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A30250	Another sermon preached to the Honorable House of Commons now assembled in Parliament, November the fifth, 1641 by Cornelius Burges, D.D. ; wherein, among other things, are shewed a list of some of the popish traytors in England.	Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665.	1641 (1641)	Wing B5668; ESTC R21418	55,204	69

all this Are we not a sinfull unthankfull stubborne People as ever tasted of mercy a seed of evill Doers that call God t Ier. 3.4.5 Father and yet doe as evill things as we can And yet for all this God hath opened his hand wider than ever we opened our mouths and crowned all our yeares and dayes with such loving kindnesse and mercy as never any Nation under Heaven received greater or enjoyed longer If therefore David upon the bare promise of a mercy could not but sit downe before the Lord as one in an Extasie crying out Who am I O Lord and what is my Fathers House that thou hast brought me hitherto How much more would our spirits be lifted up beyond all expression to glorifie his Great Name for so great a mercy actually conferred when we consider who and what we are that doe receive it 3. The deliverance is extraordinary 3. Look upon the Deliverance it selfe as extraordinary All the g Psal 111.2 Works of the Lord are great yet some greater than others But this is no lesse than the raysing up of a whole Kingdome from the dead For as h Heb. 11.17 Abraham is said to have received his Isaac from death in a figure when Isaac had been bound on the wood and the hand of his owne Father stretched out to kill him so wee in this Deliverance received our King Queen and Prince that then were our King that now is our Parliament Lawes Liberties Lives and Religion it selfe from the dead in a figure when all these were so neere to destruction that there was scarce a step between them and death and such a step as had been easily made had not the Lord to whom belong the issues from death stept in to prevent it 4. And altogether unexspected 4. Take this with you too that this great Deliverance was a mercy altogether unexspected For who apprehended any danger The work was so strange as wee could hardly credit when we saw it done It was with us as with Zion * Psal 126.1 When the Lord turned her Captivitie by Cyrus the Persian Wee were like men that dreame we could scarce trust our owne eyes to behold it or our tongues to proclaime it Men gazed on each other as people amazed And when the thing was found to be so indeed oh how our hearts glowed our affections fired our hayre stood upright our eyes sparkled our joynts trembled our spirits even failed with us to behold the wonder And then oh what might not God at that time have had from us Let him therefore not goe away now with lesse seeing his Mercy even that Mercy endures for ever to our benefit and comfort 5. Behold the Love of God in it 5. And all this as a fruit of his Love makes all to be yet more precious to a thankfull spirit i Isay 43.4 I have Loved thee therefore will I give men for thee and people for thy life saith the Lord. If men yea if a whole Nation conspire against thy life he will redeem thee from that danger with the price of all theirs Hence it is even from his Love that he no sooner espies any enemies out against us but he armes presently as against enemies to himselfe and not onely Layes them at his own feet but even at k 2 Sam 22.41 Rom. 16.20 ours and gives us to wash our feet in the bloud of the wicked 6. Consider God hath gotten him honour 6. God hath gotten him praise from the wicked that sought our destruction and raysed himselfe a praise out of the very rage of those who sought our destruction and shall he not have it from those who enjoy this miraculous Preservation Shall he have it from his enemies and goe without it from his Servants and Friends The Lord forbid But oh farre and for ever farre be such neglect from every of You who being the Chariots of Israel and the Horsemen thereof ought of all others to triumph in his praise for these works of his hands It was a foule Blot to the Elders of Judah that after David was freed of the Rebellion of Absolom they who were * 2 Sam. 19.11 12. his brethren his bones and his flesh should be last in bringing back the King to his House But much greater would the staine and the sinne be in You the Elders of our Jsrael unto whom the Lord himselfe upon the same grounds that he hath elsewhere said l Psal 82.6 Yee are Gods now saith Yee are my brethren yee are my bones and my flesh should have cause to adde Wherefore then are yee the Last to bring the King back Why are You so backward to restore unto Him all that honour that so many Absoloms and sonnes of Rebellion have taken from Him Well If you be not first nay if You outstrip not all others in the Duty of Praise for so great a Deliverance from the rage of man 3. Observation You must exspect no lesse Wrath to break out from the Lord upon your selves and the Kingdome than befell Hezekiah and all Judah for m 2 Chro. 32.25 not rendring to the Lord according to a farre