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[aq]Ribadeneira termeth him: and yet one (who sometime was his inner

man, and knew him as I presume, better then euer did _Ribadeneira_)
transposing the letters of Robertus Parsonius Iesuita, found this
anagramme, _Personatus versuti oris abi_: the wit-foundred drunkard,
Henry Garnet (who did not according to the Counsell of [ar]Paul vse
_vino modico_: but as [as]Paulinus pretily _modio_) that lecherous
treacherous Arch-priest, Arch-traitor, Arch-diuell in concealing, if not
in contriuing: in patronizing, if not in plotting the powder intended
massacre, is returned a Saint from beyond the seas with [at]_à sancte
Henrice intercede pro nobis_: his action is iustified, his life
commended, his death honoured, his miracles and memorie celebrated
by that Ignatian spirit, ([au]portentum nominis portentum hominis,
hauing a great deale of name, though a very little modestie) _Andreas
Eudæmon Ioannes Cydonius_: but notwithstanding his apologie, the
saintship of Henry Garnet is so buffeted by the replies and antilogies of
our accuratlie learned diuines, as that his straw face will hereafter
hardly be worth a straw. Catesbie, Winter, Rookwood, and the rest of
the Cole-saints and hole-saints (who laboured in the diuels mine by the
Popes mint) are numbred among the holy ones also: Babilon and Egypt
praise God in them, and for them. I haue heard much of roaring
gentlemen in London and Canterburie, but if the Lord himselfe had not
watched ouer his Church, if the Lord himselfe had not written England
in the [ax]palmes of his hands, if the Lord himselfe had not kept King
Iames as the [ay]apple of his eye, [az]if the Lord himselfe had not been
on our side (now may Gods Israell in England say) if the Lord himselfe
had not been on our side, when they rose vp against vs, if the Lord
himselfe had not (out of his vnspeakeable goodnesse toward vs and our
posteritie) broken their snares, and deliuered our soules out of that
horrible gunpowder pit; these bellowing Buls of Basan, and
Canon-mouthed hell-hounds would haue made on this day such a roare,
that all Christendome should haue felt it, and the whole world haue
feared it. [ba]_O Lord God of all power, blessed be thy name, which
hast this day brought to nought the enemies of thy people,[bb] so let all
thine enemies perish._ _O Lord, that our[bc] mouthes may be filled
with laughter and our tongue with ioy._ Sint diui modo non viui, let
England hang such, although afterward Rome hallow such, he that hath
an eye to see without the spectacles of a Iesuit, will affoord as good
credit to the register at Tiburne as to the Calender of _Tyber_: for if

these be Martyrs, I wonder who are Murtherers? If these be Saints, I
pray you who are Scythians? If these bee Catholikes, who are
Canibals?
[Sidenote ak: _Dr. Sutclif examin. of Rom. cap. 7._]
[Sidenote al: _Dr. Abbot Antilog. pag. 3._]
[Sidenote am: _Sutclif. vbi sup._]
[Sidenote an: _Hist. lib. 3. cap. vlt._]
[Sidenote ao: _Catalog. scrip. in vita pap._]
[Sidenote ap: _Houenden annal. part. poster. pag. 298._]
[Sidenote aq: _Catalog. scrip. Iesuit. in vita Parsonij._]
[Sidenote ar: _1. Tim. 5. 23._]
[Sidenote as: _Epist. lib. 3. epist. 6._]
[Sidenote at: _Sheldon preface before his motiues._]
[Sidenote au: _Eliens. epist. lector. ante resp. ad Bellar. apol._]
[Sidenote ax: _Esay 49. 16._]
[Sidenote ay: _Deut. 32. 10._]
[Sidenote az: _Psal. 124._]
[Sidenote ba: _Judith. 13. 4._]
[Sidenote bb: _Iudges 5. 31._]
[Sidenote bc: _Psalm. 126. 2._]
I passe to the second exposition of these wordes, O praise God in his

sanctitie, so Munster, Pagninus, Beza, Tremelius and our old
translation heere, _Praise God in his holinesse_: now God is holy
_formaliter & effectiuè_, holy in himselfe, and making other holy; the
Lord is glorious in holinesse Exod. 15. 11. Wheras other Gods are
famous for their vnholinesse, Venus was a wanton, Mercurius a theefe,
Iupiter a monsterous adulterer, an ingenious man (as[bd] Basile writes)
would blush to report that of beastes, which the Gentiles haue recorded
of their Gods. If such imputations are true saith [be]Augustine, _quàm
mali_ how wicked are these Gods: if false _quàm malè_ how wretched
and foolish are these men, adoring the same things in the temple, which
they scoffe at in the theater, _in turpitudine[bf] nimium liberi, in
superstitione nimium serui_: so that their Gods are not as our God,
euen our enemies being Iudges Deut. 32. 31. there is none holy as the
Lord 1. Sam. 2. 2. called[bg] often in holy Scripture the holy one, yea
thrice holy; _holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts_ Esay. 6. 3. his
[bh]name is holy, his [bi]law is holy, his [bk]spirit is holy, his will holy,
his word holy, _righteous in all his waies, and holy in all his workes_
Psalm. 145. 17. making vs also which are his seruants