Great Brittans little calendar: or, Triple diarie, in remembrance of three daies Diuided into three treatises. 1. Britanniæ vota: or God saue the King: for the 24. day of March, the day of his Maiesties happy proclamation. 2. Cæsaris hostes: or, the tragedy of traytors: for the fift of August: the day of the bloudy Gowries treason, and of his Highnes blessed preseruation. 3. Amphitheatrum scelerum: or, the transcendent of treason: the day of a most admirable deliuerance of our King ... from that most horrible and hellish proiect of the Gun-Powder Treason Nouemb. 5. Whereunto is annexed a short disswasiue from poperie. By Samuel Garey, preacher of Gods Word at Wynfarthing in Norff.

Amphitheatrum Scelerum, OR, The Transcendent OF TREASON: For the 5. day of Nouember.

Sonne of Man, write thee the name of the day, euen of this same day, for the King of Babel set himselfe against Ierusa∣lem this same day.

Ezech. 24. 2.

CHAP. I.

AS a 1.1 Moses did speake in ano∣ther kinde to the people of Israel, Enquire now of the dayes that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man * 1.2 vpon the earth, and aske from the one end of Heauen vnto the other, if there came to passe such a great thing as this, or whether any such like thing hath beene heard: So I may say, Enquire of the Times past, and search the Records of all Antiquities,

and you cannot finde such a damnable and diuellish pro∣iect (the very modell of all mischiefes, and Miscellan of all massacres) the intended Powder-plot, the Quintessence of all impiety, and confection of all villany: the like ne∣uer * 1.3 de ficto, much lesse de facto; in which these prodigious and barbarous monsters, not men, but loathsome lumpes of mire and bloud, (in whose proditorious brests the spi∣rits of all expired traytors by a kinde of Pythagoricall transmigration were inclosed) intended to haue destroyed the obiects of Englands earthly glory, the glory of succes∣sion, yea succession it selfe, to extinguish the whole light * 1.4 and life of the land, vno actu, tactu, ictu: by one blow and blast of powder,

—Tollere Rem, Regem, Regimen, Regionem, Religionem.

Furious Phaetons, in one day, yea howre; with a dismall fire-worke to burne all to ashes; of a glorious Monarchy to make an Anarchy; to offer our most gracious King, roy∣all Queene, vertuous Prince, and hopefull Progeny, with right Noble personages of honourable place and birth, the reuerend Cleargy, with all the rest of that wise and flourishing assembly; to offer them all as a quicke and li∣uing sacrifice (not powdered with salt, or salted with fire, as our b 1.5 Sauiour, but) salted with powder, to make such an Holocaust or burnt offering as should be the general mar∣tyrdome of the Kingdome, to bereaue vs of our c 1.6 Eliat, and Horsemen of Israel, and take them away in a whirle-winde and chariot of fire. Quot mortes in vna morte? How many deaths in such a death? to cut off d 1.7 caput & caudam, head and tayle, branch and rush, Prince, Priest and people from our Israel in one day:

Quomodo inaudito potuit manus impianisu Tam dirum fabric are nef as? Respublica in vno Funere tollenda est, vno tumulanda sepulchro?

With such an hellish deed for to desire To bury King and Kingdome in a fire?

How ought the heauenly and happy deliuery from such an horrible and hidcous Tragedy, excite all continually to

thanke, and magnifie our most mercifull God, for such a miraculous preseruation: And though the crying sinnes of the Land had deserued such a Doomesday of fire, yet the Lord in mercy hath deliuered it from that desolation, and secured by his outstretched arme of power and pitty the Royall Head, and loyall members of great Britanny from his and our enemies, who e 1.8 tooke crafty counsell against thy people, and consulted against thy secret ones. They said; Come, let vs cut them off from being a Nation, and let the name of Israel be no more in remembrance: but they perished at Endor, and were dung for the Earth. Shall * 1.9 f 1.10 such wondrous workes as these be knowne in the darke, and thy righteousnesse in the Land where all things are forgotten? Can such a deliuerance from such a dismall dan∣ger, so villainous in the Agents, so dolorous for the pati∣ents, so craftily contriued, so eagerly pursued, so neerely effected, the watch of a night, and turning of an hand be∣tweene vs, and so deadly desolations; can such a gracious worke be euer buried in obliuion? Indeed it was * 1.11 Israels error, whose prayers and praises ended, so soone as they had passed the Red Sea: and shall we that haue escaped, not that Red Sea of water, but a Red Sea of fire, shall wee end our prayers and praises to God, because that danger is past? Oh how vnworthy shall we be of future fauours, if so vnthankefull for past blessings? And truly herein the Land is faulty, in forgetting these benefits, in a cold, and * 1.12 not continuall acknowledgement of their humble thanke∣fulnesse to God for these, and other vnspeakable benefits. And at the first all peoples hearts did burne within them (like those two g 1.13 Disciples) when they did but talke of the Powder Treason, admiring and acknowledging the infi∣nite mercies of God, in the preuenting this most abhor∣red massacre and with heart and voice magnified the Lord with h 1.14 Dauids Psalme: If the Lord had not beene on our side, may Israel now say; If the Lord had not beene on our side, when men rose vp against vs, they had then swallow∣ed vs vp quicke, when their wrath was kindled against vs. Praised be the Lord, which hath not giuen vs as a prey vn∣to

their teeths but a few yeeres being past, they beginne to slacken this duty and are cold in praysing God for so bles∣sed * 1.15 a deliuerance. Perchance pondering Parsans words, Will you neuer giue ouer (saith he) your clamors and ex∣aggerations. The Powder Treason, the Powder Treason? No, we should neuer giue it ouer, to poure foorth our per∣petuall praises to God, for protecting vs from so prodigi∣ous a plot, and practise. Our Eucharisticall deuotion to God for the preuention of the downefall of the Land, should not be so momentary, and like a morning dew, as if the renued remembrance of so great deliuerance should become wearisomenesse vnto our spirits, or the wonder∣ment of the Lords mighty worke being past, our gratu∣lation to God should be out of dare, vnseasonable, and more then halfe forgotten: No, the deliuery from this fla∣gitious, and most bloody designement, (as it were a resur∣rection of this Kingdome from the dead) claimes not a va∣nishing, but a continuall and constant ioy; which ioyfull thankefulnesse to God if we forbeare or forget, because the time of that danger is past, we shall be like them, who seeing i 1.16 Iohn to be a shining and a burning light, reioiced for a season in him; or like the k 1.17 Pharise, Thanke God in tongue and countenance onely. And I feare there are many in this publike ioy and thankesgiuing, assume the face, and fashion of reioicers, like Ruf•…•…, who came to Ʋitellius af∣ter his victory, carrying (as l 1.18 Tacitus writes, Latitiam & gratulat ionem vultu ferens, sed animo anxius, &c.) Ioyfulnes in tongue and heauinesse in heart: These if any such, may witnesse against themselues. That m 1.19 the Lord hath done great things for vs, wherefore we reioice. The better to awaken our flumbering affections to this perpetuall ser∣uice of thankefull reioicing, and to prouoke vs to imprint an eternall Momento in the Kalender of our hearts fore∣uer, of the maruellous mercy of God in keeping vs from that intended destruction, I haue enterprized to ••ouze vp and reuiue the languishing spirits of the Land, with the re∣nued remembrance of so ioyfull a worke, and with a fresh * 1.20 supply to refresh this fainting and expiring Lampe, which

though it hath beene cherished with the oyle of many hel∣ping hands, yet begins to faile in light, and had need that both Pulpet and Presse should preach and publish a conti∣nuall Hallelu-Iah, for so great and gracious a mercy of de∣liuery. For earthly men are hardly moued to this duty of praysing and thanking God; of ten n 1.21 Lepers but one re∣turnes to giue thanks. Pharao being plagued, can send for Moses and Aaron, and say; o 1.22 Pray ye vnto the Lord for me; but being eased, neuer say, Praise the Lord with me: wher∣in (if the latenesse of our gratulation to God) shall find a cold entertainement with the vnthankefull Children of Men; as if this worke were out of date, I say with the Psal∣mist; p 1.23 This shall be written for the generation to come, and the people which shall be created, shall praise the Lord.

In handling of which Subiect, I will discourse princi∣pally of foure generall things: 1. Of the plot and proiect it selfe: 2. Of the Persons: 3. Of the Causes, or motiues: 4. Of the ends. By these foure markes I will guide my selfe in the description of this Chaos of confusion.

CHAP. II.

1. Of the Plot.

IN the declaration of this direfull, and dete∣stable * 1.24 Powder-plot, I may beginne with the words of Aeneas, relating to Queene Dido of the fall of Troy, yet with a little Inuersion:

* 1.25Anglorum vt opes, & lamentabile regnum Eruerent Danai— Quanquam animus 〈…〉〈…〉 horret, luctu{que} refugit, Incipiam—

My heart doth shake with trembling feare amazt, How famous England, a rich flourishing Land,

By Papists Powder-plot had beene defac't, And Troynouant, like Troy, in q 1.26 fiery ruines stand, Had not the Lord put forth his sauing hand.

As Treason is a worke of darkenesse; so these working Traytors wrought in darkenesse, their plot of hellish pol∣licy and impiety concealed in a place of darkenesse, Sub∣terraneum foramen, A place vnder the Earth, they wrought vnder the ground, beginning their Mine the eleauenth of December 1604, neare to the wall of the Parliament house.

—Itum est in viscera terrae. Atque oculis captifodere cubilia talpae: Ouid.

These blinded Pyoners to the Prince of hell. Labor in darkenesse, and in darkenesse dwell.

Deepe politicians to vndermine a State: what depth in deuising, cunning in contriuing, cost in preparing, sweat in labouring, closenesse in conueying. Ingeniosa crudelitas ad poenas; Men of cruel wits to crucifie their Countrey: but the Lords potent wisdome eluded the profound policies of these monstrous, and mischieuous Earthwormes.

In which damnable * 1.27 plot, two points considerable: 1. Their secrecy: 2. Their cruelty in it: Secrecy both in the Act, and Agents: 1. Vnder the Earth, the bosome of all se∣crets: 2. In the Agents, who sweare, and take the Sacra∣ment for secrecy. Strange impiety: to take the Sacrament, the Seale of Grace, to commit not a crying sinne of blood, but a roaring, and thundering sinne of fire, and brimstone: This is Popish practise, vsually to tie themselues for per∣formance of their desperate deeds, by taking the Sacra∣ment, in which they hold Christs body and blood really present; and thereupon make a bargaine to shed reall, yea royall blood.

—Nullus s••mel are receptus Sang•…•… f••nces.

I may say of them, as Iacob of Simeon and Leui; Bre∣thren in euill, the Instruments of cruelty are their habita∣tions: * 1.28 into their secret let not my soule come. These Gun-powder-Traytors,

first in their mine consulting with the Prince of Darknesse, (the president of their plot and coun∣sell;) and the combining and conspiring with themselues in the deepest secrecy for the perpetrating this inhumane villany: and hauing from the eleauenth of December, 1604, vnto Candlemasse next, s 1.29 laboured vnder the ground, and brought their wicked worke through halfe the wall of the Parliament House, vpon a new opportunity leaue their vn∣dermining worke, Daemonum opus, The Diuels worke; and hire the Vault or Cellar, vnder the Parliament house. And as before these Diuels Iourney-men laboured vnder the Earth, so now framing, and machinating sub Senatu, vn∣der the Parliament House, to make a finall dissolution there, which is the famous place of publike reformation: and therefore secretly doe conuey great store of powder thither, about 36 barrels of powder, couered ouer with store of wood and billet; and to vse t 1.30 Dauids words; Lo, the wicked bend their Bowe, and make ready their Ar∣rowes vpon the string, that they may secretly shoote at them which are vpright in heart: for the foundations shall be cast downe, and what hath the righteous done? And as the same u 1.31 Prophet, They incourage themselues in a wicked purpose, they commune together to lay snares priuily, and say; Who shall see them? but the * 1.32 Lord did breake the counsell of the Heathen, and brought to: nought the deui∣ses of such people. Blessed be his holy name for euer.

2 Is the cruelty of the plot, which appears specially in two respects: 1. In the generall extent: 2. In the greeuous de∣uice.

The extent large, plotted for the generall destruction of * 1.33 the King and Kingdome.

Cum subit illius dirissima mortis image, Ʋltima quae Regi, regno{que}, bonis{que} fuisset, Horribilis quatit essa tremor:—.

A dismall day, in which they did intend Of King, and Kingdome for to make an end.

These Powder-papists then dreamed to haue had a Ro∣mane Regiment, that Tuesday at night here; like Hamil∣cars

dreame, the Generall of the Carthaginiani, laying siege to Syracusa, an Image appeared to him in his dreame, and told Hamilear, hee should sup the next night in Syra∣cusa; and so he did, yet not as a Captaine, but Captiue: or like Iulius Caesaers dreame, who the night before he was slaine in the Senate house, dreamed that he sate hard by Iu∣piters seate: So these alreamed of high matters, and imagi∣ned wicked things; but the Lord x 1.34 did laugh them to scorne, the Lord had them in derision, and caused them to be crushed with a Scepter of Iron, and broke them in pee∣ces like a Potters vessell.

I cannot apprehend the hundreth part of the misery of that y 1.35 mischiefe, in attempting not onely to make our Kingdome headlesse, but memberlesse; and may cry

Quis cladem illius facti, quis funera faudo Explicet?

For they intended with one thunderclap of powder to haue cut off our Princely and politicke Head, our Annoin∣ted * 1.36 King, gracious Queene, hopefull Prince, with the bles∣sed branches of the Regall Race; the most reuerend Cler∣gy, Right Honourable Nobility, faithfull Counsellors, graue ludges, the greatest part of our worthy Knights and Gentry, wise Burgesses; the learned Clerkes of the Crowne, Counsell, Signet, Seales, and of euery principall Iudgement seate: the choice Lawyers, with an infinite number of the common people. Nay, this patternelesse proiect had not onely extinguished the best of Christians, but had demolished all the cheefe ornaments, and monu∣ments of the Land, the House of Parliament, the Hall of Iustice, the Tombes of all former Princes, the Crowne, with other markes of royalty, the Records of the King∣dome, the ancient Charters, Presidents, and Euidences of preserued Antiquities. In a word: The Head and Body of the State in generall, with the cheefe ornaments of all our Land, had beene comprehended vnder that fearefull and finall Chaos, and may them vs to borrow the Poets verse,

In Chaos 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉.

But the Lord in mercy deliuered all from this barba∣rous

butchery, this Babels confusion, the most Tragicall example of damnable Treachery, praysed bee his Maiesty and mercy for euer.

2. Cruelty is in the deuise, by a pile of fire and fagots, iron∣barrs, * 1.37 timber peeces, and huge stones, with thirty sixe barrells of Gunpowder, at one volley to haue blowen them vp; and not onely with powder to burne them, but lest (Salamander like) they should liue in that fire, with wood, stones and Iron to beate them to powder. That I may say with z 1.38 Iacob, Cursed be their wrath, for it was fierce, and their rage, for it was cruell: A most cursed and cruell forme of practise: for as by three meanes mankind may be put to death, first, by man, the most milde and mercifull way: secondly, by vnreasonable creatures, more vnnatural, yet some resistance may be made, or pity found, and as * 1.39 Daniel in the lions denne, parcere prostratis scit no∣bilis ira leonis. Thirdly, by insensible, and inanimate things▪ and among all the most cruell, the two elements of water and fire, and of those two, the fire most mercilesse and mi∣ferable. And in this intended corporall death they desire to dispatch all, not sensim, to prepare them by little and little to call to God to keepe them from the second death, * 1.40 (worse then a thousand bodily deaths:) But sine sensu, at vnawarns, vnprepared, to send them away, with one blast to blow vp all: they make no distinction of sexe, ex∣emption of person, young, old, great, small, man or wo∣man, * 1.41 high low, rich or poore. Omnibus est eadem lethivia: They must al passe the fiery trial, be they their frinds or fol∣lowers & welwillers (wherin no doubt but they had some of good place,) yet all of them must be blowen vp toge∣ther. Wherin they shewed themselues worse then the wild beastes; who are kind to their owne kinde, a quality euen naturalized in a brutish breast: but these to satisfie and satiate their bloodie mindes, will exceede the bestiall ferocity, and following the bloody steps of that Butcher Herod, who in the Bethlemiticall murder, to make all sure, did not spare his owne sonne, as some write: which moued Augustus to say; Praestat esse Herodis percum quam prolem,

It was better to be Herods swine thē son; to this practise of Papists may make vs say, It is better to be the Popes beast then Barne, dogge, then Darling. And indeed these kind of people (as this Plot with others is a fit demonstration) * 1.42 many of them be of very cruell and bloodie dispositions, Powder, Poyson, and Ponyard, the Typicall markes of their profession; nay their malice so inueterate and immor∣tal, that it ceaseth not with death, but the bones, and ashes of their martred enimies, must be disturbed in their graues, as a 1.43 Wicliffe, Bucer, and Phag••••s, are famous witnesses.

