the child of the Devill then themselves Let them not come with their lives in their hands with the hazard of their bloud to pervert them committed to our charge and our selves sit silent but let us lift up our voyces in season and out of season And let them know there are Prophets among them and if the people will not be charmed send them to God with this Inscription on their foreheads Noluerunt incantari They will not be charmed Let us to our power save our owne soules and them that heare us Lastly you the people of God stand fast to the Gospell if an Angell from Heaven preach any other Doctine let him be accursed O search the Scripture throughly It was the speech of a dying Archbishop of this Province one of the last that ever he spoke to his Chaplein I have said much and writ much and read much and preacht much Yet in all the booke of God I doe not finde the least ground for Popery Saint Paul withstood Peter to his face and gave him no place no not for an houre O withstand Peter of Rome who can challenge nothing of Peters but that title which Christ once gave him Sathan and that fact in denying his Master I say withstand him to his face and give him not place no not for an houre I can never sufficiently admire and wonder at the speech of blessed Luther who though he was very earnest to have the Communion administred in both kinds contrary to the Doctrine and custome of the Church of Rome yet he professes if the Pope as Pope commanded him to receive in both kindes he would but receive in one kind It s a generall rule among the best that what the Pope commands as Pope though it bee good or indifferent as to pray to read to lift up an eye a hand to weare blacke or white a lace a modell to drop a Bead as the Pope commanding it It is a receiving the marke of the beast a yeelding our selves the Vassalls of Sathan and an Implicite denying the faith of Christ So extremely venimous is the poyson that lyes at the root of that fundamentall heresie which they have layed at the very Rocke and foundation of their faith so dangerous and pernitious it is to hearken to the Pope The renowned Martyrs in Queene Maries days would show no reverence to the commissioners from the Pope and let mee tell you there are many things in the Church of Rome that may be that are decent to be used in the Church of God some things there are at this day in practise in the Church of Rome that were in use in that Church when it was not Antichristian in the times of the Primitive Bishops and blessed Martyrs Some things used that are not yet commanded by the Pope as Pope what ever we use with the Church of Rome we use it as commanded by another power not because commanded by the Pope so that what we doe is to bee accounted an Act of obedience what they doe is to bee condemned because commanded by the Pope be wise as Serpents Innocent as Doves rightly distinguish of times places and persons so shall you not endanger your own soules nor disobey them that are over you nor scandall them that live with you Lastly must we stand fast Let us give thanks to our Lord God that we stood fast to this day It is very meet and our duty that wee should at all times and in all places give thankes to thee ô Lord holy father but chiefely for the deliverance of this day from that unparallell'd matchlesse damnable Gunpowder Treason Therfore with Angels and Archangels and all the glorious company of heaven we laud and magnifie the name of God and say Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabboth glory be to God on high O all ye works of the Lord praise ye the Lord blesse him and magnifie him for ever O all yee Angels of the Lord blesse yee the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O all yee Children of men blesse yee the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O all yee Priests of the Lord blesse ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O all yee servants of the Lord blesse yee the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O all yee Kings and Emperors all people and Princes all Iudges young men and maides old men and babes praise yee the name of the Lord for his name is only excellent his glory is above the Earth and Heaven hee hath exalted the Horne of his people the praise of all his Saints even the people of England a people neere unto him praise the Lord Happie are we who are like unto us saved by the Lord the shield of our helpe and the sword of our excellency The eternall God is our Refuge and underneath him are the everlasting Armes he hath saved us and if wee trust in him hee will save us from this time forth and for evermore blessed be the God of our salvation and let all the People say Amen FINIS The third SERMON GEN 49. 