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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

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of the highest magnitude which erases all the common notice of Duty and Loyalty and even humanity too out of the mind so it hurries a Man down to Hell seared and hardned in his Villany where no doubt the preeminence of the hottest place is reserv'd for those who die in that condition without repentance Fifthly since all such seditious Practises are so abominable to God so pernitious to Church and State and the Abettours of them are of all men the most Vile Wicked and Diabolical let this be a means to perswade you cordially and sincerely to abjure and avoid all such Horrid principles and projectors Now in order to this it will be requisite to take notice who these Plotters are at this time and by what Eminent Characters they are signaliz'd to the World And here we shall find Gebal and Ammon and Amalek with the uncircumcis'd Philistines all in a confederacy against the establish'd Government Presbyterians and Independents Ana-Baptists and Fifth Monarchy Men all joyning issues to make the King Glorious that is in their sense a Martyr as his Father was as if the Royal Ghost was still Haunting their Conventicles and no Blood could still propitiate him but that of his own Son Those who are off as different Interests as opinions all engage in this and those whose affections are as much alienated from one another singly considered as from us all agree upon this account in an unjarring Harmony Herod and Pontius Pilate are made Friends that Christ may suffer and those who are the most bitter and implaceable Enemies to one another when time serves in their Principles Doctrine and Government all unite in a league against their common Enemies King and Church And ought not such Men to be avoided with the greatest horrour and detestation Or shall these any longer find favour from us who desire only to be so kind as to cut our Throats out of courtesy Oh let us not only shun them as we would do Fire or Plague or Wild or Ravenous Beasts but let us pray too against theirwickedness as Holy David did in the like case Do unto them as unto the Midianites as to Sisera as to Jabin at the brook of Kison Which perished at En-dor They became as Dung for the Earth Make their Nobles like Oreb and like Zeeb Yea all their Princes as Zebah and Zalmunna Who said let us take to our selves the House of God in possession O my God make them like a Wheel As the Stubble before the Wind. As the Fire burneth a Wood And as the Flame setteth the Mountains on Fire So persecute them with thy Tempest and make them afraid with thy Storm Fill their faces with shame that they may seek thy Name O LORD Let them be confounded and troubled for ever Yea let them be put to shame and perish That men may know that thou whose Name alone is JEHOVAH art the most high over all the Earth But if some will not do this because they do not imagine things so bad as they are represented and will still brazen it out against a True Protestant Plott though the Treason is as apparent as if it had been wrote with a Sun-beam should an Angle come now from Heaven and attest the truth of these things they would believe him too to be only some misguided Tory Apparition and it is to be feared that those who give themselves over to such invincible scruples and obstinacy have either a hand in these proceedings or hearts that wish well to them and so nothing will be able to work in them better things till publick Justice brings them to open and Condigne Punishment But in the last place let me reminde you to adhere immoveably to that Church which remonstrats against and utterly abhors all Rebellious Principles and Practises Now what Church that is is Conspicious to all the World by that indelible mark of Loyalty which is her proper badge and honour I mean that truly Primitive and Apostolical Church the Church of England as now Established which never yet bestowed the Kings supremacy on the Pope nor huff'd him out of his power to bestow it upon the People It by no means can allow an entrenchment upon prerogative and it as much desires that property should be secured by all honest and lawfull means It sues for mercy of the Prince but it would not have the Subject abuse it to ill purposes and though it doth allow them a liberty in a regular way to do that which they judge to be best for themselves yet it by no means gives them leave to tell their Prince what he must do or to thrust themselves in as spyes upon or judges over his Actions In fine it enjoyns us to obey him in all things that are lawful and honest and if he commands us otherwise it permits us not to Rebell but bids us patiently suffer for what we cannot freely comply with This is the avow'd doctrine of over Church for which her fame may be justly celebrated our all the Christian World in which let us all with one consent resolve to live and dye for where can we be taught better or in what Communion can we hope sooner to gain Heaven then in this whose principles are so sound whose doctrine so pure whose Rites and Ceremonies are so few and decent and whose practises are all so agreeable to the first and purest ages of Christianity Which if once seriously considered would not only confirm us in this Faith and make us firm to our Church but perswade others too to enter again into the bosom of it who have so perfidiously without any just grounds revolted from it For why should they any longer suffer themselves to be deluded and why should they not suspect that there may possibly be some corruptions in their Churches as well as any in ours Now that there are both in principle and practise amongst them I have undeniably demonstrated and would they but themselves weigh both sides impartially and without prejudice lay things to Heart they would be judges against themselves and embrace our Communion For what corruptions can be greater then those that proceed from rebellious principles and Treasonable practises which their Churches still do most certainly maintain and never did yet by any publick Assembly or Remonstrance disclaim or openly renounce and why then should any be so scrupulous to hold Communion with our Church for fear of some imaginary corruptions and yet cleave to such Churches as are visibly more corrupt Return then O Shulamite return and if there be any straglers now amongst us let me earnestly begg of them to return to this our fold that we may be all but one Flock under one Sheepherd Christ Jesus For 't is now high time for men to see their errours and if such Treasons and Conspiracies as these will not satisfie their consciences that those who are the Leaders and Abettours of them are false Teachers and Wolves in Sheeps-cloathing Heaven it self cannot work such mens conversion But we heartily entreat you for the Kings safety whose life you all pretend so highly to value and yet can never be secure whilst you so nicely distinguish betwixt his Person and his Authority for the Interest of these Kingdoms in whose wellfare must needs consist your happiness and yet your mutual Feers and Animosities do dayly lessen and undermine and for the peace and comfort of your own souls and that Faith and conscience which you lay so great a claim to and yet so constantly Shipwrack by your obstinate Schifm and Separation to believe these things to be really true and to become at last sensible that by embracing these Loyal principles which our Church teacheth you you will be certainly in the fairest way to promote your best and chiefest Interest that is to do well and prosper here and to attain far greater degrees of felicity hereafter whereas all other Seditious Tenents expose men to certain unavoidable dangers penalties and misfortunes in this life and hazard their eternal Salvation in that which is to come I shall conclude all with that of Moses Deut. 30. 19. I call Heaven and Earth to record this day against you that I have set before you Life and Death Blessing and Cursing therefore chuse Life that both thou and thy Seed may Live FINIS * Plate Redivivus Psal 24. v. 5 6 7. Prov. 8. v. 15. 1 Sam. 15. v. 23. Rom. 13. v. 2. St. Mat. 25. 52. * Dr. Pierce * Luke 18. v. 11 Psal 83. y. 9 18.