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A70625	A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall, November 5, 1667 by ... George Lords Bishop of Winton ...	Morley, George, 1597-1684.	1683 (1683)	Wing M2796; ESTC R12589	21,545	39

A SERMON Preached before the KING AT WHITE-HALL November 5. 1667. By the Right Reverend Father in GOD GEORGE Lord Bishop of Winton WHILEST He was Dean of the CHAPPEL-ROYAL LONDON Printed for Joanna Brome 1683. A SERMON ON 1 COR. Cap. XIV Ver. XXXIII For God is not the Author of Confusion but of Peace THAT there is a God and that this God was the Maker and is the Preserver and Disposer of all things is a Truth generally consented to by all Mankind Again that this God who made us and preserves us and provides for us is to be Worshipped and Adored and Obeyed by us no Man that acknowledgeth there is such a God can be so unreasonable as to deny Lastly that there can be no Way of Worshipping or of Serving God so Fit so Safe or so Acceptable unto him as that which himself prescribes I presume there is no considering Person but he must needs grant And therefore all Wise Men that ever took upon them to teach Religion or the Way to serve God howsoever they have differed in the Matter of their Doctrine they have always agreed in the Manner of proposing or Tradition of it whilest either they pretended falsly or professed truly some Divine Revelation or other to authorize and countenance whatsoever Religion it was which they taught the People Thus Numa Pompilius though he himself devised all that ridiculous rabble of Superstitious Ceremonies with which he taught the Pagan Romans to Worship their false Gods yet he pretended a Divine Revelation from the Goddess Egeria for them all And thus Mahomet that impious and impure Impostor pretended an Inspiration from the Holy Ghost by the whispering of a Dove into his Ear for all that Farrago or Hotch-potch of lies and blasphemies in his cursed Alcoran whereby so great a part of the World hath been so grosly abused and so strangely seduced for above a thousand years together To conclude there never was any Religion in the World whosoever was the Deviser or Teacher of it but it was always fathered upon God whereby it plainly appears that even those men that taught others to Worship God falsly did themselves believe that none could be taught to Worship God truly but by God himself or by such as were taught of him what they were to teach others And therefore what the Devisers and Teachers of all false Religions pretended falsly the very same did the Teachers of true Religion profess truly namely that they were sent from God and that the Doctrine which they taught others was neither more nor less than that what God himself had taught them Thus Moses the Lawgiver of the Old Testament was but Gods mouth whereby he spake unto the Jews as Aaron was his mouth when he spake unto Pharaoh nay thus even our Saviour Christ himself the Law-giver of the New Testament tells us that he spake not of himself but as he had heard of his Father For my Doctrine saith he is not mine but his that sent me Joh. 7. 16. Now as the Doctrine which Moses and the Prophets at first taught the Jews so the Doctrine which Christ and his Apostles at first taught the Christians was evidenced to come from God or to be the Truth of God by their doing of such things for the Confirmation of it as none could do but God or could not be done but by the power of God But then as in the Jewish Church after Moses and the Prophets were dead and gone there were some that sate in Moses Chair who did in the name of Moses and the Prophets teach the People to believe and do such things as never were taught either by Moses or any of the Prophets so in the Christian Church likewise after Christ and his Apostles were gone there were some that succeeded them in the Governing and Teaching of the Church especially some of those that pretended to sit in St. Peter's Chair who in the name of Christ and his Apostles have introduced such Doctrines and Practises into the Christian World as never were taught by Christ or any of his Apostles nay such as are quite contrary to the Belief and Practise of the first Christians Again as some of those who sate in Moses's Chair perceiving there was nothing in the Writings of Moses or the Prophets rightly understood to countenance them in their own Ambitious and Covetous Designs and yet not daring in terminis or point-blank to contradict the Doctrine of Moses or the Prophets for fear of the Jews they did either wrest what Moses and the Prophets had written to their ownsense by false Glosses and Interpretations as the Scribes did witness Christs Sermon upon the Mount to convince them of it or they did pretend to unwritten Traditions successively derived to them from Moses and the Prophets and consequently of equal Authority to the Prophetical Writings themselves as the Pharisees taught the People and thereby did not only teach them to Worship God in vain by teaching for Doctrines the Traditions of men Matt. 15. 9. but to make the Word of God it self of none effect Mark 7. 13. The former when by some of their Traditions they made more than God had commanded by Moses or the Prophets to be necessary the latter when by other of their Traditions they made that which God had commanded by Moses and the Prophets not to be necessary even so or just in the like manner and to the same ends there be some that pretend to be the true nay the only true Successors of Christ and his Apostles who not finding in the Gospel of Christ as it is recorded by the Evangelists and the Apostles enough to serve their turns in order to their own Ambitious and Worldly Designs and yet not daring openly to avow any other Gospel for fear of St. Paul's Anathema and of discovering themselves to be Antichrist or at least the fore-runners of Antichrist they make men believe that to be the Doctrine of Christ which indeed is not partly by interpreting the Apostolical Writings in their own sence and partly by pretending Apostolical Tradions for that which cannot by any Interpretation be wrested from the Apostolical Writings And by this means in process of time they have made Christ's Kingdom which he himself tells us is not of this World to be of this World and themselves to be the Governours of it and whosoever will not be Perswaded must be Compell'd to believe it And thus the Evangelical Dove is made a prey to the Roman Eagle whilst Maxims of Humane Policy are taught for Articles of Divine Faith and men are made to believe that God is the Author of such Doctrines and Practices as are contrary not only to the Truth of his Word but to the Holiness of his Nature I mean such Doctrines and Practices as tend to the Distraction and Destruction of Kingdoms and States as if Christ came not to save the World as he saith he did but to destroy it which he saith he did