lesse benefit done unto him There be divers other excellent Vses of this comfortable Doctrine but I must lay them all by for haste to the Last Point which is this The third Observation The Experience of Gods over-ruling and mastering the rage of man in times past is an undoubted assurance of the like for all to come This Point so clearely grounded on the Text which speaks of future Deliverances built upon former mercies and so strongly bound downe with a confident asseveration in the front that surely it shall be even so I shall passe over with a light foot Nothing more common in Scripture than to conclude what God will ever doe from what once he hath done David even in his youth could be confident of this n 1 Sam. 17.37 The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the Lyon and out of the paw of the Beare he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine And afterwards when that unnaturall Rebellion of Absolom brake out so violently as made Hierusalem too hot for David 2 Sam. 15. causing him to flee whither he could by the way of the Wildernes yet even then after God upon his prayer had spoken comfort to him from experience of former deliverances David growes so secure that he that before durst not stay in his owne house for danger professeth now to o Psal 3.4 lie downe and sleep where he hath not an house wherein to put his head and he that durst not tarry in Jerusalem with all the power he could rayse against his sonne now professeth in a wild howling desolate Wildernes p Vers 5. I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people that have set themselves against mee round about Thus let God doe but any thing

but only to give a short Catalogue of the Chiefe Actors in them leaving the rest to Historians who have reported them to the World I know it goes for current that the Papists of England were quiet enough for the first 11. yeeres of Queen Elizabeth before any Lawes were made against them And indeed in comparison of after times this may be in part admitted to be true Howbeit in those first yeeres many of them went over Sea and there laid the foundation of future mischiefes here There were others at home that held strict intelligence with those abroad doing that more secretly which afterwards was more openly pursued and avowed It is true that while Paul the Fourth and Pius the Fourth sate Popes their unwillingnesse to make disturbance here held our Papists in more quiet Yet when Pius 4. dispatched a Nuncio to Queene Elizabeth Paul 4. was Pope when Q. El●z came to the Crown Pius 4. succeeded next and sate t●ll the Seventh of her Reigne Continuat of Martins history at the yeere 1561. out of Cambden their friend with a kinde message as he took it his Nuncio could not be admitted to enter England because so many bred up to the Popish Religion laboured to make troubles both at home and abroad And this happened about the Fourth of her Reigne And if you doe but remember from Whom the Guises then procured the French King to claime the English Diademe and sollicited the Pope to excommunicate the Queen as did the Count of Foria at Rome in behalf of his Master the Catholike King about the same time and that divers English Papists had applied themselves to those Princes to assist in reducing the Romish Religion here You will finde they had no great cause to boast of their loyaltie Especially if you consider that Arthur Pole and his Brethren had no small party among the Papists here at home to assist in that horrible Treason against his Sovereigne for which hee and others were after arraigned and condemned But when Pius the Fifth the next Pope mounted the Chaire our Romanists began to be more active and bold For when once his turbulent disposition was knowne the Popish Party by the helpe of Cardinal Alan first obtained a Colledge for English Seminary Priests at Doway Anno. 1568. which indeed proved the seminary of all the Treasons and Rebellions which after followed That Colledge was after multiplied into two one at Rhemes set up by the Guises the other at Rome erected by Gregory 13. Anno 1580. after Requesenius Governour of the Low Countries under the King of Spaine had thrust them out of their first Nest at Doway And from these places were they upon all occasions sent hither to poyson the Subjects with Principles of Treason which every yeere produced much trouble and danger No sooner were they warme in their first Cells at Doway but Pius 5. Excommunicated Q. Elizab. at Rome absolving all her subjects and cursing all that should longer obey her An 1569. After which exploit he sent over his Bull Declaratory thereof by Morton an English fugitive who bringing it to Ridolf a Florentine divers Copies of it were first secretly scattered among our Papists and then the Breve it selfe fixed on the Gate of London-House By which time the Priests and other active Factors for Babylon had wrought farre upon sundry Nobles and Gentlemen of great place whom they either found or could make discontented with the present Religion Government or State of things or whom they discerned to bee