5 6. and 7. verses Simeon and Levi are Brethren Instruments of cruelty are in their habitations O my soule come not thou into their secret into their assembly mine honour be not thou united for in their anger they slew a man and in their selfe will they digg'd a wall cursed bee their anger for it was fierce and their wrath for it was cruell I will divide them in Iacob and scatter them in Israel THis Chapter containes the last Will and Testament of the Patriarch Iacob made on his death bed and it consists of two parts First the Legacy and portion that he bequeathes to his children Secondly his care concerning his buriall together with the manner of his death My Text is part of the first part and contains that part and portion that appertaines to Simeon and Levi wherin be pleased to consider with me two generalls First their sinne Secondly their censure Their sinne in the fifth and part of the sixth verses Their censure in part of the sixth and seaventh verses Their sinne was murder amplified and aggravated First by their mutuall consent and agreement in sinne Simeon and Levi are brethren Iunius saith on the Text Iacob doth not call them brethren because they were so in nature but because they were brethren in the murder Secondly their sinne is aggravated and amplified from the manner of their acting and perpetrating it they did it wilfully revengefully in their anger they slew a man in their selfe-will they digg'd a wall Thirdly from the extension the measure and degree their anger was fierce their wrath was cruell Their censure that also is aggravated First by the person that adjudgeth them it was their father Secondly from the circumstance of time when he did it when he was on his death bed Thirdly from the manner how he did it First with indignation and detestation denying any further protection to
Three Sermons preacheâ— at the Collegiate Church in MANCHESTER The first on Psal. 122. ver. 6. Iuly 8. 1640. the publike Fast day Shewing the misery of Warre with our feares and hopes and meanes of Prevention The second on 2 Thes. 2.15 November 5. 1638. Discovering the Man of sinne with his delusions abominations and desolations The third on Genesis 49. ver. 5.6 7. November 5. 1639. Laying open the Perjuries Treacheries Treasons the Murthers Massacres Cruelties of Rome-Christian By Richard Heyricke VVarden of the said COLLEDGE LONDON Printed by T. B. for L. Fawne and are to be sold at the signe of the Parat in Pauls Church-Yard 1641. TO THE RIGHT Honourable the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament now ASSEMBLED VEspatian the Emperor sent to ELVIDIUS PRISCUS a Senator of ROME charging him not to appeare in the Senate If hee did to speake no otherwise then what he would have him to whom he returnd As a Senator it was fit he should be there and being there hee would freely speak his conscience The Emperor replyed if he did he should dye for it He answered hee never said he was immortall doe what you will J will doe what J ought Jt is in your power unjustly to put mee to death It is in my power to dye constantly It is your Royall priviledge Your persons are under his Majesties sacred protection your liberty of speaking granted to be without interruption Awake your glory doe yee your selves awake right early Let your hearts be fixed fixed in the Lord as the Poles of Heaven and the center of the earth Let Righteousnesse bee your Parliament Robes let Iudgment be your Crown and Diadem let causes at your great Tribunall hee heard to speake not persons That the blessing of three perishing Kingdomes may come upon you I was but lately Remov'd into these parts and one of speciall note forewarnd me I should be Crucified as CHRIST was betwixt two Theeves The Papist the Puritan The Papist like the Rayling and Blaspheming Theefe soone discovered himselfe They swarme and are terrible the shew of their countenance witnesseth against them Like destruction they shew themselves at Noone-Day The Puritan if it bee not onely a name without an existence is worthy your wisdome to tell us who he is It may be for feare of crucifying with the good Theefe he is stollen into Paradise the name is of Vast and amongst many of Odious signification Papists doe charge the Church of England with the heresie of Puritanisme King Iames by Bellarmine metamorphosed into his Chaplaine was said to bee a Puritan The English Parliament is called a Puritanicall Parliament The Vniversity of Oxford the strength of Puritanisme Bristow speakes out All Protestants in ENGLAND are Puritans Protestants at large such as are Ambitious of the credit not of the truth of their holy profession Heathens in lives Christians in faith They reproach civill morall Jnfidels with that name They Pharisaicall Professors They powerfull CHRISTIANS Yea of late I have also heard them much branded with the name that would not yeeld up their Soules and their Consciences to the Chaire of Bishops with their estates Liberties and Lives to the will of their Superiors The name is very large and very reproachfull A Bishop affirm'd he could as easily fetch one off from the guilt of Felony as from the imputation of Puritanisme My humble motion is make us all Puritans or to leave no Puritan amongst us There are wals of partition when those that were of GODS Institution became enmity Eph. 2.14 CHRIST