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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48851	A sermon preached before the House of Lords, on November 5, 1680 by ... William Lord Bishop of St. Asaph.	Lloyd, William, 1627-1717.	1680 (1680)	Wing L2712; ESTC R20309	18,469	46

may judge by their Writings I mean Iohn Huss and Ierom of Prague They had to do with the most sober piece of Popery the Council of Constance which invited them thither to Dispute with them for their Religion But after all their Disputing instead of having leave to return according to their Pass-port that brought them thither they were burned there in the presence of the Emperor from whom they received it And not only that Cruelty but that breach of Publick Faith were owned and justified by the Pope and his General Council I may perhaps have been too large in things so far off and so long since and therefore for the rest of my discourse I shall confine it to England and to things done since the Reformation This Church was freed from thraldom by King Henry the Eighth and was then Reformed in King Edward VI. days with no material difference from what it is now at this present Soon after his death under Queen Mary his Successor it came to have a through feeling of the Spirit of Popery Though she came in with the greatest assurance that she would make no Change in Religion Though she promised it upon her Royal word to those Protestants that brought her to her Crown though they deserved it without a promise by venturing their lives for her against a Protestant that was set up in oppositition Yet she was no sooner setled upon her Throne but the Spirit of Popery quite cancell'd all those Obligations There were none that durst appear for the Protestant Religion but were fain to fly their Countrey to save their lives or stayed and lost them with the cruellest deaths Of the last sort were the Archbishop of Canterbury and divers Bishops and other eminent persons Both they and hundreds more of the Clergy and Commonalty were burnt alive upon no other account but their Religion There was only one Flower here at Westminster that was distracted and wounded a Priest at Mass for which he was burnt among the rest Of all the other that suffered there was no other pretence against any but only upon the account of their Religion Their charge was for not going to Confession or for not going to Mass or for denying Transubstantiation when they were called to it There was nothing else in their Accusation there was nothing else in their Sentence there was nothing else for which they suffered It was meerly for their not submitting to Popery a sufficient proof of the Spirit of that Religion But soon after when the Protestant Religion came in again see what a contrary Spirit appeared on the other side When Queen Elizabeth came to Reign and immediately declared her Religion and Established it in her first Year without any violence from that day forward for ten years together what one Papist was there that suffered death for his Religion Though living in the midst of them whose dearest Friends and Relations they had murdered and though those Protestants could say There goes he that burnt my Father or he that murdered my Brother or that brought them to that cruel Death Though the Queen her self could say who they were that in her Sisters time dealt most insolently and barbarously with her for they had taken away her Attendants and put her under a Guard of Souldiers and carried her Prisoner from place to place and that they had not murdered her too she was beholding to the Spaniard for it Though not so much to his Humanity as his Policy for if she had been dead the Queen of Scotland who had married the Dauphin would have been the next Heir to the Crown But for her life she knew she owed no thanks to those Papists that were now her own Subjects I mean to those of the English Nation yet when she came to be their Queen for ten years she touched not a hair of any of their heads Only she kept them from publick exercise of Popery she required them to come to Church every Lords-day and those that did not she made them pay Twelve pence a Sunday This was all that they suffered for ten years after ours was the Established Religion Was there ever so generous a revenge so much Cruelty requited with so much Clemency After that the Pope by an Authority he gives himself made bold to declare her uncapable to Reign because forsooth she was a Heretick and exhorted all her Subjects to depose her and to murder her by a Bull that he gave out for that purpose This Bull being set up publickly at noon-day by one of her own Subjects and he being taken and hanged for it they had the impudence to call him a Martyr and he stands the first Martyr in their Roll among all them that suffered in her Reign So it was ten years before any of them suffered and then it was for declaring her no Queen and for posting up the Popes Bull to make her Subjects depose her and murder her That Bull had such an effect upon many of her Subjects that they broke out into open Rebellion against her When that failed they betook themselves to private Conspiracie to destroy her any way by Assassination Which was proved time after time as fully and as clearly as ever any thing was proved under the Sun And it was proved that the first movers to it were Popish Priests and especially Jesuites who came over from beyond-Sea for that purpose This obliged her to make Sanguinary Laws to keep them out of the Kingdom which yet were rarely inflicted upon any but those that were found to have actually carried on some design against her life And there were divers Penalties upon them of that Religion to make that uneasie to them which was so dangerous to her and to her Kingdom But in King Iames his time it was almost three years that he had reigned before the Gunpowder-Treason during all which time there was no Papist put to death upon any of those Laws There was no Penalty inflicted upon any of them that could be pretended to be upon the account of Religion But contrariwise they were remitted the arrears of all their Penalties in Queen Elizabeths time nay more than that they were admitted to Court they were employed in Embassies they had Honors conferred upon them as well as others they were debarred from nothing but only the Publick Exercise of their Religion and that was provocation enough to engage them into that hellish Treason which was to have been executed as on this day It was a Treason that shewed the Spirit of that Faction how fierce and implacable it was after so much experience of ours on the contrary It shewed how impossible it was to oblige them how impossible to keep them from doing mischief such a mischief as none other could have invented none but would have abhorred it that had not been possest with the evil spirit of that Religion What! to murder their King that had been so gentle and easie to them to murder the innocent