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A62951	Innocency no shield against envy A sermon preached on Friday, April 11. being the fast-day appointed by the Kings proclamation to seek reconciliation with God, &c. By George Topham, rector of Boston in Lincolnshire. Perused and approved of by the right Reverend father in God, Thomas, Lord Bishop of Lincoln.	Topham, George, d. 1694.	1679 (1679)	Wing T1906; ESTC R220703	23,634	40

acknowledgments Yet these must be cried up for the Vertuoso's the Wits of the Age. It is strange it was not so thought of old and let who will admire them David sets a Fools Cap upon their heads Psal xiv 1. The fool hath said in his heart there is no God that is as the word there signifies no Judge no Providence and I hope you will not think the term uncivil it is not mine but his And would they but have recourse to their own Consciences consult those indeleble Letters there engraven and never to be rased out they must however puft up with pride and aiming to be singular and different in Paradoxism from all the world acknowledge that there is a good providence over them that orders all the Affairs of the world from the least to the greatest from Crowns and Scepters to the falling of a Sparrow on the ground and the very numbring of their hairs and joyn with holy David and say Vnto thee O my strength will I sing For thou O God art my refuge and my merciful God Having taken a view of Davids Innocency and the malice of his Enemies together with Gods delivering of him and his thankfulness Let me now beg your patience and attention to see how our gracious King runs parallel not only with him in his dangers but in his deliverances too And first as David having been oft delivered not only from the private designs of his Enemies but when their Rebellion was grown to that height and power as to force him from his Throne was brought back again by the powerful arm of Heaven had good reason to stile the Almighty not only God but his God So surely no Prince since Adams Creation ever had greater proofs of an Omnipotent Protection than our now mest gracious Sovereign How diligent how vigilant was Heaven in the securing of him when our Nation was in a flame of Rebellion from his Enemies who prized his destruction more than their own preservation And had not a more than ordinary Providence provided for his escape how had his Royal bloud been sacrificed as an Allay to their unheard-of Cruelty But above all that of his miraculous Restauration when his Adversaries thought themselves in secure possession when Church and State Religion and Learning Laws and Liberty were not only in danger but already devoured in the hope and expectation of his Enemies when Atheism and Ignorance were in a full and fierce torrent breaking in upon his Dominions and we his Subjects at the very brink of a remediless Confusion fit Objects either for the pity or the scorn of the World as they stood affected to us then even then when nothing but faith and that of the taller sort too could see any appearance of him did Heaven to the wonder and amazement of the world place him on the Throne of his Fathers All which may justly intitle him when in danger as well as David to say Deliver me O my God for lo they lie waiting for my Soul Now for Policy the next Parallel his Majesties Enemies that lie waiting for his Soul clearly out-vie and out-do King Davids Alas they in those more early days of Impiety were never acquainted with such contrivances and stratagems as the old Gentleman of Rome by his Agents the Jesuits teaches his Creatures in these of ours Who put on all the formalities of Religion and merit when they intend to murther Making good that Prediction of our ever blessed Saviour They shall kill you and think they do God good service And have they not turned their Pens into Pen-knives multiplied the School into a Camp Arguments to Armies teaching all their Proselytes dismal Conclusions Indeed what mask do they not make use of to destroy and promote faction Observing that Maxim of their old Roman Masters Divide impera and to this end have they not been nay are they not Presbyterians Anabaptists Libertines Pagans any thing so they be not Subjects Most if not all the storms that have been raised in Christendom since Charlemains time are owing to the Pope and his Ministers And I hope it will be no digression for the King of England never dies to let you see how industrious they have been in all Ages to bring this Nation under the Romish slavery ten times worse than that of Egypt And though our Kings have been more kind and generous Vassals than any of their Neighbours though they were as obedient Sons as any that ever owned St. Peters Keys as liberal in their erecting and endowing Churches and Monasteries as any Princes in the world as the many stately and magnificent Structures before the hammers of their own impieties rung their passing-knels in each corner of the Land did and their ruines still do sufficiently witness yet none have been so ungratefully requited as they No Crown suffered so much ignominy and bondage under the Tyranny of the Roman Prelate as this of England For no sooner had the munificent Monarchs of this Nation built so many famous Fabricks but the Pope claimed the investing and Collating of them Not that the Church might be better provided for but that by Bribery and Simony he might enrich his Treasury of which though many instances might be given let that of Walter Gray set down by a Monk of their own speak for all the rest Matth. Paris in Johan p. 263. who for his investiture at Rome obliged himself to pay to the Pope ten thousand pounds sterling in those days enough for a Kings Ransom This was the end for which the Pope had used so many Policies taking the advantage of the necessities of Kings and their rebellious Subjects This was it for which so much bloud had been shed for which above an hundred set Battels were fought since Gregory VII This was it for which those that suffered in the Popes claim for it were stiled Martyrs put into the List of Saints and were sure to do Miracles after their death This was it which made Vrban the Second espouse the Interest of Anselm who was fled from his own Prince William Rufus and liking the prudence of that Fugitive made use of his Counsel and gave him the Archbishops Pall thereby voiding the Investiture he had received from the King his Master and obliging him with the gift of that he had nothing to do with to a dependency on him And what disturbances followed both to King and State Matth. Paris in Guliel Rufo the above-cited Monk has largely set down Neither did this quarrel die with Vrban and King William for no sooner had Henry the First of that name ascended the Throne and Paschal the Second seated himself in St. Peters Chair but he justified as well as his Predecessor the Archbishop in his Rebellion against his Sovereign and sends him a Mandate to declare that no Lay man should have power to confer any Investiture Upon which this Bishop devoted to the Roman Interest began to degrade his Brethren promoted by the