ambitiously affected or most apt for intelligence with forraign Princes that either maligned our Religion envied our Prosperitie or cunningly endeavored to possesse themselves of this Crowne which have been the destruction of many a Noble Spirit and the ruine of many Ancient Families of this Kingdome Among the many Examples of this kind may be reckoned up the Rebellion of the unhappy Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland and sundry other their Complices as the first poysoned fruit of the Popes Bull in the same yeere wherein it was heer scattered among the Papists And from the said cursed fountaine issued all those bitter streames of Treasons of Stukely in Ireland at the same time of the Stanlies in Darbyshire of Iohn Trogmorton and Brooke of Sanders and Bristow of the Nortons Barne and Mather of Doctor Story the persecuting Civilian of Shirwin Parsons Campian and Kirby and many other Priests and Jesuites to the number of above 120. of Somervile and his adherents of Mayne Nelson Tompson and the rest of that Crue of Payne and his 50. Resolutes hired by the Pope to murder the Queen of Francis Throgmorton Paget and Englefeild of bloody Parry of some inveigled Nobles of Babbington Tichborne and the rest of that pack of the same Babington Charnock and Savage in a second Devilish Designe of Lopez of Stanly of Cullen of York and Williams of Creswell who in his Philopater and of Parsons that in his Doleman fomented that Treason of Stanly and the rest of Squire of Garnet Winter See Stat of 3 Jac. 2. Caresby Tresham and others who in the last yeere of Queen Elizabeth travailed with the King of Spaine to joyne with the Papists in England to depose the Queen and to extirpate Religion beside many moe that never came to light Nor did their rage die with that Lady but so soone as King James came among us Watson and Clerk found a way to instill Treason into sundry Nobles and Gentlemen against the King and Prince before the Coronation And for a Coronis of all the Salt-Peter men in the Gunpowder Treason of which I have spoken before can not be forgotten I spare to speake of their continuall Treasons and Rebellions in Ireland or of that memorable Designe in 88. which however it was attempted by Spaine yet all men know the fast tie betweene our Papists and the Spaniard their continuall correspondencies and combinations with him and the thundering Bull of Pope Sixtus Quintus then sent abroad for confirmation of the severall Bulls made by his Predecessors Pius 5. and Gregory * He held consultation with Spaine to invade England and Ireland both together An. 1576. His aime was to make his base Son James Boncampagno Marques of Vineola King of Ireland Excellent zeal in a Pope not to gain soules to Christ but a Kingdome for his owne Bastard 13. against Queene Elizabeth to the end our Papists might more cheerfully assist in that bloody Enterprise and none dare to adhere to her against a forreign Enemie Nay let me adde that even now while this very Parliament is sitting and Papists Petitioning * See their printed Petit. in the Dial. betvveen a Parliament man and a Catholike for indulgence and libertie and for taking away the Lawes made against them neither England Scotland nor Ireland have been free from desperate Conspiracies and Treasons wherein sundry of their Party have been principall Actors What should I tell you of the Designes upon the

Armies in the North of the Damnable Attempts of our Treacherous Fugitives now abroad and of the open Rebellion in Ireland God grant wee heare of no more neere-hand But yet these may instruct you that if you would have Peace with Rome Rome will have no peace with you and that to pluck up the hedge of your Lawes is to lay all waste for they will never be quiet till either by your Care and Wisdome you have secured them from doing more mischiefe which will never be while their Idolatrie is permitted although but in secret * Your Highnes may assure your selfe that the Adversaries wil not change their Disposition unlesse either we were reduced to their blindnesse or they drawn to imbrace the Truth with us Bishop Carelton Epist Dedic to Prince now King Charles before his Book of Thankfull Rememb or till they have brought us all under the line of confusion If it be said that the only Reason of their often Conspiracies at home and abroad hath been the strictnesse of the Lawes made against them for the faults of a few whom they condemne as much as wee and that if those Lawes now that the occasions of them cease were but repealed they could and would be as Loyall as any notwithstanding their Religion I answere that for the Lawes made against them they may thank only themselves that have so much abused Royall Clemencie and Goodnesse But what ever the Lawes bee none have been put to death save only for Treason And even among those that have come within this compasse many have escaped with banishment And when the turbulencie of some have enforced the State to execute them yet others too guilty have been spared For Queen Elizabeth shortly after the proceedings against Campian