the child of the Devill then themselves Let them not come with their lives in their hands with the hazard of their bloud to pervert them committed to our charge and our selves sit silent but let us lift up our voyces in season and out of season And let them know there are Prophets among them and if the people will not be charmed send them to God with this Inscription on their foreheads Noluerunt incantari They will not be charmed Let us to our power save our owne soules and them that heare us Lastly you the people of God stand fast to the Gospell if an Angell from Heaven preach any other Doctine let him be accursed O search the Scripture throughly It was the speech of a dying Archbishop of this Province one of the last that ever he spoke to his Chaplein I have said much and writ much and read much and preacht much Yet in all the booke of God I doe not finde the least ground for Popery Saint Paul withstood Peter to his face and gave him no place no not for an houre O withstand Peter of Rome who can challenge nothing of Peters but that title which Christ once gave him Sathan and that fact in denying his Master I say withstand him to his face and give him not place no not for an houre I can never sufficiently admire and wonder at the speech of blessed Luther who though he was very earnest to have the Communion administred in both kinds contrary to the Doctrine and custome of the Church of Rome yet he professes if the Pope as Pope commanded him to receive in both kindes he would but receive in one kind It s a generall rule among the best that what the Pope commands as Pope though it bee good or indifferent as to pray to read to lift up an eye a hand to weare blacke or white a lace a modell to drop a Bead as the Pope commanding it It is a receiving the marke of the beast a yeelding our selves the Vassalls of Sathan and an Implicite denying the faith of Christ So extremely venimous is the poyson that lyes at the root of that fundamentall heresie which they have layed at the very Rocke and foundation of their faith so dangerous and pernitious it is to hearken to the Pope The renowned Martyrs in Queene Maries days would show no reverence to the commissioners from the Pope and let mee tell you there are many things in the Church of Rome that may be that are decent to be used in the Church of God some things there are at this day in practise in the Church of Rome that were in use in that Church when it was not Antichristian in the times of the Primitive Bishops and blessed Martyrs Some things used that are not yet commanded by the Pope as Pope what ever we use with the Church of Rome we use it as commanded by another power not because commanded by the Pope so that what we doe is to bee accounted an Act of obedience what they doe is to bee condemned because commanded by the Pope be wise as Serpents Innocent as Doves rightly distinguish of times places and persons so shall you not endanger your own soules nor disobey them that are over you nor scandall them that live with you Lastly must we stand fast Let us give thanks to our Lord God that we stood fast to this day It is very meet and our duty that wee should at all times and in all places give thankes to thee ô Lord holy father but chiefely for the deliverance of this day from that unparallell'd matchlesse damnable Gunpowder Treason Therfore with Angels and Archangels and all the glorious company of heaven we laud and magnifie the name of God and say Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabboth glory be to God on high O all ye works of the Lord praise ye the Lord blesse him and magnifie him for ever O all yee Angels of the Lord blesse yee the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O all yee Children of men blesse yee the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O all yee Priests of the Lord blesse ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O all yee servants of the Lord blesse yee the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O all yee Kings and Emperors all people and Princes all Iudges young men and maides old men and babes praise yee the name of the Lord for his name is only excellent his glory is above the Earth and Heaven hee hath exalted the Horne of his people the praise of all his Saints even the people of England a people neere unto him praise the Lord Happie are we who are like unto us saved by the Lord the shield of our helpe and the sword of our excellency The eternall God is our Refuge and underneath him are the everlasting Armes he hath saved us and if wee trust in him hee will save us from this time forth and for evermore blessed be the God of our salvation and let all the People say Amen FINIS The third SERMON GEN 49. 