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A66207	The false-prophets try'd by their fruits being a sermon preached at St. James's Westminister, November Vth 1699, in which it is shewn, that the principles, and practices, of the Church of Rome, with relation to those whom they call hereticks, are not only destructive of civil society, but are utterly irreconcileable with the gospel of Christ / by William Wake ...	Wake, William, 1657-1737.	1700 (1700)	Wing W246; ESTC R39410	20,598	38

was for pawning the Plate of the Chu●ch and coming himself in Person if need were to further it p. 117. Cambd. Eliz. An. 1588. Watson quodlib p. 239 246. Artic. 6 7. And the King of Spain was perswaded by Pope Pius the Fifth to Engage in it But that also miscarrying their private Attempts were again Renewed And still some Priest or Other in every One of them to Encourage and Sanctifie the Assassination It would engage Me in too long a Discourse to speak particularly of the Treasons of Arden See Watson 's Important Considerations c. Reprinted Lond. 1675. 4 o. Bristow makes them all Martyrs 15 Motive p. 72. c. 73. For the Historical Part see Foulis 's Popish Treasons Book 7. c. 5 7. Cambd. Eliz. An. 1595 1598 c. 1602. and Sommerville of Hesket and Lopez of Cullen and York of Squire and Babington Of the Designs of the Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Westmorland and many Others who either by Sword or Poison by private Attempts or Publick Insurrections Endeavoured to deprive Her both of her Crown and Life I will only Observe that what the other Popes had in Vain attempted here in England | Foulis Pop. Treasons Book 9. c. 3. Cambd. Eliz. An. 1578 1579 c. Pope Gregory the xiiith and Clement the viiith no less Encouraged in Ireland By not only abetting the Rebellions which were raised there but Engaging the King of Spain once more to Endeavour her Destruction Whilst the Queen of Scots lived who was a Zealous Papist * Catena Lettere de Pio V. p. 329. the pretence for several of these Attempts then was | See the Papists Apology the Edit with the Answer 1675. p. 23. as their Excuse has been since That she had the Better Title to the Crown of England But that Unfortunate Princess being Gone and Queen Elizabeth now grown Old † Clement VIII See Cambden Eliz. An. 1600 1602. Doleman 's Confer about the next Succession to the Crown Tortur Torti p. 188. c. 197 278. Thuanus l. 135. p. 1205 1214 A. King James 's Apolog. p. 273. Casaubon Epist. ad Front Ducaeum inter Epist. p. 750. Edit 4 o. 1656. Sir Edw. Coke 's Plea Hist Gun-powder Treason 8 o. Lond. 1678. p. 92 c. all possible Endeavours were made by those very Persons with the Pope at their Head to Exclude the Son who would be thought to have had so much Zeal for the Mother In this first Attempt the Jesuits seemed unwilling to Engage But then to do them right See Watson 's Confession Casaub Epist. ad Front Ducaeum p. 752 753. I must observe that it was not out of any Checks of Conscience any dislike they had to such an Enterprize but because they had another Design of their own in hand which it seems was this of the Gun-Powder Conspiracy A Treason of so horrid and dismal a Complexion that the transcendent Cruelty of it not only stagger'd Some of the Conspirators themselves but proved the Happy Means of our Deliverance from it Whilst the desire of One among them to save his friend from that deadly Blow by the Providence of God discovered the whole Design and saved both the King and the Parliament with Him We ought not to wonder if the better to conceal such a Conspiracy as this but | About 20 whereof 5 were Jesuits See Popish Apol. p. 34 Casaub. Ep. ad Front Ducaeum p. 755. Few were admitted to a particular Knowledge of it * K. James 's Premonition p. 291. Tho' it was generally discoursed among the whole Party that something was in Agitation for the Interest of their Cause and to which they were to be Ready to lend their Utmost Assistance as soon as Matters should be Ripe for it Yet even among those Few who knew of it † Thuanus ingenuously owns this Hist. Lib. 135. p. 