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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

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

Gods businesse the precedency of all other Your Affaires and Your beginnings promised much Howbeit I know not how it comes to passe but so it is that Gods Work lies yet undone Matters of Religion lie a bleeding all Government and Discipline of the Church is laid in her Grave and all putredinous vermine of bold Schismaticks and frantick Sectaries glory in her ashes making her fall their own rising to mount our Pulpits to offer strange fire to expell the gravest ablest and most eminent Ministers in the Kingdome if not out of their Pulpits yet out of the hearts of their people as a company of weak men formalists time-servers no Ministers of Christ but Limbs of Antichrist having no calling except from the Devill and to forsake our Assemblies as Babylonish and Antichristian so as in short time they will not leave us the face of a Church And yet no course is taken to suppresse their fury and to reduce them to order which as things now stand will never be till You put your hands to the Cure I know your businesses and diversions have been extraordinary yet in the midst of them all You have found opportunitie to vindicate and setle your own Rights and Liberties Therefore I hope You will finde both time and hearts to consider what is to be done for that God who hath done so much for You beyond all exspectation Farre be it from any among You to say it is not yet a time Remember how unkindly God took the neglect of his House by the Jewes whom he had restored from Captivitie albeit they forgat not the daily Sacrifice in the due place and were opposed by many potent enemies the Kings Great Officers in Judeah who procured from Artaxerxes Longimanus a c Ezra 4.21 Decree to stay the building of the Lords House which caused a cessation of forty-one yeares even d Vers 23. untill the second of Darius Nothus In this case much might have been said for laying aside the Work yet because the chiefe of the people did not constantly solicite the Persian Monarchs to reverse that Decree that the building might goe on but followed their own busines close built their own houses and seiled them sumptuously sowed their fields and omitted nothing for their own Estates and Liberties God did continually blow upon all and cursed every blessing When they marvailed at the matter He bad Haggai the Prophet to tell them the reason and to perswade them to reflect upon their own wayes as the onely cause thereof e Hag. 1.2 This people say the time is not come the time that the Lords House should be built To this the Lord makes answer f Vers 4. Is it time for You O yee to dwell in your seiled houses and this House lie wast Can you finde time for your selves and none for Mee Should I blesse you in pursuit of your own affaires whiles you neglect mine Nay Consider your wayes See what you have gotten in the issue by all the Labour you have taken for your selves while you have done nothing to set forward the House of your God Yee have sowne much and bring in little yee eate but you have not enough yee drinke but yee are not filled c. Thus it was with them although an Edict was still in force against building of the Temple because they did not cordially doe their utmost to obtaine the repeale of that Ordinance but rather made use of it to pursue their own businesse with more zeale and industry And hath not the same God begun the same course against us at this very time Consider your wayes When they who solicited the Cause of God humbly prayed that the matters of Religion might be put to some issue the disbanding of the Armies was thought more necessary to put an end to that charge When that was done what followed Was any thing done for God Surely You can best tell And what have wee gotten In stead of the former Armies God hath now laid upon You a businesse of more difficultie and likely to prove more costly and bloudy by kindling a fire in Ireland to the unspeakable persecutions and butcheries of the poore Protestant Party there and when those flames will be quenched or how far they may extend is known only to Him whose Cause I feare is not sufficiently taken to heart But this be sure of it will never be better but more and more occasion of exhausting your Estates which You have spent so much time to secure will be still administred so long as You shall deferre the building of the Lords House I meane the setling and securing of Religion and Discipline This is that unum necessarium which what ever some think will undoubtedly save all and without which all will be lost at home as well as abroad O therefore let mee be bold in the Name of the Lord whose Servant I am and whose Cause I now plead to give You the same Counsell that God by his servant Haggai gave to the Jewes who seemed to approve the Work but pretended many Lyons to be in the way g Hag. 1.8 Goe up to the Mountaine and bring wood and build the House and I will take pleasure in it and I will be glorified saith the Lord. What ever your own thoughts be lay them aside to consider seriously what God exspects from You. Try that Course and see what a blessing will follow how soone how strangely God will turne all things about remove all difficulties and work wonderfully for You and our poore Brethren in Ireland This is no Empiricall Dosis but a Probatum est For mark the issue of taking this Counsell in the Jewes Case Such as beleeved the Prophet and feared the Lord laid aside the hot pursuit of their own affaires and did as they were commanded They set upon the building of the Lords House And the next newse was h Hag. 1.13 Then spake Haggai the Lords Messenger the Lords message unto the people I am with you saith the Lord. That is now they should find him with them to purpose first in carrying up the building which beside the severall pauses and interruptions of the Work had been forty-two yeares That House was forty-six years in building Ioh. 2.20 at severall times laboured in and yet not finished and had then lain forty-one yeares together without so much as a stone laid in it Now it should goe up so fast that one foure yeares more should perfect the work For they i Ezra 6.15 finished it in the sixth yeare of Darius Nothus having set upon it in * Hag. 1.15 the second of his Reigne as before is shewed Nor did God thus prosper them in his own Work only but blessed them in all things else they took in hand for themselves And whereas before there was nothing but sidings and factions some * Neh. 6.10 c. and vers 17 18 complying with the Great Officers of the Persian and Medish