they may bee excommunicated deposed and deprived and experience showes it necessarily followes they must be murdered The same Bellarmine in his fift booke sixth chapter speakes out The Pope may change kingdomes and take them from one and give them to another and gives this Reason else saith hee Kings may pervert their people experience shewing that as the King is so is the kingdome Instancing in Ieroboam Constantine Constance Iulian King Henry the eight King Edward the sixt Queene Mary Queene Elizabeth All whose kingdomes changed with their Kings He affirmes this to bee a Catholike Doctrine and to prove it brings in the Verdict of Twenty Italians foureteene French nine Germans seaven English and Scots nineteene Spaniards all these prime Authors yea the Priests and Iesuites the great fomentors of those damnable Treasons against Queene Elizabeth give up father Bellarmine for their chiefest authority for their Oracle you see Bellarmine speakes plaine he saith enough yet not all I must tell you Bellarmine is modest to others that come after him though he saith somewhat yet they much more He maintained indeed against Aquinas that Kings are not to be murdered though they are Hereticks except they labour to make their people so too and maintaines against others that except the Pope have excommunicated and accursed them subjects are not to rise against their King But others Mariana and the rest of that blacke Guard speake out people are to rise against their King and though the Pope neglects his duty they are not to neglect theirs hee advises rather to poyson their chaire Incarnate devils yea the very vow that the Iesuites take will necessarily inferre this consequence therfore it 's not the opinion of a few alone but the whole order must avouch it I will not say every Iesuite and Papist de facto is not loyall and dutifull to their Prince I will say all their Loyalty depends on the Popes pleasure And what a rotten thread this is to hang so sharpe a pointed sword in over the head of Kings what loyall heart doth not tremble to thinke of it After a solemne profession that they beleeve the Popes absolute authority over all as the Vicar of Christ they make this vow to doe whatsoever the Pope or the Generall of the order shall command them immediately without any Tergiversation disputation or excuse at all and to goe wheresoever he shall command them whether to the Turks Infidels and Indians or Hereticks and Schismaticks among the Christians yea they are bound to beleeve that no error impiety injustice can come from the Pope but that all is Religion Zeale Devotion Equity and Truth My Brethren doe not these men commit themselves soule and body to the Pope doe not they give themselves not to beleeve their owne sences their owne Reason Iudgment and understanding And doe they not vow to goe to come to doe to say to execute upon all persons and against all persons whatsoever he shall command them and if this be true what hope what safety what meanes of refuge have Christian Kings and Princes but the Popes pleasure when these the slaves of the Pope for so the Iesuites call themselves which care not for their owne lives bee masters of the Kings And yet saith Bellarmine was it ever heard or read or did the Pope approve the fact after it was done if the Pope doth not allow of the killing of Kings and Princes wherfore I pray you doth he not set some severe Censure and with a fearefull frowne cry downe those Iesuiticall bookes of Mariana and the rest that not only approves but commends King-killing service Wherefore doth his holinesse suffer at Rome even under his nose those Iesuites that had the chiefest hand in Treasons to be pictured in Bookes like Martyrs and superstitious worship by the common people to bee done to them And those two Kings in France both murdered by Iesuites why did not his holinesse testifie to the Christian world his apprehension of so great misfortune which all Europe had cause to lament why hath not his holines made a Law and a decree against killing of Kings and Princes whereby they may enjoy more safety Let not words be credited when deeds speake so lowd King Iames in his answer to this flaâ—â—ting lye brings a full Iury of witnesses And Bellarmine himselfe in his eight Chapter twelve severall examples to prove the lawfulnesse that Kings may be deposed by the people I will keep at home and only tell you how the Pope proceeded against our King Iohn Queene Elizabeth King Iames Innocentius the first hee first interdicted the kingdome excommunicated the King cursed his person animated his subjects against him gave his kingdome to the King of France at last when the King somewhat relented and submitted to him he forced him to resigne his Crowne and kingdome to Pandolphus his Legate who kept it three dayes and after gave it him and made him tributary for his own kingdome That Bull of Pope Clement sent out against Queene Elizabeth is infamously and notoriously knowne whereby after much railing and blaspheming of her sacred person hee curses all that adhere unto her This Bull he sends into England fastened it on one of Saint Pauls Gates Saunders in his writings maintained it Bristow in his Motives approved it some of the Nobility and many of the Gentry were said to execute it From this fountaine all those bitter streames of cursed water flowed out damnable Treasons against her person But to passe all other the