1213. D. And the publick Acts of this Conspiracy u●deniably confirm it See King James 's Praemonition p. 334 335. Bp. Andrews at large proves it from Garnet 's Own Confession Tortura Torti p. 281 c. 285 286. So does Isaac Casaubon Epist. ad Front Ducaeum p. 757 761 773 774 775. Add Sir Edw. Coke 's Arraignment of Garnet p. 168 c. And the Relation of his Execution Ib p. 225. Father Garnet the Provincial of the Jesuits was One and that not in Confession as some now pretend but by way of Consultation as Himself at last ingenuously Acknowledged | Historia Pontifical Part. 5. l. 1. c. 11. says That Fawks being in Flanders Y descubrio s● empresa à personas Ecclesiasticas y de su Nacion para hazer les ayunar y rogar a Dios que su fin llegasse a efecto Bulenger confirms it Hist. l. 12. p. 369. where speaking of Winter and Fawks Oeno Jesuitae says he consilia aperiunt qui pietatis studium laudat And p. 370. speaking of three Others among whom Garne● One says Rex cognito tres Jesuitas Conjurationis hujus Nefariae flabella fuisse Thuan. Hist. p 1206. E. lib. 135. Gerard the Jesuit gave them the Oath of Secrecy and the Sacrament upon it Tesmund confirm'd Bates 's Conscience in it Rei merito demonstrato Ib. p. 1207. C. See Winter's Confession about Owen to the same Effect King James 's Works p. 232. Add to this my Lord Stafford's Declaration at his Trial to this Effect p. 53. Mezeray 's H●st of France An. 1605. K. James 's Praemonition p. 291 335. Bp. Andrew 's Tortura Torti p. 280. Casaub. Epist. ad Front Ducaeum p. 755. Sir Edw. Coke 's Arraignment of the Conspirators p. 96 104 105 113. His Arraignment of Garnet p. 166. That several Others of the Society were acquainted with it may from undoubted Proofs be made appear Give me leave to add what * Foulis Popish Treason Book 10. c. 2. Some have farther Affirm'd that Fawks himself the Villain who was to have Executed the Treason was not long before at Rome in Conference with some Considerable Persons there Bishop Andrews ad Bellarm Resp. c. 5. p. 113. And had Three Bulls Ready to have been Publish'd had the Design Succeeded but that this Failing they were Suppressed And here then let us stop and not proceed to any following Instances of their Cruelty and Perfidiousness But from what has been already alledged both of their Doctrines and Practices as to these Matters Go on finally to Consider Whether such Principles and such Actions can ever be Reconciled either with the Spirit or Rules of Christianity And 1st Let them tell Us if they can where in all the Scriptures of the New-Testament either the Title or Promises of the Catholick Church are appropriated to the Roman Church or indeed to any other Particular Church or Society of Christians whatsoever Or what Reason can be given for that Fundamental Arrogance on which All the best of their Pretences are built why They any more than We should be Called or

Powder-Plot Widdrington contra Schulken p. 151. but have favoured those who were the principal Actors in Them Here then let us fix our selves and try the Cause between Them and Us. If the Doctrines of the Romish Church with Relation to Those whom they call Hereticks and their Practices towards Them be agreeable to the Gospel of Christ let us allow Them to be thus far True Prophets and approved by their Fruits But else if neither their Doctrines nor Practices in this Case can be Reconciled with the Spirit of Christianity We must then Pronounce Them to be False-Teachers and conclude that they have been justly Rejected by Us as such And 1st As for the Doctrines of Those of the Church of Rome towards such whom they call Hereticks they are to this Effect * That theirs is the Catholick Church with which all Christians are bound to Communicate to which alone all the Promises of the Gospel do belong and out of which there is no Salvation * Concil Constant. Sess. 45. Decretal de Haeret. l. 5. tit 7. c 13. That all who differ from them and forsake their Communion are Schismaticks and Hereticks Enemies to God and Apostates from the Church and Faith of Christ. ** Concil Lateran 4. Can. 