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A90061	The craft and cruelty of the churches adversaries, discovered in a sermon preached at St. Margarets in Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament. Novemb. 5, 1642. By Mathew Newcomen, minister of the Gospell at Dedham in Essex. Published by order of the House of Commons.	Newcomen, Matthew, 1610?-1669.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1643 (1643)	Wing N907; Thomason E128_1; ESTC R18223	52,376	80

wife Theodora addicted to the heresie of Eutyches did no lesse foster encourage promote and reward the teachers maintainers of that heresie than the Emperor did the true orthodox professors yea prevailed so farr with her husband as to make Severus a chief leader of the Eutychian faction Bishop of Constantinople Thirdly By this meanes not only the present age but posterity is indammaged For put case the unbelieving party doth survice there is danger least the children specially if young should by the authority of an Idolatrous father or rhe perswasion of an Idolatrous mother to be drawn away from the true Religion An instance of this we have in Valentinian the younger whose father dying and leaving him in the tutelage of Justina his mother who was an Arrian though all the time of her husbands life shee had concealed ir Socr. 5.2 Theod. 5.13.14 Sozom. 7.13 knowing her husbands zeale for the Orthodox Religion she taking the advantage of her husbands death and the tender and flexible age of her son to advance the Arrian faction easily corrupted him that he was scarse warme in his throne but he falls a persecuting the true Religion These and many other inconveniences have bin observed to attend such kinde of mixtures betweene the Church and their adversaries which the adversaries are not ignorant of and that is the reason sometimes they are so willing to offer their daughters in marriage to the members of the church 1 Sam. 18.21 but it is onely as Saul gave Michal unto David that she might be a snare unto him Third The third Art whereby the adversaries of the church have endeavoured the ruine and over throw of Religon is by covering their intent to alter religion with a pretence of publick emollument So Jeroboam to cover his Idolatrous projects pretends the peoples ease It is too much for you to goe up to Jerusalem 1 King 12.28 a great journey a great charge you may serve God nearer and better cheape at Dan and Bethell as if he meant not to alter Religion but only to let them have it with more ease and bettex accommodation Like that of some of late time For people to heare two Sermons a day it is too much one well heard and remembred is enough For young folke to be kept from sports on the Lords Day it is too much It is too much for you to goe up worship at Ierusalem The like pretence was sometimes used to Theodosius justly called Great who having abolished in Egypt their Heathenish sacrifices and forbid their Idolatrous worship upon paine of consiscation and death the people fearing the omission of their accustomed superstitions would make the River Nilus whom they honoured as a God keep in his streames and not water their land as in former yeares began to mutinie and things tended to sedition whereupon the President of the Countrey wrote to the Emperour beseeching him for once to please the people by conniving at their Idolatry To whom he answered It is better to continue faithfull and constant unto God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Soz. 7.20 then to preferre the overflowing of Nilus and the fruitfullnesse of the earth before piety and godlinesse Nay I had rather Nilus should never flow then to have it raised by sacrifices and inchantments A brave resolution and becomming a true Christian Prince Let people be pleased or displeased come losse come gaine let truth and godlinesse be maintained A fourth fraud or art whereby they endeavour to supplant the Church is By counterfeiting a friendly compliance with the Church of God as if they meant to help and farther the businesses thereof when in truth they intend nothing but to overthrow and hinder all So the Adversaries Esra 4. When the people of God were about rebuilding the Temple the Adversaries came and offered to joyne with them vers the second Let us build with you for we seek your God as you doe When they intended nothing more then to betray them This was the great art of the Adversaries in the Apostles dayes when many false bretheren joyned themselves to the Church Galat. 2. meerely to spy out their liberty and many false Apostles that seemed to preach Christ with abundance of zeale and forwardnesse but it was only that they might withdraw Disciples from the true Doctrine and Apostles of the Lord Iesus and fill the Church with rents and schismes as they did the Church of Corinth Thus the Arrians would often counterfeit themselves Orthodox men and mingle themselves with Orthodox professers that they might with lesse suspition sp●ead the poison of their errors That good Prince Constantine the Great was much abused by that Generation in this kind his great admirer Euschius confesseth he retained neare him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Euseb de vita Constantin 4.54 Sceleratos Nebulenes qui simulaverunt Religionem Christeanam Specially one potorious one who had bin Chaptain to the Emperours Sister and by her dying was commended to the Emperour and received into his Family and though all the time of Constantine the great he kept his poison hid yet no sooner was he dead but he began to play his pranks First inveigling the chiefe Gentlemen of the Emperours bed chamber then some of the rest after these the Empresse and soon after the Emperour himselfe winning them all to the Arrian heresy who if in Constantines time he had not complyed with the Orthodox party he had never had the accesse to Constantine and so never this opporrunity of spreading that heresie This is a trick not unusuall with Rome I have heard that the Jesuites have a practise of running over to the Lutheran Church I find a passage in Frantrius that may give some credit unto this Oracula Sacra 129. p. 842. pretending to be converts and to build with them but it is only to keep up that bitter contention that is between the Calvinists and the Lutherans the virulency whereof is much fomented by these r●negado Iesuits The first way is To ingratiate themselves to Kings and Princes with much officiousnesse and pretended care of their profit and honour that so being potent with the Potentates of the earth they may have the more power to doe the Church a mischiefe So the Adversaries of the Iews pretended that in duty and conscience they could doe no lesse then complaine of the Iewes to King Artaxerses Ezra 4.14 Now because we have maintenance from the Kings pallace and it was not meet for us to see the King dishonoured we have sent and certified the King Wretches that cared no more for the Kings honour then a straw only pretend this that they might the more easily draw out the Kings power for the suppressing of the Church So Haman Esth 3.8 seemed to mind only the Kings profit when his mind is only set upon the Iewes destruction It is not for the Kings profit to suffer them So the Iewes themselves in prosecuting and murdering the Lord Christ pretend