Treason intended this day speakes loud enough occasioned by Popish Religion attempted by Popish Catholikes encouraged by Popish Doctors maintained and blessed by the Pope himselfe I say the Pope himselfe for when father Garnet desired to know the Popes Resolution concerning the bloudy Tragedy Catesby presently resolved him The Pope saith hee that commanded our endeavours to hinder his comming in is willing enough wee should throw him out I know this Anniversary remembrance of this great deliverance troubles the hearts of tender Iesuites and Papists some in Print condemne it and say that the treason of the Powder Traitors ought to bee buryed in the grave of the offendors and not to be imputed to their Religion some impudently now begin to deny it and some with blacke mouthes labour to fasten it on the Puritans God rebuke them T is no new thing my brethren to disavow that which took no effect But had this damnable Treason beene executed it would not have wanted Patrons highly to have maintained it When that Parricide killed Henry the third King of France did not the Pope in full consistory of his Cardinalls make a glorious relation of it comparing the Asacinat to Eleazar and Iudeth forbidding all Masses and dirges to bee said for the soule of the King Is not his picture compleately set up in the Iesuites Colledge over the Altar with Angels protecting and crowning him I could at large relate the manner of the Iesuites proceedings how they raise the
hands in that great worke you are about Jt would be the glory of this latter age could there such a sheete be let downe to the Church as there was in vision to Peter that the difference of cleane and uncleane may be taken away such a golden Scepter reach'd out that all may be subdued unto it and embrace it O what an honour would it be to the present and a blessing to the future age that a consent of Doctrine and discipline might be confirmed by you that we that professe one Lord one Faith one Baptisme one GOD and Father of all under one King may be one Church That a Trinity of Kingdomes may be a Church in Vnity Pardon my presumption if my zeale for the publicke peace points at the meanes A Royall Convocation rightly constituted unto which all the Kingdomes may send their Clarks would facilitate the businesse It would adde much to the glory of it and be a Crowne unto his Crowne who accounts it the most glorious in all his Crowne to be worthy of that Title Defender of the Faith if from all the reformed CHVRCHES some may be invited if not to vote yet at least to assist The reason wherefore Generall Nationall Provinciall Councells have in this last Century beene so fatall and therefore by some of singular eminency beene disclaimed as a meete meanes for the settling of peace is because the greatest part have their standing Votes who will ever maintaine a strong partie for themselves Is it equall that Arch-Bishops Bishops Deanes Arch-Deacons Chapter men should of course and by reason of their dignities have their places their suffrages when but two Clerks are elected by the choise of the Clergie May the Election of the Clarks for the Convocation be as free as yours for the Parliament and in some proportion unto it J doubt not but we should be as happy in our Canons as we are in your Statutes There hath been strange batteries made upon our Religion the thirty nine Articles are challenged by the Harlot Papists and Arminians claime them as theirs the Booke of Homilies are disclaimed unheard of violation hath bin offered to the second to the fourth Commandements Preaching is cryed downe Preachers discountenanced The Sacraments have beene defiled the people of the Lord have beene made to abhorre the offering of the Lord Presse and Pulpit have vomited forth corrupt and undigested matters Augustus made a Bonefire of all such bookes that corrupted the Roman Ethnick Religion it would be your wisdome to make a diligent search for all Apocryphall books Hereticall Popish Semi-pelagian Pamphlets slanderous Libels and impertinent writings and to sacrifice them to Vulcan We pray for great things to be done by you we have open our mouthes wide to the Lord we have heard of great things of you the Lord prosper you to an happy and blessed conclusion for a glorious reformation of Church and Common-Wealth The Counsellor The mightie God the everlasting Father the Prince of peace he upon whose shoulder the government lyes increase your government and peace order you and stablish you with judgment and justice henceforth for ever the Zeale of the Lord of HOSTS performe this Your Honours in all sincerity service and dutie Richard Heyricke The first SERMON PSAL. 122. ver. 6. Pray for the peace of Ierusalem NOne can speake more punctually in the commendation of peace then they that have beene long harrowed with Warre David a man of Warre in his younger dayes he slew a Lion he kill'd a Beare he overcame Goliah that uncircumcised Philistim that defyed the Host of Israel in his riper yeares he conquered the Canaanites the Amorites the rest of those heathenish Nations he had seaven yeares warre with the house of Saul Warre with his rebellious subjects with his treacherous traitorous sonne God witnesseth that he had shed bloud abundantly that hee had made great wars in his latter dayes he had a breathing time of peace in which respite and Interim he prepares to build God an house he rejoyceth in his preparation