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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35080	A sermon preached to the gentlemen of Yorkshire at Bow-Church in London, the 24th of June, 1684, being the day of their yearly feast by Tho. Cartwright ...	Cartwright, Thomas, 1634-1689.	1684 (1684)	Wing C705; ESTC R4837	24,490	43

of the Puritanical Assembly or Classis which puts the People between God and the King and therefore I call the one a Papal and the other a Phanatical Jesuite for I believe them both to be Roman Pensioners two Parties commanded by one General because in all times when the Government hath been charging one of them in the front the other hath always treacherously attack'd it in the rear and as much of late as ever and both prov'd themselves in the end Abhorrers of Monarchy under-hand Contrivers and restless Opposers of it as they always pretend for Conscience sake out of a joynt design to make the King a Property and his Government Precarious Their Names are different but their Nature is the same in point of Disobedience And the third viz. The Prophane Liver who pretends to Loyalty by making no Conscience of his Duty towards God is also a false Traytor to the King notwithstanding the many good words he gives him and the great Honour he vainly boasts in all Companies to bear towards Him 1. Give me leave to set first to the Bar the Papal Jesuite who is all for the fear of God the Propagation of the Catholick Religion and of the Apostolical See of Rome but tell him of the fear of the King and then he leaves you as if the Pope and He were the Real Defenders of the Faith and the King only the Nominal and Titular one and accordingly he teaches his Profelytes to weigh out their Obedience to him by Drams and Scruples in a Pair of Jesuitical Scales makes the Prince stand to the Popes Allowance for Authority and take● his leavings who of course exempts all the Clergy from their Obedience to their Natural Sovereign and makes them pay their Suit and Service to him as their Lord Paramount as if his Tribunal and Gods were but one and the Civil Magistrate by becoming the Son of the Church had lost his Secular Power An excellent Doctrine to convert Pagan Princes to the Christian Religion or Protestants to the Popish The fatal and pernicious Consequences of which Popish Principles our Parliaments have in all Ages as well before the Reformation as since expressed their just detestation of as appears by the Statute of Carlisle made 35 Edw. 1. and by that of Proviso's made 25 Edw. 3. and by many more in King Henry the Eighth's Reign who was both Parliamentarily and Synodically invested with the Supremacy in all Causes as well Spiritual as Temporal which was legally and essentially inherent in the Crown before the King of England being Supreme Ordinary by the Antient Common Law of this Kingdom of which those Statutes were not Introductory but Declarative And 't is a great wonder to me that every Prince in Christendom is not as much possess'd with an Anti-Papal Spirit at this day as ever King Henry the Eighth was considering what an Implacable Enemy the Pope hath been to the Dignity and Security to the Powers and Lives of all Princes especially such as he calls Heretical ones 2. The Protestant or Fanatical Jesuites if they would be content to be civil Subjects yet they will be Ecclesiastical Superiors they would have a King under them not over them The King must Command as they will have him or he is no King for them nor will they fear him but make him fear them if they can compass their ends He must do things against his Conscience Oath and Honour against the Fundamental Laws of the Land and the very being of the Government or else though they speak him as fair as they did his Roayl Father of blessed memory in the Covenant and so hide the Cloven Foot for a while with their broad Pharisaical Phylacteries and intrench themselves in the sure retreat of those popular and plausible Pretences of preserving His Majesties Person and the Protestant Religion yet they watch but for a fair opportunity to put off their Hypocritical Vizards and to make him feel the smart effects of their Implacable Enmity against him and let him see by woful experience how little they do either love or fear him as they did his Royal Father before him David was a Man after Gods own heart and had a Conscience truly tender I would to God all that are call'd so in our days were like it which made him so sensible of his fault in snipping off a small shred of the Skirt of Saul's Coat But our Dissenters Itching Fingers long to be tampering with the Prerogative and will cut off as much as they can get into their hands and throw it to the People as the Men of God did in the late ●● Rebellion for so the deluded Multitude call'd them though they prov'd Men of War fir'd with Phanatical Zeal against the Most Christian Magistrate in the World our Martyr'd Sovereign The Black Coats of their Schism in stead of being Messengers of Peace sounded the Treasonable Alarms from such places as these though the Red Coats fought the Battles they taught their Congregations to construe the Singulis Major and Vniversis Minor after Buchanan's Translation and made them believe That the People which begins to be as fashionable a word now as it was Forty years since were as much above the King as the King is above the meanest of his Subjects The King say they and other Magistrates are but our Servants to protect us from Violence and Mene Tekel pag. 41. Oppression and if they break their Trust the Law of God and Nature allows us to call our Servants to account and to punish them according to their Demerits and to turn them out of our Service In good time and out of the World too as they did the Hist of In dep Part 2. Sect. 80 81 82. Royal Martyr as a Traytor to the Sovereignty of the People as that Insolent Judge Bradshaw then Impudently styl'd it which corrupt and false Principle of placing the Original of Government in our Sovereign Lords the People is not only derogatory to God whose Written Word it gives the lye to but is also destructive to the very being of Humane Society For if the Power be radically in them and only pass'd over by the Conveyance of a Common Consent with a Power of Revocation upon equitable Conditions express'd or imply'd of which the People shall be Judges it is but their recalling of that Power to which the Vnwary Mobile may be easily tempted for 't is Neutrum modo mas modo Vulgus and the Government is dissolv'd and so all our Happiness lies at the Mercy and Will of the Crowd which will make us a reproach to our Neighbours and Psal 79. 4. a scorn and derision as it hath already done in a great measure to all that are round about us We live in an Age wherein Men seem to call themselves Protestants not from that solemn and Honourable Protestation which was made by several Princes against the Errours and Superstitions of Rome and an Edict made in prejudice of