his addresses to the Empress that the Emperour would be pleased to command a Synod to be celebrated in Italy and though he did it by all the ways of humility could not obtain it The next is Pope Pelagius the First who asserted that by holy Scripture then adjusted as the rule of faith and manners they were commanded to be subject to Kings The third is Pope Adrian the first who devoted himself to the Emperour by Letters as one in supplication fallen down prostrate at the soles of his feet That base submission of Princes kissing the Popes Toe being not then known to the world It was a thousand years after Christ before St. Peters temporal Sword was found unsheath'd and flourished to fright Kings out of their Authority and Power and what horrid means have they used it having laid rusting so long to make it bright deluding and inebriating the people with false opinions perswading them to drink down Poyson instead of wholsom Doctrine to break the most manifest and positive Laws of God at the Popes command How strongly do the Precepts of the Almighty bind us to an obedience to all that are in Authority and Power How has he hedged in Regality saying Touch not mine Anointed That one would think nothing could be more safe Yet alas how has this wild Boar out of the Fofrest broke down all those Fences Telling his Devotaries that he hath power to absolve them from all their Oaths of Allegiance to their King the Lords Anointed and declaring they ought rather to obey him than God That it is no matter nay though St. Peter himself gave it in charge and that for Conscience sake as acceptable to heaven 1 Pet. ii 17. not only to fear God but to honour the King Thereby plainly intimating that it is impossible to be true Servants to God without being Loyal Subjects to the King so long as he says Rebel against Princes who will not own my Supremacy and for Conscience sake though contrary to Religion and common honesty work Treasons Insurrections Massacres and what not for that is acceptable to God What new incredible abominable Doctrine is this That firing Cities Treasons Rebellions dethroning of Princes adjudging their Kingdoms to strangers filling the World with Perjuries Wars Invasions bringing in a Chaos of Confusion and the face of Hell into the Christian world should be meritorious a work of Piety and Religion Yet is not this preached up by the Jesuits espoused and faithfully believed and practised by the Romanists Could the Martyrs of his Holiness speak to us from their Ashes under the Gallows how would they tell us that what they did was in obedience to the Father of their Faith the Pope whose Mandate did instruct and encourage them to do it upon him then upon that your unwearied enemy lay the greatest burden of the infamy Look to shield your heads from the designs of the living and leave the dead in the hands of Gods Justice For be assured that though we are cut off he will not want some Sons as blindly zealous as we were who for the hopes of a Canonization will refuse the executing of no Treason though never so horrid never so bloudy nay though against Princes by whom they have been never so much obliged And that this is their Creed and Practice was there ever a more clear demonstration to the world than in this damnable Piot against his Sacred Majesty which Heaven in despite of all their seeret contrivances has been pleased to lay open to their shame if they be capable of any and our comfort Which brings me to the last particular proposed by way of Parallel Davids resolution to praise God for delivering of him Now in this as well as in the rest our King is resolved not to be behind King David having commanded to blow the Trumpet in Zion and sanctifie a Fast a Trumpet worthy of Royal breath having set this day apart to bless God for his mercies already bestowed and by an early and timely repentance in and through the bloud of the ever blessed Jesus to engage a further continuance of them Never was it never can it be more seasonable than now Now when our God has done so great things for his Anointed delivering from his enemies whose Malice is not to be defeated and whose secret Combinations are not to be discovered but by his goodness who never slumbers nor sleeps in our prefervation Ask from East to West consult the days of old and see if ever God has appeared more visibly for any Nation than this of ours How did he scatter that daring Armado in Eighty Eight not only to the wonder of our Allies but to the Amazement of our Enemies which made some of them though blasphemously say That God himself was turned Lutheran whose prodigious weight seemed to make the very Waves groan with its insupportable burden How did he in the days of King James lay open those Penetralia mortis those inward Chambers and recesses of death Their secresie made them confident engaging their Agents with all that is looked upon as Sacred Religion Oath and Sacrament not to reveal it eating their God upon a bargain of bloud How did he when they by raising those late uncivil Civil Wars and dissensions among us hoped to have made us fallen by our own Swords make us happy in his Majesties return And to endear our gratitude how is he resolved as it is evident by the discovery of this late most detestable Conspiracy still to defend maugre all their envy and malice the Great Defender of the Faith So that if we have not absolutely taken leave of our Understandings if our spirits be not quite besotted we must say with holy David What shall we return unto the Lord for all his benefits done unto us What indeed O God! for delivering us from a Religion that contrary to all thy Precepts in the Old and the Doctrine and Example of thy Son in the New Testament commands us to Worship Images Adore Reliques Invoke Saints Sacrifice for the sins of the living and the dead hold a Purgatory as if the bloud of the ever blessed Jesus was not able to do it for the cleansing of Souls tread down thy Viceroys from their Thrones and set up an usurping Prelate who by the consent of all Ages has been acknowledged a Vassal to Princes in short from a Religion that would take away the Scriptures those Sacred Legacies of thine to the Sons of men and wrap up our Consciences in the livery of an unknown Language that licenses Stews condemns Marriage sells Pardons and Canonizes Traitors So that surely were there nothing but this it were enough for ever to oblige our thankfulness Yet besides for ever to engage us to thy service how hast thou chosen us out of all the Earth and divided us from the rest of the World that we might be a singular Pattern and strange wonder of thy bounty How hast thou fenced us about