and prayes for the prosperity of it and encourageth others to pray Pray for the peace of Ierusalem Ierusalem either the City Ierusalem the Metropolis the chiefe Citie the Royall City the City of the great King the London of the kingdome of Israel wherein the Thrones of Iudgement the Courts of Iustice Westminster Hall was wherein the thrones of the house of David his Court his Pallace his house his Mansion White-Hall was Or Ierusalem taken for the Temple in Ierusalem the house of the Lord the place whither the Tribes went up the Tribes of the Lord to give thanks unto the name of the Lord And so by a figure for the Church of God the Temple in Ierusalem was a type of it Or Ierusalem taken for the whole kingdome it being the chiefe member of the kingdome the Chamber of the kingdome the stomacke of that body politicke which receives all the nourishment the forraine Marchandize and disperseth them abroad to every member take Ierusalem in the first sence in the strict and literal acception of the word for the Citie Ierusalem for the London of that kingdome Then pray for the peace of Ierusalem for the City London that there may be no destroying plague no evill disease no infectious sicknesse no dissentions no divisions no commotions no rising of lawlesse Creatures no rebellions no Treasons Pray that the forreiners and strangers that are in the Citie the Male-content and desperate heard the Cananites that dwell among them the French the Papists may not disturbe their peace and prosperity pray that David and Ierusalem the King and the City may accord together that the Thrones of Iudgment and the Thrones of the house of David Westminster-Hall and Whitehall may be Thrones of Iustice of honour and glory take Ierusalem in the second acception in a sence not so restrained for the Temple in Ierusalem for the house of the Lord for the Church of God and then pray for the peace of Ierusalem for peace in the Church pray that there may bee no heresie no hereticall doctrine no erronious Articles of Religion no Trent determinations no Socinian blasphemies no Arminian quiddities no Antinomian wickednesses pray that there may bee no Schisme no separation no wall of partition no heathenish customes no Samaritan rites no Idolatrous superstitions no Popish ceremonies no Canons to Batter and terrifie the consciences of Gods people pray that the whole Clergie may be of one spirit not divided not distracted not torne in peeces that one part may not speake prosperity in the eares of the King to send him to Ramoth-Gilead to dye there and that the other part may not humor and flatter the people to stubbornnesse and disobedience pray that the Church may be as Ierusalem a Citie compact together to which the people of the Lord may goe up without offence without trouble The Temple in Ierusalem was built by Salomon a King of peace in
hath in his pietie to GOD proclaimed a day of humbling our soules and of reconciling our selves to God this promiseth some good unto us it is an argument that we are prisoners of hope when the enemy doth parley with us there is some signe of yeelding when there is liberty of parley God doth never reason with them for whom he hath no mercy Hee reasoned with Adam and Eve he did not with the Serpent God cannot be angry with the prayers of his people hee is then angry indeed when he forbids his people to pray when he takes away their hearts from prayer when hee denyes them liberty to pray when they are restrained from prayer but when GOD calls them to pray when hee commands them to pray when he stirres up a whole kingdome to pray when hee makes those men that have prayers in abomination and the people of God for their praying in abomination also to countenance prayer to joyne with the people of GOD in prayer to be of one heart with them O what a glimpse of mercy is this certainly there is hope whilst there is but one praying Christian amongst us whilst any one that hath a publike spirit whilst Moses prayes the enemy cannot prevaile whilst Luther lived the Duke of Saxony could not be conquered yea there is hope if there were not one praying Christian in the midst of us if there be any of another kingdome that pray for us Abraham that was a very stranger to Sodom and Gomorrah prevailed farre with God for them his prayer saved his nephew Lot his Wife and daughters we have a multitude of prayerfull Christians that pray daily for us that are not amongst us all the reformed Churches abroad especially our friends and kindred that are lately separated from us in Holland in New England Yea let me appeale unto your selves have not most of you as Daniel did in your Chambers fasted and prayed have you not in your families have not the men fasted apart and the women apart hath there not been private notice given as Esther to Mordecai Mordecai to the Iewes in Shusan Yea that which Crownes all is there not now a Proclamation gone forth through all Countries to command every one Church and Chappell to fast my brethren a little encourage your selves in the Lord The God of Israel is a mercifull God wee cannot come with halters about our necks but he will have mercy on us The Lion of the Tribe of Iudah will not trample upon the yielding pray The Comforter will comfort whom he hath convinced of sin of righteousnesse and of judgment Let me speake comfortably unto you then in the words of Manoa's wife unto him when hee was much afflicted