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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

most refined Policy that can outvy the Strength of Heaven This the Hellish Projecters of the Gun-Powder-Treason found to be infallibly true the Arch-Plotter Garnet a perfect Achitophel a Man that could give and hide his Counsel as deep as Hell with whom his Friends would embark in any design tho' never so black and dangerous yet how far infatuated was this cunning Politician Alas he consider'd not that some of the Conspirators who were willing to work a publick Mischief for his Pleasure might also have a Desire to secure their private Friends from Danger by giving them some general or ambiguous Admonition And indeed that one of them should hint in a Letter to his honourable Friend the instant Danger was not extraordinary save only in this that so much Tenderness of Heart so much good Nature could be left in his Breast who had consented to his Country's Ruine It is really prodigiously strange that such a Man should put on the Bowels of Compassion for a private Friend as had design'd his Country's perpetual Desolation Where was then this Piety Where was then this Religious Affection Alas all Nature all Humanity all Respect of Laws both Divine and Humane were then quite abandoned there was then no Conscience made to extirpate the whole Nation and all for a pretended Zeal to the Catholick Religion Can this be the Christian Religion No the essential Mark the proper Character of the Christian Religion is Love and Charity This is a Religion which hath all of the Dove and nothing of the Vulture in it which is Wisdom from above which is first pure and then peaceable it is a charitable Religion and none can justly pretend to it whose Doctrines are Earthly Sensual and Devilish who breathe nothing but Curses and Slaughters who hold it lawful to destroy all such as differ from them in Matters of Faith to extirpate by Fire and Sword all such as worship God after the Way which they call Heresie and such are the bloody Principles of the Roman Religion Principles diametrically opposite to the Doctrine and Practice of the Author of the Christian Religion the ever Blessed Jesus He came into the World to save and not to destroy the Lives of Men But alas the Papists are for sending Men out of the World in a fiery Chariot for illuminating our Understandings with Fire and Faggot The Marian Persecution is a Demonstration of their Cruelty and the same dismal Tragedy would have been acted over again had not God sent us a Deliverer who deliver'd us from so great a Death Thus I say there was then no Conscience made to extirpate a whole Nation and all for a pretended Zeal to the Catholick Religion a horribly mistaken blind Zeal a Zeal not at all according to Knowledge Alas They know not what manner of Spirit they are of But God deliver'd the King the Queen the tender Princes the Nobles the whole Kingdom from their design'd Destruction God deliver'd them from so great a Death Death How exorbitant was that Death in its Nature How transcendently wicked in its Design How barbarous and unnatural Such a prodigious Cruelty as is beyond the Example of former Ages as is not to be parallell'd in all the voluminous Records of time from the Beginning of the World The Plot was deeply laid it was hatch'd and contriv'd in the dark they kept it secret every Man in the Deep of his Heart and not without Ceremonies of Religion Ay they swore by the Blessed Trinity and by the Holy Sacrament never to disclose it directly nor indirectly by Word or Circumstance But by the good Providence of God it was proclaim'd upon the House-tops A most wonderful Proclamation and never enough to be reflected upon with Praise and Thanksgiving such a Discovery as Bellarmin himself confesses to have been miraculous Had it taken effect as it was just ripe for Execution my Blood chills I tremble to think of the dismal Consequences of it We had then been depriv'd of King Queen Princes and all the Nobility It would have been a most miserable Desolation How would this poor Church and Nation have laid a bleeding Peace and Happiness would presently have taken the Wing and flown from this British Isle there would then have been nothing but intestine War Bloodshed and the greatest Confusion Never did the Ear of Man hear of such a Conspiracy before The highest Treason that could ever be imagin'd by any who either made or writ of Laws was Crimen laesae Majestatis the violating the Majesty of the Prince But the Gunpowder-Treason wants a Name sufficient to express it it tended not only to the Hurt but to the Death of the King and not to the Death of the King only but of his whole Kingdom to the Destruction of the beautiful Frame the Dissolation of the Noble Fabrick of this Ancient Famous and Flourishing Monarchy even the Deletion of our whole Name and Nation No Mantle of Holiness can cover such a Treason no Pretence of Religion can excuse it God and Heaven condemn it all Souls of a truly Christian Temper and Disposition must detest and abhor it Six and Thirty Barrels of Powder with Bars of Iron Stones and Wood upon them What a great Breach what a fiery Tempest what a Motion and Commotion of Earth and Air would there have been But God deliver'd our Ancestors from so great a Death But Secondly God doth still deliver from Death Ay God hath lately deliver'd us their Posterity from Death and Destruction It is not many Years ago since we had a sad and melancholy Prospect of Affairs it is not long since a thick and black Cloud hung over our Heads which in all probability would have broke and pour'd down upon us a Deluge of Waters if it had not been timely dispell'd by the comfortable Appearance of a Bright and Glorious Star in our Hemisphere by the happy Arrival of King William upon this Day I need not acquaint you how our Popish Enemies attempted to destroy both our Laws and Religion It was an excellent Reply which an ancient and eminent Serjeant at Law gave the King when he complemented him upon his Arrival His Majesty told him he had out-liv'd most of his Profession and he truly answer'd that if his Majesty had not come over he should have out-liv'd the Law it self We flatter'd our selves indeed with a Belief that it was impossible to have the Popish Religion ever introduced here because a thing so absolutely against the English Constitution that let the Principles of the Prince be what they would the Administration of the Laws must of necessity run in the same Channel he found them in But we soon saw how the Course of the River was forc'd and the Stream turn'd so as to run over our Soul we were quickly made sensible of our gross Mistake and Delusion we presently understood that there is no Government too hard for a Jesuit to cut in sunder no Constitution so strong as to wrestle

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