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A46726	Popery, a great mystery of iniquity proved in a sermon preached in the parish church of Newland, in the county of Glocester, on Wednesday the 22d. of December, 1680, being the fast-day appointed by the Kings proclamation ... / by Thomas Jekyll ...	Jekyll, Thomas, 1646-1698.	1681 (1681)	Wing J534; ESTC R34478	25,313	42

themselves being notoriously Guilty of shameful Adulteries and foul Incest all which is necessarily encourag'd in them in forbidding their Priests to marry and rather allowing them to keep as many Whores as they can maintain the deepest Guilt of which is easily wip'd off by a Pardon if not Anticipated by an Indulgence nay the truth on 't is these Pardons and Indulgences give the greatest encouragement to Sensuality and vile Lust that can be And this Roger Holland a Martyr declar'd to Bishop Bonner himself Whilst says he I was of your Religion I never cared what sins I committed trusting to the Priests Pardon and Absolution Drunkenness and Uncleanness were no sins with me And the like might be said of many others too who I am confident had never been so bad if the Principles of their Religion and the hopes of easie Pardons had not made them so Our Saviour bids the man that he had heal'd go his way and sin no more lest a worse thing come unto him John 5.14 but the Language of these Pardon-Mongers is sin as often as you please you kno ' the Price it is but the same again and all 's well Many other Instances I could give to confirm this were it needful and the time would give leave but I shall summ up all under this general head which you may Report where you please and I 'll justifie the Truth of it out of their own Authors whenever I am required to do it That there is no sin whatsoever but if it tend to Advance the Interest of the Church of Rome it shall be Pardon'd and Indulg'd yea and made Meritorious and that this is the Principle and Practice of that Church I say again I shall be ready at all times to make it appear out of their own Authors whenever they shall deny it 4. It is a Treasonable and Bloody Religion That Subjection and Loyalty to the Supreme Civil Powers is a Christian Duty that Magistracy is of Divine Institution and that Kings have an undoubted Right of Supremacy even in Causes and over Persons Ecclesiastical I have already and very lately in several Sermons at large prov'd unto you but now Popery is a Religion that opposes all these Principles of Loyalty so clearly and plainly laid down and so constantly practic'd by Christ and his Apostles It sets the Mitre above the Crown nay above all the Crowns in the World yea and very insolently tramples them under foot regarding the Dignity of Princes no more than the meanest things in the World and for the Truth of this the History of all Christian Kingdoms and States do furnish us with plain and sufficient Examples With what Luciferian Pride did Alexander the Third set his Foot upon the Neck of Frederick the Emperor blasphemously repeating the words of the Psalmist super Aspidem Basilicum Psa 91.13 thou shalt tread upon the Lion and the Adder the young Lion and the Dragon shalt thou trample under feet to which when the Emperor answer'd non tibi sed Petro I do this Homage not to thee but to Peter the Pope as insolently reply'd to him again mihi Petro thou dost it to us both to me as well as Peter making himself therein the Emperor's Master and St. Peters equal and Fellow It was this Pope that made our Henry the Second a Potent Prince in his time to go three Miles barefoot whilst the Blood ran from his tender Feet to offer at T. Beckets Shrine and there to suffer his Back to be lash'd before he could be absolv'd from his Excommunication and enjoy his Crown and Dignity in quiet And whosoever shall oppose this Power that the Popes do still claim shall be cursed with Bell Book and Candle and if that fails shall be perseouted with Fire and Sword till they be ruin'd and destroy'd hence are all those Treasons and Rebellions those Murders and Villanies that have been set on foot and acted in this Kingdom since the Reformation by the men of that Hellish and Treasonable Perswasion But 2. Let us detest this Mystery of Iniquity because we have known better and indeed in our Case this ought to be as convincing an Argument as any for tho' it be a bad thing to be a Papist yet it is a great deal worse to turn Papist because that 's an Apostacy from God and Christ indeed how merciful God may be to those that were born and bred such that suck'd in these Principles in their Education I kno ' not but for those that have been otherwise taught and kno ' better for these to fall off to it must needs make their Condition very dangerous if not desperate indeed and therefore we shall always find in Scripture the Expressions of Gods Anger against Israel sharpned by nothing more than by their sinning against those Gracious Manifestations of his Spirit and Presence to them hence is that of the Prophet Amos 2.3 you only have I known of all the Families of the Earth therefore will I punish you for all your Iniquities therefore it is that our Saviour represents the Condition of Corazin and Bethsaida as worse than that of Sodom and Gommorrah Math. 11.20 c. of Tyre and Sidon because of those powerful Means of Grace which they had more than the other nay our Saviour goes on farther and tells them that if he had not come they had not had sin John 15.22 nay St. Paul makes the Recovery of such as difficult as any thing in the World can be and St. Peter I am sure tells us That it had been better for them not to have known the way of Righteousness Heb. 6.4 5 6. than after the knowledge of it to turn from the Heavenly Commandement and he gives this reason for it 2 Pet. 2. 〈…〉 because the latter End will be worse with them than the Beginning their former Ignorance might have strongly pleaded their Excuse or at leastwise extenuated their Fault whereas now the knowledge they have had increaseth their Guilt and adds weight to their Condemnation and so it will also do in our Case if we should now return and lick up that Vomit which our fore-Fathers cast out and which we have hitherto pretended such a Loathing of Apostacy hath been always esteem'd one of the worst kinds of Wickedness because it hath in it so much of the malicious Resolution of the Will Errors in Judgment may plead a defect in the Understanding for their Excuse Transgressions in the Life and Conversation may urge the power of inbred Corruption and the strength of a Temptation for theirs but the Apostate that sins against Light and Conscience can have nothing to say for himself let not us then by any Inducements whatsoever be led away with the Error of the Wicked 2 Pet. 3.17 Heb. 10.23 and so fall from our own and the Gospel's Stedfastness but whatever we do let us hold fast the Profession of our Faith without Wavering 2.