to
make
Dauid
fall
by
the
hand
of
the
Philstims
:
but
Saul
fell
into
his
owne
pit
,
himselfe
fell
by
the
hand
of
the
Philistims
,
Chap.
31.
The
Philistims
pressed
so
sore
vpon
him
,
that
they
slew
his
three
sons
,
wounded
himselfe
sore
,
and
his
owne
hand
also
was
against
himselfe
.
In
the
last
verse
of
my
Text
,
all
this
is
set
out
in
simple
and
expresse
words
,
His
mischiefe
shall
returne
vpon
his
owne
head
,
his
cruelty
vpon
his
owne
pate
,
according
to
that
in
Prou.
5.22
.
His
owne
iniquities
shall
take
the
wicked
himselfe
,
and
he
shall
bee
holden
with
the
cords
of
his
owne
sinne
.
Deuises
against
the
Church
vain
,
&
pe●nicious
to
her
enemies
.
Doct.
The
wicked
counsels
and
enterprises
of
the
enemies
of
the
Church
,
are
not
only
vaine
in
respect
of
others
but
mischieuous
against
themselues
.
Esa.
33.11
.
yee
shall
conceiue
chaffe
,
&
bring
forth
stubble
:
the
fire
of
your
breath
shall
deuour
you
,
In
which
place
the
holy
Ghost
holds
the
same
comparison
as
here
:
comparing
wicked
men
to
women
that
haue
conceiued
,
who
carry
and
nourish
the
child
in
their
wombe
,
and
at
last
bring
forth
.
But
what
child
bring
they
forth
with
so
much
trauaile
?
Surely
that
which
is
a
shame
to
the
Parents
:
chaffe
and
stubble
,
vaine
and
vnprofitable
conceits
,
that
come
to
nothing
.
But
that
is
not
all
.
They
bring
forth
a
dangerous
and
pernicious
i●pe
,
which
for
the
most
part
is
the
death
of
the
mother
.
It
is
a
fire
,
which
as
easily
consumes
them
,
as
a
mighty
and
ragi●g
fire
doth
chaffe
or
stubble
.
Their
own
fire
deuoures
them
.
can
a
man
carry
fire
in
his
bosome
,
and
not
be
burnt
?
Esa.
59.5
.
The
wicked
conceiue
mischiefe
,
and
bring
forth
iniquity
:
they
hatch
the
cockatice
egges
.
The
cockatrice
or
basiliske
is
no
sooner
hatched
,
but
it
kils
him
with
the
very
sight
that
lightes
vpon
it
,
and
ordinarily
it
eates
out
the
belly
of
the
dam
in
comming
forth
.
Such
are
the
issues
and
fruits
of
cruell
and
mischieuous
men
against
the
Lord
and
his
people
.
Psalme
9.15
.
The
heathen
are
sunke
downe
in
the
pit
that
they
made
:
in
the
net
that
they
hid
is
their
owne
foot
taken
.
Reason
.
1
This
is
so
because
God
scattereth
the
deuises
of
the
craftie
,
so
as
they
cannot
accomplish
what
they
enterprise
.
Iob
5.12
.
he
will
not
alwaies
let
the
successe
be
to
their
expectation
.
They
consult
not
with
God
,
but
against
him
,
and
therefore
must
not
prosper
.
Come
(
saith
Pharaoh
)
let
vs
worke
wisely
to
keep
vnder
the
Israelites
.
he
that
toucheth
you
,
toucheth
the
apple
of
mine
eye
,
Zach.
2.8
.
God
hath
vndertaken
the
care
and
charge
of
his
people
,
and
will
neuer
neglect
the
safety
of
his
charge
,
nor
to
releeue
his
people
that
commit
themselues
to
him
;
but
especially
when
they
call
vpon
him
to
turne
the
counsels
of
wicked
Achitophels
into
folly
.
All
the
contempt
and
cruelty
is
against
God
himself
:
therefore
mischiefe
against
the
Church
must
needs
bee
like
an
arrow
shot
bolt-vpright
▪
which
falles
vpon
the
head
of
the
shooter
.
3.
The
deuise
of
wicked
men
against
the
iust
must
needs
miscary
,
because
they
set
their
plots
vpon
a
slippery
foundation
,
which
will
bring
downe
the
house
vpon
their
owne
heads
:
namely
vpon
lies
and
falsehood
.
Psal.
62.3.4
.
How
long
will
ye
imagine
mischief
against
a
man
?
ye
shall
be
all
slaine
,
ye
shall
be
as
a
shaken
wall
:
their
delight
is
in
lies
.
And
the
whole
frame
leanes
vpon
the
arme
flesh
,
or
the
arme
of
man
,
which
they
make
their
hope
,
and
so
lie
vnder
the
curse
of
them
that
make
flesh
their
arme
,
Ier.
17.5
.
and
withdraw
their
hearts
from
the
Lord
.
Esa.
59.4
.
they
trust
in
vanity
,
conceiue
mischief
,
and
bring
forth
iniquity
.
4.
It
is
most
iust
with
God
to
render
tribulation
to
them
that
trouble
his
seruants
:
thou
rewardest
euery
one
according
to
his
deed
.
How
iust
is
it
,
that
the
Artizan
of
death
should
perish
in
his
owne
net
?
and
,
that
he
who
breweth
mischiefe
,
should
drink
it
?
This
is
that
iust
retaliation
which
our
Sauiour
threatens
,
Mat.
7.2
.
with
what
measure
you
mete
,
it
shall
bee
measured
to
you
againe
.
If
the
Egyptians
make
a
wicked
decree
to
drowne
the
Israelitish
children
,
and
will
needes
follow
them
into
the
sea
to
drowne
them
:
it
is
iust
that
themselues
bee
drowned
with
a
memorable
destruction
.
You
haue
heard
how
Daniel
was
appointed
for
the
Lions
food
,
but
the
next
day
all
his
accusers
and
their
families
were
cast
in
in
his
stead
,
and
torne
in
pieces
ere
they
came
to
ground
.
You
haue
heard
also
how
the
same
furnace
which
was
prepared
for
Sadrach
and
his
fellowes
,
licked
vp
and
burnt
(
in
stead
of
them
)
the
accusers
.
Yea
the
Lord
in
this
iust
retaliating
of
euil
men
,
hath
often
smitten
their
owne
consciences
,
and
opened
their
owne
mouths
,
to
cleare
his
righteous
iudgement
:
as
we
see
in
Adoni-bezek
,
Iudg.
1.7
.
seuenty
kings
vnder
my
table
with
their
thumbs
cut
off
gathered
bread
vnder
my
table
;
As
I
haue
done
,
so
hath
God
rewarded
mee
.
Histor.
Eccles.
lib.
9.
cap.
9
Eusebius
recordeth
of
the
cruel
tyrant
Maxentius
,
that
comming
with
an
armie
against
Constantine
the
Great
:
to
deceiue
Constantine
and
his
armie
:
he
caused
his
souldiers
to
make
a
great
bridge
ouer
Tiber
where
Constantine
should
passe
,
and
cunningly
lay
plankes
on
the
ships
,
that
when
the
army
came
vpon
the
plankes
,
the
ships
should
sinke
,
and
so
drowne
the
enemie
:
but
Maxentius
hearing
of
Constantines
approching
:
in
his
rage
rushed
out
of
the
gates
of
Rome
,
Lacum
ap●ruit
,
et
effodit
cum
,
et
incidi●
in
soueam
quam
operatus
est
,
He
made
a
pit
and
digged
it
,
and
fell
into
the
pit
that
he
made
.
This
sets
forth
vnto
vs
the
misery
of
the
wicked
enemies
of
the
Church
:
Enemies
of
the
Church
,
subiect
to
4.
great
miseries
.
which
we
shall
more
clearely
see
in
foure
particulars
.
1
Misery
:
That
all
their
paine
and
labour
is
for
their
owne
destruction
.
Sinne
in
Hebrew
is
called
gnamal
,
and
in
Greke
ponerîa
:
both
which
words
signifie
labour
and
trauell
:
to
note
the
great
labour
,
that
wicked
men
take
in
committing
sinne
;
they
are
euen
as
women
in
trauell
.
Ier.
9.5
.
they
take
great
paines
to
doe
wickedly
.
Sinne
is
a
worke
of
the
flesh
,
and
sinners
are
workemen
,
Esa.
59.5
.
weauers
and
spinners
:
but
weaue
an
ill
web
,
and
spin
a
thred
of
their
owne
destruction
,
euen
an
halter
for
their
owne
heads
;
as
Haman
was
at
charges
to
set
vp
his
own
gallows
.
Our
text
shews
,
that
they
wil
be
at
paines
and
trauell
for
their
designes
,
as
a
woman
that
carries
and
brings
forth
a
childe
;
but
the
birth
killes
themselues
,
and
themselues
must
feele
the
smart
of
their
subtill
deuises
.
2
Misery
:
That
they
liue
in
perpetuall
perill
of
destruction
.
There
is
not
a
moment
,
wherein
they
can
free
or
secure
themselues
from
the
stroke
of
God
:
They
cannot
say
at
any
time
,
Now
we
are
in
safety
:
because
they
are
alwaies
in
armes
against
God
.
If
they
would
hide
their
counsells
from
him
,
behold
,
he
sees
in
the
darkenesse
aswell
as
in
the
day
,
to
ouerturne
them
all
,
and
make
wicked
counsell
worst
to
the
counsellor
.
Malum
consilium
,
consultori
pess●●um
If
they
would
combine
themselues
in
holy
leagues
and
confederacyes
,
heare
what
the
wise
man
saith
,
Prou.
11.21
.
though
hand
ioyne
in
hand
,
yet
shall
not
the
wicked
escape
vnpunished
.
All
of
them
vnited
are
as
easily
ouercome
in
hi●
hand
,
as
one
man
.
Esa.
8.9
.
gather
ye
together
on
h●●pes
,
and
ye
shall
be
broken
to
pieces
:
gird
your selues
,
and
ye
shall
bee
broken
to
pieces
.
eate
them
as
bread
:
behold
,
themselues
are
neuer
nearer
destruction
than
when
they
are
most
violent
.
The
Aegyptians
were
not
more
readie
to
kill
and
slay
,
than
the
waters
were
to
drowne
them
.
3
Misery
:
That
inexpected
destruction
comes
,
when
they
expect
the
sweet
fruit
of
all
their
labour
:
when
they
looke
for
light
,
behold
darknesse
.
Here
this
birth
of
wicked
men
is
vnlike
the
trauell
of
women
.
When
the
childe
is
borne
,
the
womans
danger
and
paines
are
gone
,
and
ioy
comes
in
the
stead
▪
because
a
child
is
borne
into
the
world
,
and
this
mak●s
her
forget
her
sorow
.
But
in
this
birth
,
and
afterward
●s
the
greatest
danger
and
perill
,
and
but
a
beginning
of
sorows
.
When
they
cry
peace
,
peace
,
then
comes
a
sudden
destruction
.
Balthasar
was
seased
on
euen
in
his
cups
,
where
there
was
nothing
but
carowsing
and
iolity
:
and
Amnon
in
his
brothers
house
,
at
a
feast
,
when
his
heart
was
most
merry
,
was
slaine
by
his
brother
:
which
was
the
issue
of
his
incest
.
Little
thought
hee
,
that
that
reckoning
awaited
him
.
4
Misery
:
That
the
mischiefe
plotted
against
their
greatest
enemies
recoyles
vpon
themselues
;
as
a
piece
ouercharged
,
and
recoyling
,
strikes
downe
the
shooter
,
not
the
party
aimed
at
.
Prou.
11.8
.
The
iust
escapeth
out
of
trouble
,
and
the
wicked
commeth
in
his
stead
:
and
,
the
wicked
shall
be
a
ransome
for
the
iust
.
Wicked
men
catching
the
godly
at
aduantage
are
mercilesse
:
no
pity
may
be
vsed
,
no
ransome
will
be
taken
for
their
deliu●rance
:
therefore
God
takes
the
matter
in
hand
,
Wicked
to
be
pitied
rather
than
●na●ed
.
to
pay
a
ransome
for
them
,
body
for
body
,
skin
for
skin
,
life
for
life
and
the
right
owners
of
mischiefe
shall
enioy
it
.
d.
〈…〉
.
and
seeing
they
cannot
bee
stopped
from
sin
,
they
cannot
be
stopt
from
the
punishment
.
As
little
cause
haue
the
enemies
to
glory
in
their
conception
.
Stay
a
while
,
and
behold
the
lineame●ts
of
the
birth
from
top
to
toe
,
and
see
a
shamefull
and
ougly
vi●sage
.
I
come
now
to
the
application
hereof
to
our
present
occasion
.
This
day
is
this
text
fulfilled
in
your
eares
.
Wherein
giue
me
leaue
a
little
to
shew
you
,
Con●eption
of
pow●er
traytors
〈◊〉
▪
yet
p●●nicious
to
them
.
how
our
owne
sowers
of
winde
haue
reaped
the
whirlewinde
,
and
how
those
who
trauelled
with
wickednesse
,
haue
brought
foorth
not
onely
a
lye
,
but
an
vntimely
and
mischieuous
birth
,
which
no
sooner
saw
the
light
,
but
most
iustly
it
depriued
the
parents
of
it
.
This
misshapen
monster
was
the
Gunpowder-treason
,
a
mother
of
treasons
,
an
vnmatchable
store-●ouse
of
villanies
,
wherein
grex
cum
reg●
,
arae
cum
focis
,
Pietie
and
Iustice
,
Peace
and
Plentie
,
Religion
and
Honestie
,
should
all
haue
been
buried
in
one
graue
,
and
all
consumed
in
one
bonfire
.
This
conception
pleased
them
well
:
for
it
was
meete
,
that
whence
they
receiued
all
their
mischiefe
(
namely
,
the
Parliament
)
that
very
place
should
be
designed
for
their
punishment
,
said
Catesby
to
Winter
,
who
wondred
at
the
fi●e
conceit
.
They
beare
not
their
conception
without
much
labour
,
and
paines
,
and
care
,
and
cost
:
Great
care
of
secrecie
,
that
none
be
admitted
into
the
Councell
,
Much
adoe
in
th●s
conception
.
but
by
oath
and
the
sacrament
.
Great
labou●
in
many
painfull
iourneys
,
both
beyond
seas
,
and
on
this
side
,
in
digging
the
pit
and
the
mine
,
night
and
day
,
many
moneths
together
,
&c.
And
as
great
cost
:
Digby
hath
1500.
pounds
:
Tressam
2000.
Percy
would
bring
4000
,
and
ten
galloping
horses
,
though
he
robbed
the
Earle
of
Northumberland
for
it
,
out
of
the
rents
of
seuerall
houses
.
The
charge
of
36.
barrels
of
powder
,
wood
,
coale
,
iron
in
abundance
,
and
of
victuals
for
so
many
labourers
and
diggers
.
No
lesse
care
in
contriuing
,
and
forming
this
misshapen
monster
in
the
wombe
,
and
carrying
it
the
due
moneths
.
And
all
this
while
they
swell
with
conceit
,
and
dreame
of
nothing
but
disposing
the
kingdom
,
and
euery
mans
estate
.
Euery
thing
both
at
home
and
abroad
is
so
cunningly
contriued
:
they
make
themselues
sure
of
all
.
Why
?
the
Letter
saith
,
God
and
man
hath
concurred
to
punish
the
wickednesse
of
these
times
.
And
to
the
Lord
,
Retire
your selfe
into
the
countrey
,
where
you
may
expect
the
euent
with
safetie
:
for
though
there
be
no
appearance
of
any
stirre
,
yet
I
say
they
shall
receiue
a
terrible
blow
this
Parliament
,
and
the
danger
is
past
so
soone
as
you
haue
burnt
the
letter
.
