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A66207	The false-prophets try'd by their fruits being a sermon preached at St. James's Westminister, November Vth 1699, in which it is shewn, that the principles, and practices, of the Church of Rome, with relation to those whom they call hereticks, are not only destructive of civil society, but are utterly irreconcileable with the gospel of Christ / by William Wake ...	Wake, William, 1657-1737.	1700 (1700)	Wing W246; ESTC R39410	20,598	38

was for pawning the Plate of the Chu●ch and coming himself in Person if need were to further it p. 117. Cambd. Eliz. An. 1588. Watson quodlib p. 239 246. Artic. 6 7. And the King of Spain was perswaded by Pope Pius the Fifth to Engage in it But that also miscarrying their private Attempts were again Renewed And still some Priest or Other in every One of them to Encourage and Sanctifie the Assassination It would engage Me in too long a Discourse to speak particularly of the Treasons of Arden See Watson 's Important Considerations c. Reprinted Lond. 1675. 4 o. Bristow makes them all Martyrs 15 Motive p. 72. c. 73. For the Historical Part see Foulis 's Popish Treasons Book 7. c. 5 7. Cambd. Eliz. An. 1595 1598 c. 1602. and Sommerville of Hesket and Lopez of Cullen and York of Squire and Babington Of the Designs of the Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Westmorland and many Others who either by Sword or Poison by private Attempts or Publick Insurrections Endeavoured to deprive Her both of her Crown and Life I will only Observe that what the other Popes had in Vain attempted here in England | Foulis Pop. Treasons Book 9. c. 3. Cambd. Eliz. An. 1578 1579 c. Pope Gregory the xiiith and Clement the viiith no less Encouraged in Ireland By not only abetting the Rebellions which were raised there but Engaging the King of Spain once more to Endeavour her Destruction Whilst the Queen of Scots lived who was a Zealous Papist * Catena Lettere de Pio V. p. 329. the pretence for several of these Attempts then was | See the Papists Apology the Edit with the Answer 1675. p. 23. as their Excuse has been since That she had the Better Title to the Crown of England But that Unfortunate Princess being Gone and Queen Elizabeth now grown Old † Clement VIII See Cambden Eliz. An. 1600 1602. Doleman 's Confer about the next Succession to the Crown Tortur Torti p. 188. c. 197 278. Thuanus l. 135. p. 1205 1214 A. King James 's Apolog. p. 273. Casaubon Epist. ad Front Ducaeum inter Epist. p. 750. Edit 4 o. 1656. Sir Edw. Coke 's Plea Hist Gun-powder Treason 8 o. Lond. 1678. p. 92 c. all possible Endeavours were made by those very Persons with the Pope at their Head to Exclude the Son who would be thought to have had so much Zeal for the Mother In this first Attempt the Jesuits seemed unwilling to Engage But then to do them right See Watson 's Confession Casaub Epist. ad Front Ducaeum p. 752 753. I must observe that it was not out of any Checks of Conscience any dislike they had to such an Enterprize but because they had another Design of their own in hand which it seems was this of the Gun-Powder Conspiracy A Treason of so horrid and dismal a Complexion that the transcendent Cruelty of it not only stagger'd Some of the Conspirators themselves but proved the Happy Means of our Deliverance from it Whilst the desire of One among them to save his friend from that deadly Blow by the Providence of God discovered the whole Design and saved both the King and the Parliament with Him We ought not to wonder if the better to conceal such a Conspiracy as this but | About 20 whereof 5 were Jesuits See Popish Apol. p. 34 Casaub. Ep. ad Front Ducaeum p. 755. Few were admitted to a particular Knowledge of it * K. James 's Premonition p. 291. Tho' it was generally discoursed among the whole Party that something was in Agitation for the Interest of their Cause and to which they were to be Ready to lend their Utmost Assistance as soon as Matters should be Ripe for it Yet even among those Few who knew of it † Thuanus ingenuously owns this Hist. Lib. 135. p. 1213. D. And the publick Acts of this Conspiracy u●deniably confirm it See King James 's Praemonition p. 334 335. Bp. Andrews at large proves it from Garnet 's Own Confession Tortura Torti p. 281 c. 285 286. So does Isaac Casaubon Epist. ad Front Ducaeum p. 757 761 773 774 775. Add Sir Edw. Coke 's Arraignment of Garnet p. 168 c. And the Relation of his Execution Ib p. 225. Father Garnet the Provincial of the Jesuits was One and that not in Confession as some now pretend but by way of Consultation as Himself at last ingenuously Acknowledged | Historia Pontifical Part. 5. l. 1. c. 11. says That Fawks being in Flanders Y descubrio s● empresa à personas Ecclesiasticas y de su Nacion para hazer les ayunar y rogar a Dios que su fin llegasse a efecto Bulenger confirms it Hist. l. 12. p. 369. where speaking of Winter and Fawks Oeno Jesuitae says he consilia aperiunt qui pietatis studium laudat And p. 370. speaking of three Others among whom Garne● One says Rex cognito tres Jesuitas Conjurationis hujus Nefariae flabella fuisse Thuan. Hist. p 1206. E. lib. 135. Gerard the Jesuit gave them the Oath of Secrecy and the Sacrament upon it Tesmund confirm'd Bates 's Conscience in it Rei merito demonstrato Ib. p. 1207. C. See Winter's Confession about Owen to the same Effect King James 's Works p. 232. Add to this my Lord Stafford's Declaration at his Trial to this Effect p. 53. Mezeray 's H●st of France An. 1605. K. James 's Praemonition p. 291 335. Bp. Andrew 's Tortura Torti p. 280. Casaub. Epist. ad Front Ducaeum p. 755. Sir Edw. Coke 's Arraignment of the Conspirators p. 96 104 105 113. His Arraignment of Garnet p. 166. That several Others of the Society were acquainted with it may from undoubted Proofs be made appear Give me leave to add what * Foulis Popish Treason Book 10. c. 2. Some have farther Affirm'd that Fawks himself the Villain who was to have Executed the Treason was not long before at Rome in Conference with some Considerable Persons there Bishop Andrews ad Bellarm Resp. c. 5. p. 113. And had Three Bulls Ready to have been Publish'd had the Design Succeeded but that this Failing they were Suppressed And here then let us stop and not proceed to any following Instances of their Cruelty and Perfidiousness But from what has been already alledged both of their Doctrines and Practices as to these Matters Go on finally to Consider Whether such Principles and such Actions can ever be Reconciled either with the Spirit or Rules of Christianity And 1st Let them tell Us if they can where in all the Scriptures of the New-Testament either the Title or Promises of the Catholick Church are appropriated to the Roman Church or indeed to any other Particular Church or Society of Christians whatsoever Or what Reason can be given for that Fundamental Arrogance on which All the best of their Pretences are built why They any more than We should be Called or