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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29628	The original of plotts, or, Some seasonable reflections upon the late horrid fanatick conspiracy in a sermon preached at St. Maries in Dover, on Sunday September 23, 1683 / by James Brome ...	Brome, James, d. 1719.	1684 (1684)	Wing B4859; ESTC R37479	17,435	30

assure them that as Rebellion is as the sin of Witch-craft So they that resist shall receive to themselves Damnation Again God is pleased to declare his utter distast and abhorrence of all such practises by the Providential discoveries he so frequently makes of the greatest conspiracies in the World And indeed there is no greater argument for the Providence of God against the rankest Atheists living that he doth continually take cognizance of all affairs of Sublunary beings nor is there any surer Testimony of Gods mercy and loving-kindness to the Sons of Men then the great care he hath taken for the preservation of his People and the wonderfull deliverances which in all ages of the World he hath wrought for the Church maugre all the powerfull and Politick attempts of Men or Devils to undermine and destroy it And if upon this account God owns any cause by making it successful which I shew'd you before it was the Doctrine of Fanaticks what may they judge of our cause now by the success and happiness of the late discovery For if this argument be true the Gates and Turrets of the City who now groan under the Heads and Quarters of the late Executed Rebells will Proclaim to all the World the gratious Success on our side and that God hath visibly espous'd our Cause against those Antimonarchicall and Anti-Episcopall Zealots who did oppose it Secondly nothing is more inconsistent with the design of true Religion and the doctrine of Christianity then such vile Plotts and Conspiracies which make resistance against Superiours a thing Lawful and consequently that can be no true Church were such Practises are allow'd of or countenanc'd by the chiefest members Now that these things have been ever justified by the Fanatick Fraternity is as demonstrable as to shew you where they have been look'd upon as Antichristian and I defye any one to point me out the time where ever they were yet publickly disown'd by a joynt concurrence of all their Sanctified Tribes Read over if you can think it worth your while to puddle in so much filth and impiety some of the Books or Sermons of Calamy or Baxter Owen or Goodwyn Jenkyns or Marshal and of diverse others who were the Heads and the very Oracles of both the Sectarian parties and you will find the greatest Villanies countenanc'd the horrid'st Blasphemies vented the deepest Treasons encouraged and the most execrable murder of the late King himself justified in their Pulpitts and Presses which have been the accursed Fountains of all our deplorable calamities Or if you please to take an infallible Antidote against them all read over the Dissenters sayings publish'd on this very account by the true Heroick Atlas of our establish'd Church and you will meet there with such a Farrago of wicked principles and opinions flowing all immediately from the same sink of Fanaticism as indeed is no where else to be met withall but in Hell it self For what false and horrid Stories do they there tell God Almighty of the King and the Church as the same Incomparable Author observes and then what Blasphemous Commissions in the Name of the High God do they sham upon their Congregations They tell the people on the one hand that it is the will of God to have Kings put to death Altars profan'd Temples demolish'd whilst they treat the dreadfull Majesty of Heaven on the other hand as if he himself was to come in for a share in the next Crown or Church-lands that fell They bless God for successes and pray for blessings that carry damnation along with them imputing the motions of Hell to the very breathings of the Holy Ghost Now all these things were not done privately in a Corner or shrouded up closely in the shades of darkness but were publish'd boldly and openly in the face of the Sun as doctrines fit to be propagated and espoused by all true Christians nor were these the particular sentiments only of some private men but the approv'd opinions of all their principal Teachers some of which were Assembly-men urged with all the Zeal and inculcated to their People with all the vigour imaginable and some of these Persons are alive at this very day and we find them Men of the same Kidneys still for they have not yet retracted any of these Seditious principles nor recanted for their dangerous opinions and tenents nor given the State any reasonable satisfaction to believe that they are sorry for what they have done nor declared any visible reluctancy or regret for all their former misdemeanours repentance in a Fanatick being as great a Miracle as conversion in a Jew Now 't is impossible that Men who are poison'd with such Unchristian sentiments as these can ever be Members of a Church truly Christian And I never read of any Rebells that were Canoniz'd for Saints by those who did believe themselves to be the best and Truest Protestants till Mr. Baxter first placed them in his Saints Everlasting Rest for Christiaanity truely primitive never own'd any such principles or Persons in the World but lays down other Maxims of another stamp and nature it commands us Love and Peace Unity and Obedience and abhorrs all Schisms and Factions and Dissensions as Plagues and Fire-brands it obligeth us to be subject to the higher powers and to obey for conscience sake and to submit our selves to froward and cruel as well as to mild and Gentle Governours it allows us not though surrounded with Storms of persecution to take our measures of obedience from our strength or our numbers for the primitive Christians were more in number and greater in power then their Persecutors and yet nunquam conjuratio erupit faith the Father there never was any uprour or hurly-burly amongst them but in reverence to their Master and his example Interimi se a paucioribus quam interimere patiebantur they rather suffered themselves to be kill'd by a smaller number then themselves are And St. Cyprian cryes out Nemo nostrum quando apprehenditur reluctatur quamvis nimius copiosus noster populus none of us when we are apprehended strive or endeavour to revenge your unjust violence allthough our People are very many and more numerous then you are and Tertullian gives the reason Occidi licet occidere non licet God hath made it Lawfull for us to suffer our selves to be kill'd but not Lawfull for us to kill And indeed the doctrine of Resistance was never taught in the Christian School till the Pope and his Jesuites layd down plainly the Text and our True Protestant Scotch and English new upstart Theologico-politici began to lick up the Venom and were pleas'd to raise their Holy comments upon it and it was quite beaten out of countenance till of late an Apostate Julian allmost as bad as Julian whose life he writes did endeavour again to bring it into reputation with the Mobile Sure I am that the whole life of our Saviour was a confutation of such vile Practises his