much as a true Church I mean in a moral sence or so far at least as she teacheth such Doctrines If it be replyed that it is not the Church of Rome it self but only some particular Doctors of that Church that teach all or any of the aforesaid seditious Doctrines I answer that these and the like Doctrines being publickly asserted and maintained by the chief Pillars and Professors of that Church and notoriously countenanced and abetted by the Head of that Church and never condemned censur'd or disclaimed by the Representative Body of that Church no nor so much as taken notice of as dangerous or erroneous by their Index expurgatorius which censures all such Authors and Opinions as that Church doth not approve of we must needs conclude them to be the Doctrines of the Church it self and not of some of her particular Doctors and Professors only though some of her particular Doctors may Dissent from some of them which signifie little or nothing as long as the Head of the Church approves them and as long as they all hold the Pope to be Head of the Church whereunto the whole Body of the Church must submit and whereby it must be guided and consequently they all hold he hath an Universal Jurisdiction over all Christians which is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the first of those false seditious Doctrines I before named and whereunto all the rest are but instrumental and subservient as being at first invented and ever since maintain'd in order either to the bringing in or keeping up of that grand Imposture as one of our Bishops calls it I mean the pretended Soveraignty of the Papacy over all Christendom which whosoever will acknowledg and submit unto he may hold either pro or con in almost all of the Controverted points besides and yet be a good Catholick as they call him as appears by the offer made by Paul the IV. to Queen Elizabeth which was this That if she would acknowledg his Supremacy and take it as a Favour from him or as an Indulgence granted by him and by his Authority Gratiam facturum Pontificem ut sacra hìc omnia hoc ipso quo nunc sunt apud nos modo procurari fas esset his Holiness would graciously dispence with our way of serving of God in all things pertaining to his Worship in the very same manner as now we do They are the words of Bishop Andrews one of the Worthiest most Pious and most Learned of my Predecessors in his Tortura Torti from whence as he infers it plainly appears that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that which is so much contended for by the Pope and those of his Party is not that Faith or any part of that Faith which was once delivered to the Saints as Saint Jude tells us and which he exhorts us earnestly to contend for but the exorbitant power of the Papacy in and over the Church of Christ for the gaining or keeping or recovering of which exorbitant power that Ball of contention hath been kept up for so many hundreds of years in the Christian World For what was that which made that great Schism in the Church whereby the Eastern were and still are divided from the Western Christians or what is that which now divides that of the Roman from all other Christian Churches but the Popes affecting and assuming the title of Universal Bishop or of being Head of the whole Church as if all other Patriarks Metropolitans and Bishops were all of them but his Vicars and he Christs Again what made all those quarrels first betwixt the Popes and the Senate and People of Rome and afterwards betwixt the Popes and the Roman Emperors as likewise betwixt the Popes and the Kings of France and betwixt the Popes and the Kings of England whereby all Europe was sometime in one place and sometimes in another distracted and divided and torn in pieces as it were by Feuds and Factions and by causeless and cruel Wars sometimes the Father against the Son and sometimes the Son against the Father and always Christians against Christians What was the cause of all this I say but the extending of the Popes aforesaid Primacy over the whole Christian Church in spiritual things to a Supremacy over the whole Christian World or over all Christian Princes and States in the World Lastly what was the cause of so many Conspiracies against Queen Elizabeth especially after her Excommunication by the Pope which was seconded first by a Rebellion in the North of England and afterwards by the Spanish Invasion in Eighty Eight or what was the cause of the Gunpowder-Treason it self was it not a zeal for the recovering and re-establishing of the aforesaid pretended power of the Pope here in England I am sure those that were the Contrivers of it and Actors in it as many of them I mean as were brought to Tryal for it did all and every one of them confess that to be the only cause for what they did and for what they suffered namely their zeal for the Catholick Religion as they call it of which as I told you before their great Cardinal tells us the Popes Supremacy est unum ex praecipuis fundamentis one of the chief foundations And as it was the restoring of the Popes pretended Authority that was the cause of that horrid Conspiracy so the Bull of Clement the VIII whereby a little before the Queen died he had forbidden all of his Party here to suffer any but a Roman Catholick to succeed her was the ground or warrant whereupon they undertook it as appears by what Catesby the chief of the Lay Conspirators said when some of his Complices seemed loth to proceed in it without the Popes express command for it or approbation of it To what end said he should we trouble his Holiness any farther was not the forbidding us to receive him warrant enough for the removing of him assoon and by what means soever it might be effected He might have added that Heretical Princes might be Deposed or taken away by their Subjects even before the sentence of Excommunication or Deposition be pronounced by the Pope against them as some of their Doctors hold and therefore there was no reason they should stand upon such formalities in a matter of such Importance and which required a speedy Execution And thus no doubt they were resolv'd in point of Conscience by Garnett the Provincial of the Jesuits at that time here in England and the chief manager of this inhumane Conspiracy together with Oldcorn and three more of the same Order of all whom it was confessed by their Lay Complices that they were not only privy to it but Authors of it I mean of the aforesaid Conspiracy and that they were the aforesaid Jesuits that had encouraged them to undertake it and had often by the Sacrament of Penance and the Eucharist confirmed them in the Resolution of it as of a most Catholick and meritorious Undertaking and now