And as it was an old prouerbe, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, meaning Cappadocians, Cilicians & Cretians, to which we add Romes Catholicks, Crudeles, er Cruciferos, cruel crucifying Catho∣licks; in their plots of cruelty they wil carry the picture of a crucifix, or an Agnus dei in any foule fact; like the Iacobites, or b 1.44 Iamnites, who had vnder their coates their golden gods whē they went to battle: Pictura Dei in opere diaboli, The picture of God in the work of the diuel. Yet to dig vp dead mens graues is a point of cruelty, for—molliter essa quieseant.

And as Iosias said to his people cōcerning a Prophet buri∣ed in a scpulcher, let c 1.45 him alone, let none remoue his bones. But if this were all, alas the crueltie were but small, Parua queror: These are poore reuenges of malice to martyr the bones, when they haue murdered the bodies: No no, their cruelty shall not onely descend to the Sepulcher, but ascend to the Scepter: kill a King, poyson a Prince, blow vp a Se∣nate: fire vp a Parliament, Spoile a Nation;

Inven. Sat. 1.

• Aude aliquid breuibus gyaris, et Carcere dignum,
• Si vis esse aliquis, &c.

As Catesby to his companion said, Wilt thou be a Traytor * 1.46 Tom? venture not thy selfe to small purpose; if thou wilt be a Traytor, there is a plot to a greater aduantage, & such an one as cā neuer be discouered: what a fiery spirit is here not like d 1.47 Iames or Iohn, to command fire from heauen to consume them, but to fetch fire from hell (or purgatory fire out of the vault) to consume all.

Such a bloody minded man was their Cardinall Farnesus, of whom it is e 1.48 writtē, that he said he would make his horse swim vp to the belly in the blood of Protestants: we know not what Spirits they are of: for as there be three kind of Spirits,

• Holy.
• Humane.
• Hellish.

So these possessed with the last, an hellish spirit, in an hellish worke, to destroy our generall Father, and com∣mon Mother, King, and Countrey, with a f 1.49 terrible blow; which cruelty may make vs more astonisht, then the witchcrafts of Isis and Osyris amazed Apuleius.

—Bella, horrida bella, Et Tamisin multo spumantem sanguine cerno:

The warres and woes (if this their worke had stood) Had made the Thames & Temples swim with blood.

Oh let this monstrous Monument of superlatiue impi∣ety stand like g 1.50 Lots wiues pillar of salt, to season all po∣sterity with detestation of such inhumane cruelty. Triste exemplum, sed in posterum salubre, as h 1.51 Liuy in another kind: A fearefull * 1.52 example, worthy to make vs more thankefull to God, more dutifull in our liues, more carefull of Gods Lawes, who out of his infinite loue and mercy preserued vs from this generall and diabolicall massacre. And as I haue read, how the Romanes in detestation of the name of proud Tarquinius, who tyrannized ouer them, banished a good Citizen, onely because he had that name; so let the name of the Powder Treason, worke such detestation in the hearts of all Papists, that they may neuer hereafter thinke of any treasonable plots against King or Country, but banish for euer all such intentions or inuentions out of their hearts, which I pray God giue them grace to doe. And let all from high to low, fall downe vpon the knees of humble and thankfull hearts, and cry with Dauid; i 1.53 Praise the Lord of Lords, for his mercy endureth for euer: let Is∣rael now k 1.54 say; that his mercy endureth for euer: who de∣liuered his people, when like Izaacke, almost the knife at l 1.55

their throats; and when they had prepared their fire, wood, powder, to offer vp Prince, Peeres, and People, like m 1.56 Isa∣acke as a burnt offering; when they purposed o 1.57 to perse∣cute their soules, and take them, to tread our liues downe vpon the earth, and to lay our honour in the dust: then p 1.58 did the Lord arise in his wrath, and lift vp himselfe a∣gainst the rage of our enemies: so that they who q 1.59 made a pit, and digged it, fell into it themselues; their mischiefe re∣turned vpon their owne heads, and their cruelty fell vpon their owne pates. The r 1.60 wicked are snared in the worke of their owne hands, and may moue all to cry aloud; s 1.61 Come, and behold the workes of the Lord: he ruleth the World with his power, his eyes behold the Nations, the rebelli∣ous shall not exalt themselues. Praise our God ye people, * 1.62 and make the voice of his praise to be heard: t 1.63 Praise him in his mighty Acts, praise him according to his excellent greatnesse: let euery one that hath breath; praise the Lord, for this great and gracious mercy, in the meanes of our maruellous and mercifull deliuery.

CHAP. III.

The discouery of the Plot:

IN the discouery of this Archtrayte∣rous plot, I may truly repeate Liuies words, who in a great case of ioy saith; Maius gaudium suit, quàm quod vni∣uersum homines caperent, It was a grea∣ter ioy then men are able to compre∣hend, by an vnusual discouery to haue a generall deliuery from so dismall a 1.64 Tragedy. For when they had thought and writ, that God and Man had con∣curred to punish the wickednesse of the time, God, and Man consented to reueale the wickednesse of their trea∣son, and makes vs hope well of that Prophecy we do reade in Telesphorus, * 1.65 Antichristus non poterit subiugare Venetias,

nec Parisios, nec Ciuitatem regalem Anglia, Antichrist shall not be able to sub due Venice, nor Paris, nor the Kingly City of England, London. The principall instrument, and humane meanes of the discouery of this diuellish treache∣ry, was a letter (like x 1.66 Dauids letter to Ioab, which Ʋriah carried for his owne death) sent some ten dayes before the Parliament should haue begunne, priuily and cunningly conueyed by an vnknowne man to one of the Footemen of that Right Honourable Lord, (worthy of perpetuall honour for his fidelity) the Lord Mount-Eagle, charging him to put that Letter into his Lord and Masters hands; which Letter that thrice-honoured Lord receiuing, won∣dring at the strange contents thereof, and perplexed what construction to make of it, like a most dutifull Subiect and diuine Eagle, concluded not to conceale it; but for all the latenesse and darkenesse of the night, repaires present∣ly to his Maiesties Pallace at White-Hall, and there deli∣uered the same to the late deceased Earle of Salisbury, Sir Robert Cecil, a very vigilant Counsellour, and wise States∣man, then his Maiesties principall Secretary: which said Letter being afterward vpon the Kings returne to White-Hall presented to his Maiesty, (euer * 1.67 fortunate in his Princely iudgement in clearing obscurities, and doubtfull mysteries) did vpon the instant interprete, and apprehend by the darke phrases, (yet contrary to Drammaticall con∣struction) that it must be done by blowing vp the House of Parliament by Gunpowder; commanding a search to be made, by which the matter discouered, and Agents were apprehended. Whereas if his Maiesty had not accom∣modated his interpretation to this kind of danger, no worldly prouision, or preuention, could haue put backe this lamentable destruction. So that is here verified, which y 1.68 Salomon deliuered, Diuination in labijs Regis, A diuine sen∣tence shall be in the lippes of the King: The z 1.69 glory of God is to conceale a thing secret, but the Kings honour is to search it out. In this Gunpowder Treason, our King was Regi•• 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Kingly Prophet, inspired by God in de∣ciphering and declaring the darke meaning of their ambi∣guous,

and mysticall Letters: It was the Lords mercy to put into the Kings mind the darke meaning of this dange∣rous mischiefe: for, * 1.70 Ibi incipit diuinum auxilium, vbi deficit humanum, When humane helpes are ready to faile, God will come in the very point and article of time, to deliuer his seruants; and will raise vp some meanes either ordinary or extraordinary, to discouer and defeate the deuices of the wicked. As indeed did diuinely appeare in this deliue∣rie; first that a Letter should be writ; secondly a glosse or commentary made vpon it by the King, contrary to com∣mon construction, yet that was the second meanes (vnder * 1.71 God, whose might and mercy was aboue all) of our pre∣seruation. Telenus prophecied to Cyclops, his eye should be put out, but he was incredulous to beleeue it, contemned this aduertisement:

Risit, & o vatum stolidissime, falleris, inquit.

So some might haue thought this letter to haue beene * 1.72 the euaporation of an idle braine; but our Teltroth Cassan∣dra, sacred Soueraigne, presently presaged the truth, know∣ing Traytors to be like * 1.73 Sampsons Foxes, to haue fired tayles, and to be firebrands of fury, presupposed it to be a plot of fire: for Traytors are Flagellarci••. Flabella sediti∣onis, scourges of Common-wealths, Bellowes of sedition, to inkindle fireworkes of destruction: they are like cruell Surgeons, that alwayes launce and seare, and vse the cut∣ting knife and fire, no gentle a 1.74 Remedies: as their heads, like the head of b 1.75 Nilus vnsearchable; so their hearts in cru∣elty insatiable, and hands in execution infatigable, as their bloody heads, hearts, and hands appeare in this bloody businesse. These gunpowder Traitors, plotting so abhorred a Particide, though God frustrated their inhumane at∣tempts, and brought the wheele vpon themselues, yet were they most accursed murtherers in the sight of God. Saul a murtherer in mentall affection, in hunting after c 1.76 Dauids life, though he failed in manuall action and exe∣cution: So d 1.77 Hamax in plotting the death. of innocent Mordecai, was a murderer in heart, and had a murderers reward. Neuer drop of innocent blood-shed, but it cries

for vengeance, therefore e 1.78 Ioh, O earth, couer not thou my blood. A murtherer is the very Image and picture of the Deuill, who was a murtherer from the beginning, as our Sauiour f 1.79 saith; and they that practise, or doe purpose to murder men, poyson Princes, destroy Countries, blow vp Cities, fire vp Parliaments, are of their Father the De∣uill, and led by his Spirit. And truly this practise, as it was of extraordinary ascendencie, so it had a rare discoue∣ry, by a letter of their owne, darke, doubtfull, and Sphinxi∣an, deliuered strangely; and when accepted, it might haue beene thought to haue beene an idle gull, or pasquill, and neuer further haue come to light, or being further exami∣ned, they might haue missed the marke in the interpreta∣tion * 1.80 of the mischiefe; but God so ordered, that this foolish letter (as it might haue bin iudged) was the meanes to dis∣couer their treachery, and confound their villanie. And further though a Treason suspected, yet nothing detected, till the very night before the day of their intended slaugh∣ter: they had almost brought it to this passe, g 1.81 Paulomi∣nus in inferno habitasset anima nostra, Our soule had almost dwelt in silence: yea they h 1.82 had almost consumed vs vpon the earth: we were in articulo mortis, not onely as men ap∣pointed to dye, but at the point to dye; but God who is i 1.83 adiutor in opportunitatibus, a refuge in due time of trouble, did k 1.84 breake the snare, and we were deliuered.

It pleased God to permit the Deuill to feede these his true seruants with false hopes, let them go on freely with∣out rub, till they had fully wouen their Spiders web, and come to the very point of execution, and deliuery of that deuillish monster whereof they had so long trauailed, and might say with those mourning messengers of King Eze∣chiah sent to Esay, l 1.85 the children are come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth: when we were albican∣tes ad messem, m 1.86 white for the haruest, and ready to be cut downe, and wanted nothing but thrusting in of Falx, their sickle to cut vs downe: or Fax, the fire to burne vs vp: or Faux, euen Guido Faux, or Faux Erebi, hellish Faux to swallow vs vp: when we might say with n 1.87 Dauid, there is

but a step betwixt vs, and death: being at the mouth of the pit, then the o 1.88 Lord takes vs as brands out of the fire: or as p 1.89 Amos, like firebrands pluckt out of the burning.

When our enemies thought they had the prey in their hands, and all had beene sure, when the danger was most deadly, and deliuery desperate, then the Lord did fight a∣gainst them in our cause: Now q 1.90 will I arise, saith the Lord, now will I be exalted now will I lift vp my selfe: Yee shall conceiue chaffe, and bring forth stubble: the fire of your breath shall deuoure you: as you haue r 1.91 sowen iniquity, so shall you reape affliction: ye haue s 1.92 sowen the winde yee shall reape the whirle-winde. Then did the Lord dash their deuices in peeces, and made their Sun set at noone, as Amos 8. 9. or rather caused their sinne to be discouered at midnight. All the former part of the night their hellish factor Faux was about his worke of darkenesse, in pre∣paring all his Engines and snares of death ready for the morning; and yet before the morning watch, I say, before the morning * 1.93 watch, they were disappointed and disco∣uered, and their chiefe Agent▪ t 1.94 Faux apprehended.

Sorrow might endure a night, but ioy comes in the morning.—Redeunt spectacul•• man••.

VVhen these Romish Idumeans (enemies to our Israe∣lites) had said like them in their hearts, Who shall bring * 1.95 vs downe to the ground? then did the watchman of Israel who * 1.96 neyther stumbers no•• sleeps bring the deuices of the wicked to light, manifesting their mischiefe, detecting their conspiracy, saying to these sinners as to the seas, x 1.97 Thus farre shall ye go•• and no further: y 1.98 E•…•… Deus, & 〈…〉〈…〉, When God arose, his enemies were soone scattered, they also that hate him, shall flye before him to make all to say with Esay, z 1.99 Heare ye that are a far off, what I haue done, and ye that are ne••e know my pow∣er; when the wicked had said in their hearts, Let vs de∣stroy, * 1.100 them alltogether, 〈…〉〈…〉 a 1.101 Lord awake as one out of sleepe; and as a Giant refreshed with wine, and smote his enemies in the hinder parts, and put them to a perpetuall shame; praised be his blessed name for euer.

And that no heart of man should presume to detract or defalke any part of the glory from Gods entire and plena∣ry praise in the work of this deliuerance; or sing like them, b 1.102 Saul hath slaine his thousand, and Dauid his ten thou∣sand: Consider the gracious and wonderfull prouidence of God, that the malefactor and Powder-Monster Faux, was taken when hee was new come out of the vault from working his fire-worke, hauing three matches, and all o∣ther instruments ready in his pocket; whereas if this Sinon had beene taken while hee was enclosed in his c 1.103 Troian Horse, hee confessed hee would not haue failed to haue blowen vp the house, * 1.104 himselfe, and his takers all toge∣ther: for as the Poet well writes of such

* 1.105—Nihil est audacius illis Depraensis, iram, ac animos à crimine sumunt:

Such wretches taken, and their deeds once seene, Harden theis hearts, and doe increase their spleene.

Yet such was the ouer-ruling power and d 1.106 prouidence of God herein, without any secondary causes, that the party assigned for the deed should be then without, who if hee had beene within, had done the deed in part, and in stead of touching the parties had ouerturned the place. To moue all, King and Subiects, not to e 1.107 sacrifice to their owne nets, as if any worldly policy could haue preuented this wret∣ched impiety, but that alone the sacred goodnes and pro∣uidence of our most deare and blessed God might triumph in this deliuerance. f 1.108 Not vnto vs, O Lord, not vnto vs, but vnto thy name giue the glory. Thou g 1.109 art worthy, O Lord, to receiue all the glory, honor, and power; and let all the Creatures in Heauen, and Christians on earth fay, h 1.110 Praise and honor, and glory, and power be vnto him that sitteth vpon the Throne, and to the Lambe for euer∣more; who hath deliuered vs from this ocean of misery, this odious Massacre. And should mooue all, Head and members, to cry with i 1.111 Ezra, Seeing that thou our God hast stayed vs from being beneath, and hast giuen vs such a deliuerance, should we return to breake thy commande∣ments, and ioyne in affinity with the people of such abho∣minations?

Seeing the Lord in this extraordinary worke hath declared such liuely markes, and expresse Characters of his diuine maiesty, might and mercy towards vs, shall we not magnifie the Lords mercy with Miriams melody, k 1.112 Sing ye vnto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously, the horse and his rider hath he ouerthrown in the Sea: He hath confounded the barbarous immanity, and inhuma∣nity of these bloud-thirsty Traytors euen emancipated to cruelty, by a noble and notable deliuery; and shall we not render vnto him a cordiall and continuall thankesgiuing of our lips, ioyned with a reall thankesgiuing of our liues? or shall we praise him with our mouthes and prouoke him with our sinnes? Lip-labor is lost labour, except with an internall thankefulnesse, there goes an entire obedience. Consider Christs caueat, l 1.113 Sinne no more, lest a worse thing come vnto thee. Let our newnes of life expresse the great∣nesse of our thankefulnesse. God will not accept the sacri∣fice of mouth-praisers proceeding from vnsanctified li∣uers. Let this our commemoration and recognition of Gods mercies past, prouoke vs to all obedience in the reformation of our liues to come. So shall wee make an holy vse of so happy a deliuery: Singula illius mala erunt nobis singula bona, Their * 1.114 banefire of powder, our bone∣fire of praises. And withall to make vs more * 1.115 vigilant to vn-earth these foxes, who will creepe into holes vnder the ground to worke our ouerthrow: foresight is the wise mans Beacon, Melius est praecauere, quam pauere: m 1.116 Take vs the foxes, the little foxes which destroyes the vines; for they are a part of that generation of whom speakes Salo∣mon, n 1.117 Whose teeth are as swords, & their iawes as kniues, they o 1.118 will not spare in the day of vengeance, and like the whorish woman p 1.119 will hunt for the pretious life of man. Remember therefore the counsell of the sonne of Syrach, q 1.120 Who will trust a thiefe that is alwaies ready?

