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A45352	A sermon preach'd in the cathedral and metropolitical church of St. Peter in York on Friday the fifth of November, 1697 being the anniversary-day of thanksgiving for that great deliverance from the gunpowder-treason, and also the day of His Majesty's happy landing in England : with a postscript and two letters, which clearly discover the Roman designs against the English church and nation / by George Halley ...	Halley, George, 1655 or 6-1708.	1698 (1698)	Wing H456; ESTC R40936	15,514	33

is the Engine which the Romanists have all along made use of and still do to effect our Ruine and Destruction They very well understand that Discord is the only Gate which can possibly give Popery an entrance into this Kingdom That this hath been their constant Practice I could produce infinite Testimonies out of very Authentick Historians but now I shall only recommend these Two following Letters to your serious Perusal and Consideration which are not only of unquestionable Authority but clearly evince and sufficiently discover the Roman Contrivances and Designs I pray God we may obviate them by our Vigilance and Circumspection by our timely seeing the Things which belong unto our Peace by a vigorous and inviolable Resolution to be all of one Heart and of one Mind and to be henceforth no more Children tossed to and fro and carried about with every Wind of Doctrine by the Sleight of Men and cunning Craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive Amen A LETTER from Sir William Boswell to the most Reverend William Laud late Archbishop of Canterbury remaining with Sir Robert Cotton's choice Papers Most Reverend AS I am here employ'd by our Sovereign Lord the King your Grace can testifie that I have left no Stone unturn'd for his Majesty's Advancement neither can I omit whenever I meet with Treacheries or Conspiracies against the Church and State of England the sending your Grace an Account in general I fear Matters will not answer your Expectations if your Grace do but seriously weigh them with Deliberation For be you assur'd the Romish Clergy have gull'd the misled Party of our English Nation and that under a Puritanical Dress for which the several Fraternities of that Church have lately received Indulgencies from the See of Rome and Council of Cardinals for to educate several of the young Fry of the Church of Rome who be Natives of his Majesty's Realms and Dominions and instruct them in all manner of Principles and Tenents contrary to the Episcopacy of the Church of England There be in the Town of Hague to my certain Knowledge two dangerous Impostors of whom I have given notice to the Prince of Orange who have large Indulgences granted them and known to be of the Church of Rome although they seem Puritans and do converse with several of our English Factors The one James Murray a Scotch Man and the other John Napper a Yorkshire Blade The main Drift of these Intensions is to pull down the English Episcopacy as being the chief Support of the Imperial Crown of our Nation for which purpose above Sixty Romish Clergy-men are gone within these two Years out of the Monasteries of the French ●ing's Dominions to preach up the Scotch Covenant and Mr. Knox his Descriptions and Rules with in that Kirk and to spread the same about the Northern Coasts of England Let therefore his Majesty have an inkling of these Crotchets that he may be persuaded whenever Matters of the Church come before you to refer them to your Grace and the Episcopal Party of the Realm For there be great Preparations making ready against the Liturgy and Ceremonies of the Church of England and all evil Contrivances here and in France and in other Protestant Holdings to make your Grace and the Episcopacy odious to all Reformed Protestants abroad It has wrought so much on divers of the Foreign Ministers of the Protestants that they esteem our Clergy little better than Papists The main things that they hit in our Teeth are our Bishops to be called Lords the Service of the Church the Cross in Baptism Confirmation Bowing at the Name of Jesus the Communion Tables placed Altar-ways our Manner of Consecrations And several other Matters which be of late buzz'd into the Heads of the Foreign Clergy to make your Grievances the less regarded in case of a Change which is aimed at if not speedily prevented Your Grace's Letter is carefully delivered by my Gentleman 's own Hands unto the Prince Thus craving your Grace's hearty Prayers for my Vndertakings abroad as also for my safe Arrival that I may have the Freedom to kiss your Grace's Hands and to tell you more at large of these Things I rest Hague June 12. 1640. Your Grace's most humble Servant W. B. A LETTER from the Right Reverend J. Bramhall Bishop of Derry afterward Primate of Ireland to the most Reverend James Vsher Archbishop of Armagh Most Reverend I Thank God I do take my Pilgrimage patiently yet I cannot but condole the Change of the Church and State of England And more in my Pilgrimage than ever because I dare not witness and declare to that straying Flock of our Brethren in England who have misled them and who they are that feed them But that your Lordship may he more sensible of the Church's Calamities and of the Dangers she is in of being ruin'd if God be not merciful unto her I have sent you a Part of my Discoveries and it from credible Hands at this present having so sure a Messenger and so fit an Opportunity It plainly appears that in the Year 1646 by Order from Rome above a Hundred of the Romish Clergy were sent into England