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A43617	Curse ye Meroz, or, The fatal doom in a sermon preached in Guild-hall Chappel London, before the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, May the 9th 1680 / by Edmond Hickeringill ...	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1680 (1680)	Wing H1803; ESTC R17523	32,578	46

their practise and designs are contain'd in these Verses Sedes Summa Petri quae Pastoralis honoris Facta caput Mundi quicquid non possidet armis Religione tenet That is the Pope like the Presbyterian does his business with the word or the Sword if one will not do the other shall or they 'le fill the Nations with Blood and Wounds Yet God be thank't the Devil and those Roaring Lyons roaring out their Anathema's their Curses and Excommunications are not always Rampant nor does more harm than the Curse of Pope Julius the second did the French-men who rooted his Army at the Battle of Ravenna Fran à vitoriá a Popish Fryar de ●…ot Eccles ●…elict Sect. ●… p. 39. See Occu●…nen in Rom. in Rom. ep ●…ap 1. Theophy●…ct ●…id Blasp ●…n glossâ ●…e majori●…ate o●…edientiâ The news whereof coming to his Holiness whilst at his Beads by the Fire-side made him in a passion to conclude his Prayers with a Curse in these very words Sit ergo gallus in nomine Diabolorum All the Devils in Hell take the Frenchman I met with one honest Fryar Francis à Victoriâ who confesses that Popes were not always so ambitious and that their pretended Supremacy over all persons and in all causes was but of late usurp't Glossatores hoc dominum dedêrunt Papae cum ipfi essent Pauperes rebus Doctrinâ That this Supremacy and Sovereignty was given to the Pope by Expositors that were as poor as proud with Purses as empty as their Pates and who were as bare of Crowns as their Crowns were bare and Shaven Hence we have cause to think that Pope Pius the Fifth who Excommunicated our Queen Elizabeth Anno 1569. was in Earnest when he said Cum essem Religiosus sperabam benè de salute meâ Cardinalis factus extimui Pontifex creatus paenè despero Which I 'le English thus When I was first made Priest my Soul did well But How when Cardinal I cannot tell Now I am Pope surly my Rome is Hell Optimi putantur Pontifices saith Papyrius Massonius who was a Popish Priest si vel leniter mali vel minus boni quam caeteri Mortales esse solent Methinks saith he we speed well if our Popes be but indifferently bad or but a little worse than other Mortals And the same say I of all that are of the said Antichristian Spirit that trouble and disquiet the Magistrate and their Neighbors putting them in Fears with their Numbers and their darings their Petitions Subscriptions like Muster Rolls Methinks we speed well if they be but indifferently bad or but a little worse than Pagans Indians Turks and Jews if they were as harmless as Indians and Insidels would tell no more Lyes nor carry on no more Bloody Designs than Pagans truly for my part I think we should be very happy in them to what we now are An Indian or Pagan for his Life could not think of such Pride and Insolence as that wherewith Pope Paul the Fifth Treated Dandalus the Venetian Ambassador when he made him Crouch under the Board and eat with the Dogs the Crums that fell from their Masters Table And yet this Bravery though more Insolent yet was less Impious then that Blasphemous Salutation which His Holyness gladly accepted from the Sicilian Ambassador that came to beg his Peace with Domine Deus Papa miserere Nostrum Lord have Mercy upon us Lord God Pope And again Oh Lamb of God that takest away the Sins of the World Grant us thy Peace Thus Christoper Marcellus Complemented the Pope in the Second Councel of Lateran Tu es alter Deus in terris And with like Religion did the Old Romanists Erect an Altar in Rome to Simon Magus with this Inscription Simoni Sancto Deo In honor of Simon the Hely God Not more Atheistical than these was the Painters Motto under the Effigies of Alexander the Great Jupiter assere tibi coelum ego mihi asserui terram But enough of these Insolencies and Blasphemies yet not a jot too much in these days when such Designs are on Foot to make the Crown stoop to the Mitre But for the Crown to Vaile and Lowre to the Stool of Repentance Oh abominable and Vile Forasmuch as 't is much more Honor to be foyl'd by a Lyon than to be baffled by an Ass This is nothing else but to be Persecuted with Vermine and run the Fate of that German Bishop that was devoured and Hunted