And let this our true thankefulnesse to God be a dura∣ble seruice, not like r 1.121 a morning dew, and cloud that goeth away, or a Widdowes ioy, oritur & moritur, gotten, and forgotten in an houre, a suddainefit, or momenta••y pas∣sion,

or entertained like an annuall guest, as if the force and fruite of our thankefull ioy should be confined to one day, or like a common retainer should haue but a yeerely acceptance: no, I s 1.122 haue appointed thee a day for a yeere, euen a day for a yeere, saith God to his Prophet: but this of ours, est Dies pro omnibus annis, a day to thanke God all the yeeres of our life: alwayes to say and sing with De∣borah, t 1.123 praise yee the Lord for the auenging of Israel: yea euen the starres in their course fought against Sisera: So let thine enemies perish O Lord. And thou (O Lord) which didst keepe u 1.124 vs from the conspiracy of the wicked, and from the rage of the workers of iniquity, by discoue∣ring their villanie, to thee (most mighty, and mercifull God) we offer vp our bodies and soules as a liuing sacri∣fice, desirous to doe thee all prostrate seruice, in body and soule, which thou hast preserued in peace, appointed by the wicked to haue perished in powder; we will neuer for∣get * 1.125 this mercy, or forbeare our humble thankes to thee for our deliuery, but so long as the Sunne and Moone endu∣reth, wee with our posterities, (till time shalbe no more) will cherish the remembrance of it with an immortall thankfulnesse, saying to thee with holy Melchi-sedecke af∣ter Abrahams victory, * 1.126 Blessed be the most high God, which hath deliuered our enemies into our hands; to which King x 1.127 euerlasting, immortall, inuisible, vnto God onely wise, be all the honor, and glory for euer, and euer: Amen.

CHAP. IIII.

A description of the Persons.

THe Romish professors, who teach * 1.128 the people to eate their God, and kill their King, were the chiefe in∣struments in the Powder-treason: all the Actors, and adherents were great Recusants. Lay Recusants, Catesby, Percy, Winter, Tresham, Wright, &c. deuised the plot, and

then the lesuits fell in with them: allowed, and ratified by Garnet, Gerard, O••••corne, Greenewell, &c. Iesuits, and Po∣pish Priests. Garnet imparted the Popes Breues to Cates∣by, a right Catiline, whereby he was stirred vp to deuise some way to worke a generall ouerthrowe. This Cates∣by was the inuentor of this Villanie:

* 1.129Accipe nunc Danaúm insidias, & crimine ab vno disce omnes.

Learne by this Traytors odious fault, and fall, Yee Papists to abhorre Treason in generall:

This * 1.130 Canniball, or Roman-catholicke Catesby, hauing bethought him of the powder-plot for the blowing vp of the Parliament house, in generall rearmes breakes the case to Garnet: What if in some case the innocent should be de∣stroyed with the guilty? He answers, they might, so that it were for a good able to recompence the lo••se of the in∣nocent. And afterward the plot plainly propounded to him, not by way of confession, as his Procters pleade for him, but in conference about it: as he voluntarily confes∣sed before his death, that Greenewell with this Catesby was heard of him, not confessing, but consulting: yet if it had beene by way of confession (for his owne confession prooues the contrary) he should haue reuealed the plot, if not the parties, yea the parties also, if hee would follow the example of his fellow-confessors. Bodin a 1.131 doth relate an example heerein, how a Norman had a purpose to kill King Francis, yet afterward changed his minde, (these farre from such thoughts) and opens this sinne in his con∣fession to a Minorite Frier, of his former, yet forsaken pur∣pose: the Frier doth enioine him penance, and grants ab∣splution: yet declares all to the King, and the Iudges of the Court of Paris cause him to be executed. But these who before had turned them from the true religion, and tutored them in the Schoole of rebellion, were so far from reuealing, as that their heads and hearts were with them to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 well of the accomplishing: Gerard gaue the Tray∣tors the Sacrament to kind them to secrecy: Hammond in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 house absolued the Traytors, the Treason reuea∣led:

Oldcorne, alias Hall defends the plot being discoue∣red, and willes the Catholickes not to be discouraged.

Tesmond plotted with Garnet, and goes vp and downe to raise vp Armes. The publicke writings of our state and * 1.132 records heerein, with some of their owne confessions, examinations, and subscriptions, are inuincible witnesses against all the cauels of deprauing Papists, who labour to cleere these their polyprogmaticke Priests, from hauing an hand in so hellish a plot, by desperate, and notorious vn∣truths. But it is manifest by the mouth of Time, & Truth, * 1.133 that these Priests were priuie to the Powder plot, against all Popish calumniations suggested to the contrary: and these Lay Recusants hauing first suckt the pestilent poy∣son of this vnheard Treachery out of the ill humors of Po∣pish doctrine, infused into them by the treasonable Tribe of Iesuits, who teach Treason, and cause Traytors to be canonized in Romes Calender:

* 1.134Proh Superi, quantum mortalia pectoracaecae Noctis habent: ipso sceleris molimine Tereus Creditur essepius, laudemque á crimine sumit.

O Lord, what hearts possessed with the night Of deepest ignorance, depriu'd of sauing light, Can grace with praise such deedes of darknesse right.

These politicke Priests, knowing these their Lay-disci∣ples * 1.135 to be of turbulent, and treasonable Spirits, imitated Gracchus striplings, stirring vp such as be offended alrea∣dy, making them their Captaines and Standard bearers, while they might with security expect the hoped issue of this fearefull Treachery. So that these Priests, next to the Prince of the Aire, (who caused these children of disobe∣dience to worke vnder the earth) may challenge the chiefe place, and precedencie in the Plot: and may say, da locum, giue vs the place, you were the Actors, we Authors, com∣manding you to do all seruice for the Catholicke cause, to aduenture your lifes & blood for replanting our religion, to spare neither head, or mebers, but to strike at the Root, to make such a confusion as might beget a new alteration; to labor with Esop: frogs for a Cico••ia, an Italian Storke,

and stranger to rule heere, so to suster no Protestant ruler, nolumus hunc regnare, we will haue none such rule ouer vs, and for the effecting of it, you know our Doctrine, and practise.

Flectere sinequeo superos, Acheronta mouebo:

If we cannot preuaile with God aboue, As low as hell shall our inuentions mooue.

And because some may thinke I doe them wrong, in gi∣uing such badges, and aspersions to the Iesuited * 1.136 flocke, in making them the Trumpetors of treason, and procurers, and practisers of King-killing, (an Art highly commen∣ded in their Schoole) I will take vpon me briefely to de∣clare, how welcome Traytors be to that Tribe, and how highly by them they are commended, who of all the world beside are loathed, and abhorred.

CHAP. V.

Popish applause of Traytors.

IT is commonly knowen, that Iacobus Cle∣mens a Frier vowed to kill Henry the third, the French King; this his treason he imparts to Father Comelett, and other Iesuits: addunt calcaria, they spurre him on to this villanie, by promising Abbacies, Bishoprickes, &c. Aut sidefecerit, aut non successerit, if faile in deede, which he did follow in desire, then to be graced with the glory of Martirdome, and Papall Canonization, and to haue a place aboue the * 1.137 Apostles in heauen. The Traytor proceeds in his hellish proiect, and killes the King, and * 1.138 Sextus Quintui (the head of Rome) spoiles his braine, and spend his tongue to com∣mend it, rarum, inauditum, memor abile facinus, &c. A rare, vnheard, memorable exploit: a rare, vnheard Panegyricke to commend a murtherer for shedding▪ Royall blood. Ca∣cillus that great vndertaken for Verres would be ashamed to * 1.139 patronize such parties: but Popes are past shame, and

haue no blood in their cheekes, who will commend the shedding of blood: We d 1.140 read, that when Chastell that wounded the French King, was examined, by whose tea∣ching, and perswasion he had done it; answered, that he heard many say, that the murder was lawfull, because they called him a Tyrant: and being demanded, whether the Iesuits vsed to say so, he sayd, he had heard many of them say, that fact was lawfull, because hee was out of the Church, and excommunicated.

And one of them hath written a booke namely Fran. de. * 1.141 Ʋeron. Constant. calling it, an Apology for Iohn Chastell, maintaining e 1.142 Chastells deede: In which worke, (he sayth) if Harmodius, and Aristogiton, Scaeuola, and Brutus onely for loue of their Country, hauing no other lights to goe before them, cast themselues into such danger by murde∣ring Tyrants; what thinke you ought a Christian, and a Frenchman, and one that burnes with the zeale of Phinees, Ehud, and Elias, to doe for the Catholicke Church, for which Christ died, and in which we are sure of saluation? And agreeably with him writes f 1.143 Bonarscius, otherwise called Carolus Scribonius, hath the Pope (saith he) no pow∣er against the French King? shall Dionysius, Machanidas Aristotimus, Tyrants, Monsters of the world oppresse Fraunce, and shall no Pope encourage vp a Dion, a Timo∣leon to dispatch them? shall many monsters hold the Com∣mon-wealth in bonds, and shall no Thrasibulus mooue his hand? shall no man play the Souldier vpon this beast, mea∣ning the French King?

So the Iesuite g 1.144 Mariana highly commends King killers, Praeclare cumrebus humanis ageretur, si multi, &c. It were excellent, if many such, meaning King killers could be found: and commends such greatly, and prescribesto them also rules, and caueats in the poisoning of Kings, not to poyson them by meate, or drinke, least the King taking it with his owne hand be guilty of selfe fellonie; but rather to be poysoned by his chaire, apparell, robes, after the ex∣ample of the Mauritanian Kings, to be poysoned by sent, or contact: O hell hound, sprung from cursed, and cruell

Caine, art thou a tutor of Parricide? how comes it that the Pope hath nor called in this worke of that wicked wretch, and yet hath called in some others of his bookes? it argues King killers please him well, and he makes great vse of them.

To passe ouer forraine Stories of famous Kings, destroy∣ed by them (which in the next Chapter shall be touched) how was D. Parry encouraged, and animated (the appoin∣ted slaughterman of Queene Elizabeth) by letters to pro∣secute his intended mischiefe, and that from no meane, tri∣uiall, or forlorne fellow, but euen from one of the Popes Cardinals? The tenor of which letter fellowes: Sir, the ho∣linesse of our Lord the Pope, hath seene your Letter with credit enclosed, and cannot but praise your good disposi∣tion, and resolution, which you writ, holdeth to the ser∣uice, and benefit publicke. Wherein his Holinesse exhor∣teth you to continue, and to bring to passe your promise: and that you may be the better ayded by that good Spirit, which hath induced you to this, his Blessednesse grants you full pardon, and forgiuenesse of your sinnes, and his Holinesse will further make himselfe a debtor to you, to acknowledge your deseruings in the best maner he may: put in act your holy, and honorable thoughts, and looke to your safety: and I wish you all good, and happy successe: from Rome. 30. of Ianuarie. 1584.

Yours to dispose, N. Cardinall of Come.

By which letter we may see their liking of such workes, and workers, euen their Pope praising such for their good disposition and resolution, which all godly Christians call abomination, and rebellion.

Non sie mor det ouis, non sunt hac facta columbae, Sedlup a dilauiat, maretrix ••mat improbe caedes:

No lambe so bit as, no such deedes likes the Doue, But wolfe▪ will worry, barlot bloodshed loue.

It is well sayd of n 1.145 Primasius Nemo per•…•…, peccat, quam qui peccat, none sin more dangerously, then

they which defend their sinne: how deadly then sinne they, who not onely defend it, but commend that crying sinne of blood, promising pardon of sinnes, for perpetra∣ting most horrible sinnes: So that it puts me in minde of the saying of the painter to the Duke of Vrbine, who be∣ing hired by a Cardinall to paint the picture of Paul and Peter, painted them with an high colour: the Cardinall thinking they were too high coloured, the painter answe∣red, that indeede Paul and Peter while they liued, were dead coloured, and pale with preaching, but since they were dead, they were high coloured, blushing at the wic∣kednesse of their supposed (and but supposed) successors, ashamed of the Doctrine, and practises of your Church of Rome, and that this shame had altered their colour. And sure all Gods seruants, who haue the feare of God before their eyes, are ashamed, and abhorre such abominable practises. The cause (as Bodin saith) which mooued Taci∣tus * 1.146 to exclaime against Christians was, quia Christiani af∣fectarunt crimina, quae Ethniti abhorruerunt, Because Christians affect those sinne, with the Ethnickes doe ab∣horre: if Tacitus were now aliue, how would he exclaime against the Church of Rome, for animating people to commit such villanies, which all Ethnickes, (except saua∣ges or Cannibals) abhorre, and condemne?

Behold how k 1.147 Rome is degenerated from her primitiue State; time was, she loathed such deedes, either to com∣mend, or canonize Trators.

Facta haec Roma olim, nec sancta, nec Ethnica, nouit.

Such workes in ancient times this Rome did hate, In her first Christian, yea in Ethnicke State.

But now,

Quod natura nefas odit, doctrina capescit:

Which nature most detest, Doctrine defend.

Yea, haue not some of them laboured to extenuate the deuillish deuise of these superlatiue Powder-traytors with these words, Alas it was the attempt of some few, and vn∣fortunate Gentlemen: vnfortunate as they count, because they failed in performance: or as others of them, These Ca∣tholickes held the King, no King, or not their King; and ex∣pectanda

erat diuturna persecutio, a perpetuall persecution was to be expected: and Eudemen a Iesuite hath write to defend Garnets Treason, and rightly played the Daemon: and haue not some others excused the fact of Rauilliacke (one of Marianas Schollers) who stabbed Henry the fourth, the late famous French King, (whose death neuer sufficiently to be lamented, and neuer of Kings sufficiently reuenged) with these pretences, Fuit stolidit as regis ob sus∣ceptum haereticorum patrocinium, It was the folly of the King for patronising these heretickes, meaning Prote∣stants?

So that I may define these Iesuits to be, * 1.148 as one did de∣fine a Frier to be, cadauer mortuum è sepulchro veniens, mis∣sum à daemone inter homines, a dead Carrion comming out of his graue, sent of the deuill among men: and truly such are rather monsters then men, who will commend, or command murther, applaud murtherers, and Traytors, who are portenta virorum, viri portentorum, monsters of men, or men monsters, viri sanguinum, men of blood, viri oc∣cisionis, slaughter men: and though in all professions some are bad, A Cham will be in the Arke, Saul among the Prophets, and * 1.149 Iudas among the Apostoles, some may fall into murther, or Treason &c. Yet when such come to their end and punishment, they vsually confesse their faulte to be in their nature, not in their religion, excep∣ting onely Roman Catholickes, who seeke to fetch poy∣son from heauen, and to prooue murther by the Scrip∣ture: * 1.150

Dogmatis atque Scholae sunt haec, non crimina morum.

So that these cannot say with Cassiodorus, follow my doctrine, but not my maners, for both precepts, and prac∣tise treasonble.

And that I may giue a little tast, or touch of their prac∣tises in this kind (least I should seeme to condemne them without cause) I will in the next Chapter demonstrate, how that many Popes of Rome, (who are the heads of Po∣pery, which is the k 1.151 mystery of iniquity) haue caused, and procured many Emperors, Kings, Princes, and worthy

men to be greatly persecuted, and grieuously killed. So that we may say to them as our Sauiour to the l 1.152 Pharisees, I will send them Prophets and Apostles, and of them they shall slay and persecute, that the bloud of all the Prophets (with many Kings, Princes, and learned men) may be re∣quired of this generation.

CHAP. VI.

A short Catalogue, or rehearsall of certaine Emperors, Kings, and famous men, who haue beene perse∣cuted by the Antichrist of Rome.

I Cannot nor will not enterprise to declare all the particular persecutions of the Church of Rome against seuerall Kings, and Potentates, who distasted, and in some sort opposed themselues against their corruptions; for that would require a long * 1.153 Tractate to discouer the miserable mischiefes of the whore of Babilon, m 1.154 drunken with the bloud of Saints, and with the bloud of the Martyrs of Iesus Christ: for that were an endlesse worke, and the Spirit of truth might say to me, as to Ezechiel, n 1.155 Turne thee againe, and thou shalt see greater abhominations then these; I will confine my selfe to a few examples.

