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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45493	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, and the Court of Aldermen, at Guildhall-Chappel, Septemb. 19, 1680 by Robert Hancocke ...	Hancock, Robert, fl. 1680-1686.	1680 (1680)	Wing H645; ESTC R10880	15,293	37

the Author of Sin (k) Lev. c. 21. Lib. and Nec in divers places That the Law of the Civil Magistrate is the only obliging Rule of Just and Vnjust and that the New Testament is not a Law of any place where the Commonwealth hath not made it so (l) Lev. c. 42. That the Obligation of Subjects to their Sovereign lasteth no longer then the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them (m) Lev. c. 21. 2. What is the consequence of the Practical Divinity of the Romish Divines and Casuists about Repentance Purgatory and the efficacy of the Sacraments in conferring Grace but the subverting the necessity of an Holy Life 3. There are some malignant Doctrines that have a more immediate influence on Kingdoms and Governments and they are such as these That Dominion is founded in Grace That the Obligation of Oaths and Promises may be taken away by some Authority on Earth That it is lawful to make use of Equivocations and mental Reservations That Church-men are exempted from the Jurisdiction of the Civil Power That a Sovereign Prince is either the Pope's Subject or the Peoples Trustee That he is accountable for Heresie or evil Government to his Holiness at Rome or to some Assembly of Church-men or Inferiour Magistrates within his own Dominions 4. I wish the Libertines Antinomians and other Carnal Gospellers of this Age had not furnisht us with another Catalogue of Licentious Doctrines The chief of them are these that follow That the Moral Law is abrogated by Jesus Christ That the Covenant of Grace is absolute and unconditional and that no man ought to work for Salvation much less for the fear of Hell That the Torments of Hell are not properly Eternal That a good Moral Man is further from the Kingdom of God then a loose Liver That justifying Faith consisteth in believing that a man is perdestinated to Eternal Life That Sins are pardoned before they are committed and that God sees no Sin in his People To this Head I might reduce all such Notions of Christian Liberty as destroy the necessity of Obedience in all lawful things All such Notions of God and his Decrees as make him the Author of our Sin or Misery or set up the Decrees of God in opposition to his Laws or one of his Attributes in opposition to another All such Notions of Jesus Christ as set up his Person in opposition to his Gospel or make us righteous with Christ's Righteousness whilst we continue in any Course of Sin But thus much may suffice to have spoken of the first thing 2. We have reason to be apprehensive of the effects of our unnatural Contentions and Animosities as well as of our open and notorious Vices Certainly never any People enjoyed more excellent means of Peace and Unity never any People laboured more under the Calamities of Rebellions and Factions never was any People assaulted with more bloody implacable more subtle and industrious Enemies then we are It is therefore the Duty and Interest of all Loyal Subjects and good Christians to endeavour to correct that Spirit of Sedition and Division that is working among us and to promote the Security and Establishment both of our Government and Religion 1. I begin with the Civil Government You have blessed be God the Scriptures in your own Language and if you read them without partiality and prejudice you will soon learn those indispensable Duties of Peace Humility and Obedience They will teach you to pray for the King and all in Authority under him (n) 1 Tim. 2.1 To be subject not only for Wrath but for Conscience sake (o) Rom. 13.5 They will plant in you all those dispositions which are essential to the support of Government and Society they will subdue all those Passions and mortifie all those Lusts which are the Parents of Strifes and Quarrels of Confusions and Treasons besides you are Members of a Church whose just glory it is to assert the Rights of Princes with so much plainness and sincerity that no man can be true to the Church of England whilst he is false to his Sovereign This holy and peaceable Religion will teach you to beware of and suppress all others of what Communion soever that vent any seditious Doctrines or allow of such practices as are consonant to them I know the most horrid things have been taught and acted among us under the disguise of Religion but of all men living the Romanists have the least reason to charge any of our Sects with Treason and Sedition For the most barbarous Villanies that were committed in these Kingdoms may be justified by the principles of that Faction and the most Antimonarchical Doctrines that ever came from the Pulpit or the Press either were or might be derived from the Canon Law the Popes and Councils the most approved Casuists and Guides of Souls Let Pope Sixtus the Fifth have the honour of being either the first inventer or polisher of the Fanatick Art of Canting and perverting the Scriptures admiring the providence of God in the murder of a lawful King and the truth is the first Thanksgiving Sermon that I find on such an Occasion was preacht by his Holiness in the Roman Consistory (p) See his Panegyrick Oration on the murder of H. 3 of France It was printed at Paris An. 1589 with the approbation of three Doctors Nor do I envy the Roman Church the glory of sanctifying Rebellions and Murders Perfidiousness and Cruelty by the Authority of some of her General Councils 'T is no wonder if the same power which transforms bread and wine into the substance of Christs natural body and blood do also transform Christians into Wolves and Tygers Did some of our Sectaries abuse Curse ye Meroz and other parts of Scripture to the carrying on the blackest Designs So did Alexander the third (q) Ep. Alex. 3. Conc. Bin. tom 7 par 2. pag. 656. so did Pius the fifth those (r) Bullar Cherub tom 2. pag. 305. printed at Rome 1617. words of God I have set thee over Nations and Kingdoms c. Did not Innocent the Fourth prove his power of deposing Princes from that Text Whatsoever ye shall bind on Earth c. (s) See Pope Innocent the Fourth's Sentence of Deprivation against the Emperour Ferdinando in the Council of Vienna Have you never heard of the incomparable Interpretations of Rise Peter kill and eat Feed my Sheep Vpon this Rock will I build my Church It were no hard matter to give you a Specimen of the Divinity of Popes and Cardinals men of greater Learning and Authority but of as little Conscience and Loyalty as the Authors of our most pestilent Sermons and Pamphlets Are any of these under unlawful Oaths and Engagements So are all the Bishops Jesuits Monks and Friars of that Church under Oaths of absolute Allegiance to the Pope or of blind Obedience to their Superiors that are his Creatures and Vassals (t)