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A31403 The Gospel preached to the Romans, in four sermons two on the 5th of November, and two on the 30th of January, 1680 / by John Cave ... Cave, John, d. 1690. 1681 (1681) Wing C1583; ESTC R17526 41,434 109

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the true Characters of the Divine Presence and came peaceably in aurd leni without Noise and Perturbation insinuating it self into the Beliefs of Men by silent Influences and convincing Arguments I may add here That although our Lord Christ was not only King of the Jews but had the whole Host of Heaven at his command yet he called not in the Assistance of Force and Violence to obtrude his Doctrines upon the World And it is a most remarkable Circumstance That Constantine the Great did not appear in the World to protect Christianity until it had gained Footing in the most considerable Parts thereof Nor do we read any where That when Christianity became the Religion of the Empire They ever used their Power to revenge their Sufferings that they ever put either Jew or Heathen to Death because they would not renounce their Religion The Kingdom of Satan and of Antichrist have still been planted and watered in Blood and Crueltv As Nebrchadnezzar once dealt with those who would not Worship his Golden Gods so did the Heathen Emperors with the Primitive Christians Eusch An. 403. in a long Series of most merciless Persecutions So did the King of Persia with Abdas the Bishop who had overturned his Idol-Temples So do the Turks at this Day with all the Opposers of their Superstition And it is sad to relate the Barbarous Cruelties of some professed Christians towards others really and truly such how bloody the Rage of the Arrians was against the Catholicks Athan. Ep. ad sol vit agentes as likewise that of the Donatists and Circumcellians in St. Angustine that of the Eutichians in the second Council of Ephesus called Ephesinum Latrocinium who murdered Flavianus Arch-Bishop of Constantinople To come nearer home I shall name no more here but that of our zealous Regicides which ought to be to us this day and will be to succeeding Ages for a Lamentation These were the bloody ways of Heathens and Hereticks But no Histories do tell us That true Catholicks did ever practise or approve of such Methods of maintaining or propagating Religion The Pseudo-Roman-Catholicks indeed are upon infamous Record for their inhumane Cruelties in the defence of their Churches Errors and Vsurpations which speaks the Pope the Successor of Romulus who made his way by Blood rather than of St. Peter who drew his Sword but once in his Master's Quarrel and was severely checked by him for so doing When the War begun by the Christians on the Turks and Saracens was turned upon the Albigenses by the Popes of Rome Dr. Heylin's Parable of the Tares and that the Cruciata was proclaimed against those poor Souls only because they differed in some Points of Doctrine from the Opinions of that Church how many hundred thousands of well meaning Men who made a Conscience of their ways and erred not if they erred at all out of Pride but Ignorance fell a Sacrifice to the Roman Furies Thuanus their own Historian reports that Pope Paul the third Anno 1559. among other Exhortations which upon his Death-Bed he delivered to his Cardinals did lastly wish them to uphold the Office of the Inquisition quo uno sacro-sactam authoritatem niti affirmabant whereby the Authority of the See of Rome is chiefly supported Charles the ninth with the French Papists never acted any thing with more Satisfaction to his Holiness than that Tragedy in Paris and other Cities where so many thousand Hugonots were most treacherously and barbarously slaughtered The Savage Irish never thought their Hands and Weapons better employed than in butchering the Protestants and this not more from the fierceness of their Natures than from the bloody Principles of their Religion And in our own Nation how many suffered Death under King Henry the 8th and in Queen Mary's his bloody Daughter's Days for their most reasonable Unbelief of Transubstantiation I have not now time to bring to your remembrance the many Conspiracies of the Jesuites against and Attempts upon the Life of our blessed Queen Elizabeth by Parry Babington Stafford Lopez Squire c. Nor to present you with the horrid Circumstances of their Powder Treason against King James her peaceful Successour all the Royal Family with the Flower of Church and State in a Parliament Assembly But I wish we would take special notice by reason of the seasonableness of the reflection of their treasonable Designs and Actings against that incomparable Prince Charles the First this Days Martyr How they plotted against his Life and Arch-Bishop Laud's as hath formerly and of late been sufficiently discovered how they blowed the Coales of the late unnatural and destructive War how in their Consults they voted that King's Death as much conducing to the Interest of the Catholick Cause as they call theirs and how they assisted and directed Instruments whereby that Hellish Enterprize for which we and the whole Nation mourn this day was accomplished and how they triumphed thereupon all this is notoriously known The first Rebellion began in Scotland See the Apology in behalf of the Papists answer in behalf of the Royalists p. 12. London 1667. where the Design of it was laid by Cardinal Richlieu his Majesties irreconcileable Enemy Then it brake out in Ireland where it was blessed with his Holiness's Letters and assisted by his Nuncio whom he sent purposely to attend the Fire there Lastly in England as hath been intimated it is manifest their Agents did their parts there to unsettle the People and gave them needless occasions of Jealousie which the vigilant Phanaticks made use of to involve us all in War and Confusion Both in England and Scotland the special Tools they wrought with were borrowed out of the Shops of the Romans It was our Royal Martyr's own Observation Large Declaration concerning the Tumults in Scotland p. 3. That their Maximes were the same with the Jesuites their Preachers Sermons were delievered in the very Phrase of Becanus Sciopius and Eudaemon Johannes their poor Arguments printed or written in their seditious Pamphlets were taken almost verbatim out of Bellarmin or Suarez and afterwards we have heard how they carried on and compleated the bloody Tragedy by Popish Influence and Instigation Hath the Clemency and Indulgence of his Majesty who now is and whom God long preserve any ways asswaged their Malice and turned their Hearts to better Purposes Their late deep and dreadful Conspiracy against the sacred Life of so good and Gracious a Prince and the whole body of his Protestant Subjects returns a loud Negative to the Question and gives us too sad and sensible an Assurance that their Feet are still swift to shed Blood that Destruction and Misery are in their ways and the ways of Peace have they not known And I would there was no just cause of Fear that they are working our Ruine again by the very Instruments they used so successfully heretofore and that some of those that give us the loudest Alarms of the Romans coming to take