• I 3 llerwant~f l1rtng1b. Ofthe GuN-POWD.&R~TREASON, ~ t,hnt wmched will oftheirs, as they refolved to know neitherfriend~' with all together. Nor diq they want opponunity,ofa place: Got rhev.,.h~rtt ut 'P the"liarafter. No, nor meanes: had their iro~·tooles; hadpowder enough d ,and jlorvagefor it. Thefethcy,bad,all: yet, 2\(onerant(fairh the Text·)wha;~ good might that be~ Non'erant vires, they hadnojlrength. ' onrrant T.o ahirtb., there.go two things : ' The childrenmull be come thither tb the i· h· Jlliittltlr When thecbit:drenbe come t~ither, there mull: beJlrength, at J~allas trt h todeliver thern.l YJ..dpartum,opm eJl mxu; admxum,opus eft viribm: To abirthmhc goes akinde ofJlrtjfe; toajlrtjfe; there is require~ fomejlrength. Nixns ina;i: },:~ viribru;and '!'xrl t111am '!tht!pmtur:):?no purpofe tS thejlrtjfe,iftherebenoftren th, but all invai»e: And, rfthat be rnvame; there wrllnobtrthbe (No morethere ~ ) but thechildperijh; and ifthemsther fcape,it is well; but (oft)they goeboth. A~d fo fell it out here; thechildren de~d-borne, and the Motherdied for it too. 1'ofpeake without allegom. To the producrng ofany clfeCt~two thfngs there go: 'coun[ell,and .•Strength : not, cormfe!talone ; but counfelland.ftrength. For asjfrengtl,wirhout c~lln• Jell, will procure but amola: Socormfell;"!ithqutjlrengtb, will prove bur an.borce– ment! Vvefee dally, many excellent deviCes cbme to nought; all, becaufe'they be norjfro»gly followed toexecution. Strength then, there would be. And,jlrength they had nbt. Notjlrength?yes (fure)that had they. 1'ofo!lo 1 v them,in the allegoric; themother wasjlrong,elfc would thechildrenneyerhave come fo farre,as they did, to be fo ripe, and ready forthe delivery. And, thec6ildrenwere flro'ng children ;,Prongenough, but with one (maf!Jparke, to JnivcCent us all upalofc ifwe had beene twice as many mo,re. To leave theallegorie:jlrengththeyhad enough: to handletheprckaxe, te dtg ileepe mtoflone 1vals ;Jlrengthenough, to lay id great bat– rels, and thofc all full,and a great many ofthem. Strengthenough,to remove them up and doivn,as theymight fiand bell: for the purpofe; and to clap on iron and frones; and wood enough, upon them. And; how then was therenojlrength l You will eafilymarke,rires is theplnra/1number; and fo,manyjlrengthstherebe: and, that he faith not [Vires] fimpJy, Anyjfrengthat aJl; bur, virts fAriendi, j/rengt/i tu bringfurth.rires,is onething;virespariendi, another. rires,they had;vlm 'UINitn: ··di, adpartum:el[ehad they never come fo far;but virespariendithar, they had not. .For, partus is opru(we faid:) and nothing was done, AII the while,tiU theycame 'ttd paY.Ium, th.eirjlrengthfervedthem well. At rheinll:ant, rheyfhouldhavebeen~ .,., ·; brought forth, it failed them, Sti'engih tberewas, to carry' it along; to bringitfofar: I!>mnotpAriendi, to bring it to iifue. . . ( o.. 'fo,bring aching to iffu~,that, paffes the divels power; He couldgil'ethem the ·~otlt_f{ttl(as, no.doubt, he did : it was too devillifh, to grow in any mans head.) Bnr, tbe Rrength to i.fl't~e,.that lieth not in his hand. Yemay be fure ifit had, they had had t)iat<tb.o; , He:longecl, :ismuch as they, to heare the blow, an·d fee the fight. He,th~t l!~lp~d them toJay in thepqwder, would haye helped to have put to theftre,. had It beene in hispower. But it was more than they could doe: theflrength to ijfoe IS Gods: ever,and Hetooke it from. them. ~o~.~s• .;~. J.L,'Dominiftmt exiiru : The ljfuesofall attempts are in the h,mds of GoD, them_ f.le referves to Himfclfe,as His owne peculiar; yea,evenofeviUattempts. For,bow. foever Hebe.not at the beginning ofthem; at theend, He mull: b.e, orrroendwill be: .Domt'r~ifontcxitru. Thehor.'"'may be prepared ro thebatteU; rhe/its, caft tn the lap.; Prov.!f.Jr: J' A d h all1S l'rov. 16,H , thecellar made ready forrhepo•vder; and thepowder forthecellar:. n i w en ·•s,m, 11,1 t. .done, that the wit Qr malicebfthe devil!, or man, can doe or dev1fe, comes G~o~ t!ficr 7-7. a~ddafhes allina moment. TheCotmfe/1of.t!chitophel;Ha 11 wJs hzgb (Avortr;the.,rea •Chra..o.37 :Fleet at Ezion-geber; Sennacheribshuge holl:: defeats them all. For,cormfels maybe ,Vcrle 3 ~- in the heart ofm_an,·and JtJoras 3t his tongues end, andafls 'at his ftngm end; yet no·. thing fhall be fai.d,or done,unleffe_Go Dwill fo have it.. .tfegives~rdemcsfuccefi"ei as Him plcafes.Tbat.when the cluldreu are upbnthepomtto bedeltvered,theJe lht , ~eflrength,Qr mflrengtb ~P c!oeit, as picafes Him~ A!!d here~ it pleafed H1m not: ~f.
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