consisting of English Scotch and Irish who had been educated in France Italy Germany and Spain part of these within the several Schools there appointed for their Instructions In each of these Romish Nurseries these Scholars were taught several Handicraft Trades and Callings as their Ingenuities were most bending besides their Orders or Functions of that Church They have many yet at Paris a fitting up to be sent over who twice in the Week oppose one the other one pretending Presbytery the other Indepency some Anabaptism and other contrary Tenents dangerous and prejudicial to the Church of England and to all the Reformed Churches here abroad But they are wisely preparing to prevent these Designs which I heartily wish were considered in England among the Wise there When the Romish Orders do thus argue Pro and Con there is appointed one of the Learned of those Convents to take Notes and to judge and as he finds their Fancies whether for Presbytery Independency Anabaptism Atheism or for any new Tenents so accordingly they be to act and to exercise their Wits Vpon their Permission when they be sent abroad they enter their Names in the Convent Registry also their Licences if a Fransciscan if a Dominican or Jesuit or any other Order having several Names there entered in their Licence in case of a Discovery in one Place then to fly to another and there to change their Names or Habit. For an Assurance of their Constancy to their several Orders they are to give Monthly Intelligence to their Fraternities of all Affairs wherever they be dispers'd so that the English Abroad know News better than ye at home When they return into England they are taught their Lesson to say if any enquire from whence they come that they were poor Christians formerly that fled beyond Sea for their Religion Sake and are now returned with glad News to enjoy their Liberty of Conscience The Hundred Men that went over 1646. were most of them Soldiers in the Parliaments Army and were daily to correspond with those Romanists in our late King's Army that were lately at Oxford and pretended to fight for his Sacred Majesty For at that time there were some Roman-Catholicks who did not know the Design a contriving against our Church and State of England But the Year following 1647. many of those Romish Orders who came over the Year before were in Consultation together knowing each other And those of the King's Party asking some why they took with the Parliament's Side and asking others Whether they were bewitch'd to turn Puritans not knowing the Design But at last secret Bulls and Licences being produced by those of the Parliament's Side it was declared between them there was no better design to confound the Church of England than by pretending Liberty of Conscience It was argued then That England would be a Second Holland a Common-Wealth and if so what would become of the King It was answered Would to God it were come to that Point It was again reply'd Your selves have Preached so much against Rome and his Holiness that Rome and her Romanists will be little the better for that Change But it was answered You shall have Mass sufficient for 100000 in a short space and the Governors never the Wiser Then some of the mercifullest of the Romanists said this cannot be done unless the King die Vpon which Argument the Romist Orders thus licenced and in the Parliament Army wrote unto their several Convents but especially to the Sorbonists whether it may be scrupled to make away our late Godly King and his Majesty his Son our King and Master who blessed be God hath escaped their Romish Snares laid for him It was returned from the Sorbonists that it was lawful for Roman Catholicks to work Changes in Governments for the Mother-Churches Advancement and chiefly in an Heritical Kingdom and so lawfully make away the King Thus much to my Knowledge have I seen and heard since my leaving your Lordship of which I thought it very requisite to inform your Grace for my self would hardly have credited these things had not mine Eyes seen sure Evidence of the same Let these things sleep within your gracious Lordship's Breast and not awake but upon sure Grounds for this Age can trust no Man there being so great Fallacy amongst Men. So the Lord preserve your Lordship in Health for the Nations Good and the Benefit of your Friends which shall be the Prayers of Your Humble Servant J. DERENSIS FINIS

A SERMON Preach'd in the Cathedral and Metropolitical CHURCH OF St. Peter in York On Friday the Fifth of November 1697. Being the ANNIVERSARY-DAY of THANKSGIVING for that Great Deliverance from the Gunpowder-Treason And also the Day of His Majesty's Happy Landing in England With a POSTSCRIPT and Two LETTERS which clearly discover the Roman Designs against the English Church and Nation By GEORGE HALLEY A. M. and Prebendary of Ripon London Printed for and Sold by Tho. Baxter Bookseller in Peter-Gate York 1698. TO THE Most Reverend Father in GOD JOHN By Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of York His GRACE Primate of England and Metropolitan MY LORD WHEN I first compos'd this Discourse I had not the least Thought of sending it abroad into the World But partly thro' the Importunity of such as gave it a patient and favourable Audience and partly thro' the Reflections of some who without cause are Enemies to our Great and Triumphant Prince and partly thro' the Incredulity of others touching a Principal and Necessary Branch of true Repentance Restitution as also thro' the Hopes of its proving in some measure a happy Instrument to bring back into the Fold such Sheep