The Emperour Philippicus Bardanius, because hee com∣manded * 1.156 all Images to be remoued out of the Churches, by the counsell and consent of Iohn Patriarke of Constanti∣nople, was denounced an Hereticke, publiquely excom∣municated by Pope Constantine, and commanded no gold * 1.157 nor siluer to be stamped with his Image, nor any mention made of him in their common prayers.

Lodouicus Pius the Emperor, eight hundred yeares after Christ, was thrust out of his Kingdome by the French Cleargie and the o 1.158 Pope.

Philip the Emperor by the procurement of the Pope

Innocent the third, who said, p 1.159 Eyther he would haue Phi∣lips Crowne, or Philip his Miter; continually opposed himselfe against him, and stirred vp q 1.160 Count Otho against him, who miserably did slay him at Bamberge in his priuy chamber.

Henry the seuenth oppressed by the r 1.161 Pope and his Car∣dinals. s 1.162 stirring vp enemies against him, was at last poy∣soned by t 1.163 a Monke in the Sacrament.

I omit to speake of the other u 1.164 Henries, tragically vexed by tyrannicall Popes, the extreamities and indignities whereunto they brought them, haue replenished the world with plentifull histories: The Emperor Fredericke the seauenth truely complaining, * 1.165 That the happines of Emperors was alwaies opposed by the Popes enuy.

Neyther haue the Kings of the earth found better vse, some of them by Popes deposed from their Kingdomes, as * 1.166 x 1.167 Childericke the French King by the Pope deposed, vnder pretence of stupidity, and thrust into a Monastery: Philip the first for matrimoniall causes. Philip called the faire for collating of benefices: Rachis King of the Lombards by Pope Zachary put into a Monastery, with many others which might be named.

Nay not onely by Popes deposed, but of their liues de∣priued. Manfred the King of Naples and Sicily, had the Duke of Anien y 1.168 armed against him by Pope Ʋrbane the fourth, by whom hee was slaine. So Conradinus King of Naples and Sicilye, being taken prisoner by Charles, bro∣ther to the French King, z 1.169 was miserably put to death by the Popes Counsell.

King Iohn of England * 1.170 was vilely vexed, and depriued of his Kingdome by the Pope and his Bishops, and the French King set vp against him, and at last was a 1.171 poysoned by a Monke.

Ioane the Queene of Naples was b 1.172 depriued of her Kingdome by Pope Vrbane, who consented to c 1.173 her mur∣ther.

Gemin Otto the brother of the great Turke, being priso∣ner, was poysoned by the d 1.174 Pope, hired thereunto by a

e 1.175 promise of two hundred thousand Crownes, and the seamelesse coate of Christ: This Pope was Pope Alex∣ander the sixth, of which thing reade Cuspinian in Baia∣zet the 2.

Henry the second of England was by the Popes f 1.176 ap∣pointment whipt of the Monkes.

Iulian and Lawrence the Dukes of Florence, by the Popes g 1.177 practise were assaulted in the Church at the time of the eleuation of the host, and the one greeuously woun∣ded, the other murdered.

Henry the third of France, after many treasons of the Sorbonists against him, h 1.178 was at last murdered by a Domi∣nican Frier, which murder the Pope in a solemne oration extolled to the skies.

Henry the fourth his successor, first wounded by Cha∣stell, a Disciple of the Iesuites, for which they were then banished the Realme: and afterward treacherously murde∣red by a popish miscreant Rauilliacke. This Henry assaul∣ted by sixe Popes, Gregory the thirteenth, Sixtus the fift, Vrbane the seuenth, Gregory the fourteenth, Innocentius the ninth, Clement the eight, the last hauing brought the King to be reconciled to the Church of Rome, i 1.179 triumphed ouer him; and yet this King thus their owne, because hee seemed to fauor the Protestants, must die a bloudy death.

The Prince of Orenge lamentably murdered k 1.180 by a Pa∣pist, who for the said Parricide is highly commended by the Friar l 1.181 Surius, his name was Balthazar Gerardus.

Our late famous Queene Elizabeth (of happy memory) since the tenth yeare of her raigne, (about which time Pius Quintus excommunicated her,) till her dying day was not free from the treasons of Papists, Parries, Campians, &c. the Popes with their adherents raising vp inuasions, and so farre as they were able laboured to haue wrought her de∣struction.

Our high Soueraigne that now is, hath had experience in Scotland of Popish treason, and in England this Pow∣der-plot makes it perspicuous.

I need not produce other examples which in all nations * 1.182

abound, of high personages and Peeres destroyed by po∣pish hands. The Viceroy of Rauenna vnder Leo the third Emperor, with his sonne slaine by the Popes faction. The Prince of Condie poysoned. William Prince of Aurance slaine by a Popish villaine. Charles the King of Spaines * 1.183 sonne, because he was thought to fauor Protestants, made an end of by their inquisitors. In a word; let the * 1.184 Massacre in Paris, in which were destroyed in a night and few daies, many noble and religious Protestants, among the which Noble Caspar Colignius slaine. Let the fires and faggots in England in Queene Maries reigne, in which were cru∣elly burned many zealous and deuout Christians, who for the Gospels sake sacrificed their bloud in fiery flames, and wonne the glory and Crowne of Martyrdome. Let this Power-Treason inuented by Popish people, ratified by popish Priests, in which they intended to haue made a ge∣nerall martyrdome. Let the Spanish Inquisition which hath put to death with exquisite torments many thousand people. Let these foure speake for all, and surely they will speak that, or more▪ then that which Eberhardus the Arch∣bishop of Saltsburge, a good old man, once spake, who when he had knowen ten Romane Bishops, and had dili∣gently marked their practises, vnder Fredericke the first, Henry the sixt his sonne, and Fredericke the second his ne∣phew for fifty yeares together, deciphered or described the Pope for a rauenous * 1.185 wolfe vnder a Shepheards weed, compounded wholly of Auarice, Luxury, Contention, Warres, Discord, and desire of Rule, with such like attri∣butes: whose oration at large is extant in m 1.186 Auentine a Ro∣man Catholike writer. Or will speake that which the Poet Massaeus writes of Pope Iulius the second, as great a bloud sucker as euer reigned in Rome, by n 1.187 whose meanes in seauen yeares 200000 Christians were destroyed of this Pope the Poet hath this Epitaph;

Genua euipatrem, gen••tricem, Graecia, partum Pontus & vnda dedit, num bunus esse potest? Fallaces Ligures, & mendax Graecia, pont•• Nulla fides, in te singulasolm habes.

Thy Father Genoan, Mother Grecian borne, In Ocean Sea, can goodnesse thèe adorne? Genoans are full of fraud, Greece lyes maintaine, In Sea no trust, all these in thee one raigne.

So that I will end this point with this obseruation, that Mahomet, Phocas, and Boniface the third, who first had the stile of vniuersall Bishop, liued all about the o 1.188 same time: So that Mahometisme, Popery, and murthering of Christian Kings began all at once, and now conioyned in one. And all the people of Great Britanny haue cause to thanke God that they are free from this Head, the Head of these mischiefes, and I would the land were free from all his members; yet they are among vs, as Labans Idols p 1.189 in Iacobs tent vpon Record, not by allowance: and many wish that such a voice might eccho in our Soueraignes eares (who is a mercifull King) as once came from q 1.190 the Smiths forge to the hearing of the Landgrave of Hesse, a mild Prince, the Smith striking his iron saide, Duresce in∣quam, duresce, vtinam & Langrauius durescat, waxe hard, waxe hard, would to God the Landgraue would waxe hard: So it might bee wished that the * 1.191 sword of Iustice were sharper against seducing Iesuites, that their haunts and harbors were stopt, places of entertainment scoured, and the femall Hierarchy, which breedes many, were put downe: for these serpents will first tempt Eue, the weaker vessell; and women soone induced, hardly reclaimed. So should God be serued with more holy deuotion in true re∣ligion, and our King and Country be freed from treason and rebellion.

CHAP. VII.

I Haue a little touched the persons, as well Authors as Actors, shewing that originally and ordinarily this sinne of Treason flowes from the sinke or sea of Rome, because Car∣dinall r 1.192 Bellarmine would outface the world with, It was neuer heard of from the Churches infancie, that any Prince, though an heretike or persecutor, was murdered by the * 1.193 Popes command or allowance: when it is shewed that not only allowance or recognizance, but consent, content, yea head, heart, and all haue ioyned to∣gether in the destruction of Princes: so that I may say to him, Tute-lepus es, &c. He hath deliuered many treasona∣ble positions, of deposing, degrading, exciting Armes, &c. and can a traytor be vnwelcome to him? it may be so, for; Proditores etiam ijs, qui mercede cond••cunt, inuisi sunt, Traytors are hated of them who hire them, but they like the treason, if effected, and many times the * 1.194 traitors too, and euen canonize them for good members, whose pedi∣gree in the hangmans heraldry is knowne to be base mur∣derers, and abhorred traytors; it Is very strange,

* 1.195 Si fur displiceat Verri? homicida Miloni?

I had rather say with the Prophet s 1.196 Osee, As theeues wait for a man, so the company of Priests murther in the way by consent, for they worke mischiefe: and may say of their Priests as an olde Poet speakes of their Pope.

* 1.197Qui fore debuit gratia datinus, Factus est ecclesia ablat••••us:

Of Grace who should be the Datiue case, Is now become the Ablatiue of grace.

A Bishop or Priest should be no t 1.198 striker or fighter, no warrior, no man of bloud, no tutor to Traytors, no tea∣cher of rebellion, to publish doctrine of King-killing: Oh but will some Iesuite reply, It is abhominable to kill a King: marke their euasion, or u 1.199 equiuocation: but a King excommunicated, or at least deposed by the Pope, is no

King, no King in popery: then if he command, take * 1.200 him by the throat, presently

In hunc Tarba 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…sa—

They will haue some desperate Rauilliacke, Chastell, or Gerard, to touch the Lords Annointed. Iesuites will com∣passe Sea and land, Sollicitando, pollicendo, as Simo char∣geth Crito in the Comedie, solliciting, promising, and per∣swading, no obedience is to be giuen to Kings excommu∣nicated or deposed, as Parsons and Campian did after the Bull of Pius the fift, and what followes? Rebellion in the North. Haec Cornua quibus ventilabis Israel, These are the hornes which proceed from Papall Bulles, rebellion, trea∣son; which if at any time it succeeds according to their ex∣pectation, they triumph in it, and say, Hic digitus Dei est, It was the Lords worke: and as * 1.201 Salomon of the wicked, They reioyce in doing euill, imitating Dyonisius, who af∣ter the robbing of a Temple, finding the winde and wea∣ther * 1.202 fauourable to his shippes, burst foorth into this hel∣lish voice, Ecce dij approbant sacrilegium, Behold the gods approue of our sacriledge: but let them know, that at last, * 1.203 though perchance too late, they shall finde and confesse,

* 1.204Nec surdum, nec Tiresiam quenquam esse deorum.

God is not deafe, or blinde, he sees all sin, Abhors all sinners, who delight therein.

And therefore (you of the Church of Rome) who are, or should be guides for the blinde, x 1.205 iustructers of them who lacke discretion, teachers of the vnlearned, hate and ab∣horre your former doctrine, the doctrine of Deuils, in tea∣ching disobedience to Gods Annointed, or to be your selues actors, authors or fautors of so abhominable practi∣ses, as King-killing: for know this, Religion with bloud builded, will be in bloud buried: and that voice from hea∣uen concerning this Babilon shall bee verified. y 1.206 Reward her euen as she hath rewarded you, and in the cup that she hath filled to you, fill her the double: For the Lord will condemne this great whore, which corrupts the earth with her fornicati∣on, * 1.207 and auenge the bloud of his seruants shedby her hand.

And you who style your selues Lay-Romane-Catho∣likes, behold the persons, plotters of this treason, brought to a miserable confusion. Consider, ortum scelerum obitum sceleratorum, the birth of their treason, the death of these traytors, God confounding both scelera; & sceleratos, the * 1.208 actors and their actions; Gods eyes are pure and abhorre such practises, and likes not such who walke in the coun∣sell of the vngodly: for both the workes and the z 1.209 way of the wicked shall perish. As for the final and eternall doom of the Iudge of quicke and dead, vpon these dead Malefa∣ctors, it belongs not to vs to search after it; and say with * 1.210 Gregorie, Diuina iudicia nesciuntur, non audacisermone discutienda sunt, sed formidoloso silentio veneranda, Gods iudgements are vnknowne to vs, and are not rashly to be spoken of, but with fearefull silence to be reuerenced: he a 1.211 will haue mercy vpon whom hee will haue mercy. They that were apprehended, satisfied Iustice on earth, (yet mixed with mercy) so that for the persons I haue no more to say, but end this in the Apostles wordes, b 1.212 Now these are examples to vs, to the intent wee should not lust after euill things, as they lusted; and are written to admonish vs, to beware of sinne, and aboue all, such capitall and crying sins as these. Sequitur Rebelles vltor à tergo Deus, Gods plagues and punishments hang ouer Rebels heads, c 1.213 Ex vitio alte∣rius sapiens emendat suum, and therefore let others harmes make all beware to flie from this sinne of treason, as from a serpent.

CHAP. VIII.

3. The Causes.

THE motiues or inducements which pro∣uoked these Practisers and Conspirators to inuent this Tragedy, was onely, and meerely * 1.214 religion: they were no banke∣rupt persons, or discontented vpon occa∣sion of any disgraces done vnto them; for

then it might haue seemed a worke of reuenge: but it was onely (as they confessed) the cause of religion, which mo∣ued them to this Treason. A deplored and desperate reli∣gion * 1.215 which must stand for a stawking-horse to practise re∣bellion. This colour of religion, like the Fowlers glasse and feather, serues to draw some within the reach and net of treason, to lay snares to catch the children of God, and bring them to destruction. Grace vses no sword, Faith no knife, the Church no bloudy tooles,

Non mactando homines, Christum{que} fidem{que} docere: Ecclesia arma ara, non laniena macelli,

The Church by force the faith did neuer plant, Her Altar-prayers her Armes, she shambles want.

But the * 1.216 Church of Rome vses these tooles, when their prayers can doe no good they fall to weapons, and would seeme to doe the Lords worke, in the destroying of the Lords people: farre better were it for them to follow the counsel of d 1.217 Elias, to try themselues whether they be Baals Prophets or no? to call vpon the name of their God, to prepare a sacrifice, and see if the Lord will send a fire from heauen, as hee did for e 1.218 Elias to manifest the trueth of their cause and religion: but their prayers are so bad, in∣uocating dead Saints, and adoring dumbe Images, that though they cry like Baals Priests from f 1.219 morning vntill noone, not a voice or word can they get from their wood∣den gods, no fire from heauen; then they will fetch fire from hell, the hope of the plantation of their Romish reli∣gion shall be the ruine of an whole nation: for, Non stetis∣set * 1.220 nostra Troia, si cecidisset noster Priamus, for our Land could not haue stood happy, if our Priamus, Prince, Peeres and Parliament had beene destroyed, as they intended. And indeed a long time these Pope-Catholike men haue vsed a pretence of religion, by which goodly vizard they haue practised most horrible butchery, cruelty, and abho∣mination. It is lamentable which is of late g 1.221 reported of Ferdinandus Mendoza a Spanish Catholike, who with his cruell company in Westphalia, spared neyther sexe nor age, no not them which submitted themselues: ripping vp

womens bellies, taking out their infants, and hung them about their Mothers neckes, compelled the men with long famine to eat their owne children, with such brutish but∣chery as is abhominable.

And so the Pope when he sent his secular armes the Spa∣niards among the Indians, vnder a faire errand to winne * 1.222 them to religion, they vsed them in an heathenish, yea hel∣lish cruelty; rosted them with fire, worried them with dogs, &c. so that in forty yeares space they destroyed (as h 1.223 some write) fifteene millions of men, that is, 150 hun∣dred thousand, wasted and vnpeopled fiue times as much ground as all Spaine containeth: But woe to them that build vp Sion with bloud, and Ierusalem with iniquity, saith i 1.224 Mi∣cah, Whose k 1.225 hands are defiled with bloud; the Lord will prepare them vnto bloud, and bloud shall pursue them; except thou hate bloud, euen bloud shall pursue thee, saith the Lord by the mouth of l 1.226 Ezekiel.

