[Sidenote dp:  2.  Sam. 22. 41.]

  [Sidenote dq:  Psalm. 118.]

More principally the Common-weale of England, and in it all men of all factions, and all fashions whatsoeuer. Atheists (if they think there be a God) haue good cause to thanke God, acknowledging his mercie toward them in sparing vs, and so sauing the bad for the [dr]righteous sake. Carnall Gospellers haue good cause to thanke God, confessing that so long as [ds]_Lot_ is in Sodome, it can not be destroyed; and so long as Moses standeth in the [dt]gap, and [du]prayeth for his people, Gods wrathfull indignation can not deuoure vs.  Yea, let the Gunpowder men themselues (if they haue any sparke of grace) confesse that God is to be praised in this noble act; for suppose (God be thanked, we may suppose and dispose thus of these matters vnto our comfort) I say suppose, their diuelish plot had been acted, I assure my selfe our cause had been farre better, and our number farre greater than theirs; and as for our sinnes (which are indeede our greatest enemies) they would haue brought into the field so many as we:  so that hauing so much armour of light, and more armour of proofe then they, [dx]_Causa iubet melior superos sperare secundos_.

  [Sidenote dr:  Gen. 18. 26.]

  [Sidenote ds:  Gen. 19. 22.]

  [Sidenote dt:  Psalm. 106. 23.]

  [Sidenote du:  Exod. 32. 11.]

  [Sidenote dx:  Lucan.]

But suppose the least and the worst part had ouercome the bigger and the better, yet (if they bee not hewen out of hard rockes) if these Romanists haue not sucked the milke of wolues (as it is reported of the first founder of Rome) they would haue relented to see their natiue Country made nothing else but a verie shambles of Italian and Ignatian butchers.  When Alexander saw the dead corps of Darius; and Iulius Caesar, the head of Pompey; and Marcus Marcellus, Syracusa burne; and Scipio, Numantia spoild; and Titus, Hierusalem made [dy]euen with the ground, they could not abstaine from weeping, albeit they were mortall enemies.  But aboue all other in this kingdome, the truely zealous, and zealously true hearted protestants haue greatest occasion of reioycing; for if the Lord had not (according to his excellent greatnes, and according to his excellent goodnes too) deliuered vs out of this gun-powder gulfe, our bodies happily might haue beene made food for the foules, or else fewell for the fire; and that which would haue grieued our posteritie more, supersition and Idolatrie might in short time haue been replanted in this land; I meane that vpstart Antichristian religion of Rome, wherein many things, especially foure (as iudicious [dz]_Fox_ well obserued) are most abominable.

    1.  Vnlimited jurisdiction, derogatorie to all Kings and Emperours.