3. See Foulis Popists Treasons Book 2. c. 6. Sect. 13. The Bull of P. Paul III. against K. Henry VIII Bellarm de Laicis l. 3. c. 21. Decretal de Haeret. lib. 5. tit 7. c. 13. Vid. Bullam Coenae Dom. That this Church has therefore a Right to pronounce a Sentence of Excommunication against Them as Such And that being by that means Cut off from the Body of Christ they are in the next place to be Cast out of all Civil Society too and be put to death unless They shall Abjure their Heresie and return again to their Communion † Sanders de Visib Monarch p 730 734. Parry 's Confession out of Allen 's Book p. 17. Thuanus 's Hist. lib. 135. p. 1206. C.D. Becanus contr Angl. p. 120. Add Pope Pius the Fifth's Bull against Qu. Eliz. c. Decretal de Haeret. l. 5. tit 7. c. 13. Concil Avenionens An. 1210. Bellarm. Resp ad Ap●log pro Juram fidel p. 9 10. That this Excommunication the Pope has power to pronounce not only upon private Persons but upon whole Cities and Countries upon Kings and Subjects And that this being done They also may be Prosecuted with the Sword and be Rooted from off the face of the Earth * See this proved at large from their own Authors by Foulis Hist. of Popish Treasons Book 2. c. 1 2 5 6. Du Moulin 's Answer to Philanx Anglicus cap. 4. Bp Barlow 's Popish Principles pernicious to Protestant Princ●s to which add the Bulls of P. Paul III. against King Henry VIII Of Pius V. against Q Eliz. Decret c. 15. qu. 5. cap Nos Sanctorum That for the better effecting hereof his Holiness as they call him has power to absolve Princes from their Oaths of Government to their Subjects and Subjects from their Obligations of Fidelity to their Princes To dispose of Kingdoms and transfer Them from one State or Family to another And that having done this that Person or State to whom the Pope shall have given such an Heretical Kingdom Card. Allen 's Admonition to the Nobility and People of England with his Answer to Stanley 's Letter An. 1587. Becanus Controv Anglic. c. 3. q. 2 3. Suarez Defens fid Cathol Lib. 3. c. 23. cui titulus Pontificem summum potestate Coercivâ in reges uti posse usque ad depositionem etiam à regno l. 6. c. 2. Sect. 7. Bellarm. de Rom. Pont. l. 5. c. 6 8. Idem de potestate summ Pont. contr Barclaium in Prolegomen has from thenceforth a just Right to enjoy it and may lawfully Endeavour by any means to make themselves Masters of it Jul. Caes. Bullenger Hist. l. 6. p. 233. speaking of Parry says De Theologis quaerit an jure Tyrannus Pontificiis diris devotus necari possit Illi posse responderunt See Card. Como 's Letter to the same purpose below Suarez Defens fid Cathol lib. 6. c. 4. Sect. 14 18. Mariana de Rege Regis Institut l. 1. c. 6 7. Thuan. Hist. l. 111. p. 517 518 520. Lastly That if this cannot be done by open force and it be for the Interest of their Religion that some other Course should be taken any King or Prince so Excommunicated as is aforesaid by the Pope may lawfully be Kill'd by any private Person or otherwise be deposed from his Government And another set up to Defend their Religion and to Extirpate what they call Heresie out of that Country This is the Substance of what is taught by Those of the Church of Rome with Relation to such as they call Hereticks that is to say in other Words to all those who are not of their Perswasion And 2dly For their Practices in Conformity thereunto tho' you are but too well able of your selves to Recount Them yet I will call to your Remembrance a few Particulars that may suffice to Represent Them to you I should perhaps be thought to look back too far should I Relate to you the † See Usserius de Christianarum Eccles. Success c. 10. Crackanthorp contra Spalatensem c. 18. Sect. 19. Mat. Paris ad An. 1234. says The Number that was slain was Infinite barbarous Butcheries committed by them about the xiiith Century at the Preaching of that * Whose Severity the very Inquisitors themselves boast of Ludov. à Param de Orig. Progress Inquis l. 2. c. 2. n. 4. Limburg Hist. Inquisit l. 1. c. 10. Bloody Monk their now Glorious St. Dominick And the greatest of whose