Romes cruelty & apostasyRomes cruelty & apostacie

2. It makes fruitful, and it is the semen Ecclesiae, even as when you shake one ripe flower, for one seed there cometh up many.

2. It makes fruitfull, and it is the semen Ecclesiae, even as when you shake one ripe flower, for one seed there commeth up many.

5. In their attempt upon England this day: The particulars of this Tragedy are so known, that to relate them would be to weary you: consider the horridness of the plot, at one blow to destroy an whole nation. Think O Lucifer, and imagine, O prince of darkness, a more bloody attempt if thou canst. What darkness would have covered the land? How would the Sun and Moon, (the great ones of the state) been turned into blood? How had the Philistines taken the Ark, our Ministers been turned into Friars, our Bibles into images, our Tables into altars; yea, our Heaven turned immediately into an hell? All this was a plotting & sol non sudas? & terra non contremiscis? How would the Kingdom have been like an Egypt, when every house had one dead in it? We cry out of Herod's cruelty, that would have killed all the children of two years old: Here is greater bloodiness, even to destroy all in a Nation, O innocent Catiline and Verres to these men: and are these the men that cry up Charity, that hold it justifieth? Are these the men that admire St Francis his pity, because he would not kill a Flea, when they can destroy an whole Kingdom? What and to be Saints for all this? Shall we, with Paul and Peter and the other Saints, see Catesby and Faux, and that company also?

5. In their attempt upon England this day: The particulars of this Tragedie are so knowne, that to relate them would be to weary you: consider the horridnesse of the plot, at one blow to destroy an whole nation. Thinke O Lucifer, and imagine, O prince of darknesse, a more bloudy attempt if thou canst. What darknesse would have covered the land? How would the Sunne and Moone, (the great ones of the state) been turned into bloud? How had the Philistines taken the Arke, our Ministers been turned into Friers, our Bibles into images, our Tables into altars; yea, our Heaven turned immediately into an hell? All this was a plotting & sol non sudas? & terra non contremiscis? How would the Kingdome have been like an Egypt, when every house had one dead in it? We cry out of Herods cruelty, that would have killed all the children of two yeares old: Here is greater bloudinesse, even to destroy all in a Nation, O innocent Catiline and Verres to these men: and are these the men that cry up Charity, that hold it justifieth? Are these the men that admire St Francis his pity, because he would not kill a Flea, when they can destroy an whole Kingdome? What and to be Saints for all this? Shall we, with Paul and Peter and the other Saints, see Catesby and Faux, and that company also?