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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71287	Loyalty protesting against popery, and phanaticism popishly affected being a sermon preached on the fifth of November, 1682 at St. Olave's Hartstreet, London / by William Wray ...	Wray, William, 1650?-1692.	1683 (1683)	Wing W3672; ESTC R12946	14,911	36

Protestation against their Wicked Proceedings and a Desire that he might never be concerned in the like and that what was past might not shamefully reflect upon his Honour nor be charged unto his Account And I believe we are willing to be thought in respect of the Papists of the same mind that the Patriarch was in respect of his Sons I suppose few of us are of the Romish Clubs or frequent Wild-house to Cap Treason at the Jesuits Gossipings Popery is so justly Detestable among us that we care not how little we have of the Company of such as profess it And it would be well if we were as irreconcileable to their Councels as we are to their Persons and equally enemies to their Designs as to their Religion They can never hurt us except we play booty and help to do it our selves Which They are so well convinced of that they despair of our Ruin any other way And the last Trick that with any hopes of a probable success they can Play upon us is to fit us for their own Turns and wind us into the Conspiracy against our selves And that either by Poisoning our Principles or turning the edge of our Practices against one another First They have a design upon our Principles and to make us the Hereticks they are pleased to call us and such as they are Themselves For what they believe distinct from other Christians is commonly erroneous and dangerous The Supernumerary Articles of the Trent Conventicle have almost every one a Plot in them either to destroy others or to advance themselves But their Politick Creed which serves to keep up the State and Grandeur of Holy Church is most fatally Pernicious tending to the subversion of all Christian Monarchies in the world The Articles whereof are such as these That the King is the POPE's or the PEOPLE's Creature for 't is indifferent to their great Machiavels the Jesuits whose he be so he do but belong to either Take him whole or divide him or how you please so that God to whom alone he belongs and is accountable may have the least share in him That the Pope if he be a Heretick and the People of a Tyrant may depose him They being Judges whether he be so or no. That it is as much as his Crown is worth for either of them to call him so That is supposing him a Heretick or no friend to the Roman Cath. Interest But if the People contend to have him all to themselves the Jesuit's a fair chapman and will rather give up the Spiritual interest of the Chair than dispute it that if the People do but depose him be it for Tyranny be it for Heresie nay be it for Popery or suspicion of Popery do but depose him and he is contented If the Presbytery put in for a share and pretend an Interest in the Religious part of him the Jesuit will give them leave to Excommunicate him to deliver him to Satan to do any thing with him that may but lessen him and help to bring down his Crown and Honour to the Dust Nay their Creed is so far for the Right and Property or rather the Prerogative of the People that it gives you to believe that if Kings mismanage their Trusts if they Traiterously invade the Liberties and Lives of the Subjects 't is the peoples duty to call them to an account to judge them if they know how to catch them and if not that then 't is free for every man to kill them where he finds them and that 't is good State-Divinity to appoint Rewards for so doing as well as for killing Bears and Wolves and destroying the Vermine of the Country These Principles howsoever they have been Transcribed by the Northern Evangelists with the last horrid improvement owe their first draught to the Jesuit's Pen. These were Machinations forg'd for the subversion of the Protestant Religion by Mining its main Fort the Civil Government and lopping the Power of Kings the Defenders of our Faith But to their shame be it spoken there are too many Protestants affectedly Fond of that Character who are thus Jesuited Whose Souls are in their secret who think their Thoughts and Councels and are of their very Judgment as if the same Numerical Genius the Soul of a Traitor inspired them both And yet with what zeal do they declaim against Popery with what Indignation and scorn do they expose the Pope and his Jesuits and serve the Inquisition upon them in Effigie at certain solemn Times How do they Curse the Hellish Conspiracy of this Day and do all that Good Subjects ought to do and more to signifie their Abhorrence of it But for all this Ye are Friends Sirs and why fall ye out why but because ye envy their Plots but because ye are for a Monopoly and spight any body to be Traitors like your selves Lord what haste do they make from Rome and what a distance do they keep in all things else Episcopacy is voted Antichristian because 't is the Government of that Church and so it was of all the Churches in the world before Popery was known either Name or Thing The Liturgy is cried down for a Mass-book Translated because 't is a Form and they choose rather to talk to God in extempore blasphemy than address themselves in sober words and sence if they be composed to their hands Ceremony is all exploded upon this Account and one party refuse good manners to God because the other is Superstitious In most matters of mere Opinion that are not of the very Essence of Faith they endeavour to think as far from Papists as 't is possible and in some Points even to falshood and absurdity Nay they have much ado to believe their Creed for fear it should be Popish and because the Church of Rome scrue the Article of the Holy Catholick Church too tight they either leave it out or however seem as if they knew not what to make on 't And 't is strange that while they so industriously shun them in all things else they should thus concur in that which is most Abominable and wicked Some of the most Moderate and Wisest of the Papists distinguish between the Court and the Church of Rome and renounce the Former though they adhere to the latter for however they approve of their Religion they can by no means dispense with their Maxims of State upon the account whereof the Order of Jesuites is as hateful and Obnoxious unto them as it is to us their cursed Principles going more against the grain of Nature and Conscience than all their Religious Fopperies and Superstitions But who would think that men of delicate and demure Consciences should be Papists in the worst sence That they should abhor Popery and espouse Jesuitism which is to swallow down the rank gob and only nauseate the Luscious Kickshaws And such are the Phanatick Antimonarchists of this Age they are Papists the worst of Papists Jesuites in temporalibus