And
in
the
countrey
,
the
night
before
the
day
designed
to
be
our
doomes-day
,
they
boldly
entred
into
a
stable
,
and
tooke
away
great
horses
,
which
they
made
account
of
,
as
their
owne
by
their
owne
Law
,
now
the
Lawes
were
blowne
vp
.
And
Sir
Nimrod
Digby
appoynts
his
hunting
match
that
day
,
to
surprise
the
Lady
.
They
haue
their
Proclamations
readie
,
and
all
cocksure
.
Thus
haue
they
conceiued
mischiefe
,
and
these
Digbyes
and
diggers
haue
digged
a
pit
with
a
mouth
as
wide
as
hell
,
to
swallow
vp
three
great
kingdomes
at
one
morsell
;
and
haue
carried
the
conception
the
full
moneths
.
Much
adoe
to
little
purpose
.
Now
to
the
Birth
.
For
,
what
(
saith
Percy
)
shall
we
alwaies
talke
(
Gentlemen
)
and
neuer
doe
any
thing
?
But
what
doe
they
?
They
bring
foorth
a
lye
:
a
vaine
worke
they
haue
in
hand
:
God
scatters
their
deuice
.
They
plot
destruction
against
all
the
godly
in
the
land
;
they
cannot
hurt
one
of
their
haires
.
Nay
worse
than
so
:
the
pit
they
haue
digged
falls
on
themselues
.
These
hunters
hunt
the
liues
of
others
,
themselues
are
hunted
and
taken
.
The
powder
they
lay
for
others
,
blowes
vp
themselues
.
And
this
is
worth
the
obseruing
,
that
Catesby
first
deuiseth
the
powder-plot
,
and
his
owne
powder
first
burnes
himselfe
;
greater
than
could
be
forgiuen
:
and
confessed
hee
saw
too
late
,
that
such
courses
please
not
almightie
God
.
All
of
them
,
in
case
it
had
been
done
,
purposed
to
disauow
it
for
the
foulenesse
of
it
,
till
they
had
power
enough
to
make
their
partie
good
:
and
counted
it
an
action
worthie
to
be
laid
vpon
their
greatest
enemies
,
whom
they
termed
Puritans
.
Yea
God
opens
their
owne
mouthes
against
themselues
.
Winter
professeth
before
hand
,
that
if
it
should
not
take
effect
,
the
scandall
would
be
so
great
,
which
the
Catholike
Religion
should
susteine
by
it
,
as
not
onely
our
enemies
,
but
our
friends
also
(
saith
he
)
would
with
good
reason
condemne
vs
.
Thus
we
see
the
truth
of
God
,
and
his
iustice
:
for
hee
hath
said
,
Woe
to
thee
that
spoylest
:
shalt
thou
not
be
spoyled
?
he
that
takes
the
sword
,
perish
th●●by
by
the
sword
.
Here
is
iust
,
Agags
case
,
Thy
sword
made
many
childlesse
,
and
Gods
sword
shall
make
thy
mother
childl●sse
.
See
also
what
little
cause
we
haue
to
trust
Papists
,
who
da●e
attempt
such
deuices
for
the
reliefe
of
the
Catholike
cause
,
as
all
of
them
confessed
this
was
.
Must
you●
Religion
be
thus
relieued
?
It
hath
euer
so
been
:
and
so
neuer
was
from
the
Lord
.
Obiect
.
Why
doe
you
impute
this
to
our
Religion
,
being
the
error
of
a
few
infortunate
Gentlemen
?
Treason
not
accidentall
,
but
essentiall
to
Romish
religion
.
Answ.
If
it
were
onely
the
error
of
their
nature
,
(
to
vse
the
Kings
Maiesties
distinction
)
it
were
the
more
tolerable
:
but
it
is
the
error
of
their
Religion
:
And
most
truly
hath
his
Maiestie
shewed
,
that
no
other
Sect
of
Heretickes
(
not
excepting
Turkes
,
Iewes
,
Pagans
,
or
they
of
Calicute
)
did
euer
by
the
grounds
of
Religion
maintaine
,
that
it
is
lawfull
or
meritorious
to
murther
Princes
or
people
for
the
quarrell
of
Religion
;
but
onely
Romish
Catholikes
.
This
doctrine
they
would
as
impudently
deny
as
they
doe
other
.
The
light
makes
them
ashamed
,
and
so
they
denie
their
owne
doctrines
.
They
will
denie
,
that
the
Pope
properly
pardoneth
sinnes
,
or
that
they
teach
it
.
They
will
as
impudently
denie
,
that
euer
Pope
had
a
bastard
:
that
euer
a
woman
was
Pope
,
and
an
hundreth
such
,
which
their
owne
chiefe
writers
a●ow
.
But
let
vs
know
,
that
religion
,
which
is
set
vpon
lyes
,
and
held
vp
by
lyes
,
by
conceiuing
mischiefe
,
and
bringing
foorth
lyes
,
to
be
fitter
for
Antichrist
,
than
for
Iesus
Christ
,
or
Christians
professing
his
name
.
And
now
,
seeing
the
wicked
are
fallen
into
the
pit
they
made
,
and
the
powder
they
laid
for
vs
,
hath
blowne
vp
themselues
;
let
vs
conclude
with
the
next
words
of
this
Psalme
,
We
will
praise
the
Lord
according
to
his
righteousnesse
,
and
sing
praise
to
the
name
of
the
Lord
most
high
.
We
will
set
foorth
his
righteousnesse
and
faithfulnesse
,
in
keeping
his
promises
,
and
in
sauing
the
liues
of
thousands
of
his
Saints
,
destinated
to
death
,
as
sheepe
to
the
slaughter
.
The
end
of
the
fourth
Sermon
.
THE
ENGLISH
GRATVLATION
.
Psalm
.
126.3
.
The
Lord
hath
done
great
things
for
vs
,
whereof
wee
reioyce
.
THis
Verse
is
the
marrow
of
the
whole
Psal.
occasioned
by
the
returne
of
Gods
people
out
of
Babels
Captiuity
into
their
owne
Country
:
who
neuer
receiued
lesse
fauours
than
this
,
without
thanksgiuing
.
Vnto
which
duty
of
praise
the
better
to
prouoke
themselues
,
they
amplifie
the
benefit
,
verse
.
1.
and
make
it
great
in
their
eyes
and
hearts
,
as
it
was
in
it selfe
;
so
great
and
incredible
,
as
when
God
brought
it
to
passe
,
they
were
as
men
in
a
dreame
,
thinking
it
rather
a
dreame
,
and
a
vaine
imagination
,
than
a
reall
truth
or
action
.
1.
Because
it
was
so
great
a
deliuerance
,
from
so
great
and
lasting
a
bondage
,
it
seemed
too
good
to
be
true
.
2.
It
was
sudden
,
and
inexpected
,
when
they
little
thought
or
hoped
for
it
.
Thus
the
sudden
,
and
inexpected
newes
of
Iosephs
life
made
Iacobs
heart
fayle
him
,
thought
it
had
beene
a
dreame
,
and
that
he
had
seene
a
vision
.
It
was
so
incredible
,
so
inexpected
,
so
suddaine
,
so
immediate
a
deliuerance
,
that
he
could
not
beleeue
it
.
But
as
Peter
being
come
to
himselfe
,
said
,
Now
I
know
for
a
truth
that
the
Lord
hath
deliuered
me
,
vers.
11.
so
this
people
of
God
knew
it
was
more
than
a
dreame
,
euen
a
reall
deliuerance
,
and
could
not
but
expresse
their
ioy
,
as
men
doe
when
they
laugh
.
But
as
the
cause
was
abundant
,
so
they
say
they
were
filled
with
laughter
,
verse
2.
Nay
,
the
Gentiles
themselues
obserued
the
benefit
,
and
preached
it
,
euen
the
enemies
could
obserue
a
speciall
worke
of
Gods
power
and
fauour
for
them
,
verse
3.