Surely we shall dye saith he because wee have seene God No saith she Iudges 13.23 if the LORD were pleased to kill us hee would not have received a burnt offering and a meate offering at our hands neither would hee have shewed us all these things nor would now have told us any such Againe consider what great things fasting and praying have done the prayers of one man of one family of one Citie of one Kingdome God is the same GOD as ever the father of mercy the God of compassion we are not confirmed because hee changeth not fasting and prayer have prevailed why not still Call to minde the memorable things recorded in the booke of God especially that of Mordecai and the Citie of Shushan of Ezra and his company looke into the booke of God and tell me if you can finde one good or bad that ever fasted and prayed and God had not respect unto it Iehosaphat when the Moabites and Ammonites a great host came against them ready to swallow them up yet he prevailed call to minde Ecclesiasticall History in Marcus Aurelius time and Theodosius time that thundering Legion when the Christians prayer obtained an admirable victory That of Luther and the Church when the devill brought in the covenants call to mind what you your selves have obtained by fasting and prayer I could tell you of some singular things that have fallen within mine own knowledge wonderfull things hath the publike fasting-prayers of our Church obtained of God Nay more to encourage you look into your owne Towne when God sent that infectious disease of the small Pox when scarce there was one house as in Egypt wherein there was not one dead when you fasted and prayed how soon did the Lord remove that plague an Army of men cannot stand against a man of prayer much lesse against an Army of prayers Surely my Brethren it is the prayers of the Church that hath kept off judgements to this day we have had many Ionah's sent amongst us crying yet forty dayes and England shall be destroyed We have had dayes and months and yeares past over our heads yet no sword when saith the scoffing worldling is the promise of his comming the Prophets prophecie wind yea Ionah was angry with himselfe what 's the matter God hath threatned so much and wee have felt so little did Ionah preach a lye in the name of the Lord No Niniveh repented and GOD repented Nineveh fasted and prayed and God was entreated They have beene the repentings the fastings the prayers of the people that have kept off the sword to this day God is the same God his compassions never faile If we pray God will heare See how Salomon consecrated his Temple he prayed that when the people should goe out to battell against their enemy and should pray unto the Lord toward the way of the Citie and toward the house which hee had built That then God would heare in Heaven their prayer and their supplication and judge their cause the turning towards the Temple was a turning to God Christ was the Temple turne to Christ in prayer and the enemie shall not prevaile Secondly consider as a further encouragement to pray for peace the enemies whom wee expect will engage us with Warre and they are either forreine enemies of other kingdomes of other language of another Religion or they that are under the same King with us of the same faith and Religion Be they Spaniard or French or any of the Romish Religion they are not more our enemies then Gods and the warre is not ours but Gods God hath said it they shall fall before us and he will avenge the bloud they have shed The Saints under the Altar have a long time cryed how long the time cannot bee farre of but that the Kings of the earth shall gather themselves together they shall hate the whore and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eate her flesh and shall burne her with fire Babylon must fall Babylon must fall yet I cannot say but for a time they may prevaile they may stand though wee in our persons fall yet this I say confidently though we should fall our cause shall stand And God will raise up them after us that will avenge all the bloud
Heaven is such as Arius Luther and Calvin was The Star that shall lead me to the light of this Starre that is fallen from Heaven shall bee that fixed Starre now in Heaven KING Iames Kings have a speciall interest in the book of the Revelation And God hath made them of great use there to bring downe the man of sinne Then it may well stand with the wisdome of God to reveale the meaning to them And of all Kings I heare of none that hath taken that paines in the Revelation as King Iames This Starre saith hee is the Pope who was once in the kingdome of Heaven as a glorious bright Starre in Heaven above who had an eminent place in an eminent Church of God The Locusts that infect the aire are that innumerable multitude and diverse orders of Ecclesiasticall persons as Fryers Monkes Priests Cardinalls Iesuites and I know not whom who bring as much destruction upon all sorts of men as Locusts to the grasse and tender herbe As Locusts come by swarmes and overspread the whole earth so these fill the whole earth with their Insinuations The shape of them is like unto Horses prepared to battell to signifie that their forme of practise and policie shall be so worldly wise that they shall want nothing pertaining to the setting forth of their intents no more than a horse of service which is curiously barbed fitted and prepared for the fight They had