layd them as flat as the Walls of Iericho with Iericho's curse upon them Bee pleased to batter down these Wals lay the Canons in the face of them and JERVSALEMS curse upon them Let not one stone be left upon another At the first of the Reformation they were though not necessary yet lawfull our Reformers were modest and moderate They would not unnecessarily offend the weake Romanist GOD had a People amongst them the waters of BABYLON were ebbing But now since the Sea of ROME like the waters of JORDAN begin to swell and overflow the Bankes since the great River TIBER flowes apace since the Papists are emboldned and hardned in their Idolatrie and Superstition since the strong as well as the weake Protestant are grieved and vexed with them and there are indeed too many false Apostles that earnestly contend for them and with a strong and mightie hand obtrude them upon us Take unto your selves the Zeale of Our LORD and SAVIOUR The Evangelist records hee twice purged the Temple The multitude of offenders the might and malice of the observers the danger of the action nor the perill of the consequence staies his hand The King of Scythia slew Anacharsis the Philosopher for the worshipping the mother of the GODS after the Athenian manner If the Plague of Leprosie could not bee clensed by taking away a few stones out of the house but the Leprosie would returne againe then the house the Timber the Morter must down when Ceremonies become scandalous they are to be abolished These Sermons sute well with two of the greatest workes the Kingdome expects from you They breath enmitie to Rome Peace amongst our selves Preached when the times ranne Counter to both The man of sinne of late yeares hath reviv'd amongst us it may bee a lightening before death Popery hath multiplyed abundantly In Lancashire it hath superabounded above an Hyperbole The Masse hath out-faced our Christian meetings Iesuites have jeered our Ministers confronted and abused authoritie MANCHESTER the Goshen accounted in this Egypt is of late yeares darkned with the blacknesse of it some of our prime men in dignitie authority power have revolted to them Their example commands many Great men have their followers of their Vices as of their persons and when they please to bee Idolatrous their children servants tenants their poore kinred and Jdolizing Neighbours will to the Masse with them One speciall cause of this encrease of Popery is the vastnesse and the greatnesse of many Parishes prefer'd to the trust of such that adde Church unto Church themselves residing at neither or if they are with their people they are non resident in the midst of them yea too often when they are in the Pulpit These Mother-Churches have many daughters seaven eight nine CHAPPELS subject to them to which belongs no certaine or no competent maintenance Hence ignorance and prophanenesse desolate places full of dolefull Creatures Ziim and Ochim King Iames in his piety and wisdom appointed 4. Lancashire Preachers to perfect his work Let every Golden Candlestick have his Lamp burning and shining in it devils could not stand before the Gospell therefore Popery shall be consumed by it J had served in these parts the same time that PAUL did at Athens and my spirit was troubled to heare and see the superstition Hence I ventred with danger enough to preach these Sermons may they strengthen your
a time of peace there was no instrument of Iron no toole of the work-man heard in the rearing of it Christ the Prince of peace his Disciples the children of peace quiet fishermen not hollowing hunters and whooping Faulkoners may the Church be as the Temple Ierusalem as the Schoole of Christ a Citie a house of peace take Ierusalem in in the third sence in the largest acception of the word for the whole kingdome of Israel of which Ierusalem was the head Citie and then pray for the peace of Ierusalem for peace in the kingdome pray that there may be no homebred conspiracies none left of the house of Saul to wage warre with the house of David no discontented Sheba to blow the Trumpet of sedition and rebellion no flattering Absalom to steale away the hearts of the Kings people no gallant Adonijah to make a strong partie against Salomon no Achitophel Politician to give pernicious counsell against David pray that there may bee no revolting in the kingdome that neither Edom nor Libnah no kingdome nor Country no Citie nor Towne nor person may fall from their allegiance to the King Pray that there may bee no forraine enemy no Syrian no Assyrian no Egyptian no Roman no Turke no Saracen no Italian no Spaniard no Dutch no French Pray for the peace of Ierusalem for all the kingdomes that pertaine to the King of Ierusalem for all the Countries Cities and Townes in these kingdomes for the Church in the kingdome Pray for the peace of Ierusalem the Citie the Church the kingdome Peace is taken in as large a sence as prosperity it comprehends all blessings in the wombe of it I shall principally take it in the strictest sence and Ierusalem in the largest and then the duty is Pray for the peace of Ierusalem that there may bee no warre in the kingdome Warre is only sweete to them that are ignorant of it Our kingdome hath enjoyed a longer time of peace then some kingdomes have of being Our age hath not beene rowsed with the barking of uncouth-Wolves the midnight drum hath not frighted our sleepes the sounding trumpet hath not deaft our eares our beacons have not beene fired our shippes arrested our walls manned our Townes have not beene ransacked our houses ruined our women ravished our infants dashed against the stones wee have not sowed and the stranger reaped we have not built and the enemy possessed we have not beene confounded with strange languages but peace hath beene within our walls and plenteousnesse within our dwellings Peace the daughter of the Gospell of peace Plentie the daughter of Peace Peace the glory of Heaven the joy of the whole world Pray for the peace of Ierusalem IN the prosecution of which I will shew you the misery of Warre the great danger that wee are in of having warre the hopes that remaine to escape it I begin with the first First consider the misery of warre The sword is one of Gods foure sore Iudgements whereby he layeth waste and maketh desolate the greatest kingdomes And I will appoint over them foure kinds saith the Lord the sword to slay and the dogges to teare and the fowles of the Heaven and the beasts of the earth to devoure and destroy For thus saith the Lord how much more when I send my foure sore Iudgments upon Ierusalem the sword and the famine and the noysome Beast and the Pestilence to cut off from it man and Beast Where you may be pleased to observe the sword is not only one of the foure but the first of the foure the most devouring the most destroying God usually sendeth none of these judgments but when his patience is much wounded when his Royall Indignation is kindled when his Iustice is forced when his mercy hath no more to say God hath a store house a rich treasury a Magazen of judgments there are all Instruments of death and bloud sicknesse to death and sicknesses not to death Agues and Feavours and consumptions and these God usually sends before the destroying Pestilence God hath his Staffe and his Rod his Bow and his Arrowes with these he corrects the sons of men before he drawes his sword his sword furbished and glittering to make a sore destruction Iupiter throwes not at first his dreadfull Thunderbolts The heavens usually grow darke and blacke the clouds gather together the raine falls the lightning breaketh forth the sword the famine the noysome beast and the Pestilence they are in the darkest in the most inward roome of the Castle and Tower which God never opens till he be hard put to it till his lesser judgments are despised see the method of Gods proceedings he will proceed from few to many from lesse to greater he will punish us seaven times more for our sinnes when the foure winds breake loose when any of these foure judgements come then God is angry indeed of these foure judgments the sword the famine the pestilence and noysome beasts the sword is the worst of the foure that which God reserveth till the last as the greatest witnesse of his displeasure and the swiftest messenger for our destruction any one of these foure brings feare and trembling horror and terror palenesse and death if the pestilence which is but Gods Arrow if that bee let off of the string though in any part of the kingdome the Arrow that flyes in the darke that usually poysons most in the darke corners of the land amongst the poorest sort of people yet what a feare it strikes into the body of the whole kingdome if but one Citie be infected what flying out of the Citie what watch and ward what strict examination and doings of all that come from that Citie every one being like Cain afraid of every one that meete them least they should kill them runnagates upon the face of the earth Remember the feare that surprised you when GOD shot this Arrow but into one house of this Towne when it fetched the heart-bloud but from a few what flying what posting away your selves your households my Brethren if the plague bee so terrible what will the sword bee that comes after the plague more fierce more terrible by how much the mercies of man are lesse then the mercies of God yea when the sword comes the rest of these foure Iudgements attend on it The plague may come alone and the famine may come alone and noysome beasts may come alone these oftentimes come before the sword if possible to prevent it but when they cannot doe the work the sword will then contemne the rod set at naught what ever the former judgments have done it will come furbished and sharpened and this blacke guard of pestilence famine noysome beasts will be at the heeles of it The sword layes men dead in the fields it ruines Townes and houses it leaves the fields unplowed unharrowed unsowed hence famine growes grievous that kills whom the sword escapes the noysome stinch of the dead begets plagues that