But these imitate Iulius Caesar, (the first Emperour of Rome) who held a sword in one hand, and a booke in the o∣ther, with this Motto; Ex vtre{que} Caesar: So these Roma∣nists will hold a sword in one hand, and a Bible in the o∣ther, changing the word, the sword of the spirit, into a ma∣teriall sword to murder mens bodies: but Caesar who shed much blood abroad, had his owne blood m 1.227 shed at home. Yet Caesar was farre of a more mercifull mind; for as n 1.228 Au∣sten speakes of him, Hee gloried in nothing so much, as in pardoning his enemies, and gratifying his friends.

Or they follow blood-thirsty Cyrus, who at last was slaine by Queene Tomyris, and his head cut off, and put in∣to a vessell of blood, with these words; Sanguinem sitijstit, nunc sanguine saturatus esta, Thou hast thirsted for blood, now drinke thy fill: so these thirst for blood,

Quem babit hic auide, quàm bibit ante merum:

As greedily he drinkes mens blood, As men doe wine, and thinkes as good.

But Dauid, because he was a man of blood, might not build God a materiall Temple, and will you build Gods spirituall Temple with bloody hands? God abhorres

blood-thirsty and deceitfull men: Deus non est autor eius, cuius est vltor, God is a reuenger of such villanies, and what he affects, he will effect by good meanes. And there∣fore though Papists colour this treason vnder the cloke of Religion, and for the good of the Catholicke cause, the Lord o 1.229 will say to them; I know ye not, Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity. Then p 1.230 shall they couer themselues with confusion, as with a cloake. And truly these fiery and furious Iesuited Roman Catholickes, maske and shroud their faction and treason vnder the cloake of Religion, as the Dominicans lurke vnder our Ladies frock; crying out, The Catholicke Cause, and for the good of the Church; so that we may say, as once wittily Erasmus demanded, VVhat is Charity? answered, It is a Monkes cloake, for it couers a multitude of sinnes: So what is Popery? It is a cloake to couer a multitude of sinnes; and (as they say) Puritan sohismes are sowen together with Sisters-threed, so Popish schismes are patched together out of the cloake of Rebellion, yet vnder the mantle of Religion: yet so farre are these people from being ashamed of these things, or reclaimed from such practises, much lesse to repent for them, as that being apprehended for them, or hauing ac∣complished their deuices, they are still insensible of sor∣row, contrary to all other Malefactors; for as the Poet,

—quid fas, * 1.231 At{que} nefas, tandem incipiunt sentire peractis Criminibus:—

How good, or bad, their deeds were, they then see; When once their mischiefes accomplisht be.

But these would with Nero laugh, and leape to see our * 1.232 Cities on fire: and as Guido Faux, the foreman of this fiery stratageme, being demanded, what hee would haue done, when as he had put fire to the powder, said; Goe see the sport in the field: A voice fit for a villaine, or a cruell Ʋi∣tellius, who said, as q 1.233 Tacitus records it; Sepauisse oculos, spectata in imici morte, nempe Blaesi•• He did feed his eyes with the dead spectacle of his aduersary Blesus. But Caesar wept when the head of Pompey his enemy was presented to him,

saying; r 1.234 Ego Pompeij casum deploro, & meam fortunā metuo I lament Pompeys fall, and feare mine owne fortune: but the enemies of Sion, as they haue Crocodile eyes to weepe and laugh at murthered obiects, so they haue deuouring mouthes, and teeth to water after such preyes. I will not iudge all of them to be of so bloody a disposition: for I presume some Iesuites, and Priests, and Monkes, are like Aristippus, looke for nothing but meat for their belly, and a maide for their bed; little busie their braines with o∣ther matterrs: or some may follow their study, which yet is not vsuall, especially among the secular Priests, whom the s 1.235 Iesuites call; Ebrios, stultos, illiteratos, Ecclesia excre∣menta, Drunkards, Dolts, Dunces, the excrements of the Church: and the same secular t 1.236 Priests brand the Iesuites with infamous markes, Statistas, Atheistas, Machiauelistas, quot Iesuitae, totidem Iudae, Statists, Atheists, Machiauclists, So many Iesuites, so many Iudasses. But indeed the least medlers in these matters are the Monkes, and therein to be commended; who if they were as carefull to feede their braines, as their bellies, I should thinke them the best of the bunch: but herein they are faulty, being onely as the Poet,

Epicuri de grege porcos: Horat.

Most of them sordide and stupide fellowes, without any * 1.237 industry in labour, or generosity in life. And as long ago it was written of them,

Liber Pater praeponitur libro patrum; Calicibus epotandis, non codicibus emendandis, * 1.238 Indulget bodie studium Monachorum, Cantus ludentis, non planctus lugentis, Officium efficitur Monachale. Greges, & vellera, fruges & Horrea, Porri, & olera potus & patera, Lectiones sunt hodie, & studia Monachorum:

In a word, thus:

One Bacchus more they loue, then Muses nine; They fat their bellies, while their braines do pine.

But to leaue these, whom the Pope least loues; for the

Iesuites are his Pulli, & puppi, His Minions and Darlings, he knowes them by their hands, as the Eagle knowes his young ones by the eyes; a pen in one hand, and a ponyard in the other, to write for him, and to fight for him. We will accuse no more, but the parties in view, whereof Faux should haue beene the Executioner; and as they say, An hangman must haue a cruell heart: so this appointed wretch had a cruell heart, to count such a sight as this * 1.239 should haue beene a sport: and when he was apprehended, he discouered no fignes of sorrow or repentance, except onely that he repented for not being able to performe it.

Nil Christus Domini, nil illi proxima Coniux, Nil Princeps Carolus charus, spes altera Regni, Vtra{que} nobilitas pietate insignis, & armis; Maiestas{que} loci, veterum tot Curia regum, Nil haec crudeli potuere obstare furori?

Our royall King with his illustrious Spouse, That * 1.240 Phoenix gone vnto a better place; And next succeeding hope, Prince Charles his Grace, The noble Peeres, the Prelates of Gods House; And other Monuments, which might well rouse More feare, then fury: yet this vile Consort To blow vp all with powder, counts it sport.

The vertues (indeed vices) which were in Tigellinus, Neros Secretary, were, as Tacitus names them, Cruelty and Luxury: so these abounded with the first, if not with the second. And yet they had no cause to moue them to such cruelty: One of the specials of them, Percy, a Pensioner * 1.241 in an honourable place; the others with worship & wealth in the Common-wealth, no penall Lawes vrged vpon them, with many other prouocations to peace, and amity.

—Quorum si singula duram * 1.242 Flectere non poterant, potuissent omnia, mentem:

If some of these could not, yet all conioind; Might well haue turnd to loue, a Lyons mind.

But all could not: for howsoeuer they made a shew of obedience, it was counterfeit; Ore tenus, Honouring with lippes, not hearts. They surely had receiued the Present of

their Pope, long agoe sent to his deare Children here, namely, the fiue wounds of Christ with this poesie; Fili da mihi car tuum, & sufficit: My sonne giue me thy heart, and it sufficeth. Rome had their heart, England their hate; and wee might of them haue complained (had not the Lord helped) with the Prophet Dauid; u 1.243 Thou hast made the Land to tremble, and hast made it to gape, heale the brea∣ches thereof, for it is shaken: Thou hast made vs to drinke * 1.244 the wine of giddinesse.

Yet these could flatter with Iudas, Auc Rabbi, Haile Master, or, * 1.245 Master is it I? Yet for all Syren-songs, let vs looke to our selues; for Vi•• fidus affectus, quorum diuersa fides, saith Chrysostome: VVhose faith is different, their fide∣lity is doubtfull: Their words sweeter then hony, yet Ʋnl∣pina cauda semper prominet, rictus, & rugitus Leonem prodit; The Foxe may be knowne by his taile, the Lyon by his iawes, clawes, and roaring: x 1.246 By their fruits ye shall know them. Trust not their iugred speeches, for they haue lear∣ned the language of the Low-Countries, I meane of hell; their art of equiuocation, to speake one thing, and meane another: and you know by equiuocation, Iudas and Iesuits, may be taken for honest men.

And how can their fidelity be good? (I meane them of their Clergy) for as euery popish Bishop is sworne obedi∣ence to the Pope, and Sea of Rome, and to defend to death Rogalia Sancti Petri; The Regalities of Saint Peter: so in the English y 1.247 Colledge of Rome it is a Statute-Law, or pa∣pall constitution, that whosoeuer doe enter into it, hee is * 1.248 bound to sweare, after certaine yeeres (being perfectly Ie∣suited) to returne into England for the defence of the Ca∣tholicke Faith, and there publikely or priuately to preach the same. Now their Faith, which they call Catholicke, granteth to their Roman Church, power to free subiects from all duty of obedience, as doth appeare in the foure∣teene section, and seuenth Chapter of their late Councell of Trent, from which fountaine flowes: T•…•…: So that they will not submit themselues to any Protestant King in any loyall and faithfull 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, as did in somelately

appeare in refusing the Oath of Alleagiance; wherein his Maiesty specially aimed, Separare pretiosum à v•…•…, As the Lord by z 1.249 Ieremy, to separate the precious from the vile, to discerne and distinguish the Pseudocatholickes of this Climate, from others of his sound and faithfull subiects: And how I pray you was this oath impugned, by the Popes Briefes, by Bellarmine, and others, accounting it vn∣lawfull, prohibiting all Popish Sectaries to accept it? which oath yet specially touched their alleagiance to the King against the Popes primacy pretended in temporall things, and but little the supremacy in spirituall things: so that they who are thus rooted, and vnmoueably grounded * 1.250 in all the mysteries of the Church of Rome, beleeuing the Pope, the supreme Head of all, hauing power to excom∣municate Kings, to depriue them, to absolue subiects from alleagiance, to giue authority to kill Kings, and accoun∣ting such deeds done meritorious, are Clancularij prodito∣res, Clancular Traytors, Schoole-Traytors; who though they liue Ʋespertilionum instar, Like the night-birds in obscurity, and neuer reduce their Theoricke into Practick, yet are they Traytors in Esse, though not in Actu. But to leaue these, and to returne againe to our Powder-men, Traytors both in fore, and fieri; Claneular at first, their Chamber was a Mine vnder the Earth, but being discoue∣red, then they shewed themselues, Damonesmeridiani, Noone day Diuels, and were * 1.251 Sagittae volantes in die; Ar∣rowes that flie by day: for perceiuing their purpose disco∣uered, and treachery preuented, and disappointed of their priuate blow and blast, which should haue beene acted in * 1.252 secret; now they resolue to runne a desperate race, and practise a publicke rebellion: And so gathering their Ca∣tholicke Company, and pretending the quarrell of Religi∣on (which they thought had had the vertue of a snow ball, to encrease their number by tumbling vp and downe) and hauing gotten such prouision of Armor, Horses and Pow∣der as time would permit; they ranged about, as open, and auowed Rebels: The story whereof I omit to rehearse, be∣cause it is vulgarly knowne, and in a a 1.253 Booke at large re∣hearsed.

Well, the Catholicke cause moued these to this cursed Treason, in which impiety behold their policy; for if their villany had succceded, (which God in his mercy preuen∣ted) they had deuised to haue laid all the blame vpon the Puritans. The poore Puritans must haue the shame of Pa∣pists * 1.254 impurities and impieties: Here in they shewed them∣selues to be Neroes brats, who when he had set fire on the City, laied the fault vpon the Christians, as Tacitus writes of him; or as in old time, in the dayes of the ten persecu∣tions of the Primitiue Church, if any thing had befallen the world, euen by Gods hand, as plague, or famine, &c. all reproaches were put vpon the Christians, and crying out; Christianos ad Leones, Cast the Christians to the lions: A shamefull and shamelesse shift, to translate the infamy of so odious a fact vpon the innocent: but it verifies the Prouerbe, Hoc calciamentum consuit Hystiam, Aristago∣ras induit, Hystaus hath sowen the shooe, and Aristagoras * 1.255 puts it on: but thankes be to God, Inciderunt in foueam quam fecerunt, The fact and fault, was knowne to be their owne, and brought these delinquents to a shamefull fall.

Another policy they had pretended, appointing an hun∣ting match against the time of this treacherous designe, thinking with Esau to haue brought dainty Venison to their Father, not Isaacke, but Antichrist, and to haue sur∣prized the person of the Lady Elizabeth (now the Prince∣ly wife to the County Palatine of Rheine): Thus they shew∣ed themselues right Nimrods, c 1.256 who was a mighty hunter, and in name also Nimrod-like, (who is by interpretation a * 1.257 Rebell) rebellious hunters, or rather Fowlers to lay such snares, but yet all may say with the Psalmist; d 1.258 The Lord hath deliuered vs from the snare of the hunter, praised be his goodnesse for euer.

But to passe ouer their policy in this worke of impiety, painted ouer vnder a pretence of restauration of religion: Is murder and massacres the seed of Rome, from which these seedes-men would fetch Religion? will the darnell of death produce the seed of life? For the publike good Gods seruants haue wished themselues to be anathematized, but

neuer others. Can Gods Church be wonne, or woed with swords, and armes? Indeed e 1.259 Phillip of Macedon led an Ar∣my against Bizantium, and said; that hearing of the beauty of the City, he was come to make loue to her: but the O∣tator tels him, It was not the manner of Louers to wooe with instruments of warre, but musicke. The City of Gods Church will be wonne with no warlike Engines, the wea∣pons of our warfare are not carnall, f 1.260 saith Paul; The Church of Christ was neuer planted by blood, except pas∣siuely; and so * 1.261 Semen Ecclesiae fuit sanguis Martyrum, The blood of Martyrs, the seed of the Church: But these par∣ties would build vp their Church with blood actiuely, as if lately they had passed from g 1.262 Mount Gerizim, to Mount E∣ball, to curse, and consume all. It is a weighty and worthy worke to plant the Gospell, the glad tidings of peace, and no better way to doe it, then by prayers and peace: but in this worke the Papists euer vsed the wrong toole, labou∣ring * 1.263 to make men Haeredes vineae, exhaeredes vitae: Dispos∣sesse them of life here, howsoeuer hereafter. If their arts faile, their armes follow: fit souldiers for Bacchus, who is described with Buls hornes, Semper paratus ad feriendum, Alwayes prepared to strike, and fight; but it is a pretty saying of one; Nemo ita tenetur inter duo vitia, quin ei exi∣tus patet abs{que} tertio, No man is so included betwixt two vices, but he may get out without making a third. If these men were so confident of the truth of their Religion (and none more confident then the ignorant) why did they not follow the Counsell of truth it selfe, h 1.264 if they persecute you in this City, flie into another: yet they had no cause to say so truly; why did they not forsake all, and flie to Rome? there were their hearts, what did their bodies here? or if * 1.265 with him, they would first kisse their Father and Mother, before they would follow Christ, had a naturall affection to the things on earth; yet why were they not willing with the Apostles to submit themselues to the higher Powers in bodily obedience, but in spirituall seruice, to say with i 1.266 Peter and Iohn; Whether it be right in the sight of God to obey you, rather then God, iudge ye.

But how comes it to passe, that such Lay-Papists of small knowledge, and lesse grace, should take vpon them to be reformers of Religion? Were they extraordinarily called to this worke, as k 1.267 Ehud was to be a Sauiour to Is∣rael, in destroying King Eglon; or as l 1.268 Iehu in killing Ioram, and the stocke of Achab? had the Lord said vnto them, as to Ioshua, m 1.269 Arise, goe ouer this Iordan, feare not, nor be discouraged; for I the Lord thy God wil be with thee, &c. They write indeed, that God and man had concurred, ra∣ther the diuell and his Angels had consented, Iudas heart, Esawes hand, and Achitophels head had all conspired.

Concurrêre homines, sed quales? quippe profani, Impuri, infames, scelerati, sanguinolenti, Horribiles medici, funesti, seditioss, Tales demissi coelo censores?

A crue combind, but who? prophane, impure, Infamous, wicked, such as all would cure With blood, and fire, Phisitians that with powder Would blow vp all diseases: cry yet lowder, Heralds from heauen these sent the Church to plant, If God sent such, then God good men doth want: If such be good, in hell ill men are scant.

But the Lord gaue such no Commission, for, such wic∣ked, and n 1.270 him that loues iniquity doth his soule hate: the Lord o 1.271 will iustifie no wicked men: nor imploy them in any wicked action. But these had their Commission from the deuill, and were at his command set to this worke, and might say with Chrysalus p 1.272 in Plautus.

Insanum, magnum molior neg otium, Ver•…•… possim rocte vt emolier.

A mad peece of worke I goe about, And feare I shall not doe it as Iought.

And because they failed in the performance of it, there∣fore manus manum fricat, one Traytor bem••nes an other, * 1.273 alas vnfortunate Gentlemen, grieuing that it was their ill fortune to haue their hopes frustrated: for it is very true which q 1.274 〈◊〉〈◊〉 obscrues, conspiracies discouered, will not be credited, or will be impayred by report, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 occisi••

principibus, vnlesse the Princes (the obiects of their mis∣chiefe) be slaine: which if at any time it * 1.275 come to passe, and the conspirator escape, how highly he is magnified, imitating a people of whom I haue read, who worship Iudas for a God, because he did betray Christ to the Iewes to be crucified, by whose death comes saluation.