on their heads Crownes of Gold they pretend great holinesse none more then that Ecclesiasticall order even as the Elders because of their true holinesse had Crownes of Gold so they because of their pretended holinesse have Crownes of Gold also They have the faces of men they come with the faces and Reasonings of men Sophisticall Arguments subtill Philosophy which Saint Paul cals vaine Philosophy The haire of women As the haire of women is a speciall part of their bewty to deceive men so they have Arts and Crafts to draw men to their Religion They have habergeons of Iron to shew they are backt with authority and the like I could goe on further they are many and crafty full of power have Crownes of Gold the heads and faces of men the haire of women all alluring tempting enticing and bewitching those that in this place are called Locusts in the sixteenth of the Revelation and the 13. are call'd frogs Frogges indeed like those frogs that came into the houses and bed-chambers of Pharaoh King of Egypt and of his servants and all his people no place nor person free they are the sublimate and the transcendent Instruments of deceit they come out of the mouth of the Dragon out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false Prophet The very spirit of the Devill active powerfull strong and stirring full of delusion to deceive men Brethren you see what reason you have to stand fast that you be not by any drawne back againe to Popery Secondly consider it 's a dangerous thing to be drawne away to Popery I say consider the danger that attends all them that are drawn away All Papists in that sense that I speake of Papists for I doe not speake of all that may be Popishly affected or incline to some Popish opinions but such Papists as derive their name from Papa the Pope that hold him to bee the head of the Church that subscribe to the Counsell of Trent all Italianated Iesuited Papists they are Traitors to the King under whom they live Heretickes Infidels and Atheists in continuall danger of temporall destruction and at last sure of eternall damnation First all sorts of Papists are Traitors to the King under whom they live Not to prove this by an Induction of particulars from those many Treasons that have beene committed in this Land when was there any Treason since the beginning of Reformation or scarce before but they were the Contrivers Plotters Actors at least the favourers and Abettors of it Was not Sumervile Parrey Babington and his complices Papists was not Lopez and his Abettors Papists was not Campion and Parsons Papists were not the Gunpowder Traitors Papists was not Catesby Winter and Persey was not Digby Rooke-wood and Tresham was not that Incarnate Devill Guido Fawkes were they not all Papists Nor yet to prove them Traitors because the Law of the Land makes them Traitors which hath enacted that all those Priests and Iesuites that come into the Land are Traitors all that bring Agnus Dei that maintaine the Popes supremacy above the Kings and labour to draw obedience from the King and perswade to Rome are Traitors But I will prove it from the principles and maximes of their owne Religion that shew necessarily all such Papists must bee Traytors in that kingdome where they live All Religions may perhaps have some that are Traitors in it but no Religion under Heaven set aside the Religion of the Church of Rome doth necessitate and compell men to be Traitors They have a maxime among them I finde it in Bellarmine that Kings have not their immediate power from God but from the people yet so that the people transferre their power into the person of the King yet keepe habitually in themselves which they may make a principle for Traytors It 's said of all that the Pope may excommunicate Kings and Kings standing so may be deposed and those that goe about to infect the people the people ought to rise up against them and that it is not only a lawfull but a necessary and a meritorious worke The English Papists saith a Iesuited English Priest are well to be excused for not rising against their King because they want power had they power to their will the King should either obey the Pope or else they would not obey the King Papists are Traytors Secondly Papists are Heretickes Infidels and Atheists not to speake of their innumerable multitude of lesser errors called Veniall sinnes yet notwithstanding the number of them may helpe to drowne the Shippe of Rome nor yet to speake of their grosser Tenents not yet confirmed in the Church of Rome but disputed in their Schooles there are some hereticall errors maintained among some so grosly hereticall that whosoever holds them must necessarily be an Heretick Infidell and Atheist Such is their Image worship their Altar worship their Crosse worship their Saint worship their Angell worship their Relicke worship and the like such is Iustification by works works of super-arrogation but above all the transcendent heresie the head of heresies that the Pope is the head of the Church above the Scriptures above Synods above Counsells that he cannot erre is so hereticall that whosoever holds it in Radice in fundamento denies all the Articles of the faith denies the booke of God and by necessary consequence denies GOD himselfe for whosoever they are that build any thing on a false foundation if the foundation falls all the building falls with it Saint Paul tells us that the man of sinne sits