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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48852	A sermon preached before Their Majesties at Whitehall, on the fifth day of November, 1689 being the anniversary-day of thanksgiving for that great deliverance from the gunpowder-treason, and also the day of His Majesties happy landing in England / by the Bishop of St. Asaph, Lord Almoner to Their Majesties.	Lloyd, William, 1627-1717.	1689 (1689)	Wing L2713; ESTC R20308	14,855	38

for their Religion and so he leaves it upon them of his own Order which most certainly he would not have done if he had had any knowledge or any opinion of this Fiction Much more I could say of this kind if it were proper to load my discourse in this Presence with multitudes of Quotations But thus much I thought might be needful to shew that we have not mocked God all this while and that we are not doing it at this time by giving him thanks for that which was not His for that which was in truth but a Trick and not a real Deliverance How Real and how Great a Deliverance this was I am next to shew by setting before you the danger we escap'd and that in all the Circumstances of my Text. First for the Secrecy of it that was wonderful Nay it had bin wonderful in any other hands but it was not so in theirs that had the management of this There is no People in the World so provided as they are for Secrecy First by their Doctrine of satisfaction for Sin and of Merit by promoting their Catholick Cause This passes generally with them of the Roman Church and 't is that which so animates them with Zeal for their Religion But particularly among the Jesuits their Doctrine of the lawfulness of Lying for the Cause they call it the Doctrine of Equivocation by which they can affirm any thing tho' it is never so false they can deny any thing tho' it is never so true nay they ought to do it as their Casuists say when it is needful for the Service of the Church Add to this their Clergy's power over the Laity which enables them to infuse what they will into their heads and they must believe it as they commonly do with an Implicit Faith and they follow it with as blind an Obedience Then on the other hand If the Laity have any design it is delivered under the Seal of Confession to the Clergy So Garnet said at first he came into this Secret it was delivered to him by Catesby under the Seal of Confession and being askt why he had not discovered it then for the preservation of the King and Kingdom He did not stick to say That it were better all the Kings of the Earth should perish than that he should discover what was said to him in Confession But besides all these general things which are of great use for the covering of any design there was that particular Secrecy in this because not only their Lives depended upon it but the Salvation of so many millions of Souls as were by this means to be brought into the Catholick Church These were most weighty Considerations they are Charms that never miss their effect wheresoever they are apply'd We see what effect they had formerly in that great Secrecy before the Missacre of Paris I shall say nothing of it but what I have from Capilupi a Roman that writ soon after the Massacre and described it as a glorious thing and carried on with admirable secrecy He saith it was carried on so for Four years time whereof for twenty months together it was known to no more but five besides the King he saith for six Months after it was known only to Fourteen Persons but it was known to above Two hundred Persons for two days before the Execution and yet all this while it was kept so close by all that were privy to it that as that Author sufficiently proves the Hereticks were not aware of it They were so far from that that they had not the least supicion till it broke out all on a sudden at midnight first at Paris and from thence it ran in a Train all France over till as Thuanus saith who is of undoubted Credit there were murthered no fewer than Thirty thousand Persons who were many of them the most considerable of all the Reformed in that Kingdom We see yet stranger effects of these Charms of Secrecy In Ireland we saw a great instance of it in our Memory The design of the Massacre and of the Rebellion there was carried on by numbers of Men throughout the whole Nation They covered it so that there was no suspicion of any evil Design There was no ground for a Suspicion unless it were their excessive civility and kindness and endearments to the Protestants at that time more then any other They were some of them so over kind as to make themselves the Guests and to lodge in the Houses of those Protestants whose Throats they were to cut the next day But when once it had broken out it was carryed on with all fury to the slaughter of I know not how many Thousands But I will tell you what I have read in a Book that was soon after printed at Lisbon it was writ by one of their Priests that calls himself Constantinus Marullus he tells us the Protestants say there were kill'd above a Hundred thousand it may be so utinam omnes would we had kill'd them all saith he in his Catholick Charity Now knowing these Instances of their Secrecy in such Matters and knowing the Principles from which it proceeds we cannot wonder that in the hands of Men of the same Principles this Gunpowder design was carried on with the same Secrecy Tho it must needs be known to about Twenty Persons that had their particular Parts to Act in it and tho there was a general notice of it that the Papists had throughout the Kingdom they knew that there was something extraordinary in hand for the good of their Catholick Religion and they had especial Prayers for that purpose yet none knew any thing of it but themselves The Protestants had no suspicion of it how could they when they had given them no provocation No Provocation did I say they were so far from that that they oblig'd them with Favours I say this out of King James's Book He tells us that during those three years that he had Reigned before the Gunpowder Treason which Treason was a hatching all the while yet all that while there was no Papist in England that suffered any thing upon the account of Religion On the contrary they were treated with favour as if they had the Laws on their side They were admitted to Court They were employ'd in Embassies They had Honours conferred upon them as well as others and they seemed to be in as good humour as they had reason to be in these Circumstances But all this did not hinder them from going on with their design nay it rather encouraged them it helpt them to carry it on For being under no manner of Jealousie they found themselves so secure that at last they were even open in what they did They had their meetings both in City and Country they workt in their Vault without fear They bought and laid in their Powder and other Materials They armed themselves at home They held Correspondence abroad They left nothing unprovided for that was