Thus this Catholicke cause should haue produced a Catholicke curse vpon our Common wealth, but when they cursed vs, God blessed vs, defeated the deuises of the wicked, dispersed these fogges, and mistes of Sathans spi∣rits, and made it manifest to all the world, that both their cause, and course was bad.

Causa mala est, fructus edidit illa malos.

For a r 1.276 corrupt tree bringeth forth euill fruit, and there∣fore were they cut downe with the axe of Iustice, and were not Gods mercy aboue all his workes, cast into fire.

CHAP. IX.

Fourthly the Ends.

WE are come to the last act of this intended Tragedy, the ends of it, which is almost without end. In their expectation, (though frustrated in the execution) they had set vp Hercules Pillars, Nil vltra, no humane ma∣lice or mischiefe could reach any further: Hoc Scelus Abyssus, & ex Abyssu natum, A boundlesse pro∣digy sprung from the bottomlesse pit: I will not, nay can∣not fully finish this taske, onely touch it.

Magnum opus hoc moueo: maior reliquis datur ordo * 1.277 Perficere in captum.—

This point I onely touch, and leaue the rest To them, who are with greater gifts possest.

And so many learned men by Preaching, and Printing haue laboured in this worke, and still out of the store of

matter this Subiect affords, will annually spend their breath in the declaration of this deuillish mischiefe, and deliuery by Diuine mercy, that I may forbeare any large discourse. And truly if all of vs, were as (some say) the seauenty Interpreters appointed by Ptoloms, were put, in diuersas cellulas, ••aman sio diuisi, eadem scriptitarunt, into seuerall Roomes, yet all separated, they writ the same things: which s 1.278 S. Ierome thinkes a fabulous figment: So if all of vs were put apart, heerein we should agree, and sing t 1.279 with Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, Blesse yee the Lord, praise him, and exalt him aboue all things for euer: for he hath deliuered vs from the hell, and saued vs from the hand of death, and deliuered vs from the furnace, and burning flame (of powder) euen from that fire hath he de∣liuered vs. Therfore, cōfesse vnto the Lord that he is graci∣ous, and his mercy endureth for euer: wherein for better order sake to touch the Tragicall ends, and dismall effects of this confused Babell, a monstrous, and multiplying Hydra of horrible desolation; (had not Gods power and pitty preuented this their intention and inuention) we will part it into three Heads: all directly tending to ouer∣throw:

1. The Temporall estate: 2. The Politicall estate: 3. The Spirituall estate of our flourishing Church, famous King, and fortunate Kingdome.

O 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in terris anima, & caelestium inanes.

Oh crooked mindes, voyd of celestiall grace, Who with such ruine would our land deface.

I will beginne with the two first; It would haue sub∣uerted the Temporall and Politicall estate of the King∣dome.

The effects of this Powder treason would haue ex∣ceeded those mischiefes, which Caesar reckons to be the * 1.280 fruits of Catilins conspiracie, Rapiuntur virgines, &c. Vir∣gins deflowred, Matrons made the obiects of the victors lust, children killed in their parents bosome, houses bur∣ned, men murthered, all places full of weapons, carcases, blood, and lamentation: So who can tell, what mischiefe,

what murther, what rebellion, what inuasion, what rapine, destruction, and desolation would haue beene the fruits and effects of this barbarous Treason? it would haue prooued carnificinaregni, the very death, and downfall of * 1.281 the Kingdome, and therefore may be called officina scele∣rum, the shop of all mischiefe, the vault of all villanie.

Quid Rex, quid Regina comes, quid regia proles, Quid proceres, Sanctique patres, populusque fidelis, Quid tantum meruere mali? committere tantum In vos quod potuere Scelus? potuistis in vnam Funera tot cumulare struem? tot corporalaetho Congerere, & tantum moliri caedis aceruum?

What hath our King, his Queene, and Princely sonne, Our Peeres and Prelats, and the people done To merite such a mischiefe? what offence Against them iustly can you now commence, Which might prouoke your malice to deuise To murther them, as you did enterprize.

No age can produce a proiect, proportionable to this * 1.282 immanity: Tyrannorum carbones, eculei, rotae, funes, fustes, cruces, gladij &c. nihil si ad haec comparentur: The exquisite torments of Tyrants not comparable with the fury of this truculent Tragedy. The destruction of Troy was lamenta∣ble, by fire and sword in the night:

Virg.

In••adunt vrbem somno, vinoque sepultam.

They inuade the Citty buried in sleepe, and wine, and at * 1.283 vnawares set vpon them by a perfidious Treachery: yet there they might fight for their liues, and make resistance to reuenge themselues.

Idem.

Aut versare dolos, aut certae occumbere morti.

But heerein these Trayterous Architects had so contri∣ued their worke, and world of woes, that with one blast, or blow, all to be consumed, and yet u 1.284 not to see who hurts them: with a floude of fire to deuoure the choisest flowres of the world, the x 1.285 Rose of the field, and Lillies of the val∣lies, the royall Rose with the rest of the regall stemme: the noble Lillies of the land.

Flos delibatus populi, Suadaeque medulla.

The flourishing Nobilitie, most reuerend Cleargie, pru∣dent and politicke Gentry, all to passe the fiery region of corporall combustion, when as this fire should come out of the y 1.286 bramble to consume the Cedars of Lebanon. So terrible a blow or blast it would haue beene to the Tem∣porall welfare of the state of this Kingdome in generall, to be z 1.287 depriued of the father, chariots, and horsemen of Isra∣el, (rapt vp in a whirlewind of fire) that it could leaue no∣thing but lamentations to posterity, & wish with weeping * 1.288 Ieremie for an head full of water, and eyes fountaine of teares to weepe day and night for the slaine of them: and none but monsters of men, habituated in villany, and radicated in cruelty, would haue an hand in so heauy a ca∣lamity: Then we all might alwayes meditate of mourne∣full Elegies and make large Commentaries vpon Ieremies Lamentations, and cry with him, 2 1.289 How doth the Citty re∣maine solitary that was full of people? she is a widowe: she that was great among the nations, & Princesse among the Prouinces, is made tributary: she weepeth continual∣ly: she dwelleth among the heathen, and finds no rest; her * 1.290 persecutors tooke her in the Straits.

The waies of Sion lament, because no man commeth to the solemne feasts: all her gates are desolate; the Priests sigh, her Virgines are discomfited, and she is in heauinesse, and might ingeminate a dolefull ecce; Behold, and see if * 1.291 there be any sorrow, like vnto my sorrow, which is done vnto me.

I cannot apprehend the hundred part of the miseries of * 1.292 this intended mischiefe: for it would haue made our land in face, though not in fashion, like the land Iob speakes of, b 1.293 Terram ten••brosam, & opertam mortis caligine, terram mi∣seria, & tenebranum, vbi v••bra mortis, & nullus ordo: A land of darkenesse, and shadow of death: a land of miscry, where is no order, but horror: That day intended had beene to our land, c 1.294 a day of darkenesse, and of blacknesse, a day of clouds and obscurity, none like it from our be∣ginning, neither shall be any more (as we hope) vnto the yeares of any generations.

Our land had then beene like a ship forlorne, her Pilot, Maister, and Mariners gone; Her Top-gallant taken a∣way, and they who sate at the Sterne to guide, drowned in the Ocean; and then a tempest beating vpon the ship, the wind, and weather driuen her to the Rockes, in what perill and perplexity are all her mournefull passengers? and might particularly cry.

In medijs lacera puppe relinquor aquis.

We are left in a torne and tottering ship, couered with waues of woe, no earthly comfort comes, only we pray to Christ, d 1.295 Maister saue vs, we perish.

This day intended would haue prooued a blacke, and bloody day to the Common-wealth of England, when as her principall pillars had beene perished. The e 1.296 strong man and the man of warre, the Iudge, and the Prophet, the Prudent, and the aged: they had layed their f 1.297 Axe to the roote of the Trees, to hew downe and cast into their fire, the chiefe Cedars, to stretch ouer vs g 1.298 the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab, wiping England, as the Lord doth threaten Ierusalem there, as a man wipeth a dish, which he wipeth, and turneth vpside downe: and so they would haue wiped, or washed with blood our Ierusa∣lem, turning it vpside downe, that there should haue beene a generall ruine of our flourishing Kingdome, Neque rex, nequelex, neque religio, resp. Salua. King, Nobility, Church, Gouernement, Commonwealth, all perishing in this pro∣digious powder confusion: First our King, the h 1.299 breath of our nostrils, the annointed of the Lord, should haue beene taken in their nets, of whom we sayd, vnder his shadow we shall be preserued aliue among the heathen: and then his most Princely Queene, posterity-male, the hopefull blessing of perpetuall peace, the famous Peeres, and Coun∣sellors of state, with all other most noble Lords, Spirituall, and Temporall, the wife and worthy Iudges, Knights, Bur∣gesses, and whole body of the Parliament house, (the head heart, eyes, braines, and vitall spirits of the politicke body of the Kingdome) all cut off at one blow, the kingdome left

headlesse, heartlesse, hopelesse, depriued of her directing Iethroes:

Dij, quibus imperium hoc steterat. Virg.

The pillars, and supporters of this Christian Monar∣chy, and changed it to a confused Anarchy, then preuailing as Garnet the Arch-Priest, and Archtraytor praied, Auferte gentem istam perfidam de finibus credentium, Take away * 1.300 this perfidious nation, meaning vs Protestants, from the borders of true belieuers, vnderstanding Romanists: vt laudes Deo debitas alacriter persoluamus, that we may praise God for the same ioyfully.

But such prayers of the i 1.301 wicked is an abhomination vn∣to the Lord; and though k 1.302 they make many prayers, the Lord will not heare them, because their hands are full of blood: the enemies to our King and Kingdome, l 1.303 opened their mouthes against vs, saying; Let vs deuoure them: Certainely this is the day that we looked for; yea, which they longed for: wherein they hoped to haue m 1.304 swallowed vs vp quicke, when their wrath was kindled against vs, to haue ouerthrowne the temporall and politicke estate of our Kingdome, by the ruine of the royall Head, and the most noble members of the same; but the Lords eyes were n 1.305 vpon the faithfull of the Land, to shield them vnder the shadow of his wings, when as the o 1.306 proud had laid a snare for them, and spread a net with cords in their way, and set grins for them; then did the Lord deliuer them from those euill men, and preserued them from those cruell men, and p 1.307 recompenced them their wickednes, and destroied them in their owne malice: to moue all Gods people in great Britanny to say with Zachary; q 1.308 That being deliuered out of the hands of our enemies, we should serue him without feare, in holinesse and righteousnesse before him, all the dayes of our liues.

Yea, this pernicious proiect had not onely procured a fatall disturbance, and destruction of the temporall and * 1.309 politicall welfare of the Kingdome; but also aimed to al∣ter the State of our Religion, and to set vp the abhomina∣tion of desolation in the holy place, to establish the cor∣rupt

profession of popish superstition: this was the Helena for which these Greekes contended.

Then all of vs might with the children of Israel led cap∣tiue to Babilon, cry like them, By r 1.310 the riuers of Babilon we sate downe and wept, when wee remembred thee O Sion: for then wee should haue liued in captiuity to the Romish Babilon, and haue sung the songs of Sion in a strange land and strange tongue. Then England should haue beene againe, (as once s 1.311 one called it) the Popes Asse, to beare his burthens in a miserable bondage. Those de∣bosht and banished Popelings, Iesuites, Seminaries, and Masse-Priests, who can cry to their Images like Baals Priests, t 1.312 O Baal heare vs: lo, then u 1.313 Hagar and Ismael, not long since cast out with bagge and baggage, reen tring againe, insolently insulting ouer honourable Dame Sara, and would driue her and Isaak out of the familie. VVhat heart zealous of the glory of God, and religious to the pure Gospell of Christ, that would not with Dauid * 1.314 euery night water his couch with his teares, to behold the Can∣dlestickes of our Church, who hold the light of the word, broken in peeces, I meane, the spirituall labourers in the worde, to be thrust out of the vineyard of the Church, and the loyterers of Rome, (haruest-men for Antichrist) to take the howses of God in possession? So that with Dauid we might cry, *O God, thine enemies are come into thine * 1.315 inheritance, thy holy Temple they haue defiled, &c. Romes * 1.316 wolues in sheepes cloathing worrying the Lambes of Christ; Sathans Foxes running vpon the mountaines of Sion, and stealing away the soules of the simple, making them drunke with the dregs of the Romish grape enchan∣ted with their Circes cup, in which is the y 1.317 wine of infecti∣on, spirituall fornication, and abhomination. The people then should haue beene depriued of the pure riuer of the water of life, and for lacke of the bread of life compelled to complaine in the famine of their soules, like the distres∣sed Iewes in the famine of their bodies. z 1.318 Where is bread, and drinke? where is the Manna which once was tasted? the worde of grace wherewith wee once were feasted?

where are the painefull Pastors of our soules who once re∣freshed vs? fedde our hearts with bread from heauen, and filled our cares with comfortable tidings of peace; who prayed for our soules with zealous spirits, and spent them∣selues like vnwearied messengers in the worke of the Gos∣pell: Oh the Priests lippes * 1.319 which preserued knowledge, they are silenced and sent to their graues, expelled the Church, or put in prison, or turned to ashes in Popish flames; their a 1.320 persecutors are swifter then the Eagles of heauen, who pursue them vpon the mountaines, and lay wait for them in the wildernesse; they hunt their steppes that they cannot goe in the streetes, their end is neere; for * 1.321 their daies are fulfilled, their end is come. Oh this is come vpon vs for our cold loue, and churlish entertainement of the Gospell, when we had free liberty to call one another; b 1.322 Come let vs goe vp to the mountaine of the Lord, to the God of Iacob and hee will teach vs his waies, and we will walke in his paths; but then wee stopped our eares c 1.323 like deafe Adders, against the voice of those charmes most ex∣pert in charming; they d 1.324 piped vnto vs but we would not dance, we then regarded not those songs of Sion and now both harpes and harpers are e 1.325 hung vpon the willow trees: our soules are starued with Latine Masses, wee haue no English Bibles, wodden blockes are called the Lay-mens bookes, we cannot see the way we should walke in, but must like blinde men be guided by the spectacles of pur∣blinde guides: we must beleeue as they beleeue, and yet doe not know what they beleeue: all ready to repeat that wishing voice of Iob, f 1.326 Oh that wee were as in times past, when God preserued vs; when his light shined vpon our heads, and when by his light we walked through darke∣nesse: all saying with Ʋalerius, (though not in the same case) who when Caligula that monster was killed, and it could not be found out who had done it, Noble Valerius rose vp, and said, vtinam ego, would to God I had killed that monster: So will they cry, vtinam ego, would to God wee had killed that monster (which whisome wee indul∣gently cherished in our bosomes) Ingratitude and Con∣tempt

of the Gospell, then while we had the same in plen∣ty, and purity without commixtion of drosse and darnell, trash and tares, we began with the Israelites to loath this Manna, g 1.327 We can see nothing but this Manna, our soule loatheth this light bread: and now, Ʋerbum amissum quae∣rimus inuidi. Wee h 1.328 wander from Sea to Sea, and from the North to the East, to seeke the worde of the Lord, and cannot finde it. Now the Lords complaint is verified vp∣on vs, i 1.329 My people are destroyed for lacke of knowledge: the seeds-men of the worde sent from the blessed k 1.330 sower, who broke vp our stony hearts, and made them flexible, and did labour to l 1.331 turne many to righteousnesse; they are taken from vs, and now

* 1.332 Impius haec tam culta novalia miles habebit, Barbarus has segetes—

Not Masse, but Mars-Priests in the Churches field, Possesse the fruits which others labours tilld:

These and more pittifull mones would haue beene fresh, and frequent in this land, crying with Ieremy, m 1.333 The ioy of our heart is gone, our dance is turned to mourning, the Crowne of our head is fallen, woe vnto vs that wee haue sinned; our necks are vnder persecution, wee are weary, and haue no rest.

Our King, a n 1.334 Nursing Father to the Church and Com∣mon-wealth: Our o 1.335 Noble men of Sion comparable to fine Gold: Our reuerend Prelates and Pastors, the p 1.336 salt of the earth, and light of the land: the chiefe Iudges, and choice Gentry of the Kingdom, who were as q 1.337 eyes to the blinde, and feete to the lame. All the pillars of Church and Common-wealth, maintainers of the Law and Gos∣pell, had perished in this intended Massacre: So that the r 1.338 shepheard being smitten, the sheepe will be scattered; yea, sheepe not hauing a shepheard will fall into the hands of wolfes, who will deuoure their flesh and their fleeces.