to Death with Rats and Mice This is to undergo the Martyrdom of the Primitive Christians that were put in Bears-skins and Baited to Death with Dogs The Pope how bad soever his Designs be yet he is a Temporal Prince of great Territories and Dominions if you reckon only the Countries called the St. Peters Patrimony whether he has got them per fas or nefas whether by Dint of the Sword or Cheat of the Word it comes all to one Reckoning yet still he is a Prince of Ancient Grandeur and the less dishonor to be Subject to him But for a Prince to stoop to Geneva-Upstarts that have nothing Eminent but Ears and Mouth is the vilest of Subjection and sets a value upon Turkish Slavery in Comparison of this Forasmuch as we expect better things from them Not that I commend our King John of England for profering himself and his Kingdom Vassels to the King of Morocco an Infidel rather than endure the Tyranny of Religious Men and the Pope forc't by Pandolphus the Popes Legate to resign his Crown to the Papal Chair which the proud Prelate kept it from him several days and then disdainfully setting his Foot upon it and the Money with which he bought his peace restor'd upon heavy terms the Crown yet certainly such Barbarous usage from Christians pretended Christians makes a great though not a sufficient Apology for him Grass they say never grows where the great Turk sets his Foot I 'me sure Math. Paris an Historian of good credit says that King John us'd to say that when he became the Pope's Footstool he never throve after to use his own words Postquam ut dixi me mea Regna Romanae subjeci Ecclesiae nulla mihi prospera omnia contraria advenêrunt Anno 1213. de Regione liberâ Ancellam fecit per chartum lugubrem saith Mathew Paris by a lamentable Charter King John made England a Bond-slave to the Pope that before was Free But his Son King Hen. 3. had it shortly after repeal'd even in times of Popery by Act of Parliament Read all our Chronicles since William the Conqueror and tell me if ever there were Wars in England but the Clergy had a great hand in them Odo Bishop of Bayeux furnished William the Conqueror with Forty Tall Ships to invade England and the Pope to encourage him sent him a Banner of the Church an Agnus of Gold and one of the Hairs of St. Peter such another Present as that Phoenix Feather which the Pope sent to the

for no History can tell us what is become of them to this day And this they got even ruin the certain Portion and lot of all Rebells whilst loyal Judah and Benjamin continu'd a Kingdom govern'd by their own Laws and Religion except in the Parenthesis of 70 years Captivity until the Blood of our Saviour which according to their wish fell heavily upon them unto this day and made them Cain's and Vagabonds upon the Face of the Earth All this shews us the Truth of the Old Religion of the Primitive Christians in spight of our new Presbyterian Church-Militant whose Weapons were only Prayers and Tears with which they defended themselves and wearyed out and at last overcame their Persecutors and Tyrants And as this is true Christian Piety so we in England find it the best Policy by Fatal Lectures of woful Experience People were so alarum'd from the Pulpits with such Texts as this and so frighted with Jealousies and Fears of Arbitrary Government and Popery that like men in a Shipwrack as I said before that leap into the Sea for fear of Drowning we gulf'd our selves into more Arbitrary Government Tyranny and Popery or Foppery and Phanaticisme the Spawn of Popery then could possibly have betided us if the worst had come that men did fear or were perswaded to fear How were our Miseries in the Late Civil Wars Prologu'd with a noise of Arbitrary Government in the Case of Ship-Money a Tax impos'd without a Parliament for Remedy whereof it came to Armes and Blood and Ruine and instead of one Arbitrary Tax as they call'd it by the King without a Parliament in a Case of urgent necessity to defend the Kingdom against Forreign Foes we underwent a Thousand Arbitrary Taxes by a Parliament without a King which is at least equally Illegal and Millions of Men and Treasure consum'd was not this Remedy worse than the Disease And was there ever any Tyrant heard of in any Age or Nation that ever Ruin'd and wasted his People at that Bloody Rate that we wasted and ruin'd one another and all this because nothing would please men but New Religions and New Preachers and New Expositions of Texts such as this is but explain'd quite contrary