4 .... ~..... - .' Sermon to. ours will more than match that oftheirs: the lot ofour danger mere fearefuU,the lqf of our deliverance more Jl!linderfuU. , , ·' And iffo, then have we asgoodgrott~d, ~s they; nay better,than they ahy; . . This for rhegrou11d•. Bur, rharalone IS not enough: Y.etlacke we at~tberity, Here I!i iris; the ft!!_eene, byadvm, enJoymng tt; ThepeopleJi•bmltt111g roo6ferve the aay, at theappoimedtime. . . We.conclude then: thegroundbemg all one, on wh1ch (a famous deliverance:) theautho;itinhe[a~e, by which (the Jit!!_eene there,,rhe Ifing herle, enjoyning 1 r:) thefebeincr ahke, a hke bond to us, (~<per ammMnoffr.u, for a!tke aay of ours, even theday o~which it was ourlor to e[ca~e; at~ like rime, that is, on~e a yeare'; and in like manner; to bee holden, as them, w1rh prayer, and crytng, though of an~ other nature. ' . . And this Rmrd (here.) in the Roll ofF.Jffer, lha!l be our warrant for fodoing again!l: all oppofers. · · THe fotiscaffin tbelap,btlt Con gi;eththeiMp: Iris Salomon, inProver~.' J: . cbap.r6.verf.33· Webeginwirqrhe !otinthelap,Hamans !ap,thedangey: Th~GrDunJ:,. 1 And come after, to thebap Go o gave, the happie deliverance. The da»- ger. • They and we had but onelotboth: to bedeftroyed q•~ire, utterly. And wee i. agree in two more : • to be dejlr~yed all; l to bedeftrDyedat ,,Jet day : thefe three. · The Dang<r1 But in all t.hree, our lot theworfe, every way. And the worfe iris inrhe/af (the lut)theberteritisintheha;,ifwefcapeir; . . . . . . , Vtter dejlrullio» ro both; But their /gt \vas afword, to be fiaine : Our Plwwas ~mrdtflt~~ .,.,i ""V'• Ourlot,jreandpowder, to behlowen Np. Ofthe twaine, this the worfe. ""· The(word is in a hand, and that hand is guided by the bean, an~ tharbeart may relent at the light of a filly innocent babe, apme old,;,,m, awomangreat with cht!de,; fo, fome hope, forfometo fcapethere. But,jre, no hope for any: Fire canrtot re– lent, that fpares none. · . . . · Yet Saint itide fpeakes of(aving fome by plucking them out ofthe jre.: :Sur, not Iude z't: thisjre; no plt,ckingout here, no fcaping for any; all difpatched in a momeht,_pall: faving all. Fa8i ef!emtu.fieut Sodom.e: nay;worfe. That, came from heaven';this, Roro.g.<f. from hell: from hell-wArd, at lea!l:. There, three: here, not llnelhould have e[caped. LDt's cafe, his lot will end this; his lqt, to all intents, better, when hefcaped rhe fire G~n.rg.>~. of Sodome, than when the[wordofthe foiere Kings in battell. This, the moll: deffm- Gea.t<tou,, llive dejlmflion of all :ifany more than other, this is it. ~ight we draw'lilts fo'r our death, we would never draw this. And tl)is was our lot. ' · . ' ':>< ' A generall Lottery was Intended in both. Truely might His MttjeHie .ha\re faid, .• 2' • as ever did~eeneEHher (chap. 7:verf. 4·) 'I'raditijitmtu ego &poptiltiniiem, Be- J,~;r,::.••~ trayedwe are I and my people. , . . . And will yeemarkc, how like·ofHamanit is [aid, Pru nihiloduxit inunNni Mar- Ch>p+~; tloch£t~mmamumittere, He thought it nothing to lay hands onMardoi:bel alo)le, m<~,- ~ gi(qt.e volitit .o'?'nem Nationem perdere,.No lefie would ferve~im', but thehavocke of the whole 'l(gtlon: cbap. 3· ver(e 6. Sa1d not ourH.cman the fame~ What, lAJ hand; on theKing~ (~s one of them offered) Ttilh, that'is not worth th·ewhile, magi(que voluitomnem1<{ationem, Nay; ifwelhalldoeit indeed; lie right Jiamans, up wir!t ' kzng, andParliament and all· make ageneralllo'tierj of it iriany wife. HRmalaighc ~this) in his owne termes-. ' . . . s f[f :>:
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