and some of his fellows Bishop Carelton sent away 70. Priests in a very short time out of England some of which had received and the rest had deserved sentence of death for Treason Neither have our Lawes been so rigid nor so rigidly executed against Papists here as theirs have been against Protestants Nor have Papists been exposed to such Butchery as is too too frequent where Papists domineir Witnesse the Spanish Inquisition wherinto if any Lutheran be secretly conveyed they put him not to a legall triall but give him their Marshall Law For as Hoffeus the Jesuite was wont to bragg they hold it a good peece of Pietie instantly to commend him to the fire ut anima ejus in curru igneo ad inferos trahatur that so his soule might be forthwith carried to hell in a fiery Chariot as one * Hassen Muller Hist Iesuit cap. 6. bred among them reporteth of him Nay sundry degrees of Dignitie and honour have been in later times especially heaped upon divers of them yea they have been admitted very neere to his Majesties Sacred Person and trusted with Offices of greatest honor and trust in the State And yet neverthelesse neither any nor all of these favours together either doe or can secure us of them and that for the Reason contained in the second Remembrancer which in the next place followeth 2. It is not our Lawes 2 Remembrancer Their it very Religion teacheth Rebellion and so they drinke in Principles of Treason with the Principles of Popery but sundry Principles of their very Religion that makes them disloyall and carries them still on upon Treasons and Rebellion and would doe so although the Lawes made against them were all repealed So that in this sense our Publike Prayer appointed for this day as it was first penned and published viz. that their faith is Faction their Religion is Rebellion c. was no slander but a just Character of their Antichristian Profession and is unjustly altered what ever hath been boldly said and published to justifie the alteration To make this good I shall not need to ravell into all their Doctrine but only to give you a list of such Principles of theirs as are obvious in all their writings and notoriously knowne to all the world And first Read but any of the Popes Bulls and you need search no further for proofes hereof who knows not that with them all Protestants are condemned for Hereticks Princes themselves not exempted 2. That no faith is to be held with Hereticks because Hereticks themselves are fallen from the Faith and so doe forfeit all Priviledges wherein keeping of Faith with them might oblige others or steed them 3. That Hereticall Princes excommunicated by the Pope are forthwith deprived and deposed of all Princely dignitie and Soveraignty their subjects are discharged from all alleigance and are accursed if they further obey them Witnesse the Bulls sent out against Queen Elizabeth by Pius 5. Gregory 13. and Sixtus 5. and the writings of not onely Bellarmine and Suarez and other Forreigners but of Alan Saunders Parsons Creswell and sundry other of our Apostate English who have defended these Bulls and Positions even unto death 4. Our English Papists doe all professe to adhere to the Pope as supreme in all Spiritualls and Ecclesiasticalls their owne King having nothing to doe herein but only in Temporalls and to obey the Pope before all the world in things of this nature 5. They know that the Pope doth professe and publish both by doctrine and practice that hee hath power to excommunicate the greatest Potentates if hereticall to command all Catholikes in all things in ordine ad spiritualia that have any reference to the Catholike Cause that all Catholikes are bound * Bulla Pij 5. An. 1569. The Copy of which Bull you may finde in any of the Annalls or Chronicles of that time to obey him if he command it under paine of damnation in opposing their Soveraigne without disputing his commands and that he hath power to dissolve all bonds covenants leagues and oathes as he shall finde conducing to the advancement of the Catholike Faith So that if he list no bands humane or Divine no oathes never so solemnly taken shall binde Papists for when occasion serves the Pope can and will release them from all obligations of God or Conscience of Nature and Nations And they must submit unto him without regret Nor is heer any place left for tergiversation For first if they shall plead that these have been the private opinions of some Jesuites and hot-spurres to bring their Religion under hatred and obloquie they must remember that they may not put the Definitions of Trent nor the Popes Definitive sentences e Cathedra among private Opinions if they will acknowledge any thing to be Publike and their Pope infallible when he decrees from his Chayre which they dare not denie without renouncing their Religion and incurring the crime of heresie If they alledge secondly as some doe that how ever some Treacherous spirits have been too blame and too many Jesuites have been Incendiaries as well in their writings as in their practices yet the more moderate Catholikes have ever condemned those facts