to Truth and the Old Christian Religion whose Weapons against Authority and Soveraign Majesty are only I say again Prayers and Tears And shall not God hear his Peoples Cryes and Groanings Yes surely read all Histories and you will find that as Rebels so Tyrants seldom come to the Grave in Peace Sine coede sanguine Nemo Nec siccâ morte Tyranni Rehoboam would play the Tyrant and lost his Subjects by it Dionysius the Tyrant of Syracusa thought he had ensur'd his Kingdom of Sicily to him with Chains of Adamant and he was glad to turn School-Master in Italy in Conclusion and get a Paultry living as a Tyrannical Paedagogue with insulting over Boyes The time would fail me to tell of the dismal ends of such Nero's and Dioclesian's and I am weary of this Tragical Discourse and will briefly come to a more pleasant Improvement of the Text concluding the Stated Question thus If the King happen to be a Child a Mad-man a Papist or an Infidel for his Personal Infirmities he shall answer to God alone but his Dominion and our Obedience are circumcised within the Limits of the Laws of the Land the only Rule of his Soveraignty and our Obedience and all other Doctrine of Obedience is Parasitical or Prophane Vse 1. If the help of our Soveraign Lord the King be the help of the Lord God and if Royal Aid be Divine Aid then who do they help that Fight against and resist their Sovereign Who are they for For the Devil sure There is no middle way no favorable Limbus no Purgatory that can Intervene but they that help not Heaven they help Hell they that help not the Lord help the Devil As do all those that are so Disloyal Lazy or Cowardly that neglect to help their Soveraign when endanger'd or distrest by Enemies much more do those help the Devil that Rebel and Tumultuously resist and Fight against their Soveraign If the Spirit of Loyalty be the Spirit of God as the Holy Ghost calls it as aforesaid then what Spirit is that which Resisteth God by Resisting the Soveraign Magistrate who is called God but the Spirit of Antichrist and the Spirit of the Devil Not the Spirit of the Devil in his own Black Hellish likeness and Apparition that would affright rather than invite men to be his Followers But a Devil in the likeness of Samuel in the likeness of a Prophet a Rebel with his Cloak on the Old Cloak of Religion and the Cause the Cause The Devil was great in Absalom to make him a Rebel against his King and Father but he was a Crafty Politick Devil withall 2 Sam. 15. to make him pretend Justice and Courtesie and Humility to gain the Populace and above all Arts Religion let me go and pay my Vows which I have Vowed to the Lord in Hebron saith he the Place of Conventicle and the Place of Randevouz and Parade also Finge Deum Belial quoties vis fallere plebem And such Devils in the likeness of a Prophet I say in the likeness of Religion is the fiercest the Bloodyest the most Antichristian and Devillish of all Devils Did ever man read of more Bloody Massacres than under the Conduct of the Papists Covenanted together in France by the Name of the Holy League Did ever any thing Parallel it except those Hellish contrivances and Bloody Butcheries in this Island under the favor and Influence of the solemn League and Covenant We read in the Holy Go pel of a kind of Devils that cannot be Cast out but by Prayer and Fasting but this kind of Devil or Spirit of Antichrist that I am Treating of gets Life and strength by Prayer and Fasting Variety of opinions there are the Man of Sin Spoken of 2. Thef 2. the Son of Perdition Be this Spirit of Perdition or Man of Sin who it will I am sure 1st It is a religious a pretendedly Religious Spirit because it sits in the Temple of God vers 4. Secondly It is a Rebellious Spirit against the Sovereign Magistrate opposing and exalting himself above all that is called God that is the Magistrate So that those that under color of Religion and upon pretence of Religion Fight and Kill and Slay and break the peace As in our Age have the Papists especially the Jesuits and the Fanaticks especially the rigid Presbyterian and Fifth-Monarchy-Men we are sure they are Men of Sin and Sons of Perdition opposing the Magistrate for God's sake or in pretence of Religion Religion certainly true Religion is the greatest happiness that God gives to Mortal Men thereby we converse with Heaven upon Earth thereby Men live on Earth like the Glorified Saints and Angels in Heaven thereby comes Glory to God on High on Earth Peace good Will towards