And
should
they
be
behinde
the
Heathen
,
and
not
with
full
heart
and
mouth
celebrate
the
benefit
?
Should
God
lose
his
glory
by
his
owne
people
,
whom
the
benefit
concerned
,
and
finde
it
among
the
Heathen
,
who
were
but
lookers
on
?
No
:
and
therefore
they
proclaime
it
in
these
words
,
The
Lord
hath
don●
great
things
for
vs
,
&c.
Wherein
we
may
consider
these
foure
particulars
.
-
1.
The
Author
or
Agent
,
the
Lord
.
-
2.
The
Worke
or
Act
,
hath
done
great
things
.
-
3.
The
Persons
for
whom
,
for
vs
,
his
Church
.
-
4.
The
Effect
,
whereof
wee
reioyce
.
Of
these
in
their
order
.
I.
The
Agent
is
the
Lord
:
verse
1.
the
Lord
brought
back
the
captiuity
of
Syon
.
It
was
a
diuine
worke
,
passing
not
humane
power
onely
,
but
humane
apprehension
:
for
it
was
not
very
easie
to
conceiue
,
much
lesse
to
effect
.
Obseru.
All
safety
of
the
Church
from
God
.
All
deliuerances
of
the
Church
are
the
works
of
God
.
What
meanes
so
euer
he
vseth
,
himselfe
is
the
principall
Agent
:
and
of
it
,
it
must
be
said
,
Digitus
Dei
est
hic
,
This
is
the
finger
of
God
.
For
1.
the
helpe
of
man
is
vaine
,
2.
God
onely
hath
promised
deliuerance
,
and
will
be
depended
on
,
3.
the
glory
of
deliuerance
belongs
to
no
other
,
Psalm
.
50.15
.
Call
vpon
me
in
the
day
of
trouble
,
and
I
will
heare
thee
,
and
thou
shal●
glorifie
me
.
II.
The
worke
,
great
things
.
The
Lord
is
a
great
God
,
and
great
things
beseeme
him
:
Psalm
.
135.5
.
I
know
the
Lord
is
great
;
and
he
doth
great
things
.
1.
To
manifest
the
greatnesse
of
his
power
,
aboue
all
creatures
.
2.
That
there
may
neuer
want
some
great
occasions
of
praising
and
glorifying
his
Name
.
3.
That
our
eyes
may
be
lifted
vp
aboue
humane
counsels
,
and
not
fixed
on
inferiour
things
,
when
we
see
euents
which
could
be
welded
by
nothing
but
an
Omnipotent
and
Diuine
hand
.
III.
The
Persons
for
whom
these
great
workes
are
done
(
for
vs
:
)
Great
are
the
workes
of
God
,
Gods
greatest
workes
are
done
for
the
Church
.
seene
in
the
Creation
and
Gouernment
of
the
world
.
But
the
greatest
workes
of
all
hee
doth
for
his
Church
.
He
hath
not
dealt
so
with
euery
nation
,
neither
haue
they
knowne
his
lawes
▪
Psal.
147.20
.
Sweet
sensible
experience
.
5.
He
hath
giuen
her
such
experience
of
his
prouidence
and
protection
in
many
meruailous
deliuerances
,
both
for
soule
and
body
,
as
no
people
euer
had
the
like
;
to
the
perpetuall
ouerthrow
of
all
her
aduersaries
.
Namely
for
the
Church
of
the
Iewes
.
These
and
the
like
great
workes
in
generall
,
the
Lord
hath
done
for
his
Church
.
Looke
now
vpon
Israel
,
who
vtters
the
words
of
our
Text
:
what
great
things
God
hath
done
for
them
,
both
in
generall
,
and
in
this
speciall
.
For
the
generall
:
1
,
Israel
was
Gods
elect
,
his
sonne
,
Exod.
4.22
.
his
fi●st
borne
,
more
loued
,
more
priuiledged
than
any
;
his
treasure
,
his
portion
,
Deut.
32.8.9
.
To
him
belonged
the
adoption
.
Rom.
9.4
.
and
hee
was
not
numbred
among
the
nations
.
Hee
is
select
and
chosen
out
of
all
the
world
.
Hee
must
haue
the
promises
;
Of
him
are
the
Fathers
;
and
of
him
is
Christ
,
God
blessed
for
euer
.
2.
God
dwelt
in
Israel
.
Of
Beniamin
it
is
said
,
that
the
Lord
dwelt
betweene
his
shoulders
,
Deut.
33.12
.
With
him
was
the
Arke
,
and
the
glory
,
Rom.
9.4
.
and
when
that
was
taken
,
the
glory
departed
from
Israel
.
He
dwelt
at
Salem
,
and
his
Tabernacle
was
at
Syon
,
Psalm
.
76.2
.
God
is
present
euery
where
,
but
dwels
onely
in
his
Church
.
Of
Syon
it
was
said
,
There
will
I
dwell
.
3.
Their
Lawes
&
ordinances
were
meerely
from
God
:
theirs
was
the
Couenant
,
Rom.
9.4
.
The
Tables
of
the
Couenant
,
written
with
Gods
owne
hand
,
and
deliuered
to
them
.
And
the
giuing
of
the
Law
,
that
is
,
their
Statute-lawes
&
Iudicials
were
not
enacted
by
men
,
but
came
from
heauen
:
In
which
respect
no
nation
was
so
honoured
,
Deut.
4.7.12
.
Was
there
euer
any
nation
,
to
whom
God
came
so
neere
,
and
spake
out
of
the
fire
,
The
instances
of
Gods
great
care
in
preseruing
the
Iewes
.
&
c.
?
4.
Their
preseruation
and
protection
was
a
great
worke
of
God
:
as
we
shall
see
in
some
instances
.
1.
Great
was
his
care
to
send
them
into
Egypt
,
by
reason
of
the
famine
,
that
they
might
encrease
in
a
fat
land
:
but
he
sent
a
man
before
,
euen
Ioseph
,
to
prouide
for
them
the
fattest
of
the
land
,
Psalm
.
105.17
.
2.
Great
was
his
worke
of
preseruation
in
Egypt
vnder
that
extreame
tyrannie
of
Pharaoh
and
the
Taske-maisters
,
who
could
not
worke
wisely
enough
to
keepe
them
vnder
,
the
more
they
encreased
,
so
as
of
seauenty
soules
in
220.
yeares
the
encrease
was
600000.
men
,
besides
women
and
children
.
Hee
encreased
his
people
greatly
,
and
made
them
stronger
than
their
enemies
.
3.
Great
was
his
worke
in
drawing
them
out
of
Egypt
:
to
which
purpose
hee
sent
Moses
his
seruant
,
(
miraculously
drawne
out
of
the
water
)
and
Aaron
whom
he
had
chosen
,
vers.
26.
By
whom
he
wrought
those
mighty
signes
and
wonders
,
vers.
27.
of
darknesse
,
blood
,
frogges
,
lyce
,
haile
,
caterpillers
,
the
death
of
their
first
borne
,
&c.
Insomuch
as
the
enemies
loaded
them
with
rich
iewels
and
eare-rings
,
and
hastned
them
out
of
the
Country
.
God
would
not
haue
his
seruants
goe
without
their
wages
for
so
hard
labour
,
which
the
Egyptians
had
not
considered
.
Besides
,
hee
will
haue
them
to
haue
somewhat
away
,
to
bestow
and
conferre
for
the
vse
of
the
Temple
.
And
when
Pharaoh
pursued
them
,
so
as
they
saw
no
way
to
escape
him
,
God
gaue
them
a
great
deliuerance
through
the
sea
,
5.
As
great
was
his
care
and
prouidence
in
bringing
them
into
the
land
of
Canaan
,
casting
out
all
their
enemies
before
them
,
raising
vp
Ioshua
to
leade
them
in
,
and
a●ter
him
Iudges
and
Kings
,
Sampson
,
Deborah
,
Dauid
,
Salomon
,
and
their
successors
euen
till
their
Captiuity
in
B●bilon
.
