The fifth of November puts us in mind of this fatal destruction; intended by the malice of men, but prevented by the mercy of God. Those smoky locusts […] prepared and furnished a black pit, the very image of hell; and had resolved o• that desperate cry, Incendium extinguatur ruinâ: they had devised communem reg••, a common bonfire, an universal combustion, both of mortal men and immortal monuments; Churches, Charters, and Records of antiquity. Bloody Priests that would have offered a whole burnt sacrifice, and made our sons and daughters pa••e through the fire, an oblation to their Moloch of Rome. Think country men, and let it never die in your memories, whiles the mercy of God may find a room in your hearts: consider a swift destruction; never was example of so facinorous an e• terprise, the Primum genus of all sin, a crying, a roaring, a thundering sin, as our Sovereign truly termed it: a sin not only of blood, but of fire, fire mingled with brimstone, such as the attempters (without extraordinary mercy) now feel in hell. Ask from East to West, from one Pole to the other; search all records under heaven, if ever there was the like. Their vault was a penuary and store house of destruction; against us in the intent, against themselves in the event. Let us say as those four Lepers, 2 King. 7.9. This day is a day of good tidings, and we do not well to hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will fall upon us. Consider with them. 1. The specialty of the time, This day. 2. The occasion of that specialty, it is a day of good news. 3. The duty of that occasion, not to hold our pe•ce. 4. The necessity of that duty, lest mischief fall upon us. But you will say, the day is past, and let it pass with the day; Sufficit diei malitia ipsius; sufficient to the day is the sorrow thereof. I answer; Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge, Psalm. 19. Verse 2. The day gone reads a lecture to the day present: that day tells news to all days, without which they had not been days to us. In regard of the marvellous attempt, a day of news: in regard of the gracious deliverance, a day of good news. News in the Intention, good news i• the prevention: a privative, a positive good; for a negative is made an affirmative by reduction. Suppose you had seen it done;
The fift of November puts us in mind of this fatall destruction; intended by the malice of men, but prevented by the mercie of God. Those smoky locusts 〈…〉 prepared and furnished a blacke pit, the very image of hell; and had resolved o• that desperate cry, Incendium extinguatur ruinâ: they had devised communem reg••, a common bonefire, an universall combustion, both of mortall men and immortall monuments; Churches, Charters, and Records of antiquitie. Bloudy Priests that would have offered a whole burnt sacrifice, and made our sons and daughters pa••e through the fire, an oblation to their Moloch of Rome. Thinke countrey men, and let it never die in your memories, whiles the mercie of God may find a roome in your hearts: consider a swift destruction; never was example of so facinorous an e• terprise, the Primum genus of all sinne, a crying, a roring, a thundring sinne, as our Soveraigne truly termed it: a sin not onely of bloud, but of fire, fire mingled with brimstone, such as the attempters (without extraordinary mercy) now feele in hell. Aske from East to West, from one Pole to the other; search all records under heaven, if ever there was the like. Their vault was a penuary and store house of destruction; against us in the intent, against themselves in the event. Let us say as those four Lepers, 2 King. 7.9. This day is a day of good tydings, and we doe not well to hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischiefe will fall upon us. Consider with them. 1. The specialtie of the time, This day. 2. The occasion of that specialtie, it is a day of good newes. 3. The dutie of that occasion, not to hold our pe•ce. 4. The necessitie of that duty, lest mischiefe fall upon us. But you will say, the day is past, and let it passe with the day; Sufficit diei malitia ipsius; sufficient to the day is the sorrow thereof. I answer; Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge, Psalm. 19. Verse 2. The day gone reads a lecture to the day present: that day tells newes to all dayes, without which they had not beene dayes to us. In regard of the marvellous attempt, a day of newes: in regard of the gracious deliverance, a day of good newes. Newes in the Intention, good newes i• the prevention: a privative, a positive good; for a negative is made an affirmative by reduction. Suppose you had seene it done;