And looke still further, and behold these powder-trai∣tors (men nourished with Tygers milke) who enterprised not onely to procure a temporall, politicall, and spirituall ouerthrow of Church and Common-wealth, but also so

farre as in their power they could, seeked to procure the eternall death of body and soule, vnawares s 1.339 by force of fire to part vnprepared soules, and blow vp with a fiery Dimittis bodies and soules before they could haue time to say feelingly, Inmanus tuas Domine, O Lord into thy hands we commend our soules: heerein shewing themselues de∣sirous to be bloudy murtherers, to murder the body with death temporall, and also to make away the soule with death eternall, which second death worse then millions of corporall deaths, Continet Myriades mortis: Prima mors animam dolentempellit de corpore, secunda mors animā nolen∣tem tenet in corpore, as t 1.340 Austen: The first death driues the pained soule out of the body, the second death keepes the vnwilling soule in the body; for then men shall seeke u 1.341 death, and shall not finde it: for in life there is some ease, in death an end, but in the second death neyther ease, nor end: Mors sine morte, finis sine fine.

So that to draw all to a conclusion (which should haue beene the conclusion, yea confusion of vs all) I may sup∣ply my defects in the description of this immatchable treason, with the Poets excuse,

* 1.342 Non mihi si centum linguae sint, ora{que} centum, Ferreavox, omnes scelerum cōprendere formas, Omnia poenarum peccurrere nomina possem:

No tongue can tell, no pen descry This Map of mischiefe, the Powder-Tragedy.

The Lord of Hosts, who * 1.343 neither slumbers nor sleepes, who in pitty and prouidence prouides for the safety of his Church and Children, beheld our English Israel and Po∣pish Amaleck, the members of the Church militant, and malignant, the one secretly plotting to blow vp the other; but the Lord, against x 1.344 whom no wisdome nor vnderstan∣ding, nor counsell can preuaile, became an impenetrable shield, suffered not one of his seruants haires to be burnt with fire, but besotted these Traytors to communicate their counsels, though darkly to others; by which meanes they were discouered. And we are perswaded and confir∣med of the all-sauing protection of our good God to∣wards

his deare Seruant, and our dread Soueraigne; with the rest of the religious assembly congregated for the glo∣ry of his name, and good of his Church, in that Honoura∣ble House of Parliament: that if the Lord had suffred them to haue made a further progresse to the instant of that dis∣astrous and dismall action, that hee would haue disabled the party, who with his vnhappy hand should haue kindled that fatall fire, as he did the hand of infamous y 1.345 Ieroboam, in the very act of stretching it against the Prophet, it wi∣thered: or like the hand of z 1.346 Valens the Emperor, when hee tooke his pen to confirme the sentence of Basils banish∣ment, strucken of God, shooke, and shrunke, not able to hold the pen: So surely the Lord would haue benummed that accursed hand, which sought to ouerthrow Christs Church among vs: for it is as easie to pull Christ from Hea∣uen, as to put his Church out of the Earth: Christ cannot be a bodilesse Head, nor the Church an headlesse body; and though outward meanes of deliuerance to vs may seeme defectiue, yet stand comforted and couragious, for the * 1.347 gates of hell shall not preuaile against the Church. It is a lame and halting confidence, which cannot goe to God without the stilts and crutches of externall meanes: for a 1.348 the Lord knoweth to deliuer the godly, and in the very point and article of time, will be a present helpe in trouble. God came to b 1.349 Adam with a promise in the time of despaire, to Abraham with c 1.350 supply in the time of sacri∣fice, to Isaacke d 1.351 with reliefe in the time of famine and dan∣ger, to Ioseph e 1.352 with honour in the time of exile, to f 1.353 Elias with comfort in the time of persecution, to g 1.354 Gideon with helpe in the time of battle, to h 1.355 Daniel with safety in the Lyons denne, to i 1.356 Ionas with release in the Whales belly, to k 1.357 Susanna with life condemned to death, to l 1.358 the three Children with a protecting Angell in the fiery Furnace: yea, to this Kingdome of England with a most mercifull preseruation, neere the time of the appointed Powder-destruction, to make all our English Israel alwayes in all distresses and dangers, say with Moses; m 1.359 Feare not, stand still, behold the deliuerance of the Lord; which he shewed vnto you this day:

——Dies Ista Salutis erat, candore notabilis ipso.

The Lord would not haue this Powder-proiect to haue power to burne one n 1.360 haire of his seruants head, or any smell of fire come vpon them; yet caused some of these vault-pyoners to be wounded, and disfigured with pow∣der; In quo peccarunt, in eodem plectuntur, Wherewith o 1.361 they sinned, by the same they were also punished. So that all these extraordinary mercies of Almighty God summed vp together, should haue more then a Magneticall attra∣ction, to draw all Christian hearts euer to praise his infi∣nite goodnesse, and continually inuite and induce all to a serious consideration and conseruation of this admira∣ble deliuery from this intended miserable calamity: agni∣zing God, the sole and supreme cause in preuenting of it, and therefore ascribing all the glory to him; who hath preserued still his Church in tranquility, our King in glory, the State in safety, the Realme in prosperity.

Iutuere rupem, & erige ratem.

The snares of death and destruction prepared by the wicked, were by the wisedome of our gratious God esca∣ped, and the wicked p 1.362 were snared in the worke of their owne hands: A deliuery deseruing eternall Trophies of Triumphs: to glorifie God with our prayers and praises, with our lips and liues; and neuer follow them, of whom the Apostle, who q 1.363 glorified not God, neyther were they thankefull: but may continually call vp our hearts to this duty, and cry with the Psalmist, r 1.364 Come and hearken all yee that feare God, and I will tell you what hee hath done to my soule: for he hath s 1.365 deliuered our soules from death, and our feet from falling, that we should walke before God in the land of the liuing. Therefore, t 1.366 praise our God yee people, and make the voice of his praise bee heard; and say with the children of Reuben, Gad, and Manasses, u 1.367 God forbid that we should rebel against the Lord, and turne this day away from the Lord, &c. And as the children of Israel after their returne from the captiuity in Babilon, and hearing * 1.368 Ezra reade the Law (the ioy of their soules) Ezra x 1.369 prai∣sed

the Lord the great God, and all the people answered, Amen, Amen, lifting vp their hands and bowing them∣selues, worshipping the Lord with their faces towards the ground: and Nehemiah with Ezra and the Leuites tels the people, y 1.370 This day is holy vnto the Lord your God: so let our English Israel deliuered from the intended bon∣dage of Babilon, hearken to their Ezraes in the z 1.371 Pulpit, made for the preaching of Gods Law (wherof they should haue beene depriued) and with their Priests praise the Lord, our great and good God, answering Amen, Amen, bowing themselues in all humility at the footestoole of Gods Maiesty, annually celebrating the fift day of No∣uember, with praises of thankesgiuing, and saying, This day is holy vnto the Lord our God. This * 1.372 day shall be vnto vs a remembrance, and wee will keep it an holy feast vnto the Lord throughout our generations: we will keep it holy by an ordinance for euer; to remember this mar∣uellous worke of Englands deliuerance from the plotted powder-destruction, to a 1.373 praise Gods holy name, and glo∣ry in his praise, singing and saying cheerefully with our tongues, and deuoutly with our hearts, Blessed b 1.374 be the Lord God of Israel for euer audeuer, and let all the people say, Amen, Amen.

To the ternall and eternall glorious Godhead, Father, Sonne, and holy Ghost, one and the same God in na∣ture, and number indiuisible, inuisible, inuincible, our sole and soueraigne protector, and preseruer, God ouer all, blessed for euer, be all praise, power, faith, feare, glo∣ry, and maiesty yeelded by vs, by ours, and by all his redeemed, for all his mercies in gene∣rall, and for this speciall deliuerance in particular, humbly, heartily, holily for euer and euer:

Amen.

Glory be to God in the high Heauens and peace on earth,

Luke 2. 14.

FINIS.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Deut. 4. 32.
• * 1.2

  Ethnicismus tale facinus ignorat. Quod{que} attentatū, vix aetas postera credet.
• * 1.3

  An. Dom. 1605.
• * 1.4

  Grex cū rege, Arae cum focis, lares cū penatibus perijsset.
• b 1.5

  Mark. 9. 49.
• c 1.6

  2 King. 2. 11.
• d 1.7

  Esay 9. 14.
• e 1.8

  Psa. 83. 3. 4.
• * 1.9

  10.
• f 1.10

  Psal. 88. 12.
• * 1.11

  The Israelites danced after the drowning of Pha∣roh, yet within three dayes after murmured at the waters of Marah. Exod. 15. 22. 23.
• * 1.12

  Beneficia dei omni∣bus horis conside∣randa sunt &c. Chrysost. in Gen. Hom. c.
• g 1.13

  Luk. 24. 32.
• h 1.14

  Psa. 1 24. 1. 2. 3. 6.
• * 1.15

  Beneficij memoria est breuissima.
• i 1.16

  Ioh. 5. 35.
• k 1.17

  Luc. 〈…〉〈…〉.
• l 1.18

  Histor. lib. 2.
• m 1.19

  Psal. 146. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.20

  Lampes laudis Dei.
• n 1.21

  Luk. 17. 15.
• o 1.22

  Exod. 9. 28.
• p 1.23

  Psa. 102. 13.
• * 1.24

  Quorum Sceleri non inuenit aetas nomen &c. Iuv. Sat. 13.
• * 1.25

  Aenead. lib. 2.
• q 1.26

  Haec facics Troiae, cum capere∣tur, erat. Ouid.
• * 1.27

  Malorum Ierna▪ Rem tam secre∣tam esse, vt necesse sit. eam prius pera∣gi, quam discerni, as some say their Garnet did write to the Pope.
• * 1.28

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 Gen. 49. 7. 6.
• s 1.29

  Labor improbus.
• t 1.30

  Psa. 11. 2. 3.
• u 1.31

  Psa. 64. 5.
• * 1.32

  Psa. 33. 10.
• * 1.33

  Cruelty in the extent.
• x 1.34

  Psal. 2. 4. 9.
• y 1.35

  Iliada malorum.
• * 1.36

  Heu cadit in quen∣quam tantum Sce∣lus?
• * 1.37

  2 Cruelty in the deuise.
• z 1.38

  Gen. 49. 7.
• * 1.39

  Dan. 6.
• * 1.40

  Vt iugulent homi∣nes, surgunt de no∣cte latrones. Horat.
• * 1.41

  Parcit cognatis maculis similis fera Iuuen. Leonum fe∣ritas inter se non dimicat. Serpentū morsus non petit Serpentes, ne maris belluae. ac pisces, ni∣si in diuersa genera saeuiunt. Plin. Hist. 7. Philo apud Centu∣riast. cent. 1. lib. 1. c. 3•• Macrob. Saturna. 20.
• * 1.42

  Habemus ēsinu▪ Testes: not onely thiust liuing men out of the Church, but also the dead out of the Churchyard. D. Boys.
• a 1.43

  Fox. in Marty∣rolog.
• b 1.44

  2 Macch. 12. 40 Vrsinon saeuiunt in cadauera.
• c 1.45

  2 Kin. 23. 18. It was Vitellius cruelty, Olere ho∣stem mortuum. Arist. lib. 5. politic. c. 11. & Sueton. in vita.
• * 1.46

  Like Herostratus, who burned Dia∣nas Temple, to be infamously fa∣mous.
• d 1.47

  Luk. 9. 54.
• e 1.48

  Apud. Sleyd. li. 7.
• f 1.49

  Mentioned in that letter the means of the dis∣couery.
• g 1.50

  Gen. 19. 26.
• h 1.51

  Liu lib 8.
• * 1.52

  In Sionis gaudi∣um, & papistarum luctum.
• i 1.53

  Psa. 136. 3.
• k 1.54

  Psal. 118. 2.
• l 1.55

  Gen. 22. 10.
• m 1.56

  2:
• o 1.57

  Psal. 7. 5.
• p 1.58

  6.
• q 1.59

  15. 16.
• r 1.60

  Psal. 9. 16.
• s 1.61

  Psal. 66. 5. 7.
• * 1.62

  8.
• t 1.63

  150. 2. 9.
• a 1.64

  In their Let∣ter.
• * 1.65

  Lib. de Tribula∣tione. p. 31.
• x 1.66

  2 Sam. 11. 15.
• * 1.67

  Wise as an An∣gell of God. 2 Sam. 14. 20.
• y 1.68

  Prouerb. 16. 10.
• z 1.69

  Prou. 25. 1.
• * 1.70

  Philo.
• * 1.71

  Tutelaris Deus.
• * 1.72

  Scintilla neglecta magnum excitat incendium.
• * 1.73

  Iudg. 15. 4.
• a 1.74

  Remedium morbo deterius.
• b 1.75

  Occuluitque ca∣put, quod adhuc latet: Ouid. Non interest quis occidat si innocen∣tem aliquis occi∣dendum esse desi∣derat. Cassio. sup. psal. 62.
• c 1.76

  1. Sam. 19. 1.
• d 1.77

  Ester 5. 14.
• e 1.78

  Iob 16. 18.
• f 1.79

  Ioh. 8. 44.
• * 1.80

  God hath cho∣sen the foolish things of the world to con∣found the wise, &c. 1. Cor. 1 27.
• g 1.81

  Psal. 94. 17.
• h 1.82

  Psal. 119. 87.
• i 1.83

  Psal. 9. 9.
• k 1.84

  Psal. 124. 7.
• l 1.85

  2. King. 19. 3.
• m 1.86

  Iohn 4. 35.
• n 1.87

  1. Sam. 20. 3.
• o 1.88

  Zechar. 3. 2.
• p 1.89

  Amos 4. 12.
• q 1.90

  Esay 33. 10. 11.
• r 1.91

  Prou 22. 8.
• s 1.92

  Hosea 8. 7. Qui operantur ini∣quitatem, & semi∣rant dolores, metūt eos. Iob. 4. 8.
• * 1.93

  Psalm. 130. 6.
• t 1.94

  By that noble & trusty Knight Sir Thomas Kneuet imployed in that search & seruice.
• * 1.95

  Obad. 3.
• * 1.96

  Psal. 121. 4. Yet they say, the Lord shalnot see, neyther will the God of Jacob re∣gard it. Psal. 94. 7
• x 1.97

  Iob 38. 11.
• y 1.98

  Psal. 68. 1.
• z 1.99

  Esay 33. 13.
• * 1.100

  Psal▪ 83. 8.
• a 1.101

  Psal. 78. 65. 66.
• b 1.102

  1 Sam. 18. 7.
• c 1.103

  Equo ne credite Teucri. Virg.
• * 1.104

  Like Nero, Me mortuo ruat mun∣dus.
• * 1.105

  Iuvenal. Sat. 6.
• d 1.106

  Vbicun{que} fuerit prouidentia fru∣strantur vniuersa contraria. Aug.
• e 1.107

  Hab. 1. 16.
• f 1.108

  Psal. 115. 1.
• g 1.109

  Reuel. 4. 11.
• h 1.110

  Reuel. 5. 13.
• i 1.111

  Ezra 9. 13. 14.
• k 1.112

  Exod. 15. 21.
• l 1.113

  Iohn 5. 14:
• * 1.114

  Ignis deuoratio∣nis excitaret ignem deuotionis.
• * 1.115

  Finis vnius mali est gradus futuri.
• m 1.116

  Cantic. 2. 15.
• n 1.117

  Prou. 30. 14.
• o 1.118

  Prou. 6. 34.
• p 1.119

  Prou 6. 26.
• q 1.120

  Ecclus. 36. 26.
• r 1.121

  H••se. 6. 4.
• s 1.122

  Ezech. 4. 6.
• t 1.123

  Iudg. 15. 2. 20. 31.
• u 1.124

  Psal. 64. 2.
• * 1.125

  Nulla Dies rerum tantarum obliuia∣ducat.
• * 1.126

  Gen. 14. 20.
• x 1.127

  1. Tim. 1. 17.
• * 1.128

  They that with their teeth will teare their brea∣den God, would eate vp Gods people as bread. psal. 14. 4.
• * 1.129

  Virg:
• * 1.130

  Si hi Sancti, qui Scythae? Si hi sunt Catholici, qui Cannibales?
• a 1.131

  Libro 2. de ••epub. c. 5.
• * 1.132

  Ex Actis public is Henrici Garnetti Londini editis.
• * 1.133

  Vide edictum re∣gium promulga∣tum 15. lanua. Anno. 1606. vbi expressum Iesuitas esse Auctores, & inuentores illius proditoriae Ma∣chinationis.
• * 1.134

  Ouid. Me∣ta. lib.
• * 1.135

  Quis tulerit Gracchos de sedi∣tione querentes?
• * 1.136

  Aequiuocans animal, penitusque Sinonià proles: doctum mancipi∣um, tuba, fax, & Machina Martis.
• * 1.137

