The 4th of November 1605, folks, was discovered guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder, enough to reduce the House of Lords to rubble.
And arrested, most of the conspirators, excuse me, fled from London as they learned of the plot's discovery.
Trying to enlist support along the way, several made a stand against the pursuing sheriff of Worchester
and his men at the Hulbachee House, I think that's the way you pronounce that.
In the ensuing battle, Catsby was one of those shot and killed.
At their trial on the 27th of January 1606, 8 of the survivors, including folks, were convicted and sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered.
So, you know, the Bible has this principle where whatever you try to do to somebody else, then that will be done unto you.
I'm not necessarily agreeing with how, you know, being hanged, drawn, and quartered, you know, it was a pretty brutal practice.
And basically, you know, they would draw them with a horse, they would tie them to a horse and drag them around the streets.
They would hang them until they were almost dead, and then they would cut off their privy members, burn them in front of them,
and then cut out their insides, burn those two, and then chop off their head and chop their body into like four pieces or something.
Pretty bad stuff, right? I mean, it's a brutal practice.
But, you know, obviously these people were trying to murder hundreds, maybe thousands of people that day.
And, you know, basically the attempt was failed. They attempted. I mean, they had all the stuff.
Guy Fawkes was there ready to light the fuse. They found matches in his pocket.
And, you know, they tortured him in order to get the names for the other people.
They caught all the people, they round them up, hanged, drawn, quartered.
Now Guy Fawkes, he just jumped, he didn't get all, he wasn't awake during his, all that drawn, quartered, and all that stuff.
He just jumped and hung himself and snapped his neck.
But details of the assassination attempt were allegedly known by the principal Jesuit of England, Father Henry Garnet.
Although he was convicted of treason and sentenced to death, doubt has been cast on how much he really knew about the plot.
Well, if he was a Jesuit, he probably knew. Anyway, that's my interjection there.
As its existence was revealed to him through confession, Garnet was prevented from informing the authorities of the absolute confidentiality of the confessional.
Although anti-Catholic legislation was introduced soon after the plot's discovery,
many important and loyal Catholics retained high office during King James I's reign,
and thwarting of the gunpowder plot was commemorated for many years after by special sermons and other public events,
such as the ringing of the church bells, which evolved into the British variant of Bonfire Night of today.
So it's a big deal. In England, it's still celebrated today, Guy Fawkes Day,
that they thwarted this plot that would have killed King James and all the people in the House of Lords.
And I believe that that was God's providence in not allowing him to be killed,
not allowing all those people to be killed.
You know, I don't know if any of the translators were in the room at that time,
but that might have, I mean, I don't know that for a fact, but I would guess that that could be true.
Maybe some of the people that translated were in there, I'm not sure.
But they didn't, they failed. Guy Fawkes failed to kill King James.
He failed to stop the Bible from being put into practice with the King James.
He failed to stop the King James from being translated. He failed.
But that was the plot. It wasn't just to kill them, because killing them would have stopped the King James from going out.
So do you see how that's providence, that's God taking care of and preserving his word?
Because we wouldn't have this book today if they wouldn't have failed.