ABSTRACT
The sermons preached by Lancelot Andrewes on the anniversaries of the Gunpowder Plot and of the Gowries Conspiracy, might seem by way of only superficial scrutiny to be narrow in intent and application and contrived in text and exposition. This chapter discusses several sermons by Andrewes preached on the Gunpowder Plot anniversary to illustrate how he uses a specific incident centred on the person of the monarch and of national significance, to derive from such seemingly constricted circumstances what he saw as theological truths regarding the Christocentric foundation of order, law and rule, and Christian responsibility within these. The attitude revealed in these and such other sermons preached on these occasions are symptomatic of the common approach by the Laudian Divines in general to such issues, and lay bare the way of thinking behind the approach to them.