  〈…〉〈…〉 Sext. Q. pane∣gyr. in Consist. An. 1589. O pulchum, & Sanctum facinus Scholatota sonâ bit.
• * 1.138

  Et calo donare scelus, superisque beare.
• * 1.139

  Causa patroci∣nio non bona peior ••••rit.
• d 1.140

  Rod. Botter. comment. pag. 109. & 106.
• * 1.141

  Apol. pro. Io. Chastell.
• e 1.142

  Pag. 133. Et pag. 40. read Card. Allens apo∣logy for Stanlies Treason.
• f 1.143

  Amphithea. pag. 101.
• g 1.144

  Derege.
• n 1.145

  In Rom. 2. Defensio peccati duplicat pecca∣tum: vitia quia amant defendunt, & malunt potius excusare, quam excutere. Sen. epist. 116.
• * 1.146

  Quaesiui Romam in Roma, & non, inueni Romam. Facta est iam Ro∣ma lupandi: or Roma Radix om∣nium malorum. Orci vicaria Roma.
• k 1.147

  Roma nocens nocet, atque viam docet ipsa nocendi: iamque dol••nt cecidisse minus faeliciter ausa.
• * 1.148

  Wiclef. Tria log. p. 14. 3.
• * 1.149

  Cum Iesu Iu∣das, cum Simone fur Ananias, in Templo Christi semper sunt qua∣tuor isti. Illyricus.
• * 1.150

  * Onely I make a difference be∣twixt a Mache∣uillian Iesuite, and an ignorant Papist, who though he be not a sound member of the Church, may be a faithfull Sub∣iect to Caesar, per possibile.
• k 1.151

  2. Thessa. 2. 7.
• l 1.152

  Luke 11. 49. 50.
• * 1.153

  Vide the tragedy of Traytors. cap. 7.
• m 1.154

  Reu. 17. 6.
• n 1.155

  Ezech. 8. 15:
• * 1.156

  1. Emperors.
• * 1.157

  Vrspergens.
• o 1.158

  Sollicitato in pa∣trem Gregorio pō∣tifice Romano: Pa∣pir. Masson. annal. pag. 104.
• p 1.159

  Vrspergens. p. 319
• q 1.160

  Idem. p. 324.
• r 1.161

  Naucler. p. 990.
• s 1.162

  Auentin. p. 597.
• t 1.163

  Idem. p. 598.
• u 1.164

  Henry the 1. Henry the 4. Henry the 5. &c. Emperors.
• * 1.165

  Pet de Ʋin. lib. 1. cp. 31.
• * 1.166

  2 Kings.
• x 1.167

  Papir▪ Masson. annal. in Child. pag. 83. Bel. de Rom. pontif. lib. 5.
• y 1.168

  Naucl. p▪ 946.
• z 1.169

  Paral. ••sperg. p. 11.
• * 1.170

  Math. Par. p. 223
• a 1.171

  See Acts & Mo∣num. prope finem.
• b 1.172

  Paud. Collē. p. 221
• c 1.173

  Naucler. p. 1024
• d 1.174

  Guicciard. hist. pag, 66.
• e 1.175

  P. Joui. hist. lib. 1. pag. 25.
• f 1.176

  Mat. Par. p. 125.
• g 1.177

  Conscio, & ad∣nuente pontifice. Volater. pag. 51.
• h 1.178

  Meter. Belg. hist pag. 494. 490.
• i 1.179

  Liber qui inscri∣bitur, de victoria Clemen. 8. de Hen∣rico 4. gloriose tri∣umphantis.
• k 1.180

  Dinoth. de Bel. ciu. belg. p. 398.
• l 1.181

  Comment. rerum. in orb gest. p. 1122.
• * 1.182

  3. Princes and Subiects.
• * 1.183

  Fredericke the 2. Emperor by poi∣son, or by a pil∣low, destroyed by Manfredus, by the meanes of the Pope. who daily deuised to destroy him. ••usp. in Fre∣der. 2. and there writes that not long be∣fore 4. Conspira∣tors apprehēded, who should haue made away the Emperor, cōfes∣sing that the Pope did set them on worke.
• * 1.184

  Supra 30000. homines trucidati. Jacob. Aug. in hi∣histor. Anni 1572.
• * 1.185

  Their spirituall Father fatted both with the milke and bloud of the flocke.
• m 1.186

  Annal. lib. 7. fol. 683.
• n 1.187

  Genebra. Guicciardine saith of Pope Alexan∣der the 6. hee ne∣uer did what he••∣said, and his son Borgia neuer said what hee 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to doe.
• o 1.188

  Magdeburgens. Cent. 7. col. 21. Anno. 607.
• p 1.189

  Gen. 31.
• q 1.190

  Oth. meland.
• * 1.191

  Oramus gladium Domini, & Gideo∣nis nostri. The Harlot Theo∣dote checkt So∣crates, saying, her power was grea∣ter then his, for she allured many of his Schollers, he none of her louers. so this po∣pery is a Theodote or Dalila.
• r 1.192

  In his letter to Blackwell.
• * 1.193

  Sixte iaces tandē nostri discordia sacli.
• * 1.194

  S^t. Becket, S^t. Saunders, both Traytors. Baron. Martyrolog.
• * 1.195

  〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• s 1.196

  Hosc. 6. 9.
• * 1.197

  Illyric. vet. Poemat.
• t 1.198

  1 Tim. 3. 3.
• u 1.199

  Aeq••iuocatio simulatio 〈…〉〈…〉 〈1 line〉〈1 line〉.
• * 1.200

  Potentiores, cum rogant, iubent. Cuiuis potest acci∣dere, quod cuiquā potest.
• * 1.201

  Prou. 2. 14.
• * 1.202

  Prosperum scelus vocatur virtus.
• * 1.203

  Faux his speech, It was not God, but the Deuill that hindered the worke.
• * 1.204

  Inven: sat. 13.
• x 1.205

  Rom. 2. 20.
• y 1.206

  Reuel. 18. 6.
• * 1.207

  Reu. 19. 2.
• * 1.208

  Nemo impune malus.
• z 1.209

  Psal. 1. 6.
• * 1.210

  Greg. lib. 32. moral. Pope Innocent the 4. herd this voice a day before his death, Veni miser in iudicium Dei. So these.
• a 1.211

  Rom. 9. 18.
• b 1.212

  1. Cor. 10. 6. 11.
• c 1.213

  Sen. Prou. ruina praecedentium do∣cet posteros.
• * 1.214

  Nequitiae classes candida vela fe∣runt.
• * 1.215

  Ecclesid non propa∣gatur armis, sed propugnatur. Bloud-red mur∣ther, and blacke conspiracy in white robes of religion. Preces, & patiētia olim Christicolis artes, haec arma fuere.
• * 1.216

  They make their Church Acheldama a field of bloud.
• d 1.217

  1 King. 18. 24.
• e 1.218

  38.
• f 1.219

  1. Kings 18. 26.
• * 1.220

  A cruell and car∣nall religion sa∣uouring of a re∣uengefull, spirit.
• g 1.221

  Polanus: Non est humano sanguine cretus, illum sed genuit praeduris cautibus horrens Caucas{us}, hyrcanae{que} admorunt Ʋbera Tygres. Virg. Aenead.
• * 1.222

  Read D^r: White way to the Church. 1. part. pag. 360.
• h 1.223

  Polanus ex Bar∣tholo. Casa. Span. Colo. pag 2. 13. &c
• i 1.224

  Micah. 3. 10.
• k 1.225

  Esay 59. 3.
• l 1.226

  Ezech. 35. 6.
• m 1.227

  By Brutus and Cassius in the Se∣nate house of Rome.
• n 1.228

  Austen. ep. 5.
• o 1.229

  Luk. 13. 27.
• p 1.230

  Psa. 109. 29.
• * 1.231

  Iuv.
• * 1.232

  Bloodthirsty men do hate the righ∣teous. Pro. 29. 10.
• q 1.233

  Tacit. Hist. lib. 3.
• r 1.234

  Plutar. in Caesar: id em dixit, non mi∣hi placet vindicta, sed victoria.
• s 1.235

  Quodlibet 1. Art 2.
• t 1.236

  Import. Consider. pag. 3.
• * 1.237

  Natos homines ab∣domini.
• * 1.238

  Rich. Dunelm. Phi∣lobibl. c. 5.
• * 1.239

  Faux speech, that the Diuell, and not God was the discouerer of it.
• * 1.240

  Prince Henry then liuing. Decus olim, nunc dolor orbis, as Hun∣tindon. Hist. lib. 7. said of Henry the first of England.
• * 1.241

  Improbus à nullo flectitur obsequio.
• * 1.242

  Some being a∣bout wicked pur∣poses, doe bow downe their heads, and their inward parts burne with de∣ceit. Ecclus. 19. 25.
• u 1.243

  Psal. 60. 2.
• * 1.244

  3▪
• * 1.245

  Mat. 26. 25. Adulatio fallax crudelis est. Aug. lib. 2. contra. lit. Petil.
• x 1.246

  Math. 7. 20. A Equiuocationem esse vtilem autem, & bonam pruden∣tiam, & idea Mar∣tinus Nauarrus Azpilcueta tract••∣tum de aequiu••ca∣tione, in gratiam Jesuitarum scrip∣sit.
• y 1.247

  Nauarr.
• * 1.248

  q Consil. lib. 3. de Regular. cons. 1.
• z 1.249

  Ier. 15. 19. Occasioned to exact this lawfull oath vpon this Powder Treason.
• * 1.250

  Clerkes haue no∣thing to doe with Crownes: Religi∣on turned into Statisme, will proue Atheisme. B. Lincolne.
• * 1.251

  Psal. 91. 5.
• * 1.252

  Dolus Apochry∣phus.
• a 1.253

  Called A dis∣course of this late intended Treason.
• * 1.254

  Quicquid delirant reges plectūtur A∣ch•…•….
• * 1.255

  Adagium in eos, qui callide sua ma∣lefacta in alios, reijciunt. Erasm.
• c 1.256

  Gen. 10. 9.
• * 1.257

  Ierome.
• d 1.258

  Psal. 91. 3. Escaped out of the snare of the Fowlers, the snare is broken, and we are deliuered. Psa. 124. 7.
• e 1.259

  Phil ostratus.
• f 1.260

  2 Cor. 10. 4.
• * 1.261

  Tertullian. Quo magis san∣guinis effusum, e•• magis effloruit Ec∣clesia. Cyprian.
• g 1.262

  Deut. 11. 29.
• * 1.263

  Theologi Ro∣mani argumen∣ta ferrea, & ignea Spirant, nō Scrip∣ta atramento, sed Sanguine.
• h 1.264

  Math. 10. 23.
• * 1.265

  Luk. 9. 59. 61. Valedicere jis qui domi sunt
• i 1.266

  Acts 4. 19.
• k 1.267

  Iudg. 3. 15. 21.
• l 1.268

  2. King. 9. & 10.
• m 1.269

  Iosh. 1. 2. 9.
• n 1.270

  Psal. 11. 5.
• o 1.271

  Exod. 23. 7.
• p 1.272

  Plautus in Bacch.
• * 1.273

  Must mutuose scabunt.
• q 1.274

  Sueton. in vit. Domit.
• * 1.275

  Then ready to cry with Liuie in another kind, Dij, hominesque illi affuere pugnae. lib. 7.
• r 1.276

  Matth. 7. 17. 19.
• * 1.277

  Nec recitare, nec reticere possum.
• s 1.278

  Praefat. Hier. in Pentateuch. Moysi. & Authorē allegat Aristaeum, & Josephum, qui dicunt, eos in vna Basilica congrega∣tos, &c.
• t 1.279

  Song of the three children. Verse 88. Verse. 89.
• * 1.280

  Salust, Qua data porta, ruunt caedes, Sce∣lus, vndique Sanguis.
• * 1.281

  Facinus aeterna flamma vindican∣dum.
• * 1.282

  Nulla •…•…s vidit, audiuit, cogitauit.
• * 1.283

  Fraus quâm vis odiosior. Cicero.
• u 1.284

  Treshams letter. Ictu oculi omnes, & omnia cuerti.
• x 1.285

  Cant. 2. 1.
• y 1.286

  Iudg. 9. 15.
• z 1.287

  2. King. 2. 12.
• * 1.288

  Ier 9. 1.
• 2 1.289

  Lament. 1. 1.
• * 1.290

  2. 3. 4.
• * 1.291

  12.
• * 1.292

  Vmbratilem eius speciem depingere nequeo.
• b 1.293

  Iob 10. 21. 22.
• c 1.294

  Ioel. 2. 2. Thetraytors with Titus Ʋespasian cried, amici, dicus perdidi: vti re∣fert S•…•… in ••ius vita.
• d 1.295

  Matth. 8. ••5.
• e 1.296

  Esay. 3. 2.
• f 1.297

  Matth. 3. 10.
• g 1.298

  2. King. 21. 13.
• h 1.299

  Lament. 4. 20.
• * 1.300

  Non pacem peti∣mus, superi, date gentibus iras. Oratio Garn.
• i 1.301

  Pro 15. 8.
• k 1.302

  Esay 1. 15.
• l 1.303

  Lament. 2. 16.
• m 1.304

  Psal. 124. 3.
• n 1.305

  Psal. 101. 6.
• o 1.306

  140. 5.
• p 1.307

  Psal. 4. 23.
• q 1.308

  Luke 1. 74.
• * 1.309

  3. Spirituall estate.
• r 1.310

  Psal. 137. 1.
• s 1.311

  Math. Paris.
• t 1.312

  1 Kin. 18. 26.
• u 1.313

  Gen. 21. 14.
• * 1.314

  Psal. 6. 6.
• * 1.315

  Psal. 79. 1.
• * 1.316

  Hic dolus est magnus, lupus est qui creditur agnus.
• y 1.317

  Reuel. 17. 4.
• z 1.318

  Lam. 2. 12.
• * 1.319

  Mal. 2. 7.
• a 1.320

  Lam. 4. 19.
• * 1.321

  18.
• b 1.322

  Esa. 2. 3.
• c 1.323

  Psal. 58. 5.
• d 1.324

  Matth. 11. 17.
• e 1.325

  Psalm. 137. 2.
• f 1.326

  Iob 29. 2. 3.
• g 1.327

  Num. 11. 6. & 21. 5.
• h 1.328

  Amos 8. 12.
• i 1.329

  Hosee. 4. 6.
• k 1.330

  Math. 13. 3.
• l 1.331

  Dan. 12. 3.
• * 1.332

  Virg. Fclog.
• m 1.333

  Lam. 5. 15. 16. 5.
• n 1.334

  Esay 49. 23.
• o 1.335

  Lamen. 4. 2.
• p 1.336

  Math. 5. 13. 14.
• q 1.337

  Iob. 29. 15. Custodes vtrius{que} tabula perijssent.
• r 1.338

  Math. 26. 31.
• s 1.339

  Vide Luther po∣still. maior. in Mat. 13. 24.
• t 1.340

  De ciuit. Dei. lib. 21. cap. 3.
• u 1.341

  Reu. 9. 6.
• * 1.342

  Virgil.
• * 1.343

  Psal. 120. 4.
• x 1.344

  Pro. 21. 30.
• y 1.345

  1 Kin. 13. 4.
• z 1.346

  Sext. Aurel.
• * 1.347

  Math 16. 18.
• a 1.348

  2 Pet. 2. 9.
• b 1.349

  Gen. 3. 15.
• c 1.350

  Gen. 22. 15.
• d 1.351

  Gen. 26.
• e 1.352

  Gen. 41.
• f 1.353

  1 Kin. 19 5.
• g 1.354

  Iudg. 7. 2••.
• h 1.355

  Dan. 6. 22
• i 1.356

  Ionas 2. 10.
• k 1.357

  Histor. of Su∣sanna, v. 45.
• l 1.358

  Dan. 3.
• m 1.359

  Exod. 14. 13
• n 1.360

  Dan. 3. 27:
• o 1.361

  Wis. 11. 13. Calix mortis mul∣tis praeparatus, per∣petuus esset calix Benedictionis.
• p 1.362

  Psal. 9. 10. Non est speciosa laus in ore peccato∣ris.
• q 1.363

  Rom. 11 21.
• r 1.364

  Psalm. 56. 13.
• s 1.365

  Psalm. 56. 13.
• t 1.366

  Psalm. 66. 8.
• u 1.367

  Ioshua 22. 29.
• * 1.368

  Nehem. 8. 3.
• x 1.369

  6
• y 1.370

  9
• z 1.371

  4.
• * 1.372

  Exod. 11. 14.
• a 1.373

  Psal. 106. 47.
• b 1.374

  Psal. 106. 48.