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A41323	A sermon preached in the Cathedrall Church of St. Patrick's Dublin, on the 5th of November, 1690 before the Right Honourable the Lords Justices of Ireland / by John Finglas ...	Finglas, John, Prebend of St. Audoens, Dublin.	1690 (1690)	Wing F950; ESTC R5603	16,312	28

it on the Christians so had they prepared a Proclamation to cast it on the Puritans under which title they would have revenged it by the Massacre of all the Protestants in the Land within their reach I shall not long trouble you with a particular Narrative of this dark Conspiracy nor say much to the obscure manner of its discovery which Bellarmin himself acknowledged not to have been without a Miracle only those of you that are yet ignorant of this contrivance may know That the Pope finding that the several Plots and Conspiracies devised against Queen Elizabeth being to no purpose a little before the end of Her Reign Pope Clement the Eighth issues two Bulls one to the Catholick Nobility and Gentry of England the other to Father Garnet Provincial of the Jesuits there in which the Catholicks in England were commanded that however the Right of Succession did intitle any man to the Crown yet if he were not a Catholick that is a Papist they should not own nor receive him but with all their power hinder his comming in This Bull if not the Author yet was the main encourager of Catesby and more then probably of the rest to ingage in the Powder Plot the Hellish Treason of this Day for he and others of them having at first some scruples of the lawfulness of it consult Father Carnet and others of their Ghostly Fathers who all pronounce it lawfull and full of merit and incouraged them in it and for their further satisiaction Garnet offers to send to Rome to know the Popes express pleasure in the business but Catesby saved him the trouble by telling him he doubted not at all the Popes mind but that he who commanded our endeavours to hinder the Kings coming in is willing enough we should throw him out and if he might then lawfully be kept out he may now as lawfully be thrust out Pope Clement enjoyned the former therefore we may do the latter And thus armed with poysonous Divinity he and his followers resolve most desperatly to go on in their wicked design which the better to effect they sow up their lips swear silence and back that oath with the Sacrament Catelines immanity and inhumanity now need be no wonder he the better to strengthen his Conspiracy and carry on his design made his Soldiers pledge each other in a draught of mans blood but these drink the blood of God and as they conceive materially that they may strengthen their hands in their bloody design Pauls Enemies vowed neither to eat nor drink natural food till they had slain him these eat and drink sacramental food to speed the slaughter of thousands and among the rest of him that was more then ten thousands of us And in order to this a considerable time before the sitting of the Parliament they hyr'd a Celler adjoyning to the Parliament house and breaking through the wall of that they digged a great Vault and thereby undermined the house in that Vault were lay'd 36 Barrels of Gunpowder upon the Gunpowder were layd great heaps of Billets Fagots huge Stones Iron Crows pickaxes great Hammer heads enough to blow up or tear in pieces by relation the strongest Fort in Christendom and with these our adversaries thought to have blown up Englands strongest Fort of Religion and Justice in the destruction of the King Queen Prince Arch Bishops Bishops Nobles Judges and Commons who were to have met as on this Day in the house of Parliament and no sooner come and gathered there but should have been blown up with Gunpowder all of them to be as an Holocaust a whole burnt offering unto the Moloch of Rome Creation never saw any thing like it and indeed they mist not much of their hopes all things were in a readiness the Match was lighted and lay'd and there wanted nothing but the solemn Convention of all the States the next day for them to give fire and so destroy Head and Taile Root and Branch as the Prophet speaks which had the Prince of Darkness and these Hellish miners been able to have brought to pass the surviving persons thereabouts had seen the dreadful Image of that last and Terrible day when the Son of man shall come in flaming fire to revenge on such wicked Conspirators the contempt of his Gosple Then might they have heard lowder Cryes Screeching Howling and Lamentations then were the mournings of Hadadrimon in the valley of Megidda Then likewise might they have heard not Rachel mourning for her Children but all the Children of England mourning for their Fathers or the Chiefs of their Countries by no means to be comforted because they were not Then should Sovereign Majesty Ecclesiastical and Civil Authority publick Justice and all the honour and Power of the Kingdom been laid in the Dust or Hovering in the Air Then should the Popes Bulls have been fixed on the Gates of our chiefest Cities to expose the Lives and Estates of all that had not the mark of the Beast on their forehead to Spoyle Rapine and Destruction Good God! what an horrid and dismal time of Confusion had that been when they who alone could have preserved Order in such a hurly burly should have been all of a sudden swept away themselves But what was it that could possibly have provok'd them to such a devilish and bloody attempt was it any hard usage offered by the King or State were they hurried to the fire as in Queen Maries dayes or was there a new Inquisition erected after the manner of Spain with Racks and Tortures to rectifie them no so far from this that they were tollerated to enjoy their Liberties and Possessions grac'd with Titles of Honour living securely under the protection of the Kings Laws without any the least violence offered to any of them and yet all this and more then this was too little to oblige them when the good of the Catholick Cause came in competition strange that any thing that 's called Religion should be made a Cloak for such Bloody Treacherous and Atheistical Practices and yet saith Faux it was meerly and only for Religion and he was bound in Conscience to do it because the King was an Heretick And so much for the first thing they imagined a mischievous device The second follows but they are not able to perform which in other words we have delivered thus Let the wicked Design what they will and Plot what they can yet they shall not be able to accomplish their desire or design and to go no farther then our selves have not we ever since the Reformation found it so have any of their wicked Projects or Plots which since that time have been continually forging taken any expected success have any of their Armados or Powder Plots any of their Bulls or Curses any of their late and great endeavours attain'd the end they sought after if God as one observes hath always defeated their malicious designs and shewed by his Judgments on the Actors how much he