5 6. and 7. verses Simeon and Levi are Brethren Instruments of cruelty are in their habitations O my soule come not thou into their secret into their assembly mine honour be not thou united for in their anger they slew a man and in their selfe will they digg'd a wall cursed bee their anger for it was fierce and their wrath for it was cruell I will divide them in Iacob and scatter them in Israel THis Chapter containes the last Will and Testament of the Patriarch Iacob made on his death bed and it consists of two parts First the Legacy and portion that he bequeathes to his children Secondly his care concerning his buriall together with the manner of his death My Text is part of the first part and contains that part and portion that appertaines to Simeon and Levi wherin be pleased to consider with me two generalls First their sinne Secondly their censure Their sinne in the fifth and part of the sixth verses Their censure in part of the sixth and seaventh verses Their sinne was murder amplified and aggravated First by their mutuall consent and agreement in sinne Simeon and Levi are brethren Iunius saith on the Text Iacob doth not call them brethren because they were so in nature but because they were brethren in the murder Secondly their sinne is aggravated and amplified from the manner of their acting and perpetrating it they did it wilfully revengefully in their anger they slew a man in their selfe-will they digg'd a wall Thirdly from the extension the measure and degree their anger was fierce their wrath was cruell Their censure that also is aggravated First by the person that adjudgeth them it was their father Secondly from the circumstance of time when he did it when he was on his death bed Thirdly from the manner how he did it First with indignation and detestation denying any further protection to
to God They have their pardons their indulgences their Purgatory their supererogations and I know not what no sinne that they can commit but the Pope will pardon no sinne that they would commit but the Pope can dispense withall no matter how long they have lived in sinne in any sinne though the sin against the HOLY GHOST yet extreme unction at the last wil salve all I know they make a great cry and clamor and tell us as the Priests of Baal they cut themselves with Knives and Launcers till the bloud gush out they tell us of their frequent fastings of their often watchings of their bloudy whippings of their long Pilgrimages their Rigorous discipline their voluntary poverty their simple obedience their Massacring the body their lying in the dust and endangering of their lives and a great deale more and could answer all these with the first of Isay Who hath required these things at your hand what are these their sacrifices trifles nothing in comparison of that great worke God doth require were all these true reall and not fained did they the same things indeed which they seeme to doe were there no Iugling nor no delusion nor mitigation nor dispensation yet all these and more in the extremity and height were nothing to the crucifying of the flesh with the affections of it to the mortifying of earthly members sinnes as deere as the bodily members to the killing of the old man to the breaking of the heart to the wounding of the soule to the spirituall observation of the Law and to the beliefe in Christ Iesus what is it for a man to give the first borne of his body for the sinne of his soule to give his goods to the poore and his body to bee burned to save his soule Yea what is it to lye in their Inquisition their Purgatory in hell a thousand yeares and to purchase Christ by this all this were nothing what the servants of Naaman said My Father If the Prophet had commanded thee a greater thing wouldst thou not have done it how much more when he saith Wash and bee cleane If the Pope command greater things to purchase Heaven would they not doe it how much more these small things There 's nothing hard in the Church of Rome which a meere Carnall man a voluptuous Epicure a Libertine cannot easily digest Thirdly in the Papacy there are many Arts and Crafts and subtilties and devises to deceive and entice people withall Saint Paul saith verse 9. that the man of sinne his comming is after the working of Sathan with all power and signes and lying miracles and the like Antichrist hath his hookes his snares his ginnes his temptations and delusions sutable to every complexion and condition of man or woman If hee sees any Ambitious hee tempts them as his father did our Saviour Christ when he shewed him all the kingdomes of the world and the glory of them great preferments and dignities there are in the Church of Rome more preferments and greater than are in the true Church of God nor are they sparing to promise to give them Adams sinne cleaves to all Adams sonnes we would bee above this is a pestilent baite and by this they draw many Schollers from us If they meete with any covetous they have their silver and golden Balls the golden wedge and Babylonish garment they will showre gold into their lappes and by this they draw Marchants and Tradesmen from us If they meete with any credulous and superstitious they have their signes and wonders and lying miracles I know no Religion extant in the