merit seems to have been this that as the Histories of those times inform Us he Preached above an Hundred Thousand Innocent Men out of their lives A most Apostolical Preacher no doubt and worthy of the Honour which in acknowledgment of his Merits they thought fit to confer upon Him that for the good Service he had done in that Cruel Mission the Inquisition then begun by Him that most lively Pattern of Hell upon Earth should be entrusted to the Monks of his | Vid. Leg. 1. Fred. II. apud Limburg Hist. Inquis c. 12. l. 1. Et Hist. progres Inquisit per totum lib. Order and who in the management of it for the most part do not at all degenerate from the fiery Zeal of their Anti-Christian Founder If from those we pass on to the Protestants of France Thuan. Hist. ad An. 1572. Popliniere Hist. de France liv 29. D'Aubigne Hist. Vnivers part 2. l. 1. c. 4. c. Mezeray Hist. Charles IX c. Hist. des Martyrs à Geneve 1619. l. 7. c. An. 1557 c. l. 10. An. 1572. Osiand Hist. Eccles. ad An. 1557. 1560 1567 1568. Lampadius M●llific Hist. par 3. p. 475 c. 48● it is hardly to be

Accounted Christ's Catholick Church upon Earth The Truth is it is a Contradiction in terms for either of Us to Assume to our selves such a Character The Catholick Church is the Whole Church of which every Particular Church as the Church of England the Church of Rome c. are Parts And to say that any One of These Exclusive to All Others is the Catholick Church is to say that a Part is the Whole which I think is as plain a Contradiction as can well be affirmed by Any Nay but what if the Church of Rome be so far from being the Catholick or Vniversal Church that it is not so much as A Catholick that is any Sound or Orthodox Part of the Church of Christ Let me not be thought to speak any thing with a design to Raise in your Minds a wrong Notion against any But for the sake of Truth and out of the Concern which I have for your Immortal Souls I must freely declare that after the best Examination I have been able to make into her Principles and Constitution I do in my Conscience believe the Roman Church as it is at present Established in Matters of Faith Worship Morals and Government to be by far the most Corrupted of any Christian Church that I know of in the World and in which Salvation can the most hardly if at all be Obtain'd But 2dly Were the Church of Rome all that she pretends to be and Our Church all that ever it has been call'd by it Yet how comes this to Give them a Civil Authority over Us Christ meddled not with Mens Temporal Interests He taught no Doctrines of Cruelty and Uncharitableness He Founded no Dominion in Grace Nor ever Pretended to Depose Kings and Give away Kingdoms On the contrary We know How He would not so much as Arbitrate in a private Controversie Luke xii 14. But declared freely that His Kingdom was not of this World Jo. xviii 36. Nor were his Disciples to Expect any thing beyond Other Men except it were Troubles and Losses and Persecutions in it Mat. x. Luke ix 23. Jo. xv 20. xvi 2. c. Hence we read that when upon the account of his Adherence to the Temple of Jerusalem which was plainly a Religious Concern a Certain Village of the Samaritans deny'd Him the common Humanity of a Nights Lodging and some of his Disciples were so Hot upon it as to Desire Him to Revenge Himself by Fire from Heaven for the Affront All the Answer They got was this Reproof which One would have thought might alone have been sufficient to answer all these kind of Pretensions for ever That They knew not what manner of Spirit they were of Luke ix 55. For says He the Son of Man came not to destroy Mens lives but to save them But 3dly Our Saviour Christ has not only no where encouraged any Proceedings of this kind but Has every where delivered such Doctrines as are utterly Irreconcileable with Them That We must be Subject to Principalities and Powers and Obey Magistrates Tit. iii. 1. That we must do this not only for Wrath but also for Conscience sake Rom. xiii 5. That We must Love our Enemies Must Bless them that curse Vs Do Good to them that hate Vs and Pray for them that despightfully use Vs and Persecute Vs. Mat. v. 44. That We must not Avenge our selves but leave that to Him of whom it is written Vengeance is mine I will Repay saith the LORD Rom. xii 19. That we must not Root up the Tares before the Time but suffer them to Grow till the Harvest and that the Separation shall be made by God and not then by Vs. Mat. xiii 29 30. That we must bear with Those who are Weak in the Faith Must Instruct Them in Meekness and Endeavour to Convert Them from the Error of their Way that they may be Saved Rom. xv 1. Galat. vi 1. 