He
gaue
them
a
goodly
land
and
fat
,
flowing
with
milke
and
hony
.
In
it
were
vineyards
which
they
planted
not
,
and
houses
which
they
builded
not
.
Hee
gaue
them
a
city
which
was
on
earth
as
the
sunne
in
heauen
,
the
eye
of
the
world
,
an
earthly
paradise
,
the
seat
of
their
Princes
,
and
Metropolitan
of
Iudea
,
containing
an
hundred
&
fifty
thousand
men
,
the
inhabitants
.
In
it
was
a
Temple
,
the
bewtye
of
the
whole
world
,
and
the
glory
of
the
earth
:
Thither
the
tribes
went
vp
twice
in
a
yere
,
to
worship
the
Lord
,
Psal.
122.4
.
In
it
were
the
Colleges
of
Priests
,
at
whose
mouth
they
were
to
require
the
Law
,
Mal.
2.7
.
In
it
the
thrones
of
iustice
were
erected
,
Psalme
.
122.5
.
In
a
word
:
Great
and
glorious
things
are
to
bee
spoken
of
this
Citie
of
God
Psal.
87.3
.
Thus
the
Church
in
Israell
might
well
say
,
The
Lord
hath
done
great
things
for
vs
.
But
,
she
need
not
cast
hir
eyes
so
farre
back
.
Here
is
one
great
worke
in
steed
of
many
great
things
,
as
which
indeed
hath
many
great
things
in
it
:
on
which
,
while
she
fixeth
her
eyes
,
she
count●
sh●
hath
matter
enough
of
reioycing
.
IV.
For
God
hauing
now
reuenged
the
impiety
of
the
Priests
and
Princes
,
(
who
had
not
only
profaned
his
Land
,
Temple
,
and
worship
,
with
Idols
,
but
had
filled
all
the
corners
of
the
land
with
innocent
blood
by
Nebuchadnezzar
King
of
Babel
,
called
the
scourge
of
God
,
for
the
space
of
seuenty
yeares
;
)
It
pleaseth
him
now
to
returne
in
mercy
to
his
miserable
people
.
For
he
neuer
striketh
but
withal
prouides
a
remedy
,
alwaies
in
iudgment
remembring
mercy
.
And
in
this
the●
Returne
there
was
great
cause
of
ioy
being
so
great
a
work
of
Gods
mercy
.
For
1.
God
seemed
now
to
forget
the
causes
of
their
Captiuity
:
Returne
out
of
Babilonish
Captiuity
,
great
matter
of
reioycing
in
5.
respects
.
1.
Sins
pardoned
.
2.
Misery
expounded
.
their
idolatry
,
their
contempt
of
his
Ministers
,
with
other
hainous
and
foule
sinnes
,
which
brake
out
so
farre
that
there
was
no
remedy
.
2.
Cron.
36.15
.
But
now
he
graciously
returneth
:
therefore
certainly
those
sinnes
are
forgiuen
them
.
2.
They
had
now
a
long
time
beene
exposed
to
all
the
enemies
wrath
,
who
had
vnmercifully
oppressed
and
slaine
them
,
and
cruelly
dasht
their
infants
braines
against
the
stones
,
carried
them
farre
from
house
and
home
,
among
heathens
,
and
strangers
to
them
and
to
the
Couenant
:
&
strangely
vsed
them
,
not
suffering
them
any
house
or
harbour
,
but
let
them
spend
their
time
in
weeping
by
the
waters
side
,
3.
Their
shame
and
reproch
in
captiuity
was
infinite
:
Ignominy
chased
.
vers.
3.
the
Aduersaries
on
one
hand
insult
and
call
for
their
Hebrew
songs
;
on
the
other
hand
,
their
Citie
Babel
whither
they
we●e
carryed
,
being
the
Metropolitan
and
head
of
the
Monarchy
at
that
time
,
all
the
people
of
the
knowne
world
resorted
thither
,
and
carryed
into
all
Countries
the
Iewes
reproch
.
But
now
the
Lord
hath
remoued
their
shame
,
and
published
from
thence
to
all
the
world
,
their
glorious
deliuerance
.
4.
In
Captiuity
they
were
but
ciues
mundi
,
Inheritance
restored
.
men
of
the
world
,
but
now
they
are
ciu●s
ecclesiae
,
members
of
the
Church
:
that
Country
being
a
testimony
to
the
godly
,
that
they
belonged
to
Gods
Couenant
,
and
to
that
heauenly
Canaan
,
of
which
that
was
a
type
.
Now
their
Captiuity
was
an
abdication
from
the
familie
of
God
:
and
being
spoyled
of
these
good
things
,
how
could
they
thinke
,
but
that
they
were
cast
out
from
God
,
from
the
Couenant
,
from
heauenly
Canaan
aswel
as
earthly
?
But
now
they
are
receiued
againe
into
the
family
,
and
people
,
and
Country
of
God
;
their
title
to
heauenly
Canaan
is
renewed
;
and
for
this
they
reioyce
.
5.
Whereas
the
Babylonians
had
robbed
the
Citie
,
but
especially
had
defaced
and
burned
the
Temple
,
Religion
aduanced
.
profaned
both
it
and
all
holy
things
,
and
set
vp
the
abomination
of
desolation
in
stead
thereof
;
(
that
now
,
where
God
was
worshipped
of
his
owne
people
according
to
his
will
,
the
diuell
was
worshipped
by
Heathens
and
Infidels
:
)
Now
the
Lord
hauing
raised
Syon
out
of
the
dust
,
hee
hath
reared
his
Temple
,
and
his
Worship
againe
:
hee
hath
cast
out
the
filth
and
pollution
,
by
which
they
defiled
his
Temple
:
hee
hath
set
vp
againe
the
shining
lights
in
the
Temple
,
standing
vp
in
golden
Candlestickes
:
hee
hath
set
the
sweet-bread
on
his
Table
:
the
booke
of
the
Law
is
restored
againe
:
and
the
holinesse
of
the
Lord
shines
againe
in
all
his
ordinances
.
God
enioyes
his
worship
and
glory
.
They
enioy
their
land
and
peace
,
and
sit
safe
vnder
his
protection
,
as
in
times
past
.
And
these
are
the
great
things
,
whereof
they
now
reioyce
.
Now
to
the
application
.
This
day
are
these
things
performed
in
our
eares
,
who
may
truly
say
with
the
Church
of
Israel
,
The
Lord
hath
done
great
things
for
vs
,
whereof
we
reioyce
.
We
will
not
goe
so
farre
backward
(
as
if
time
would
giue
leaue
,
As
great
things
done
for
Britans
as
for
Israelites
,
if
not
greater
.
we
might
:
)
to
compare
the
Lords
generall
mercies
to
vs
with
theirs
,
wherein
we
are
not
inferiour
;
giuing
vs
a
land
as
rich
,
more
large
;
peace
more
stable
;
Kings
and
Princes
,
as
Sauiours
and
Iudges
,
leading
vs
along
to
Canaan
;
the
couenant
of
grace
as
peculiar
,
more
sure
to
vs
than
to
them
.
What
Oracles
had
they
which
we
haue
not
?
yet
we
haue
what
they
had
not
.
Had
they
worship
in
shadowes
?
we
haue
it
in
substance
.
Had
they
good
things
in
promise
and
expectation
?
we
in
the
very
thing
,
and
full
accomplishment
.
Christ
was
to
come
of
them
:
but
he
is
come
vnto
vs
.
I
will
only
speak
of
our
deliuerance
from
Babylon
,
of
which
the
Church
here
speaketh
.
That
Rome
is
Babylon
,
Rome
termed
Babylon
in
6.
resemblances
.
the
learned
Iesuites
themselues
confesse
.
And
if
they
did
not
,
we
could
easily
shew
,
that
one
egge
is
not
liker
another
,
than
Rome
is
to
Babylon
.
As
in
this
Collation
.
