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A43562 Three sermons preached at the Collegiate Church in Manchester by Richard Heyricke. Heyrick, Richard, 1600-1667. 1641 (1641) Wing H1751; ESTC R27425 61,652 202

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Three Sermons preache● at the Collegiate Church in MANCHESTER The first on Psal. 122. ver. 6. Iuly 8. 1640. the publike Fast day Shewing the misery of Warre with our feares and hopes and meanes of Prevention The second on 2 Thes. 2.15 November 5. 1638. Discovering the Man of sinne with his delusions abominations and desolations The third on Genesis 49. ver. 5.6 7. November 5. 1639. Laying open the Perjuries Treacheries Treasons the Murthers Massacres Cruelties of Rome-Christian By Richard Heyricke VVarden of the said COLLEDGE LONDON Printed by T. B. for L. Fawne and are to be sold at the signe of the Parat in Pauls Church-Yard 1641. TO THE RIGHT Honourable the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament now ASSEMBLED VEspatian the Emperor sent to ELVIDIUS PRISCUS a Senator of ROME charging him not to appeare in the Senate If hee did to speake no otherwise then what he would have him to whom he returnd As a Senator it was fit he should be there and being there hee would freely speak his conscience The Emperor replyed if he did he should dye for it He answered hee never said he was immortall doe what you will J will doe what J ought Jt is in your power unjustly to put mee to death It is in my power to dye constantly It is your Royall priviledge Your persons are under his Majesties sacred protection your liberty of speaking granted to be without interruption Awake your glory doe yee your selves awake right early Let your hearts be fixed fixed in the Lord as the Poles of Heaven and the center of the earth Let Righteousnesse bee your Parliament Robes let Iudgment be your Crown and Diadem let causes at your great Tribunall hee heard to speake not persons That the blessing of three perishing Kingdomes may come upon you I was but lately Remov'd into these parts and one of speciall note forewarnd me I should be Crucified as CHRIST was betwixt two Theeves The Papist the Puritan The Papist like the Rayling and Blaspheming Theefe soone discovered himselfe They swarme and are terrible the shew of their countenance witnesseth against them Like destruction they shew themselves at Noone-Day The Puritan if it bee not onely a name without an existence is worthy your wisdome to tell us who he is It may be for feare of crucifying with the good Theefe he is stollen into Paradise the name is of Vast and amongst many of Odious signification Papists doe charge the Church of England with the heresie of Puritanisme King Iames by Bellarmine metamorphosed into his Chaplaine was said to bee a Puritan The English Parliament is called a Puritanicall Parliament The Vniversity of Oxford the strength of Puritanisme Bristow speakes out All Protestants in ENGLAND are Puritans Protestants at large such as are Ambitious of the credit not of the truth of their holy profession Heathens in lives Christians in faith They reproach civill morall Jnfidels with that name They Pharisaicall Professors They powerfull CHRISTIANS Yea of late I have also heard them much branded with the name that would not yeeld up their Soules and their Consciences to the Chaire of Bishops with their estates Liberties and Lives to the will of their Superiors The name is very large and very reproachfull A Bishop affirm'd he could as easily fetch one off from the guilt of Felony as from the imputation of Puritanisme My humble motion is make us all Puritans or to leave no Puritan amongst us There are wals of partition when those that were of GODS Institution became enmity Eph. 2.14 CHRIST layd them as flat as the Walls of Iericho with Iericho's curse upon them Bee pleased to batter down these Wals lay the Canons in the face of them and JERVSALEMS curse upon them Let not one stone be left upon another At the first of the Reformation they were though not necessary yet lawfull our Reformers were modest and moderate They would not unnecessarily offend the weake Romanist GOD had a People amongst them the waters of BABYLON were ebbing But now since the Sea of ROME like the waters of JORDAN begin to swell and overflow the Bankes since the great River TIBER flowes apace since the Papists are emboldned and hardned in their Idolatrie and Superstition since the strong as well as the weake Protestant are grieved and vexed with them and there are indeed too many false Apostles that earnestly contend for them and with a strong and mightie hand obtrude them upon us Take unto your selves the Zeale of Our LORD and SAVIOUR The Evangelist records hee twice purged the Temple The multitude of offenders the might and malice of the observers the danger of the action nor the perill of the consequence staies his hand The King of Scythia slew Anacharsis the Philosopher for the worshipping the mother of the GODS after the Athenian manner If the Plague of Leprosie could not bee clensed by taking away a few stones out of the house but the Leprosie would returne againe then the house the Timber the Morter must down when Ceremonies become scandalous they are to be abolished These Sermons sute well with two of the greatest workes the Kingdome expects from you They breath enmitie to Rome Peace amongst our selves Preached when the times ranne Counter to both The man of sinne of late yeares hath reviv'd amongst us it may bee a lightening before death Popery hath multiplyed abundantly In Lancashire it hath superabounded above an Hyperbole The Masse hath out-faced our Christian meetings Iesuites have jeered our Ministers confronted and abused authoritie MANCHESTER the Goshen accounted in this Egypt is of late yeares darkned with the blacknesse of it some of our prime men in dignitie authority power have revolted to them Their example commands many Great men have their followers of their Vices as of their persons and when they please to bee Idolatrous their children servants tenants their poore kinred and Jdolizing Neighbours will to the Masse with them One speciall cause of this encrease of Popery is the vastnesse and the greatnesse of many Parishes prefer'd to the trust of such that adde Church unto Church themselves residing at neither or if they are with their people they are non resident in the midst of them yea too often when they are in the Pulpit These Mother-Churches have many daughters seaven eight nine CHAPPELS subject to them to which belongs no certaine or no competent maintenance Hence ignorance and prophanenesse desolate places full of dolefull Creatures Ziim and Ochim King Iames in his piety and wisdom appointed 4. Lancashire Preachers to perfect his work Let every Golden Candlestick have his Lamp burning and shining in it devils could not stand before the Gospell therefore Popery shall be consumed by it J had served in these parts the same time that PAUL did at Athens and my spirit was troubled to heare and see the superstition Hence I ventred with danger enough to preach these Sermons may they strengthen your