as are gone astray I have adventured its Publication And now My Lord this humbly begs the Honour of Your Grace's Patronage and implores the Favour not to interpret the prefixing of Your Great Name to so mean and defective a Piece as great Boldness and Presumption but to accept it as a Specimen of Gratitude and Sincere Affection for all Your Kindnesses unworthily conferr'd upon me I am My Lord incapable of making Your Grace any other Return than this Publick Acknowledgement of them with Fervent Prayer to the Great Shepherd and Bishop of Souls to protect You and Yours and to continue so Great a Blessing as Your Grace is amongst us I am sure all the Flock committed to Your Pastoral Care have the Highest Obligations to render unto Almighty God and His most Excellent Majesty their hearty Thanks as well as gratefully to commemorate the late most Pious and Incomparable Queen for sending so burning a Light so bright and shining a Luminary amongst them In what an Ocean of Peace and Tranquility doth the Great Ship Your Large Diocess now Swim of which God and the King have constituted You the Supreme Commander You not only Direct and Govern but You pull at the Ropes and Sails with as much Vigour as any Common Mariner that Sails therein So Great is Your Lordship's Talent so Indefatigable is Your Industry in Preaching that Your Grace might justly with the late Lord Archbishop of Armagh make this the Motto of Your Archiepiscopal Seal Woe is unto me if I Preach not the Gospel That a Prelate so singularly Eminent for Great Parts and Abilities for Piety and Vertue Care and Diligence Meekness and Humility for Love and Charity may long Preside over and Adorn the Church of God is the Affectionate Desire and Ardent Prayer of My LORD Your Grace's most obliged Dutiful and Grateful Servant GEORGE HALLEY 2 COR. I. 10. Who delivered us from so great a Death and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us THE Conjunction of Mercies which the Almighty so eminently and peculiarly wrought on this Day for our Church and Nation makes this Day an High Day a very great and glorious Festival A Day which upon a double Account ought to be had in everlasting Remembrance Not only for the Providential Discovery of the Snares of Death laid this Day for our Ancestors but for the late happy and astonishing Deliverance of us their Posterity from the imminent Danger of Popery and Arbitrary Power The impure Streams of Idolatry and Superstition had gone even over our Souls the proud and insulting Waves the Romanists had triumph'd over us for they began to rage horribly and swell they gnash'd upon us with their Teeth when their small Stock of Arguments was spent and by this time of Day we should have found their Teeth Spears and Arrows and their Tongue a sharp Sword the Romanists I say had triumph'd over us had not God sent us on this blessed Day a Deliverer to rescue us from Popish Tyranny when we were so near sinking under it Great Reason therefore have we to say with St. Paul God deliver'd us from so great a Death and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will yet also deliver us In which Words consider we I. The great Death from which the Holy Apostle was delivered by God II. I will endeavour to shew you that God in this as well as in the Apostolical Age doth still deliver from Death III. What Method we must of absolute Necessity take to indear the Lord our God to oblige him still to protect and deliver us from Death Who deliver'd us from so great a Death and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will yet also deliver us But first In the first Place consider we the great Death from which the Holy Apostle was delivered by God By Death may be understood Troubles and Afflictions extream or uttermost Dangers Troubles and Afflictions in a Superlative in the highest Degree He was press'd out of Measure above Strength insomuch that he had almost black and desponding Thoughts he despair'd even of Life If he had not found more than ordinary Assistances of the good Spirit of God he had certainly sunk under them This is the doleful Account which he himself gives us at the Eighth Verse with the place too where those Troubles came upon him namely Asia What the Troubles were which he met with in Asia we are informed by St. Luke in the 19th of the Acts and the 23d Verse where we read of a Riot or unlawful Assembly a great Stir raised by one Demetrius a Silver-smith and the Workmen of like Occupation about the Doctrine of the Gospel because St. Paul had preach'd against the Images which they made and worshipp'd as confounded be all they that worship carved Images and that delight in vain Gods worship him all ye Gods because he had persuaded much People that they be no Gods which are made with Hands they came upon him in a furious and tumultuary Manner Further In the first Epistle to the Corinthians 15.32 we read if after the manner of men I have fought with Beasts at Ephesus what advantageth it me if the dead rise not Some interpret those Words of his Conflict with the same Demetrius and the Silver-Smiths who were like Beasts in their Conditions and Manners Others are of Opinion that he really was exposed in the Theatre to furious Beasts tho' peradventure he was only so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Purpose of Men the Magistrates had sentenced and condemned him to that Death but Divine Providence interpos'd and rescued him from the Execution of the Sentence Thus probably these Words of my Text relate to his Sufferings at Ephesus when God delivered him from so great a Death Further In the