1 Thess. v. 14. 2 Tim. ii 24 25 26. Jam. v. 19· These are the Doctrines of the Gospel And accordingly we know how our Religion Conquered the World not by Doing but by Suffering Not by disturbing Kingdoms and Overthrowing of Governments but by patiently Submitting to all the Evil that the Rage of Men or Malice of the Devil could bring upon the Professors of it And when this is so what can we conclude but that certainly either the Holy Scriptures have given Us a very wrong Account of the Doctrine of Christ and that neither the Apostles nor Those who were Instructed by them Understood their Own Rights and what Authority their Ecclesiastical Character Gave them over Princes and Countries at least in Order to Religion Or that if they did then these Men in Teaching and Acting as they do in these Matters must have utterly departed from the Truth of Christianity and have only the Name of Prophets the Cloathing of Sheep whilst in Reality they are Ravening Woolves Which being thus Resolved I do not see what other Conclusion we can draw from these Premises than that which our Saviour in the Text Recommends to Us which is To Beware of Them And indeed so we have all the Reason in the World to be whether We consider our Souls or Bodies The Interests of this present Life or the Hope of that which is to come For First As to the Concern of our Future State If it be possible for any Errors to destroy Salvation which are not Expresly Contrary to the Fundamentals of Christianity tho' in the Natural Consequence of them They do plainly Overthrow the Chiefest of them Then I am perswaded that the Errors of the Church of Rome will of all Others be found the most likely so to do And for the Other Thing mentioned our Present Interests How far they must be affected by the return of Popery again among Us Both the Encroachments it *⁎* For which see Sir Roger Twisden 's Hist. Vindicat of the Church of England c. which largely shews it chap. 1 2. formerly made upon our Civil Rights and Liberties and the Pretensions it * See Card. Bellarm. Apolog pro Resp ad Jacob. R●g c. 3. where He affirms the Pope to have a direct Dominion over the Kingdoms of England and Ireland Ita ut Rex tanquam secundarius Dominus Holds his Realms of him The same is affirmed by Card. Allen. in his Admonition to the Nobility That without the Pope's Confirmation No Man can lawfully take the Crown or be accounted King of England They Both took it from the Pop●'s Own Mouth who before His Colledge of Cardinals declared That the King of England was His Vassal nay in truth His Slave Mat. Paris ad Ann. 1253. still keeps on foot against Us more than against any Other Country or People besides not to say any thing of its common Principles of Tyranny and Slavery Ruinous to Societies as well as Dangerous to private Persons and Families may suffice to convince Us. Let Us then upon all these Accounts heartily Bless God who upon this same Day has twice Delivered Us out of its Hands And let Us earnestly Beseech him that He would still continue to defend Us from ever falling any more under the Power of it And tho' the Petition has too long been left out of our Liturgy yet let it never depart out of our Minds but be often the Subject of our Private Supplications to Almighty God both for our Religion and for our Country's sake See the First and Second Book of King Edw. VI. in the Litany From the Tyranny of the Bishop of Rome and his detestable Enormities Good Lord deliver Us. 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