world that challenges wonders and miracles but the Religion of the Church of Rome they object against us and upbraid us with it that we have no wonders and miracles they have much good may it do them Antichrist comes in all deceiveablenes of unrighteousnesse with signes and lying wonders to deceive them that perish If they meete with any fearefull by nature and scrupulous of hell they have their apparitions and visions make them heare scriekings and howlings preach nothing but horror and terror hell death and damnation If they meete with any sicke they excercise their charms and spells and can and do cast out devils through the power of the devill If they meete with any constant in Religion they have their torments their tortures their purgatories their hel their Inquisition Satan saith one doth not alwayes appeare in one and the same fashion but hath as many severall changes as Proteus among the Poets At Listra hee appeares like a Comoedian as if a scene of Plautus were to be presented upon the Stage at Antioch like a Iesuite with traditions in his mouth At Athens hee fallies out like a Philosopher At Ephesus like an Artificer in his Apron And as Sathan so the eldest sonne of Sathan so in the manner with signes and lying wonders he hath his profound Plots his lying and subtill devises his wiles and stratagems to deceive them that are stedfast It 's easie to be drawne away then Stand fast Lastly in the Papacy consider the agents the instruments Romes factors the great Whores Pandors are crafty to inveagle and betray me to their Religion they are crafty subtill base and impudent Read how the spirit of God describes them in the ninth of the Revelations and the first verse and so forward And the fifth Angell sounded and I saw a Starre fall from Heaven unto the earth and to him was given the key of the bottomlesse pit and there arose the smoake of the pit as the smoake of a great furnace and the Sunne and the aire were darkened by the smoake of the Pit and there came out of the smoake Locusts upon the Earth and unto them was given power as the Scorpions of the earth have power and it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grasse of the earth neither any greene thing neither any tree but onely those men which have not the seale of God in their foreheads and to them was commanded that they should not kill them but that they should bee vexed five moneths and that their paine should bee as the paine that commeth of a Scorpion when hee hath stang a man therefore in those dayes shall men seeke death and shall not find it and shall desire to dye and death shall flye from them and the forme of the Locusts was like unto horses prepared to battaile and on their heads were as it were Crowns like unto gold and their faces were like the faces of men and they had haire as the haire of women and their teeth were as the teeth of Lions and they had Habergeons as the Habergeons of Iron The Papists themselves confesse that there by the Starre fallen from Heaven is meant the master of some great error and heresie and by the Locusts that arise out of the earth the reachers of those heresies that goe about to infect the people of God The Rhemists say this Starre fallen from
Heaven is such as Arius Luther and Calvin was The Star that shall lead me to the light of this Starre that is fallen from Heaven shall bee that fixed Starre now in Heaven KING Iames Kings have a speciall interest in the book of the Revelation And God hath made them of great use there to bring downe the man of sinne Then it may well stand with the wisdome of God to reveale the meaning to them And of all Kings I heare of none that hath taken that paines in the Revelation as King Iames This Starre saith hee is the Pope who was once in the kingdome of Heaven as a glorious bright Starre in Heaven above who had an eminent place in an eminent Church of God The Locusts that infect the aire are that innumerable multitude and diverse orders of Ecclesiasticall persons as Fryers Monkes Priests Cardinalls Iesuites and I know not whom who bring as much destruction upon all sorts of men as Locusts to the grasse and tender herbe As Locusts come by swarmes and overspread the whole earth so these fill the whole earth with their Insinuations The shape of them is like unto Horses prepared to battell to signifie that their forme of practise and policie shall be so worldly wise that they shall want nothing pertaining to the setting forth of their intents no more than a horse of service which is curiously barbed fitted and prepared for the fight They had on their heads Crownes of Gold they pretend great holinesse none more then that Ecclesiasticall order even as the Elders because of their true holinesse had Crownes of Gold so they because of their pretended holinesse have Crownes of Gold also They have the faces of men they come with the faces and Reasonings of men Sophisticall Arguments subtill Philosophy which Saint Paul cals vaine Philosophy The haire of women