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A43788	The grand apostacy of the church of Rome, from her primitive purity and integrity with a vindication of the Church of England, in her separation from her, and the hazard of salvation in communion with her : discoursed in a sermon preached at St. Mary le Bow, London on Sunday the 28th of December, 1679 / by John Hill.	Hill, John, d. 1709.	1680 (1680)	Wing H1996; ESTC R12819	28,385	79

obeyed Thus what Seneca complained of as a great weakness among the Vulgar that homines malunt credere quam judicare and that they do receive all worship of their Gods tanquam legihus jussum rather than Diis gratum will be made a Vertue in their Votaries yea that they merit gloriously by believing thus stupidly and when once these Philistims have put out mens eyes they will make them drudge in what Mills they please 8. That that Monster of men and Heir of all Mischief the Pope may dispence with all Vows Promises and Obligations T is this that would lately have made England like Egypt all the Waters thereof to be turned into Bloud For the Papists being absolved from all Oaths c. to their Prince were thereby the more encouraged to Treason and Rebellion against him And how can we trust their Oaths and Protestations when the Pope absolves them from them Well therefore is that Antichrist set forth by the Dragon in the Revelation who is both subtile and bloudy and his Jesuits like those heathen Priests that have Snakes in one hand and Firebrands in the other That whch St. Bern. said of the Devil in tempting mens Souls the same may we say of the Pope in reference to Body and Soul Estate and all Vereor magis Serpentem gliscentent quam Leonem rugientem That we fear him more as he is a shining glittering Serpent than as a roaring raging Lion 9. That to slay their Enemies it is lawful to kill their Friends if as much good will come by the one as hurt by the other This was proposed as a Case of Conscience to Garnet in the Gunpowder-Plot that Contrivance worthy onely of Hell and a Jesuit Whether it were lawful at that time to blow up the Innocent with the Nocent who answered it in the Affirmative That it was lawful to kill Friends in the destruction of Enemies if so much good would arise as might recompence the slaughter of the Innocent Somewhat like this is that story of a Popish Duke ‑ who when he was asked by his Souldiers Whether they should kill their Friends in the destruction of their Enemies returned them this answer Yes Deus enim novit qui ejus sunt God will know well enough at the day of Judgment who are bis How cruel and bloudy then must they needs be who will kill their own to destroy others lives and at last will praise and defend those who have dyed their bands in Bloud voting inhumane Conspirators to have been glorious Martyrs And thus by what hath been said you see how all these Assertions are written in Blood But if from the Root of those Principles I should acquaint you ‑ with the Branches of its several bloudy practices you would finde no corner of the world wherein the Pope and his Agents have had to do but all hath ended in Bloud Among many thousand particular Instances take these few 1. Concerning the Waldenses and poor Albingenses Although we have no certainty of their Opinions they being for the most part delivered us by Popish Authors yet of the Cruelty used against them we have many sad Witnesses It would make your hair stand upright with horrour to consider how many thousands of them have been murdered in a day and not content with their innocent blood they did wafte all the Trees and Forests as if they had run into the wilde conceit of the Manichees who thought the Trees to have a rational life and that to cut down a Tree had been Homicidium as they fancied 2. In the American Islands as Hispaniola Jamaica and others what barbarous usages had the poor Savages from those Catholick Christians such actions if Historians do not deceive us as were not fit for Men or Christians but Bruits and Devils For it had been better as they observe that those Islands had been given to the Devils than to the Spaniards who spared neither Sex nor Age Women with Childe or such as lay in Child-bed insomuch that that one Island of Jamaica with that of Portico Rico lost in few years Sixty thousand Souls by Popish Cruelties and they were such as not onely raged upon the Men but destroyed Posterity The Women here and elsewhere so abominating their sad conditions that they strangled their Children in the birth to the end that they might not live to serve such a cruel People 3. In France What an ocean of Bloud hath been shed there sometimes by open and hostile ways otherwhiles by private Plots Conspiracies and Massacres wherein Brother butcher'd Brother Sons their Fathers and Daughters their Mothers As in the Parisian Massacre wherein one would think it impossible as one observes That a Race of People adoring one God fellow-subjects to one Prince born in one Country breathing the same Air nay a Christian People trusiing in the same God redeemed by the same Bloud governed by the same holy Laws should prove such Monsters each to other Thuanus President of the Parliament at Paris abhors the very memory of it applying most appositely those Verses of the Poet to it and crying out Excidat illa dies aevo nec Postera credant Saecula nos certè taceamus obruta multa Nocte legi propriae Patiamur crimine gentis Let that black day be razed out of our Kalendar for ever that it may die with us and never come to the knowledge of our Posterity 4. In Ireland Whose heart hath not been affected with the doleful Tragedies acted on that Stage How have they cruelly devoured and spared no more than Tygers and Wolves O what a loud Cry has gone to Heaven from the Bloud spilt there Every drop hath a voice which cries aloud in the ears of God for Vengeance on them 5. In their Attempts on England ever since the Reformation That at this very day King and Kingdom Liberty and Estate Life and Religion are designed for Sacrifices to Popish Cruelty Think O Lucifer and imagine O Prince of Darkness a more hellish designe if thou canst What darkness would cover our Land when our Sun and Moon the great Ones of the State should be turned into Bloud What would become of us if these Philistims had taken our Ark How soon would our Ministers be turned into corners or sent to Heaven in fiery Chariots Our Bibles turned into Pictures our Tables to Altars and our Heaven immediately into a Hell O innocent Cataline and Verres to these men Livie tells us of a designe to dispatch the whole Senate of Rome in an hour And at Carthage there was a Project set on foot to cut off at once the Noblest and Loyalest Families in the State But had not this been abortive which God grant it may ever be it would have proved the Funeral of all our Sanctuaries the Grave of all our Religion the Dooms-day of all our Liberties the Ruine of King and Kingdom a Treason made up of such monstrous complicated Circumstances that all others seemed to be drown'd