Bench is a much fitter place than the Royal Exchange By all which it will appear that the Changing of Religion under any Comprehensive Notion whatsoever is the most desperate Paroxysm that can happen to a sickly State and therefore Maecenas in Dio counsels young Octavian to worship God according to his Country custom and to compel others so to do but to hate and punish the Bringers in of strange Religions because they who bring in new Forms of Worship will also perswade Men to receive other Laws and bring in as fast as they can new Forms of Government And therefore when the National Religion comes to be question'd disputed and decryed 't is high time for the Supreme Magistrate to take heed that Popular Tumults and Disturbances do not sit hard upon the Commonwealth for Schismaticks are the Standard-Bearers of Sedition and the common Barretors of Mankind Traytors in Masqu●rade and if their Power were answerable to their Spirits they would command Fire from Heaven to burn us all up in an instant And yet to our shame be it spoken we English-Men never know when we are well and are justly reproach'd by a Proverb for being given to change our Garbs and our Forms of Religion must be of the new Model Cut or Fashion many quarrel at the Principles of that established by Law and more despise the practice of it God has made us the Envy and we live as if we meant to make our selves the Scorn of the World Our Laws are good and many and we live as if we had none Our Religion is firmly established by them and we laugh it out of countenance and the Liberty of Conscience which we are so ready to contend for is design'd for nothing but a Cloak of Maliciousness I would to God it were not told in Gath nor publish'd in the streets of Ascalon Are you grown sick of your Religion and Loyalty and with an Inconstancy natural to Islanders do you affect a change for the worse if not why do you meddle with them that are given to it and why do you espouse their Cause as if it were the darling of your own Hearts or why will you run along with them into real and present to avoid possible future and imaginary mischeifs Would you change a Catholick Church into a sarm of Schismatical Conventicles a Flourishing Kingdom into a Fading Commonwealth Vniformity into Confusion the Antient Fundamental Laws of the Land into those Bloudy ones which the Arbitrary Sword shall give you a long and lasting peace into a more lasting War Fulness into Famine Wives into Widdows Children to Orphans bring your selves into your Graves and leave the English Nation behind you a hissing and reproach to all that are round about us Will no Charters please the Body Politick but such as may inable them to Sin with an high hand against the Father of our Country from whose bounty they derive all their Freedoms and Priviledges for all Corporations are the Creatures of the Crown and when their high Stomachs will not be satisfied unless they may devour their Makers Prerogative they need a Charter of Pardon in stead of that of Freedom Alas that Golden Liberty which you have been vainly taught to hope for by some busie Incendiaries who are now under the lash of the Law you would have found as the just reward of your easie credulity to have been nothing else but the Iron Fetters of the most Arbitrary Slaves in the World under the worst of Algerines your own fellow Subjects the gilded Antidote which these State-Mountebanks offer'd you would have prov'd a deadly poyson and it concerns you as much as your happiness comes to to take great heed lest by bogling at the shadow of Popery plac'd only in your own deceitful imaginations you open the door before you are aware to let in the Substance He that would see what will be let him seriously consider what hath been let him sum up the Total Account of the profit of all that Bloud and Treasure which was spent in our late unhappy Wars for promoting the Good old Cause Religion and Property the ordinary Common Places upon which Rebels declaim and satisfie himself that there are the same Desires Humours and Interests drove on in this age that were in the former and much more furiously now than then by hands and mouths as like to those in Forty Eight as one Egge can be to another The grand design of our late sawcy Clamarous Petitioners was the putting of the Government all out of Order and making so many gaps and divisions in the Publick Fences of the Kingdom that any seditious Person might leap over them or break through them at pleasure You had been fill'd ere this with your own desires if God and the King had not been merciful to you beyond your deserts and whatsoever you then vainly dream'd of when you are once perfectly awake you will find ten Rebels in Masquerade for one Romanist in Masquerade or else there would never have been so many Mechanical and Female Politicians so many Blew and White Aprons for the former are influenc'd by the later to inform and advise the King and his Privy Council when to call Parliaments and how to govern us How can you betray greater ingratitude to God and the King for the peace and plenty you now do and have so long jnjoy'd than by anticipating future evils and prejudging future providence and for preventing imaginary mischiefs running headlong into real ones They fright the common people out of their Wits and Duty together by fly-blowing their Heads with the buzzing of Plots and Designs in the Air against their Lives and Liberties by which 't is to be fear'd they design to teach them at last to pinion their own Happiness and to bring our Gracious Sovereign whom God long preserve to the same fatal Scaffold that they did King Charles the Martyr which no good Man can think of without the greatest abhorrence imaginable These Intestine Incendiaries are set on underhand by the Court of Rome and perhaps by another Court too both whose Interests depend on our Divisions and Distractions to disperse and foment Jealousies between the King and the Country by bespattering him with a design of Introducing Popery and Arbitrary Government and branding Men of more Sobriety Justice and Charity of much better Principles than themselves with Nicknames not fit to be mentioned here and endeavouring to run down the best Men and Counsellors with Noise and Tumult beyond all shame and reason as they attempted to do some of our Noble Countrymen who are the Glory of the North and their Reputation the more Glorious after such a Resurrection as God and the King have given it Things were lately come to that pass that he who was not factiously bent against his Majesties Prerogative and the Churches Patrimony and would not be such a thorow-pac'd Protestant as not only to forsake and oppose Rome but also to take his Freedom at