1.
Babel
was
the
great
Citie
,
that
must
rule
ouer
all
nations
,
Gen.
10.10
.
set
himselfe
aboue
all
that
is
called
God
.
2.
At
Babel
was
the
first
confusion
of
tongues
,
Gen.
11.7
.
In
and
from
Rome
is
the
confusion
of
tongues
,
and
of
errors
,
one
not
vnderstanding
another
in
the
word
,
or
sacraments
,
or
other
their
seruices
:
All
is
in
a
strange
language
to
them
.
3.
At
Babel
was
horrible
superstition
and
wickednesse
,
in
Priests
and
people
,
and
thence
it
spread
all
abroad
.
Rome
is
a
sinke
of
superstition
and
filthinesse
,
and
all
nations
haue
drunke
of
her
cup
,
and
beene
made
drunke
with
her
horrible
enchantments
and
wickednesse
.
4.
Babel
held
the
Church
in
slauery
seauenty
yeares
:
so
the
Church
of
Christ
hath
beene
oppressed
a
long
time
vnder
the
tyrannie
of
the
Romish
Church
.
5.
Babel
robbed
and
spoyled
the
Church
of
her
treasures
,
and
the
Temple
of
God
,
and
horribly
polluted
it
.
Rome
hath
robbed
the
Christian
world
of
infinite
treasures
by
fraud
and
deceit
,
Palls
,
Agnus
●ei's
,
Indulgences
,
&c.
selling
for
millions
that
which
was
not
worth
the
dust
of
mens
feet
.
And
the
Church
by
her
hath
beene
robbed
of
the
word
,
the
Sacraments
,
the
offices
of
Christ
,
and
most
comfortable
doctrines
,
the
chiefe
dowry
and
reuenew
that
Christ
her
Head
gaue
her
.
6.
Babel
most
miserably
intreated
the
Church
:
Psalm
.
137.1
.
Her
eyes
did
nothing
but
drop
downe
teares
day
and
night
.
And
she
prouided
a
furnace
,
to
cast
such
in
as
would
not
worship
the
image
,
Dan.
3.6
.
All
bookes
and
writings
of
the
Church
are
full
of
the
bloody
cruelty
,
by
all
instruments
of
cruelty
,
and
all
plots
of
cruelty
,
in
the
Romane
Church
,
both
the
head
and
the
members
.
Deliuerance
from
Rome
as
great
as
that
from
Babylon
:
5.
instances
.
Now
that
our
deliuerance
from
Romish
power
and
plots
is
as
great
a
work
to
reioyce
in
,
as
this
of
Israel
from
their
captiuitie
,
is
easily
proued
.
1.
God
hath
broke
the
yoke
of
the
King
of
Babel
,
the
Romish
Nebuchadnezzar
,
from
off
our
neckes
,
when
we
lay
among
the
pots
,
by
that
great
Cyrus
,
King
Henry
the
8.
who
thrust
out
the
Pope
and
Papall
power
,
cut
the
sinewes
of
their
strength
,
cast
out
the
Canaanites
that
were
in
the
land
,
pulled
downe
the
dens
of
theeues
and
robbers
,
and
set
his
people
to
build
an
house
for
the
Lord
God
of
Israel
.
As
great
a
worke
as
euer
the
people
of
this
nation
saw
either
attempted
or
executed
.
All
the
Kings
before
him
durst
not
meddle
;
well
they
might
mourne
vnder
their
bondage
,
and
murmure
at
the
Oppressor
;
but
did
nothing
,
because
they
durst
not
.
2.
When
Cyrus
had
begun
the
worke
,
Darius
commanded
it
to
be
finished
and
performed
,
Ezra
.
6.1
.
Euen
so
what
King
Henry
had
begun
,
young
Da●ius
Edward
the
6.
(
as
another
Iosiah
)
finished
to
good
purpose
.
For
as
Darius
made
a
decree
for
the
house
of
God
in
Ierusalem
,
both
for
the
building
of
it
,
and
for
the
rendring
of
the
vessels
of
the
house
of
God
,
of
gold
and
siluer
,
which
Nebuchadnezzar
had
taken
out
of
the
house
of
God
,
vers.
3.5
.
So
this
Edward
of
blessed
memorie
(
imitating
Darius
)
in
the
first
yeere
of
his
raigne
proclaimed
the
aduancement
and
building
vp
of
the
worship
of
the
true
God
in
a
true
manner
,
King
Edward
the
6.
another
Cyrus
,
or
Darius
.
and
brought
in
the
vessels
of
gold
and
siluer
,
which
Romish
Nebuchadnezzar
had
taken
away
.
He
set
the
lights
in
the
Temple
againe
,
in
many
shining
candlestickes
.
The
Sweet-bread
was
set
againe
on
the
Table
of
the
Lord
,
and
the
Cup
of
Christ
his
precious
blood
,
which
had
been
stollen
away
by
those
theeues
,
was
now
found
,
and
comfortably
restored
to
the
owners
.
The
booke
of
the
Law
was
found
,
and
restored
againe
into
a
knowne
tongue
,
as
in
Iosiahs
time
by
Hilkiah
the
Priest
.
The
sweete
siluer
sounding
Trumpets
sound
continually
in
our
eares
,
in
daily
preaching
the
blessed
word
of
God
.
The
holy
Arke
a
signe
of
Gods
presence
dwels
againe
among
vs
,
and
Dagon
is
fallen
before
it
;
the
house
of
Baal
and
his
vestrie
destroyed
;
his
groues
cut
downe
and
grubbed
vp
.
Are
not
these
great
workes
,
which
the
Lord
hath
done
for
vs
,
wherein
wee
must
reioyce
?
3.
After
this
,
for
the
vnthankfulnesse
of
this
land
,
as
the
building
of
the
Temple
was
hindred
for
a
while
by
Sanballat
and
Tobiah
,
so
in
the
daies
of
Queene
Mary
this
great
work
of
God
was
interrupted
:
in
which
time
,
what
the
Babylonians
could
not
conquer
by
Scripture
,
they
could
subdue
by
torture
:
and
now
fire
and
sword
was
the
Catholike
and
inuincible
argument
:
that
the
new
Romanists
might
not
degenerate
from
the
old
bloody
Romans
their
fore-fathers
,
whose
measure
they
filled
to
the
full
.
For
in
lesse
than
fiue
yeeres
,
three
hundred
of
the
faithfull
seruants
of
Christ
,
without
respect
of
Nobilitie
,
degree
,
learning
,
grauitie
,
sexe
,
age
,
or
naturall
humanitie
,
were
in
our
Countrey
burned
to
ashes
.
But
God
had
no
delight
in
that
bloody
Religion
:
It
is
as
great
a
worke
of
mercie
as
any
of
the
former
,
that
he
made
it
as
short
as
bloody
.
For
if
violent
things
and
times
should
continue
,
the
world
could
not
.
And
behold
a
greater
worke
which
the
Lord
hath
done
for
vs
,
whereof
wee
reioyce
:
Queene
Elizabeth
Englands
Deborah
.
in
raising
vs
vp
our
ancient
Deborah
of
England
,
neuer-dying
Elizabeth
,
the
wonder
of
the
world
,
and
mirrour
of
nations
:
who
quickly
quenched
those
hot
and
furious
fires
,
and
her selfe
being
brought
from
a
prisoner
to
a
mightie
Prince
,
opened
the
prison-doores
,
and
deliuered
them
that
were
appoynted
to
death
.
Now
were
the
castles
of
their
superstitions
and
hopes
,
cast
downe
again
,
and
made
euen
with
the
ground
.
What
great
workes
God
did
for
her
,
and
vs
in
her
time
,
were
too
long
to
recite
:
how
she
out-stood
the
curses
and
Bulls
of
the
Romish
Nebuchadnezzar
,
and
saw
in
her
time
seuen
of
themselues
tumbled
out
of
their
pretended
chaire
of
S.
