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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53906	Providence bringing good out of evil in a sermon, preached on the ninth of September, being the day of thanksgiving for the discovery of the late treasonable conspiracy against His Majesties person and government / by Richard Pearson ...	Pearson, Richard, d. 1734.	1684 (1684)	Wing P1014; ESTC R20743	16,944	45

Poisonous Infusions of their Destructive Principles God has been pleased once more to Suffer these vile Hypocrites abundantly to unmask themselves to proceed so far as to shew their Wolves Teeth from under the covering of the Sheepskin though they have not now been permitted to Bite They have now so plainly discovered to the World their Bloudy Nature that all Sincere hearted Persons Will beware of such false Prophets and equally abhor their Practices and the Cursed Principles which lead to them Men will Suffer themselves to be no more afrighted out of their Christianity and Allegiance into some of the worst Errours of Popery and into the immediate Danger of Perpetual Slavery and Confusion by the Mere Fears of Popery and Arbitrary Government Can any Man who has the least Conscience himself any longer believe these to be Men of tender Consciences who can thus strain at a Gnat and Swallow a Camel that can startle at the use of an Innocent Coremony and yet be so far from making the least Scruple at the Horrid Murder of their most Gracious Prince and the most Barbarous Massacre of their Fellow-Subjects that ever was Designed as on the contrary to count it an Action most Heroick and highly Meritorious Must not he himself be perfectly out of his own Wats who can any more be tempted to think these Men and their Favourers to be the only Sober Godly party of the Nation merely because they have the Modesty to call themselves so After a Plot of this Horrid Complexion so clearly Discovered so Miraculously Defeated a Plot in which the whole Body of Dissenters seem to have been more or less Engag'd which so Evidently proceeded from the Poison of Phanatical Principles one would think the main Ring-leaders should now give over of their own accord that meer Shame and Despair had they not long ago quite forgotten how to Blush should be Sufficient without any other Law or Magistrate to suppress their Seditious Conventicles those Schools of Hipocrisie and Rebellion or at least that they should now be forced to give over the Trade meenly for want of Customers The Implacable Wrath and Villanous Attempts of these Men have done enough to inlighten the Understandings and open the Eyes of all Men who have any so that it now seems scarcely possible that any should be longer deceived by them who are not resolved to deceive themselves their Fault can no longer be excused by any such thing as Ignorance but must be Attributed to the most Affected Malice and Obstinacy Whilst all Men who have any Sense of Religion left in them any Love to their King or Country any Regard to the Welfare of their own Souls or Bodys will be careful to avoid the Masters of such Infectious Assemblies and returning again to the Bosom of the Church from which they have so wickedly departed joyn with other Faithful Christians in the sincere Worship of God and in Honouring and Obeying of the King and Live together with us in Peace in Unity and Brotherly Love Than which what can tend more to the Praise of God or the Benefit and Edification of the Church And if any shall still be so Stupidly weak or Prodigiously Obstinate as to be willing to run after these Men notwithstanding all this yet I hope which is the Third manner how their Wrath may tend to God's Praise that the late Attempts of these Men will Effectually awaken all Consciencious Magistrates in their several Places to put those wholsom Laws in Execution which the Wisdom of our Governours has long since provided in this Case And I hope we are now better acquainted with things and with the true meaning of both those Words than that any should still be afrighted from doing of their Duty by the Odious Name of Persecution for Religion by which such Malefactors have all along endeavoured to discourage Men's Charitable Diligence in this kind We have formerly experienced to our cost and have now again Learnt with a Witness what such Men mean by their Religion under the Specious pretence of which they are used to Meditate nothing else but Violence and Rapine Murder and Rebellion any just Penalty upon or necessary restraint of them from the Commission of which Crimes they presently call by the Name of Persecution for Religion They that would disturb the Peace of a whole Nation endeavour to take away the Life of their Lawful Sovereign are certainly Guilty of a Crime of a far higher Nature than they who Commit a Common Felony or Murder upon a Pivate Man and yet these latter usually Suffer without Pity who if they had but the same Impudence might with equal Right pretend to Religion and Conscience in the Case and cry out of Persecution too And why should then the far greatter Criminals be spared or Connived at meerly for such Impudent pretences as indeed render them infinitely more Dangerous to the Common-Wealth and more Justly Abominable both to God and Man Such a Religion as this if it must needs be cal'd so the Devil himself is of Who was a Murderer and a Lier from the Beginning So that with what Face can such Men say they are Persecuted meerly because they ate restrained from truly Persecuting of others whereas for Magistrates not to endeavour to hinder them from this by all Lawful Methods would be indeed to Persecute and in Effect to destroy all the most Faithful Subjects of the Land by giving these Men an Opportunity to do so And since our Schismatical Conventicles have ever proved themselves such Schools of Hypocrisie and never-failing Seed-Plots of Sedition and Rebellion 't is truly an Act no less of the highest Charity than Justice for all those more immediately concerned by their Office to endeavour as they are bound both by the Law of God and Man and to use all due means to suppress them Which till it be Effectually done in vain is it to hope for the least quiet or to see good days in England Why should Men under the pretence of Religion be Suffered to destroy it Why should they be permitted to Poison the Minds of those who might otherwise prove good Subjects and Christians with Principles of Sedition and Disloyalty to undo their Souls and endanger the bringing of their Bodies to a shameful and untimely End in a Word to involve the whole Nation in Ruin and Confusion and to Propagate Schism and lay the Foundation of Blood and Massacres to all Posterity Nor shall I be afraid to say that we well Remember what Juncture of time it was and by what kind of Representatives and are now also Sensible upon what design it was voiced a thing greivous to the Subject to have Laws against Dissenters put in Execution Upon all which and much more of the like Nature the late Hellish Conspiracy has furnished us with such a lively Comment as may justly awaken Magistrates to put those very Laws in the most Vigorous Execution as ever they desire the