of great persons If any begun to tartle or be troubled at the matter what was their present answer My Lord Bishop doth thus and thus and my Lords Grace of Canterbury doth thus and thus The Knights of the most noble order of the Garter bow Versus Altare A C. Speech in the Starre-Chamber p 47 towards the Altar at their installement His Majesties Chappell is thus and thus adorned By these the like pretences casting a mist before the peoples eyes that some did not others durst not see any thing tending towards the altering of Religion Our adversaries said they shall neither know nor see His third Rule His third Rule is this That arch Heretickes and such as are teachers of Heresie must be banished the Common wealth at once if it may safely bee done but if not by degrees It is easie to know who are the Iesuites Arch-Heretickes the most active orthodoxe Protestants For the rooting out of such the Iesuite prescribes a method of twelve or thirteene steppes Cout Pol. lib. 2● c. 18. §. 6. For which though well worth the relating I referre you to his book least this discourse should swell to much Only in summe Let me shew you how their operation hath beene according to this Rule The Arch-Heretickes and Teachers of heresie in England have beene counted the Puritan Preachers though they teach nothing but consonant to Scripture and the publike Doctrine of the Church yet they are the teachers of heresie and being too many to root out 〈◊〉 once it must be done by degrees that it may effected with more ease and lesse noise and therefore First east all those out of the ministery that will not be punctuall and full conformists to the old Ceremonies Next because there were a company of conformable Puritans as themselves stiled them they procure an edict for recreations upon the Lords Day and this must be published by Ministers that such as could stand under the ceremonies though groaning for the burden might fall and be broken in pe●ces under this And yet because some men suspected of Puritanisme might have a latitude here bey ond their brethren They have a third engine ●nd that is injoyning new Ceremonies and adorations that if any could swallow the book yet they might discover cast them out by straining here To this they adde a fourth Prayers and Proclamations to be read against our brethren the Scotts And their last and greatest engine which was like the powder plot against the godly ministery of the nation to blow up the reliques of them at once was the oath for Episcopacie By these successive stratagems they made account utterly to extirpate those Arch-Hereticks As it was somtimes said to Elijah 1 King 19. Him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Iehu slay-and him that escapeth the sword of Iehu shall Elisha slay So had they said Him that escapeth the dint of the Ceremonies shal the book of sports slay and him that escapeth the book of sports shall the new injunctions slay and him that escapeth the new injunctions shall the proclamations slay and him that escapeth the proclamations shal the oath slay And this by degrees and pauses that they shall neither know nor see till we slay them and cause the work to cease His fourth Rule The fourth rule is this That those which are adversaries to the true Religion which with him is Popery be put by their dignities places offices I think none here is such a stranger in England but from his own knowledg can wi●nesse this The bestowing of all offices the collating of benefices the election of Masters and fellowes of Colledges in both Vniversities who had the over-ruling hand in them all the power of mandamus but Canterbury and his faction And whom were they conferred upon Vsually Men infamous for and a So Leontius Bishop of Antioch a dissembling concealed Arrian was observed to disrespect all Orthodox men and preferr no one in the Church but such as enclined to Arrianisme 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Theod. 2 24. Quis enim non facilè Pruitanos in Anglia redig●● in Or ●inem si Episco●or m approbationem ab tis ex torqueat Contz vbisupra paragrap 9 impudent in Arminian and Popish opinions Protested Arminianisme and bold faced Popery the only speedy unerring way to Church preferment His fifth rule is To make the Protestant Religion odious by laying load upon such tenents as are most subject to harshest constructions In this our adversaries have not bin sparing Quot plaustra convitiorum have they poured out upon some doctrines of our Religion specialy the points of grace The pulpits of Italy and Rome never spitt more gall and venome against the doctrines of Election free grace justification by faith perseverance c. nor never sweat more to exaggerate the seeming absurdities which carnall men would draw from them then some of ours have done His sixth rule is To foment the quarells that are among the Protestants and strengthen that party that is nearest compliance with Rome And here the wretch hath the unhappines to prescribe one thing as the proper meanes of Englands cure For who saith he might not easily reduce the Puritans of England into order you know what the Iesuits reducing into order is if he could extort from them an approbation of the Bishops And had they not attempted and almost effected this They had made us their slaves before and were they not about to make us swear we would be so for ever Certainly though nothing but Episcopacy floated in the surface of that ●ath yet Popery was in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the c. of it o● reducing the Puritans of England into order sensu Pontificio His seventh rule His seventh is this That all private Conventiles and publick meetings must be forbidden For private Conventicles you all know that to meet together to pray or to conferre which with them was a Conventicle was Peccatum irremissible A man might at a better rate almost answer any thing then such a meeting For publick meetings The ancient laudable exercising of prophecying I mean not in that sence the word is lately taken for private spirits to interpret Scripture but prophecying by men in office peculiarly gifted and called to that work these are banished The publick and most frequentod lectures blasted Publick fastes by consent of Ministers which had of long time bin used in many parts of the Kingdome were become piacular A sermon at next Church the forbidden fruit when they had none at home or worse then non Our adversaries have bin but too diligent to suppress not only private Cōventicles but publick Assembl His eighth rule The eighth meanes is By severity of Lawes and punishments to compell the obstinate unto duty and yet the rigour of the Law must be slowly drawn out and not against all but only such as be most dangerous Now what severity not only Ad summum