Peter
:
Seuen
Popes
died
in
the
raigne
of
Q
Elizabeth
.
how
wonderfull
her
many
deliuerances
were
,
from
many
hellish
treasons
,
deuised
by
the
armie
of
Priests
,
sent
from
the
King
of
pride
,
and
attempted
by
the
Romish
Captaines
of
that
great
Nebuchadnezzar
.
How
the
Lord
went
out
before
our
Armies
,
and
as
in
the
daies
of
Israels
Deborah
,
so
of
Englands
Deborah
,
hee
m●de
the
sea
and
windes
fight
for
vs
,
and
by
his
owne
right
hand
got
vs
the
victorie
:
Ch●ist
in
all
that
〈◊〉
sh●wed
〈…〉
,
said
the
Turke
.
that
memorable
yeere
and
ouerthrow
of
88
,
shall
be
a
perpetuall
witnesse
so
long
as
the
world
standeth
,
how
God
himselfe
fights
against
that
Religion
,
which
so
furiously
fights
against
him
.
How
she
iudged
and
ruled
in
peace
,
honour
,
and
happinesse
fiue
and
fortie
yeeres
,
to
the
honour
of
God
and
his
Gospell
,
and
terror
of
all
enemies
:
and
in
the
same
peace
and
happinesse
exchanged
her
earthlie
with
an
heauenly
and
euerlasting
crowne
of
glory
.
4.
A
great
worke
of
God
it
was
for
vs
to
reioyce
in
,
when
at
her
decease
the
enemies
who
had
long
looked
for
a
day
,
found
it
the
day
of
their
greatest
disappoyntment
:
whilest
the
Lord
,
setting
himselfe
for
our
good
in
our
gracious
King
and
the
fruitfull
plants
,
renewed
all
our
prosperitie
,
gaue
vs
a
new
tenure
of
the
Gospell
,
and
a
new
hold
of
our
peace
and
liberties
:
of
whom
we
may
say
as
was
said
of
Dauid
;
He
is
the
light
of
Israel
:
and
of
Iosiah
;
the
breath
of
our
nostrils
:
who
by
his
power
and
pen
hath
shewed
himselfe
a
Defender
of
the
true
Faith
.
5.
To
come
to
the
great
workes
of
this
day
.
That
these
Babylonians
might
keepe
their
hands
in
vre
,
what
foule
and
desperate
designes
haue
they
attempted
against
the
life
of
the
Kings
Maiestie
,
our
gracious
Soueraigne
?
For
while
this
light
of
Israel
remaineth
,
impossible
they
thinke
it
is
for
their
kingdome
of
darknesse
to
preuaile
.
Among
other
deuises
,
that
shame
of
Popish
Religion
,
that
hideous
gunpowder-treason
,
shall
neuer
be
put
out
from
vnder
heauen
.
In
which
were
many
great
workes
of
God
for
vs
Englishmen
:
whether
wee
consider
the
greatnesse
of
the
danger
,
or
the
greatnesse
of
the
deliuerance
.
First
,
consider
the
greatnesse
of
the
plot
:
the
greatest
mischiefe
that
euer
was
,
wanting
a
fit
name
to
expresse
it
,
vnlesse
you
will
call
it
a
Catholike
villanie
:
a
plot
of
greatest
and
vniuersall
danger
to
vs
,
of
greatest
triumph
to
the
Aduersarie
.
Here
the
head
and
taile
,
branch
and
root
,
one
and
other
,
Prince
and
people
,
Nobles
and
Gentrie
,
old
and
young
,
Papists
and
Protestants
,
should
haue
been
destroyed
together
.
For
as
Duke
Medina
said
,
his
sword
knew
no
difference
betweene
Catholikes
and
Heretikes
,
no
more
should
this
hellish
or
hell-fire
,
which
it
was
a
sparke
of
.
Besides
the
secret
carriage
and
contriuing
of
it
made
it
most
dangerous
,
more
dangerous
than
the
Babylonish
captiuitie
:
for
the
Babylonians
dealt
aperto
marte
,
there
was
some
hope
of
safetie
either
by
prayer
,
or
power
,
or
truce
,
or
preparing
against
them
,
there
a
man
knew
his
aduersarie
:
but
here
is
a
crueltie
digged
out
of
the
depth
of
darknesse
,
all
of
them
sworne
to
secrecie
,
yea
the
Sacrament
was
a
seale
of
their
wickednesse
,
sworne
brethren
in
euill
,
at
league
among
themselues
,
Here
we
might
say
as
Hanniball
sometime
said
of
two
Romane
Captaines
,
one
working
by
power
,
the
other
by
policie
;
Magis
se
a
non
pugnante
Fabio
quàm
à
pugnante
Marcello
sibi
metuere
:
Wee
are
more
afraid
of
slie
and
quiet
Papists
,
than
of
boysterous
armed
Turkes
.
How
these
plotters
would
haue
triumphed
in
the
fact
,
as
the
Babylonians
ouer
Israel
,
Sing
vs
now
one
of
the
songs
of
Syon
,
we
may
well
perceiue
by
their
glorying
in
the
hopes
of
it
;
God
and
man
(
saith
the
Letter
)
haue
concurred
to
punish
the
iniquity
of
the
time
,
and
,
The
danger
is
past
so
soone
as
you
haue
burnt
the
letter
,
and
They
shall
receiue
a
terrible
blow
this
Parliament
.
Happy
were
we
,
that
they
reckoned
without
their
host
,
and
so
came
to
another
reckoning
:
else
had
the
Funerals
of
England
been
their
sports
and
merriments
.
How
should
this
Act
haue
beene
canonized
and
registred
in
the
Popes
Calender
,
amongst
the
most
Heroicall
facts
that
euer
were
attempted
!
For
,
if
treason
against
the
person
of
one
King
was
so
extolled
,
how
would
this
haue
been
aduanced
,
being
against
the
King
,
Prince
,
State
,
and
three
whole
famous
Kingdomes
!
Guignard
the
Iesuite
tearmes
the
act
of
Iames
Clement
in
murthering
Henry
the
3.
of
France
with
a
poisoned
knife
,
which
he
thrust
into
his
belly
,
an
Heroicall
act
.
The
Iesuites
of
France
terme
it
a
gift
of
the
holy
Ghost
:
Nay
Pope
Sixtus
the
5.
in
a
solemne
oration
made
in
the
Consistory
of
Cardinalls
,
(
Decem.
11.1589
.
)
compared
the
treason
of
that
cursed
Dominick
with
the
act
of
Eleazar
or
Iudith
;
Oh
hellish
blasphemies
of
vnerring
Popes
,
not
iustifying
only
,
but
abetting
and
extolling
most
hainous
treasons
,
against
the
highest
powers
on
earth
!
oh
blasphemous
beasts
teaching
men
that
God
is
a
murtherer
of
Kings
and
Princes
!
How
then
should
this
fact
haue
been
eternized
if
it
had
succeeded
!
And
,
if
there
were
such
reioycing
at
Rome
by
publike
professions
,
bonfires
,
shooting
of
ordinance
,
and
present
publishing
of
a
Iubilee
,
by
the
Pope
&
his
Cardinals
,
hearing
tidings
of
that
persidious
and
bloody
Massacre
at
Paris
,
anno
.
1572.
in
so
much
as
the
Cardinall
of
Lorraine
gaue
him
a
thousand
Crownes
that
brought
the
first
newes
of
it
:
What
publike
ioy
in
Rome
,
what
Masses
,
processions
,
triumphs
,
and
gifts
would
there
haue
beene
,
if
this
stratageme
had
had
successe
.
Bellarmine
shall
not
deceiue
vs
,
who
tells
vs
in
his
Letter
to
the
Arch-priest
,
Bellarm
,
in
his
letter
to
George
Blackwel
Arch-priest
of
the
English
.
that
it
was
neuer
heard
of
from
the
Churches
infancy
vn●il
this
day
,
that
euer
any
Pope
did
commaund
,
that
a
Princ●
(
though
an
hereticke
,
or
ethnick
,
or
persecutor
)
should
be
murthered
;
or
did
approue
the
fact
when
it
was
done
by
another
.