As the haire of women is a speciall part of their bewty to deceive men so they have Arts and Crafts to draw men to their Religion They have habergeons of Iron to shew they are backt with authority and the like I could goe on further they are many and crafty full of power have Crownes of Gold the heads and faces of men the haire of women all alluring tempting enticing and bewitching those that in this place are called Locusts in the sixteenth of the Revelation and the 13. are call'd frogs Frogges indeed like those frogs that came into the houses and bed-chambers of Pharaoh King of Egypt and of his servants and all his people no place nor person free they are the sublimate and the transcendent Instruments of deceit they come out of the mouth of the Dragon out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false Prophet The very spirit of the Devill active powerfull strong and stirring full of delusion to deceive men Brethren you see what reason you have to stand fast that you be not by any drawne back againe to Popery Secondly consider it 's a dangerous thing to be drawne away to Popery I say consider the danger that attends all them that are drawn away All Papists in that sense that I speake of Papists for I doe not speake of all that may be Popishly affected or incline to some Popish opinions but such Papists as derive their name from Papa the Pope that hold him to bee the head of the Church that subscribe to the Counsell of Trent all Italianated Iesuited Papists they are Traitors to the King under whom they live Heretickes Infidels and Atheists in continuall danger of temporall destruction and at last sure of eternall damnation First all sorts of Papists are Traitors to the King under whom they live Not to prove this by an Induction of particulars from those many Treasons that have beene committed in this Land when was there any Treason since the beginning of Reformation or scarce before but they were the Contrivers Plotters Actors at least the favourers and Abettors of it Was not Sumervile Parrey Babington and his complices Papists was not Lopez and his Abettors Papists was not Campion and Parsons Papists were not the Gunpowder Traitors Papists was not Catesby Winter and Persey was not Digby Rooke-wood and Tresham was not that Incarnate Devill Guido Fawkes were they not all Papists Nor yet to prove them Traitors because the Law of the Land makes them Traitors which hath enacted that all those Priests and Iesuites that come into the Land are Traitors all that bring Agnus Dei that maintaine the Popes supremacy above the Kings and labour to draw obedience from the King and perswade to Rome are Traitors But I will prove it from the principles and maximes of their owne Religion that shew necessarily all such Papists must bee Traytors in that kingdome where they live All Religions may perhaps have some that are Traitors in it but no Religion under Heaven set aside the Religion of the Church of Rome doth necessitate and compell men to be Traitors They have a maxime among them I finde it in Bellarmine that Kings have not their immediate power from God but from the people yet so that the people transferre their power into the person of the King yet keepe habitually in themselves which they may make a principle for Traytors It 's said of all that the Pope may excommunicate Kings and Kings standing so may be deposed and those that goe about to infect the people the people ought to rise up against them and that it is not only a lawfull but a necessary and a meritorious worke The English Papists saith a Iesuited English Priest are well to be excused for not rising against their King because they want power had they power to their will the King should either obey the Pope or else they would not obey the King Papists are Traytors Secondly Papists are Heretickes Infidels and Atheists not to speake of their innumerable multitude of lesser errors called Veniall sinnes yet notwithstanding the number of them may helpe to drowne the Shippe of Rome nor yet to speake of their grosser Tenents not yet confirmed in the Church of Rome but disputed in their Schooles there are some hereticall errors maintained among some so grosly hereticall that whosoever holds them must necessarily be an Heretick Infidell and Atheist Such is their Image worship their Altar worship their Crosse worship their Saint worship their Angell worship their Relicke worship and the like such is Iustification by works works of super-arrogation but above all the transcendent heresie the head of heresies that the Pope is the head of the Church above the Scriptures above Synods above Counsells that he cannot erre is so hereticall that whosoever holds it in Radice in fundamento denies all the Articles of the faith denies the booke of God and by necessary consequence denies GOD himselfe for whosoever they are that build any thing on a false foundation if the foundation falls all the building falls with it Saint Paul tells us that the man of sinne sits