• 1002. Ofthe GuN,POWD&R...TREASON. Ser~ · thispeople, doe with themwbatyeeiljl: with them, and with theKingcoo (w~ morethanheredtdHaman) blowrhemupand fparenot. Andthoughther b f ' our owne.catholikes among them, noforc~: blow them up, for all that: Itisfor~0• ., ltgzon, tillS. e" I concludeall; with t.he very light, ifthis lot oftheirs had fallen to our lot: .. Ithadbeenean heavielight(3Stnthemaff~cre of P4ril) tohavefeenementu 1 bling in their owne bloud here and therein the firms: Nothingt.o this, to fee m~ tome in [under, heads from lhoulders, armcs from legs, both from the body . ua ters andhalfe quarters flying about : the braines fly one way, thebowelsa~ole:: bloud fpilt, like water in rhe river, in the fields, in every corner of the llreets' neve~ thelike fighr,andfo never the hke l4t to this. ' . Now then: finc;e,in our lot; '.thedeftruEiion mere deftruc1ive (for by powdtr) • moregenera//(forKmgandall With us:) l upon a leffecmaineand upon a more famous Day: Our NatZ~nmorenoble; Our Ham4nmore Wicked; Theirc 4 ufeand tolourmore to beabhorred: I conclude, our lot was theworfe, and theworfethe lot the better the efcape : thebetter it, and thebetter defe-rving aHoly-day for it. Andthi; forthelot m the{ap. · NowtoCon thatgiveththehap: . Where, firll I note that the word Pur it is noHebrew, but a Ptr{ian word; yet it was thought mee~ to retaine ir. They give this reafon, for that, thefame word Pur (in Hebrew) figmfieth to difappoint : /hewing plainly, that the Hel>rewes Go n lhould give an Hebrew Pnr to the Perfian P11r, difappoini: the Perjian lot: and chougb it werecaft, yet norfuffer it to light, though. We findc atthe XX I V. Verfe, Hamandid caft buc Pur in thefingu!ar, but one· fingle lot (He needed call but one, lince all were to goe one way, none to efcapc;) L yec rhe Day is calledPurim, that i$ theplt~r41l, as ifthere were more than one, fomc: <-' other, befide that of Haman's. And fo it was lit there lhould, that there mightbe as well agoodlot as anevil!. The troth is, there can be no lotttryofone; there behoveto be twoat leall:: two diver[e. Thel~tw is fo. The6rll!ots, we reade of, that ever were cafi, were betweene thetwg Goats, Levit.z 6. \Yhofc lot it fl10uld b~todie, and whole to fcope, to be theScape-g-oat. Here was never af:dpe-goat in Haman's ;Jlaine-g04ts• all: fo befidc the Lawquite:,G o o taokeHamancalling lots befidethe Larv,andHc: rooke thematter inro His owne hand; and He did it regularly,made two lots, to two ends, andfortweparties: One for Mardochei and the Iewes, them one; for Haman an– l'lther: Go o put in one, for him too, by his leave. Mardechei faith it plainly inrhe Greeke Srtpplement, c. I. v. X. That GoD made two lots andgavethem forth, Onefuf Huownc People,and o11efor thewicked(meaning1vicked Haman.) So haveyeHaman's Pttr (he call: but one, which was difappointeda!ld neverdrawne<) And Go o'sPu– rim(two of His putting in, and both drawne.) And itiswell we have removedit ouf of fiaman's, into abetter hand, that we may fay, Inmanibm tni•fortes me.e (as faith. the Pfalme) Not in Haman's hands are ot~rlots, but in thitJC, . . . . Two good hopes we have thereby. I. One that though 1t wasnothtngWt~& Hamm, to lay hands onMardochd, nor with o~rs, on the King; yet with GoD tC will be fomcwhat, nay much: That G o o will be orherwife minded, than Hatnat~ or they. Not magifqrte voluit omnem Nationem perdere, but "'•gi{que vol11rt orn11en• 'J>{gtiontmflrpare; rather fee H~manhanged,and adozen fuch as he, than mat a whol~ Nation fi10uld peri01 in this manner. •. z , Andthenfecondly, feeingtheybe now in Gon's hands, b~the!~twhatlf will, ot.in what lap-it will, inHama1ls ownelap (to be fure) yet when lt comes to the drawing, Go n will give it forth, which way, and with wha~ fucce!fe Hcpleafe~. And when all is done, what Haman,- nay, what v!fft~crm htmfelfe dothpurpme, Go n will difpole; andthere lhall be neither lot, norpM, againllthe Lo 11. o. And fo we come to Go n's Purim, to His lottery. • , , · :Wherein weare againebcfo~c themas many wayes~~n th~ ' mea'!fr,the ~~~~;,
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