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A58811 A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, and Court of Aldermen, at Guild-Hall Chappel, upon the 5th of November, 1673 in commemoration of Englands deliverance from the Gun-powder treason / by John Scott, Minister of St. Thomas's in Southwark. Scott, John, 1639-1695. 1673 (1673) Wing S2065; ESTC R15382 20,135 39

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Hooker Mayor Cur. specialis tent Mercurii vo. die Novemb. 1673. Annoque Reg. Car. sec. Angl. c. XXVo. It was Ordered by this Court That Mr. Scot be desired to print his Sermon this day preached at the Guild-hall Chappel before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of this City Wagstaffe A SERMON PREACHED Before the Right Honourable THE Lord Mayor AND COURT of ALDERMEN At Guild-Hall Chappel upon the 5th of November 1673. IN Commemoration of ENGLANDS Deliverance from the Gun-powder Treason By John Scott Minister of St. Thomas's in Southwark LONDON Printed for Tho. Taylor at the Hand and Bible in the New Buildings on London-Bridge 1673. THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY To the Right Honourable Sir William Hooker Lord Mayor of London and to the Right Honourable the Court of Aldermen Right Honourable THough I esteem my self as much as I deserve and perhaps a little more yet I thank God I was never yet so partial to my self or fond of my own Conceptions as to think the Publication of them an Act of Charity either to the world or to the Bookseller and as for this Discourse I assure you had not you had a better opinion of it then I I should have been so charitabl as to have kept it within doors and not to have exposed it to the open Air in which I have known many wiser discourses to have gotten their bane but I shall not be so unmannerly as to controul your opinion which yet I doubt had not been so favourable to me had not your Judgments been bribed by your Zeal to the Protestant Religion against the Adversary whereof this discourse was designed perhaps the Protestant Reader who is unacquainted with the transactions of the last 600 years may think I have been too severe upon the Roman Religion charging it with such bloudy Principles and Practises to which I shall say no more then this that if I have falsified its Character or represented it fouler than it is let me indure the shame and punishment of a common Calumniator but if I have drawn it according to its own natural Features and Complexions it is not my fault that it appears deformed and if it be as bad as 't is represented it makes invectives enough against it self and carries its Satyrs in its own bosom But what I have said of it is all matter of Fact which I have proved by the testimony of their own Authors who cannot be supposed to be false witnesses against themselves and if after this any one should be so obstinate as to suspect me of forgery let him peruse the Martyrologies of the six last Centuries and compare them with the bloodiest of all the ten Pesecutions and I doubt not but he will be of my opinion viz. that Domitian and Dioclesian were but puny Persecutors and Bunglers in cruelty compared with the infallible Cut-throats of the Apostolical Chair Having thus accounted for the honesty of this discourse I have no more to say for it but only this that however it may succeed it was well intended and if it prove any way instrumental to alay the un-Christian heats and Animosities among us to promote the peace of the Church and the interest of the Protestant Religion I have my design and though I should be defeated in this it will be some satisfaction to me that I have honour'd my self before the world by this address and testified by my ready compliance with your commands how really I am RIGHT HONOURABLE Your most humble and Faithful Servant John Scott A Sermon Preached before the Right Honorable the LORD MAYOR and Court of Aldermen Novemb. 1673. Luke 9. 56. For the son of man came not to destroy mens lives but to save them IT is the glory of the Christian Religion that it hath conquered the World and triumphed over all that opposed it without any other weapon but its own victorious Beauty and reasonableness had it been Proclaimed by the mouths of Canon or marched like Paracelsus his Daemon upon the pummel of the Sword it had been Rivalled by sundry successful Impostures and the Alcheron it self would have compared Victories with it but in this it hath the preeminence of all the Religions that ever were that it atchieved its Conquest without Scrib or Sword without the aid of Worldly Force or Policy that by its own native Light it Vanquished the Ignorance and Prejudice of the World and by pure dint of Reason subdued mens minds to its Impire for 't was not by Racks and Tortures that it Converted Infidels Convinced Hereticks but by Reason and Miracles and till it began to be sophisticated with temporal interests and designs it taught its followers only to indure but not to inflict Persecutions for this was their language in the purer Ages Non est Religionis cogere Religionem quae suscipi debet sponte non vi as Tertull. expresses it Religion presseth no man to her service and disdains to have any Followers but Volunteers but when once its Followers began to bend it to their interest and make it the Solicitor of their temporal designs to break into Parties and imbarque their own Reputation and in the success of those disputable Opinions that distinguished them then according as they had the luck to succeed in their Disputes and the favour of the Emperors they began to solicit and arm the temporal power against their Adversaries in which bad practice they imitated those whom in all other things they did condemn namely the Arrians the Circumcellians and Donatists who were the first Christians that either perswaded or practised persecution and yet for a long while so abhorrent it was from the temper of Christians that Vrsatus and Ithrius two otherwise Catholick Bishops for perswading Maximus to destroy the Priscillianists were branded by their Brethren with an infamous Character and sharply reproved by the good Bishop of Trevers who plainly tells them Satis superque sufficere ut Episcopali sententia haeretico Judicati Ecclesijs pellerentur novum est inauditum nefas ut causam Ecclesiae Judex seculi judicaret It is sufficient that Heriticks be banished by the Church as Out-laws from the Communion of Christians but it is a now and unheard of wickedness that a Cause of Religion should be judged and punished at a secular Tribunal and yet this was above 370 years after Christ but as the Churches fortunes grew better and her Sons grew worse and some of her Fathers worst of all so Persecution and Tyranny prevailed in Christendom till at last it was baptized into the name of Zeal and enthroned among the graces of Religion for if we look into the History of the Roman Church we shall find Persecution first Preached from the Infallible Chair the Popes whereof growing great and proud and impatient of contradiction began first to murmure against the Tollerations of the Novatians which being a great eye-sore to those haughty Prelates as soon as they had gotten power into their hands they rooted