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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70625	A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall, November 5, 1667 by ... George Lords Bishop of Winton ...	Morley, George, 1597-1684.	1683 (1683)	Wing M2796; ESTC R12589	21,545	39

I differ from them in many other Opinions so do I in this also that It is lawful to put men to death for any dissent in opinion though it be in matters of Faith so it be but in opinion only And yet no doubt it is lawful by all Laws Humane and Divine for any Society of men to secure themselves by all just means from those whom they have just cause to be affraid of and consequently from those who teach such Doctrines as are practically destructive either to humane Society in general or to this or that Society in particular It behoves us therefore in order to our own preservation and in order to the preservation of the present Government both in Church and State to take care it may not be in their power to make any change or alteration in it For when it is in their power they profess they are obliged to do it And if you ask them why the Primitive Christians did not depose or rebell against either the Pagan or Arrian Emperors that is against Infidel or Heretical Princes Bellarmines answer is quiâ deerant Vires because they were not enow or had not power enough to do it And Pope Gregory the XIII saith in excuse of the English Roman Catholicks for not putting Pope Pius the V's Bull in execution against Queen Elizabeth by taking Arms against her and deposing of her that they were not obliged rebus sic stantibus in regard of their present weakness but would be obliged so soon as they were able to do it Tortura Torti pag. 5. so that if either the Cardinal or the Pope himself knew the Doctrine of their own Church no Protestant Prince or State can morally speaking be secure from the generality of their Popish Subjects any longer than they are in such a condition as that they cannot hurt them From the generality I say of such Subjects I do not say from all of them for I know there be many of them very worthy and loyal Persons and such as have hazarded and will hazard their lives again for the defence of their King and of their Country as frankly as any of our own Religion when there shall be cause for it at least they are for the present resolved to do so and do unfeignedly believe themselves when they profess they will do so But Dic mihi cùm fueris tu Leo qualis eris Alas how do they know whether they shall be always of the same mind or no Are they not liable to temptation as well as other men or can they tell how or to what degree Ability and Opportunity and hope of Impunity nay of meriting a Crown of glory together with the interposition of the Popes Authority may work upon them and therefore that neither they may be led into temptatiou nor we be exposed to the danger which otherwise we may in reason expect from them the best way for us and them too will be at least to prevent the Growth and Increase of them either in Number or in Power for if they increase in Number they will incease in Power and if they increase in Power they will increase in Number also which because it is already provided for by the Kings most gracious Answer to the Petition of both his Houses of Parliament to that purpose I shall no longer insist upon it Only I will add for the justifying of our Laws that are made against those of the Romish Party that if they seem somewhat to have a more watchful Eye or to hold somewhat a stricter Hand over them especially in jealous times they are to blame themselves and not us for it who could do no less than we have done to secure our selves from them or rather indeed it is their own holy Father the Pope whom both they and we are to complain of for necessitating us to deal more hardly than otherwise we should do with them and them to suffer more than otherwise they should do from us by prohibiting them to take the Oaths either of Supremacy or Allegiance and consequently prohibiting them also either to acknowledg the Kings Sovereign Power over all his own Subjects within his own Dominions which is asserted in the former or to secure the King of their indispensable Loyalty and Obedience which is promised in the latter And truly why any Roman Catholick may not without any prejudice to his Conscience take either or both of these Oaths I see no other reason but the Popes prohibition only I am sure that of the two which is most stuck at I mean the Oath of Supremacy was made and given and taken by those of the Romish Religion in Henry the VIII's time but one of all the Bishops which was Fisher Bishop of Rochester refusing it and some of the most eminent of them in parts and place writing for it namely Gardiner Bishop of Winchester in his Book De verâ obedientiâ prefaced by Bonner Bishop of London who certainly were both of them as learned and as zealous Roman Catholicks as any were at that time of their Order in this Kingdom I might add and as great persecutors of the Protestants and of the Protestant Religion also so that unless the Pope hath made a new Article of Faith since not only the Oath of Allegiance but the Oath of Supremacy likewise may be taken by any Romanist without Heresie But of this enough and therefore I shall close up all with the third and last Use I shall make of this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 at this time viz. With a Thanksgiving unto our good and most gracious God first for delivering the King the Nobility and the Gentry that then were and consequently the King the Nobility and the Gentry that now are who were then in the Loins of their Progenitors from that fatal Blow which would at once have destroyed them and all that were to come of them Secondly For delivering the whole Nation from the consequences of that Blow which would have been the enslaving of us all the King himself not excepted in our Persons in our Purses and in our Consciences to the Tyrannical Usurpation of the Papacy the intolerable yoak whereof our Ancestors for so many hundreds of years did groan under Thirdly and lastly We are to thank God and to congratulate with one another for the Preservation of our Church from that and all other Designs and Conspiracies against it for the preservation of our Church I say which as it was reformed at first as the Temple of Hierusalem was built without noise of Axes and Hammers without Tumult Sedition or Rebellion being introduced by Sovereign Authority and Advice of the Reverend Clergy and with the Consent of the Nobility and Representative Body of the whole Kingdom so she hath ever since continued a Mother of peace and peaceable Children whom she trains up in humble Obedience to the King and to the Laws without teaching them or suffering them to teach any thing whereby the