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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45673	A thanksgiving sermon for discovery of the late phanatick plot, September 9, 1683 by John Harrison ...	Harrison, John, d. 1698.	1683 (1683)	Wing H895; ESTC R12763	8,750	30

an All-seeing Providence no Blow given The old Fox that had never learnt that part of the Gospel that it was expedient for one man to die for the Nation begins to shift for himself And pitching an eye on Holland most agreeable with his Common-wealth Genius He chose rather to hazard his Den of Foxes with his whole Association than his own precious Neck to the stroke of Justice It was this Association together with a Vote of Parliament That if the King fell by an untimely Death it should be revenged on the Papists which first gave birth to this Hellish Conspiracy 〈…〉 belief all along to accomplish 〈…〉 For some the Solemn League and Covenant on which 〈…〉 was bottom'd never such a Piece of Machiavilian Mischief did enter on the Christian Stage as this Association which however they called The Solemn Union of all true Protestants comprehending under this Union all sorts of Sectaries no matter how Dignified or Distinguished so they were in their wild Principles quite opposite to the Communion of the Church of England by Law Established the true Protestant here intended being a Dissenting Member of the Non-conforming Communion of the Church of England Is not this then a meer Jesuitism and a double-refined Treason for any of these Conspirators to pretend themselves of the Church of England when the true Test without tricks or evasions means only the Church of England by Law Established No wonder then if the Sword intended by this stratagem to be intrusted with our deadly Enemies of all sorts it was very probable to have been sheathed in the Bowels of the best of Princes and his dearest Brother his Royal Highness for it was the Suppression of the Crown with Episcopacy which they had resolved the best expedient for pulling down of Tyranny and the Church of Rome And yet had these Weapons so craftily formed prevailed either against Church or State these true Protestants had a Salvo at hand to have laid it on the Papists a People bloody enough Yet their numbers being very few comparatively with these Incendiaries which have overspread this Nation they never could have aimed such an universal Massacre as was designed of these true Protestants It is here observable of what mischievous consequence any Combination is of what kind soever whether influence of self-Interest Pride Ambition Spight or Malice to be led out of the Kings High-way of Honesty into any By-Paths of our own be it in the smallest matter only at first perchance into a Combination of lesser moment tho only against your Lawful Minister for ye know not how soon of these beginnings of Mischief ye may be led into the broad Road of Rebellion What a Tempest should we have had if this black Fanatick Cloud had broken over our Heads Never was Death figured with so many terrible shapes as were visible in this Conspiracy but God have the Praise that we are in hopes not to see it not only blow over but that the Storm is like to fall upon the heads that raised it Some of these Treacherous dealers who have dealt so very Treacherously with us are already fallen into the pit which they digged for others and are ensnared in the mischievous works of their own hands And it is to be hoped for the rest that their violent dealing will fall upon their own heads For he who is truth itself in whom we trust whose we are and whom we serve hath assured us that wicked and blood-thirsty-men shall not live out half their days For he who is the God of all mercy abhors the cruel and deceitful man Thus far the Committee of six did succeed in this Enterprize under many Fears and Jealousies of a Popish Successor to hold correspondence in several parts of England for a general Insurrection their Followers being poisoned with several treasonable positions viz. that it was agreeable with the Christian Religion with the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom to defend the Prostant Profession with open Force and Resistance That there is a Liberty in the People to acquire to themselves that which they apprehend to be their Right by Force if they cannot obtain it of the Prince by fair means And this was especially instanced in the case of the Bill of Exclusion where reflecting on many violences that were offered for compassing this Bill no passage did seem more unnatural than a forcing Sir Lionet Ienkins to carry it up to the House of Lords who had best opposed it by his admirable Reasoning on purpose to represent him had it been possible a betrayer of his Trust and Conscience grounding themselves on this Iulian Principle that the Peoples Preservation was the Supreme Law Thus did these subtil Foxes while their heads looke several ways carry these Firebrands between their Tails to have reduced this flourishing Empire once more into Dust and Ashes These Opinions with divers of the like stamp I might reasonably insist much larger only bound in the compass of a Sermon They can be only mentioned to give a fair warning how under the most colourable pretences we never be enticed to combine with any number of men against a Lawful Power for however they sweeten or guild over this Poison there is no more real way to introduce Popery than a vain fear of it and this was the very thing the Jesuits aim'd at in the Reign of King Iames and the late unnatural War to destroy each other by these Jealousies and at last either by Force or Policy to bring us back to the Romish Church nor can we ever enough abhor this Pestilence which in several Kings Reigns hath struck many Subjects dead by a due course of Law too sadly made appear in the death of the late Lord Russel who encouraged by this Scotch Doctrine that it is lawful to defend a mans Conscience by open Force against any Authority whatsoever did dare adventure his Body yea I tremble his very Soul on this false Bottom so his execrable Paper seems to import as if purposely to embolden such persons as are left behind of the same Leven instead of a faithful I fear he met a faithless Confessor I cannot believe but that the whole World will entertain this Discovery with horror and tho the Sectaries will endeavour with the greatest Impudence to deny or mitigate it yet certainly this many headed Hydra will receive the Blow which they intended for our Religion for who that is not resolved to quit Humanity will believe that Religion which is to be maintained with Treasons and Murders of the most purple dye But here a smile must part from me which however is lawful enough on a Thanksgiving day that all this was to be done to keep out Popery when they made it one main branch of the Conspiracy to say they did fear it and when they were to act that themselves which they had perswaded the World was ever the contrivance of the Jesuit viz. to murder the King In the case of the