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england_n	king_n	kingdom_n	rebellion_n	2,819	5	9.3926	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64348	A sermon preach'd to the Protestants of Ireland in the city of London at St. Helens, Octob. 23, 1690 being the day appointed by act of Parliament in Ireland for an anniversary thanksgiving for the deliverence of the Protestants of that kingdom from the bloody massacre begun by the Irish papists on the 23d of October, 1641 / by Richard, Lord Bishop of Killala.	Tenison, Richard, 1640?-1705.	1691 (1691)	Wing T684; ESTC R9854	19,055	32

c. Yet did he run into Rebellion again and committed great slaughters By which they in those days and their Posterity since have verified the Prophecy which Giral Cambr. mentions That after the first Invasion of the English they should spend many Ages in frequent Conflicts Battels and Murders and that almost all the English should be driven out of Ireland c. and transmitted to Rome which were confirmed by a Bull from Pope Adrian and by the delivery of a Ring in token of his Investiture to which both Clergy and Laity did consent and sware Homage and Fealty to him in a Publick Convention at * Mat. Paris Giral Cambr. Lismore where the Laws of England were also thankfully received and they all sworn to observe them and afterward he gave it to his Son John and the Pope confirmed it And in the Synod at Cashell they did unanimously before Christianus President thereof acknowledge the King's Ancient Right to Ireland and enjoyn'd all to be subject unto him And there and at another General Synod held at Armagh they order'd and decreed That the Church of Ireland should observe all Divine Offices that the Church of England did and there also was the King's lawful Right again confess'd and submitted unto and for Four hundred years after it was called the King's Land of Ireland and by many Acts of Parliament Collodion of Statutes declared to be appending and belonging and knit unto England So was it in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth when by the States of the Realm he was declared King thereof And 11 of Queen Eliz. her Title to that Kingdom is recogniz'd in Parliament and declar'd to be very Ancient and derived from Gurmund Son of Belin King of Brittain Lord of Bayon in Spain some of whose Subjects he permitted to live in that Island and sent Guides with them to settle them in it who with their Posterity ought therefore to be subject unto England as the Inhabitants of the English Plantations in America now are But though the Title of England to that Kingdom be so clear so very ancient and just yet they have openly rebell'd five times in less than fourscore years beginning in the Year 1567. Two other Rebellions were also contriv'd and resolved on within that space to which they had Promises of Foreign Aid but were by God's Providence discover'd and prevented beside that intended and begun by three of their Principal Cities in the beginning of King James's Reign So very prone and apt they have always been to Rebel upon the Accession of Princes to the Throne or when England was engag'd in Wars either Domestick or Forreign And the like opportunity they made use of in the late unhappy War violating all Laws of God Nature and Nations and throwing off their Allegiance to their undoubted Soveraign as soon as the Troubles began in this Kingdom To which Wickedness their Clergy of all sorts did then seduce them telling them That Faith was not to be kept with Hereticks That the Pope being God's Vicar Pro-Deus as Mart. Azpilcueta calls him had Power to depose Heretical Princes and that they would do God and the Church good Service in killing Hereticks Upon which they ran furiously to commit those horrid Acts which they thought meritorious And so cunningly did they draw Arguments from Religion Honour and Profit that they made the English Pale break out which neither the Pope's Bulls nor the Declarations of the Divines of Salamanca and Valedolid could instigate them unto in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth But now they had better digested the Romish Tenets and the Priests appear'd every where in the Head of their Troops and in sharp and bloody Oratory animated them to go on What the Jesuits had wrote was become Canonical and the Actions of others were now to be imitated Why should not they be as blindly Zealous as any of their Religion had been They knew the Merindolians and Calabrians were murder'd for their Aversion to the Romish Religion that Alphonsus Diazius came in great Zeal from Rome and kill'd his own Brother in Germany for being a Protestant They had heard how many had been martyr'd here in the Reign of Queen Mary and what numbers the Duke de Alva had executed in the Netherlands The Massacre of Paris was fresh in their memory where and in other parts of France the French King boasted in his Letters to the Pope that he had cut off 70000 Hereticks for which there were solemn Processions at Rome and a Jubilee granted to all Christendom by the Pope who by Cardinal Vrsinus gave thanks to the French King for that good Service and desir'd him to go on and extirpate Heresie out of his Kingdoms They knew the many Plots and Confederacies against Queen Elizabeth and King James and how some of those monstrous Parricides gloried in their Sin at their Execution And beside these bloody Examples they had the Authority of their Learned Writers for the lawfulness of such Actions De Reg. l. 6. c. 6. Mariana had told them That if the Prince wont be advis'd they may take up Arms against him and if nothing else will do they may kill him And Emanuel Sa had said When once he is Excommunicated the People who have sworn Allegiance to him may depose him and any one may be his Executioner Lib. 6. c. 3. 6. And Suarez had encourag'd them to it likewise telling them If Subjects were once absolv'd from their Oaths they might rise up against their Natural Prince and kill him And their great Cardinal Bellarmin left them also many rebellious Instructions De Cler. lib. 1. c. 29. too tedious to relate and said That all agree that if the King be Tyrannical or Heretical he may and ought to de deprived of his Kingdom Nay he adds to prevent an Objection Si hoc minus factum sit priscis temporibus causa est quia deerant vires De Pont. l. 3. c. 7. though he could not but know that Tertullian and St. Austin tell us the quite contrary But these Modern Authors having said otherwise their Authority did soon prevail and having both Precedents and Commands for such horrid Acts they took up Arms and committed the most execrable Villanies that ever any Mortal read or heard of Some of their chief Prelates and greatest Clergy-men being their Officers and Commanders and others writing and preaching in defence of their Wickedness I might name many but shall only tell you that their Bishop of Ferns calls it a just War Bleeding Iphigenia and says They were forced to take Arms to avoid their own Destruction and in the necessary Defence of their Estates and Religion And how much he and the rest of their Bishops opposed the Cessation is notoriously known and did not Father Molief cause them contrary to the Law of Arms to tear the Heralds Coat who proclaim'd the Peace at Lymerick for which he had Thanks from the Nuncio and the Apostolick