A sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemn fast,…A sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast,…

2. Obser. How God disappointeth all the purposes of his enemies, and honoureth those who fear him, and maketh Daniel evidently known to be the true Royalist: and observe how the enemies must be disappointed: how can it be otherwayes? for first, they take two cross ways to compass their end: First, sinful means; there is no way for the Princes of Zoan to come by their ends but idolatry: surely they are fools, and drunken men staggering in their vomit, Isa. 19. 11, 14. and the adversaries now find no better means to set up their Idol-god in Britain, and their abominable Mass, then after they have made the Prince glad with their lies, to kill and destroy the innocent, and devour and eat up the Lords people as bread. Secondly, they set the policy of hell against the wisdom of God: hence so many plots, first to divide, then to seduce; so many lies and perjuries in print, and all with this profession, To defend the true Protestant Religion: But surely he hath a strong Metaphysical faith, more subtle then solid, who believeth that an army of Papists, led on by the rules of Jesuits, and helped by the forces of the Irish Rebels, have a mind to defend the true Protestant Religion: I hope never to believe it. Yet as God disappointed Daniels enemies, so are they mis-led in all their purposes: God hath always done this. The enemy of God and a good Cause, Psal. 7. 14. is with child, but the Justice of God is Godfather, and giveth the name of the child, it is named, A lie: behold, he travelleth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief: and the birth, when it is borne, is no King, no God, he bringeth forth a lie: Isaiah 33. 11. Ye shall conceive chaff: and the child is a monstrous bastard, a child of straw and stubble: and ye shall bring forth stubble: Job 15. 35. They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity. There is a long web now in weaving in England, and many hands spin threads to the web, as England, Scotland, Ireland, Rome, Italy, France, Spain, Denmark, Papists, Jesuits, Cardinals, ⟨p. 32⟩Princes, Pope, Prelates, Politicians: and Jehovah the Lord hath an hand eminently in the contexture; and almost all (except the Lord and his Church) have sundry ends, therefore they weave in threads of sundry colours, Babylon, Rome, and Papists are for their idolatry set up in Britain: