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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70625	A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall, November 5, 1667 by ... George Lords Bishop of Winton ...	Morley, George, 1597-1684.	1683 (1683)	Wing M2796; ESTC R12589	21,545	39

all Scruples being removed and all danger of Discovery being as they though prevented by every mans having taken an Oath of secrecy and received the Sacrament upon it the Eve of that day was come which next to that of Sadom and Gomorra should have been the blackest and dismallest that ever the Sun beheld The Eve of that Day which was to have been the Doomsday of this Kingdom The Eve of that Day was come I say upon which assoon as the King and Prince together with the Queen and her Ladies and all the Lords and Peers were come into the House of Lords and the whole House of Commons were come up into the same Room to attend his Majesty it was intended that fatal Blow should have been given of which what would have been the dismal and direful Effects I had rather leave it to every mans fancy to Imagin than vainly indeavour to Express what would have been indeed beyond all expression But thanks be to our great and good God that it never arrived to any other existence but what it had in their Intention and what it hath now in our Imagination For that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that severe all-seeing eye of the Divine Justice and Providence which had lookt upon this Embrio of darkness from the first Conception until all its Limbs were formed and framed and fashioned did then even then when it was come unto the Birth and was ready to be brought forth suddenly and strangely and almost as much to ours as their amazement discover it or rather made it discover it self so that it was stopt it was smother'd it was stifled it was buried in its own Vault in that infernal Womb wherein it was conceived And thus the snare was broken and we were delivered even before we knew the Danger we were in which was so much the greater because we had no Apprehension at all of it and consequently no humane Possibility to prevent it to avoid it or to deliver our selves from it And therefore what we could not possibly do for our selves God himself was pleased at that time to do for us without any concurrence of our own towards it But we must not think because it was so once it will be so always or that we shall always be saved by Miracle neither must we think because we have escaped one that therefore we are secure from all dangers or that we may not possibly be in as great danger now or at another time as we were then because we do not see it not fear it nor suspect it for we did not see it nor fear it nor suspect it then neither But rather to consider Whether this Barbarous Design considering who were the Contrivers of it and Actors in it were not the product of all or some of those Doctrines before specified and proved to be the Doctrines of those that govern in the Church of Rome Secondly Whether the same Causes are not likely at some time or other to produce the same or the like Effects Thirdly Whether we may not in Conscience and ought not in Prudence to prevent the sowing and growing of such Tares amongst our Wheat of such Doctrines in our Church I presume no man here doubts but we may and ought to do so especially considering that none of these Doctrines which are and will be always the seeds of Sedition Conspiracies and Rebellion are yet disclaimed by any declaratory Sentence either of Council or of Pope but are still avowed and maintained by the prevailing party in that Church nay considering likewise that this horrible Conspiracy it self the Gunpowder-Treason hath not been as yet ever branded with any note of Infamy or Detestation set upon it by any publick Authority of the Church but rather magnified and glorified by suffering Garnett and Oldcorne to be put into the Martyrology or Catalogue of Martyrs by the Jesuits which they durst not have done without the Popes knowledg and consent to it which must argue his approbation of it though he did not make a Panegyrick Oration in praise of these Traytors as Sixtus Quintus did in praise of Fryar Clement for killing Henry the III. King of France because that was prosperum acfoelix scelus and this was but an Attempt only considering these things I say no man can blame us for looking as well as we can to our selves and providing as well as we can for our own security from the danger of such Practises which we have experimentally found to be the fruit of such Doctrines And therefore from the Use of this Touchstone by way of Discovery I come to the Use we are to make of it by way of Caution And I will give it you in the words of our Saviour himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Beware of false Prophets yea though they come to you in sheeps cloathing as if they and none but they were of Christs fold whereas inwardly and indeed saith he they are not only Wolves but ravening Wolves that is such as intend to make a Prey of you and by their fruits saith he you shall know them that is by their teaching such Doctrines as are inconsistent with Peace and tending to the stirring up of strifes and to the embroyling of Kingdoms and States in discord and dissention which is an Evidence that they are not of a Lamb-like but of a Woolvish nature and disposition Try them therefore by this Touchstone in my Text which will never fail you The name of Catholick may be falsly assumed Universal Tradition may be falsly alledged the Churches Infallibility may be falsly pretended Miracles may be fraudulently forged nay the Word of God it self may be falsly interpreted or fallaciously applied But Gods nature can never be changed he is the God of Peace and therefore he is not nor ever was nor ever can be the Author of Confusion nor of any Doctrine or Practise tending to Confusion Mark therefore saith Paul those that cause Divisions among you and avoid them Mark them I say and set some mark upon them that others may know them and avoid them also For of this sort as this same Apostle tells us 2 Tim. 3. 6. are they who creep into Houses and lead captive silly Women laden with sins and led away with divers lusts following herein the Devils method beginning as he did with the weaker Vessels and hoping to have the same success as he had in seducing our Adams by our Eves And thus going up and down and converting as they say but subverting as St. Paul saith Tit. 1. 11. whole Houses they do by little and little undermine such Churches and States as are not built upon their own foundation And yet I will not say as St. Paul saith Gal. 5. 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I would they were even cut off that trouble you or that cause troubles amongst you No God is my witness before whom I stand it is not their Persecution but our own Preservation that I contend for For as

of the Christian practise tend unto Peace Peace betwixt man and man in general by forbidding all men to Injure any man or to Revenge themselves if they be injured by commanding every man to do good unto all men and each of us to love one another as our own selves Peace in private Families by commanding Husbands to love their Wives and Wives to obey their Husbands Parents to provide for their Children and Children to be dutiful unto their Parents Masters to be just and kind unto their Servants and Servants to be faithful and diligent and obedient unto their Masters Lastly Peace in publick Societies whether Civil or Ecclesiastical nay even in Camps and in Armies also by teaching all Superiors to Govern justly and prudently and moderately and carefully and by teaching all Inferiors to Obey readily willingly and chearfully when their Superiors command things lawful and never to resist or rebel but to suffer meekly and patiently when they cannot obey that is when their Superiors commands are absolutely and evidently unlawful Whence it is as I told you before that the Gospel of Christ is called the Gospel of Peace not only because it makes men to be at Peace with God and at peace with themselves but at peace with one another nay with all the World as much and as far at least as the World will suffer them to be so And consequently whatsoever Doctrine there is the belief and practise whereof doth cause disorder distraction and confusion that Doctrine though it be Preached in the Name of Christ is no part of the Gospel of Christ or of Christian Religion truly so called Which truth being so evidently grounded upon this Theological Principle or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in my Text and sufficiently cleared from the only Objection that I can imagine may be made against it let us proceed to make that Use which the Apostle intended we should make of it which is the fourth and last particular I proposed unto you and which I am now to speak of by way of Application of all that hath been said in General to the occasion of this present meeting of ours in Particular which is with all humble and hearty Thankfulness unto God to commemorate that Great and Wonderful and almost Miraculous Deliverance of the then King Queen and Prince and likewise of all the Lords both Spiritual and Temporal together with all the Representatives both of the Clergy and of the Laity from being all of them destroyed at once by the most horrid Conspiracy and most Diabolical design that ever was hatched in Hell or attempted here on Earth and yet was no more than what those who were the Contrivers of it and were to be the Actors in it were prompted unto by some of the Doctrines of that Religion that was professed by them I mean the Religion of the Church of Rome Which that it may the better appear unto you the first Use I will make of St. Paul's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Touchstone in my Text shall be by way of Discovery or Conviction For if according to the Apostolical Aphorisme or Canon in my Text God be not the Author of Confusion but of Peace then whatsoever Church it is that makes God the Author of Confusion by teaching such Doctrines in his Name as must if they be believed and practised of necessity produce Confusion it is not an Orthodox or true believing Church how confident soever it may pretend to be so but a Company of Hereticks and Schismaticks so far forth at least as they teach and practice any such Doctrines And such indeed are all the several Sorts and Sects of Dissenters from our Church at this time here in England by what denomination soever they are called and distinguished from us and from one another who though they differ in many things among themselves yet in these two Particulars they all agree namely First In maligning and opposing of the Church of England and Secondly In teaching such Doctrines as must necessarily if they be believed and practised produce Faction and Sedition and Confusion amongst us and consequently must needs if the teachers of them be not suppressed or restrained be finally at one time or another destructive to the Peace and Safety of the present Government in the State as well as in the Church Which though it might be verified more or less of all the several Sects that dissent from us yet because the Doctrines tending to Sedition and Rebellion which are held by all the rest seem to be derived and borrowed from those of the Church of Rome and because the Deliverance we this day Celebrate was from a Popish and not from a Presbyterian Conspiracy though some of the Popish Party did give it out it was I shall at this time make use of the Touchstone in the Text in relation only to such Doctrines and Maxims as are held and taught in the Church of Rome and which must needs be false if S. Paul's Touchstone be true because by evident and necessary consequence they make God to be the Author of Confusion or at least to be believed to be so Such are First The Doctrine of the Popes Supremacy and that not of Order or Precedency only but of Authority and Jurisdiction also Absolute Authority and Universal Jurisdiction supra universam Ecclesiam saith Bellarmine over the Universal Church that is over all Christians and consequently over all Christian States as well as Churches and over Kings as well as Subjects and that not in Spiritualibus only but in Temporalibus also For omne jus Regum à me pendet All the Right which Kings have is from me said Pope Clement the V. in the Council of Vienna He should have said Per me Reges regnant by me Kings reign and then he had spoken like a Rex Regum and Dominus Dominantium a King of Kings and Lord of Lords indeed as some of his Flatterers are not ashamed to call him In the mean time whether this Plenitudo Potestatis this fulness of Power in Temporals as well as in Spirituals be in the Pope directly as Baronius Carerius and all the Casuists hold or indirectly only or in order to the enabling him for the better exercising of his spiritual jurisdiction as Bellarmine and with him the whole Tribe of Jesuits say it matters not For which way soever it be held this Doctrine is destructive to the Soveraignty of Princes over their own Subjects and consequently to the Obedience of Subjects to their own Soveraigns than which what can be more destructive to the Peace and Safety of a State And yet this is that Article of Faith which Bellarmine in his chiding Letter to Blackwell the Arch-Priest here in England calls the foundation of the Catholick he should have said of the Roman Catholick Religion for so indeed it is And that you may see what they mean to build upon this Foundation it is a second Doctrine of theirs That