This
is
a
lewd
and
vnconscionable
vntruth
:
vnlesse
we
conceiue
he
meanes
,
that
it
was
neuer
heard
by
those
who
were
de●fe
and
could
not
heare
:
As
by
a
Iesuiticall
Aequiuocation
it
may
well
be
construed
.
I
conclude
this
point
with
the
speech
of
Agis
to
an
euill
man
,
asking
him
who
was
the
best
Spartan
:
his
answer
was
,
Qui
tui
dissimillimus
,
He
that
is
most
vnlike
thee
.
So
is
this
to
be
a
good
Catholike
,
nay
he
is
the
best
Catholike
,
who
is
most
vnlike
these
Catholikes
.
Wee
see
our
danger
,
and
how
great
it
was
.
Now
secondly
,
let
vs
see
,
how
the
worke
of
God
is
as
great
in
our
deliuerance
,
both
for
the
Matter
and
for
the
Manner
of
it
.
I.
For
the
Matter
;
we
were
deliuered
from
great
euills
,
to
great
good
things
.
First
,
we
were
deliuered
from
a
terrible
blow
:
A
deadly
blow
to
King
,
Queene
,
Prince
,
Nobles
,
Iudges
,
Bishops
,
Counsell
,
Gentry
,
Commons
,
all
.
A
deadly
blow
to
all
Lawes
and
Law
makers
,
to
iustice
,
peace
,
titles
,
tenures
,
records
,
and
the
whole
Common-wealth
.
These
Babylonians
had
sacked
and
spoiled
all
the
Land
.
A
terrible
deadly
blow
to
religion
,
piety
,
the
Gospell
,
the
Word
,
the
Sacraments
.
These
Babylonians
would
haue
rased
downe
the
Temple
to
the
very
foundations
of
it
,
and
carried
away
all
the
vessels
and
rich
ornaments
of
it
.
The
waies
of
Sion
should
haue
mourned
,
because
none
could
come
to
her
solemne
feasts
.
Secondly
,
wee
were
deliuered
from
a
terrible
day
,
like
the
day
of
the
Lord
which
shall
burne
like
an
ouen
,
Mal.
4.1
.
A
terrible
day
,
wherein
the
frame
of
the
world
should
haue
seemed
dissolued
,
the
sunne
should
haue
beene
turned
into
blood
,
the
earth
should
haue
opened
her
mouth
and
swallowed
the
inhabitants
,
the
aire
should
haue
been
darkned
through
the
blacknesse
and
lamentation
of
that
day
.
A
dismall
doomesday
of
England
,
a
day
of
fire
and
brimstone
had
that
fifth
of
Nouember
been
,
if
the
fire-workes
of
these
fire-brands
had
preuailed
.
Thirdly
,
wee
were
deliuered
from
a
terrible
tyrannie
and
yoke
,
to
which
that
of
Babel
was
altogether
incomparable
.
1.
Spirituall
:
our
glory
had
beene
gone
,
and
we
might
well
haue
been
called
I●habod
:
In
stead
of
our
Arke
wee
should
haue
had
the
abomination
of
desolation
set
vp
,
the
horrible
idoll
of
the
Masse
,
ignorance
worshipped
as
a
god
&
mother
of
deuotion
;
Preaching
hindred
;
Preachers
martyrd
,
&
al
worship
in
an
vnknowne
tongue
:
an
ignotant
&
rascall
sort
of
greasy
filthy
Priests
;
&
a
doctrine
,
mystery
of
iniquity
.
2.
Temporall
:
Answerable
to
their
tyrannous
doctrine
is
their
tyrannical
practise
.
It
had
bin
better
the
poore
Indyes
had
bin
giuen
to
the
diuels
in
hell
,
than
vnto
them
:
and
themselues
professed
they
would
neuer
come
in
heauen
,
if
the
Spaniards
came
there
.
Well
hath
his
Maiesty
obserued
,
that
not
the
Turks
,
Tartars
,
or
they
of
Calicute
who
worship
the
diuell
,
do
lay
such
principles
of
cruelty
in
their
Doctrine
as
Papists
doe
.
Wee
see
the
greatnesse
of
our
deliuerance
,
priuately
:
now
see
it
positiuely
.
In
one
word
:
The
good
things
wee
are
restored
vnto
,
are
,
the
fruition
of
God
and
his
Christ
,
in
his
holy
ordinances
,
with
the
Gospell
of
peace
:
to
the
peace
of
our
Countrey
,
vnder
our
peaceable
Gouernour
;
new
leases
of
our
liberties
,
lands
,
callings
,
liues
,
and
all
that
heart
can
desire
.
II.
The
Ma●nor
or
meanes
of
our
deliuerance
was
altogether
wonderfull
.
1.
It
was
easily
brought
about
,
not
by
millions
of
gold
and
siluer
,
not
by
the
power
or
wit
of
man
.
2.
It
was
done
mightily
,
not
by
the
diuell
(
as
Faux
blasphemously
spake
)
but
by
the
immediate
worke
of
God
:
though
,
as
Cyrus
had
some
glory
of
the
Babylonish
deliuerie
,
so
our
Cyrus
,
our
gracious
King
had
worthily
some
glorie
of
his
princely
care
and
watchfulnesse
in
this
discouerie
.
3.
It
was
done
seasonably
,
in
the
very
due
time
,
when
all
was
ready
,
&
the
conception
was
euen
in
the
birth
.
4.
It
was
done
to
their
own
confusion
:
detected
by
themselues
;
their
hands
that
should
haue
acted
it
,
detected
it
by
writing
.
Discouered
against
themselues
:
mischiefe
returned
on
the
heads
that
deuised
it
:
they
fell
into
the
pit
that
they
digged
for
others
:
death
intended
against
their
brethren
,
caught
themselues
,
and
that
by
their
owne
powder
.
All
this
to
the
vtter
confusion
of
their
Religion
,
as
we
haue
heard
Winter
himselfe
fore-telling
.
Therefore
let
vs
reioyce
in
this
great
worke
of
God
,
as
his
ancient
people
in
this
place
.
For
why
?
The
greatest
rage
of
the
enemie
is
turned
to
his
greatest
praise
:
Psal.
76.10
.
Surely
the
wrath
of
man
shall
praise
thee
:
both
in
his
glorie
and
his
Churches
deliuerance
.
And
what
is
the
end
of
all
Gods
great
deliuerances
,
but
to
praise
his
name
,
and
glorie
in
his
praise
?
Psal.
106.47
.
Is
not
ours
the
benefit
?
Haue
not
wicked
men
seene
and
felt
,
that
God
hauing
chosen
our
land
to
dwell
in
,
will
not
eas●y
be
cast
out
of
his
lodging
?
and
will
not
this
coole
their
blood
,
and
daunt
their
spirits
from
the
like
enterprises
for
time
to
come
?
Doth
not
this
hazard
thus
happily
diuerted
make
addition
to
our
strength
and
peace
?
Oh
blessed
be
God
,
euen
the
Father
of
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
,
who
for
his
owne
sake
,
by
his
owne
hand
,
hath
heaped
vp
our
happinesse
.
He
that
is
mightie
,
hath
done
great
things
for
vs
,
and
holy
is
his
Name
.
Oh
praise
we
the
Lord
;
for
he
is
good
,
for
his
mercie
endureth
for
euer
.
Holy
Father
,
knit
our
hearts
vnto
thee
,
that
wee
may
feare
thy
great
and
dreadfull
Name
.
Teach
vs
to
be
truly
and
vnfainedly
thankfull
to
thy
holy
Maiestie
,
for
this
daies
mercies
,
and
all
heretofore
:
that
so
we
may
receiue
the
continuance
of
thy
fauours
to
our
euerlasting
comfort
,
and
euermore
reioyce
in
thy
great
saluation
.
Blessed
be
God
.
FINIS
.
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