shewed himself one day in his Priestly Pontisicals with the Cross caried before him the next day in an Emperors Robes with a Sword carried before him and his Title proclaimed ego sum pentifex et imperator terrestre et Caeleste Imperium habeo all this is mine and to whomsoever I will I give it So Pope Adrian the 4th caused the Emperor Fredrick to hold his Stirup and quarrel'd with him for taking the Left instead of the Right but the next Pope Alexander the third trod upon His neck when he stoop'd to kiss his Holinesses Foot using those Words in the 91. Psal Thou shalt tread upon the Lyon and Adder the Young Lyon and Dragon thou shalt trample under foot and when the Emperor replyed Non tibi sed Petro not to thee but to Peter do I this Submission the Pope treading on him again said et mihi Petro both to Me and Peter So Pope Celestine the third Crowned the Emperor Henry the 6th with his Foot and after he had Crowned him cast down the Crown to the ground thereby signifing that he had Power to cast Him down from the Empire if he deserved it which Baronius highly commendeth But his Successor Innocent the 3d exceeded him For he Excommunicated John King of England deposed Him Absolved his Subjects from their Allegiance to Him and did cast an Interdict upon the Kingdom which lasted six years giveing it to Philip of France If he could take it which made his Subjects to despise Him the Clergy to Revile Him the Barrons to rise in War against Him and the French King to fall upon Him and thereby reduced him to such extremity that to purchase his Peace He was glad to give the Kingdom to the Pope and in the end a Monk Poysoned Him It were endless to recite their dealings this way whereby it would appear that a great part of their Religion is but a Mistery of Iniquity a bundle of Pollicy which hath brought and held most Kingdoms and Countryes in Europe within the snare and Bondage of a silly Fryer and that by the pretended Sanctity lying Miracles false Donations forged Writings and the like What Potentate could ever lay the Foundation of Obedience in Conscience or could overcome his Enemy without War by a Parchment Bull or maintain himself and his pomp at all Mens costs and devotions or conquer opposite Princes by their own Subjects or stablish himself by Dispensing with unlawful Marriages or lawful Oaths or maintain so many Intelligences by Consossions or Pleasure all Men in their humours by Wealth Poverty Austerity Volumptuousness What a notable Combination of mischievous devices is there in that Religion where all those things and many more are most eminent and most usual and that they are all in this will easily appear if we consider either their Positions or Disposions their Principles or Practises First their Principles and herein I shall be so just as not to deliver one syllable but what I have from their own Authors So that if any of them herd me I may if possible undeceave them for I have Charity enough to believe many of them Pious and Devout in their own way and if they really understood their own Doctrine as now refin'd by the Friery Witts of late Jesuits and Priests they would soon renownce Communion with them 1. Neighbours of Heriticks meaning thereby Protestants may lawfully be spoyled of their goods though indeed it were better say they to do it by the Authority of the Judge 2 Men are not bound to restore what they have received or to satisfie their Creditors that are tainted with Heresy 3. By the Heresy of the Parent a Child is freed from his Obedience and Symancha gives us this instance If a Priest returning into England finds his Father to be a Protestant he may deny him to be his Father meaning saith he that he is not such a one as he ought to acknowledge for his Father 4. Heriticks may not be termed either Children or Kindred but according to the old Law thy hand must be upon them to spill their Blood 5. It is not Lawful for Christians to Tollerate an Heretical King that is a Protestant they may Expel him Depose him yea Murder him and this they say is agreeable to the Apostolick Doctrine 6. It is Lawful for Catholick Princes to make League with Protestants only for their own advantage as for Example to dispatch some business which hinders them from falling on Protestants with all their Forces By these and the like Positions which they maintain we plainly see how they disolve all Bands of humane Fellowship and strangle the very Vitalls of all Society But amongst many many more there is one yet remaining the most pestilential of all to wit that no Faith is to be kept with Hereticks and that all Protestants are Hereticks being condemned by the Pope and Council of Trent as such and so are fallen from the Faith and forfeit all priviledges where keeping of Faith with them might stead them or oblige others I confess indeed I have seen a little Book written by one of them who denieth this assirming that Papists esteem themselves Obliged to keep Faith even with Insidels but this is an ordinary Stratagem of theirs to profess to abhor Jesuitical Tenets to lull us asleep to get their Wickedness acted with less Suspition Amongst many Instances that might be given I shall give one in Queen Elizabeths time so soon as the Pope perceived that She intended in earnest to shake off the Romish Yoke and that all his slattery and smooth dealing could not reduce Her to his Obedience She refusing to permit his Nuncio to enter Her Kingdom he falls to his old courses and in the Year 1569 Pope Pius the 5th Excomunicates Her Absolving all her Subjects from their Obedience Cursing all that should any longer submit to Her giving Her Kingdom to his Catholick Majesty the King of Spain and sends over his Bull against into England which some Seminary Priests there admired and Extolled and Blasphemously asserted that it was Indited by the Holy Ghost yet presently after they set out a Book on purpose to lull the Queen and State asleep and to admonish the Papists of England not to practise any mischief upon the Queen because Catholicks might use no other Arms but Prayers Tears Watching and Fastings against their Adversaries And yet in the mean time these very Men never rested Plotting one Treason after another and Watson with other Priests who writ against this Book were the desperate Propounders and Ringleaders of that Treason against King James and Prince Henry at his first coming into England for which he with Clarke suffered the reward of Traytors So that they are not to be believed for they will say any thing maintaine any Assertion that may tend to the advancement of their Cause But for your farther satisfaction to prove the truth of this and shew you that their practice is sutable to this principle let