lOO'f ' Ofthe GuN,POWDJtR.-TREASON, s;;;;;~;;:' Matth.14.38. Luke '7·"9· Pfal,u,JJ, '• ' ( ... ~ . ) -:··· felfe. This, is Go 'n able to doe: to make Haman, iathe fat he call for~ wittingly to draw his owne defiiny; andmake the day,by him fet for them,th~~'~n. day ofh1s owne dellruchon. Tu doethts, and upon fo ihorr warning, to doe · ~tall all this was done, in rhe {pace offotm andtwent1 houres.Wherein,we fee itve\f~r that Salomon faith: That theKings heart i• in Go nh,md,a»dHe tflrnesit.uan e ; cot<rfe, to runne which way He will have it; and other-while makes adamm;~11!'' and diverts the current aquire contrary way,cleanebacke uponH11man, toover~ tr, liim, and to drowne him. Thus did He wirh them. ow : And fo did He with us, and more alfo : and that, in lelfe time. For ours w neerer than fo; and, rhe neerer it came, rhefairerour lot, to efcape it. ' as For, with them, rhefollrteenthof.ddarwas nor yet come; thePojiJ hadrimec goe and come, before it: bur. with us, it flayed rill the very day ir ft!fe~ascome. 1~ a·night, both: bur ours,rhe n~ght, thenext mght before; fo was not theirs. Ever the Scripture dorh prelfe thts pomt : Not ttllthe day, 'l{Je entredimo tke Arke : N~r tdl that mo;ning, that Lotwent_out ofSodome. So ours, not till rhe very night immediately precedmg the d1fmall day lt felfe. And then,whenpowder, and traine, andmatchand ~11 were in a readinelfe,rhen comes me Go n withHts Stulte hac nofle,anddailies all. They weredelivered,before theday came: Theday it felfe came, before we were d 1 , livertd; It was hJc noc1e(indeed) literally. So, wee fcaped more narrowly· our lot more neere thedrawi»g. So, ours was potior tempore. ' Andpotigr jt1re too. For,though the fame ilfue,to both; yet in that alfo,have we the better. Adelivery there is mentioned ( a4. P{Alme) ourfoule u (capedeven M the hird, ont ofthefnare ofthe fowler; thefn•re u lmke, 1111d we are delivered. And, this is worth thedrArving.But,thisis bur PNr, a.Jingle lot: For,iftharbe all, the6irdu efc•· ped,and that is well for the6ird: bur,rhefowler (fave that he is alittle deluded)heis not hurt; andfo, hecanfoonefet another{nareagaine. This, is but Pur. But, Pnrim, is better; when thefowle[capes, and thefowler[capes mt, but comes himfelfe to a fouleend. Thefnareis broken: No, thefnare is whole, and the1 taken in thefnare. It fprungonely, and away went thefowle; but with thefpring, the knot wasknit anew, and HAmanand his fellow:fowlerscaught, andftr~tngltdin ir. . And this (loe) is Purim : Purim, after theHe6rew idiom, is thegreat M. To fcape t:{ndre; ~ndin thefamefnare, to have (notrheir foot, but) their necke taken,thatfet ir: There is no greater. The Pajfeover is no greater: There, they fcAped, andPharaoh dm¥ntd: here, theyfcaped, and HamAn hanged. Will yee looke backeto the K i11gs fentenceat the five aHdtwentieth ver{e?This it is : Malum, quodcogitavitcontrl. vos, avertatur in captlt ipjim. Not, Avert•tur ~ C4· pitib,.. veflru; (EHhers lirll petition was no more, let my life beegivenmee, Turne ·a\vtty mydefrruCtion: That,it istoo:) but, that is not it. This is it : Con'rl_eriAturill capui'ipfieu, The evil!, he devifed, be it rurned away from your hea~s(that 1~ well;) not' ahaire fall from any ofour heads; But the fame ev1ll, they dev•fed, be It turned Jpon their owne heads, that were the devifers, This, is it :and this is as much, as the Kingcould grant, orrhe .f<!!:.eenecould de/ire• •.:·'·And this fame is rhelot ofthu d•y. They imAgined{t1ch adevife, ,a they rvertneere the performing,yet werenotable toperforme.Theno»-petformance was well,thefc•t· tering oftheir imaginations; we fcaped by the llleanes. But further, they we:e taken ih the'ir owue turne, and the evil! they devifed againll us, returned upon rhetr owne ' headsrtheir heads, ahd qt~~trters both. ToRaman's end they came: Nay, roa worfe than 'Hama'n's, and jullly ;.for, their devke, worfe than his. Theplace, they meant to have doneexewtion upon us in, underrhe fameplace, they rhemfelvcse~ecur~d. Before their eyes ·on whom their cme/1 -bowels had no comjMfion, were rhetr cruell · {;~wels-Ge~rnt. Tl1/heads,from wf.!ich it cariie,to have blowen up the Hotl{e-; the hd•[e hatft 'blowen up tlielfheads, and fo they beAgagim right• Their bodtes plucke m peeces, their quarters rem in funder, fo their meaning was to have dealt Wlth 1 ours, Thu i/ the lott!fthe ungodly from.theLoa 0 ·.The1r ev1ll/ot;and(underone) the ame, ~thappie lot ofotir deil1uMii~e! · Anq
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