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A50573 A Memento for English Protestants ... together with a preface by way of answer to that part of the Compendium, which reflects on the Bishop of Lincoln's late book. Sixtus V, Pope, 1520-1590. De Henrici Tertii morte sermo. English. 1680 (1680) Wing M1658; ESTC R9391 45,461 60

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Wisdom and Goodness as we have learned out of S. Athanasius his Creed when he says Tho Father Almighty the Son Almighty and the Holy Ghost Almighty yet by Attribution Power is ascribed unto the Father Wisdom unto the Son and Love unto the Holy Ghost whereof every several as they are termed Attributes are so proper unto every several Person that they cannot be attributed and referred unto any other By the Contraries of which Attributes we come to discern the distinction and greatness of Sin the Contrary to Power which is attributed to the Father is Weakness or Infirmity and therefore that which we do amiss through Infirmity or Weakness of Nature is said to be committed against the Father The opposite unto Wisdom is Ignorance through which when any man sinneth he is said to sin against the Son and therefore what we commit through natural Infirmity or Ignorance is more easily forgiven us The third Attribute which is the Holy Ghost's is Love and hath for its Contrary Ingratitude a Vice most detestable and odious which causeth men not to acknowledge the Love of God and his Benefits bestowed upon them but to forget despise yea and to hate them and from hence at last it comes to pass that they prove obstinate and impenitent And thus to sin against God is far more dangerous and dreadful than if it were done either through Ignorance or Natural Infirmity and therefore it is termed a sin against the Holy Ghost and because such Sins are seldom and hardly and not without great abundance of Grace pardoned in some sort they are said to be unpardonable Whereas Final Impenitence onely is really and simply unpardonable For whatsoever is done amiss in this Life although it be against the Holy Ghost yet by Repentance it may be wip'd out or done away before we die but they that persevere therein till Death are excluded from all grace and mercy hereafter And therefore for such Sins or Sinners the Apostle hath forbidden to pray after their Decease Now therefore because we understand not without great grief that the aforesaid King departed this Life without repentance or impenitent to wit in the Communion and Fellowship of Hereticks for all his Army was made up almost of none other but of such men and that by his last Will he commended and made over his Crown and Kingdom to the Succession of Navar long since declared an Heretick and Excommunicated as also in his Extremity and now ready to yield up the Ghost desired of him and such as he was then standing by him that they would revenge his Death upon those whom he judged to be the Cause thereof For these and such like manifest Tokens of his Impenitency we have decreed not to solemnize his Death with Funerals not that we presume any thing by these concerning God's secret Judgment against him or his Mercies towards him who could according to his good pleasure convert and turn his Heart even when his Soul was leaving the Body and deal mercifully with him but this we have spoken being thereunto moved by these external Signs and Tokens God grant that all being admonished and warned by this fearful Example of Heavenly Justice may repent and amend and that it may further please him to continue and accomplish that which he hath thus mercifully begun for us as we firmly hope he will to the ●●d we may give everlasting thanks to him that hath delivered his Church from such great and imminent Dangers When His Holiness had thus ended his Speech he brake up the Consistory and dismist them with his Benediction From this Speech I shall onely infer two things First That it is the Interest of all Protestant Princes if they love their Lives to suppress Popery in their Dominions Secondly That it is more particularly the Interest of His Majesty of Great Britain utterly to extirpate the Romish Religion out of England Scotland and Ireland there being a most damnable Hellish Plot against His Majesty's Royal Person and Government and his Protestant Subjects still carried on by the Papists Some of the most Remarkable Passages of Q. Maries Reign HAving given you the most famous Instances of the execrable Principles and Practices of Papists that I have met with in Forein History and shewed you that these Principles and Practices are derived from the Diabolical Doctrines of the Romish Church I shall now conclude with some Instances of the like nature that occur in the Reign of Q. Mary being the most considerable on Record in our own Chronicles As soon as Q. Mary heard of her Brother K. Edward's Death and that he had by his Will with the consent of his Council excluded her and nominated the Lady Jane Grey to succeed him the said Q. Mary having been before Bastardiz'd by her Father K. Henry VIII she rode 40 miles in one day from Norfolk to her Castle of Framingham in Suffolk where taking upon her the Name and Title of Queen she gave notice to the Protestant Nobility and Centry of the County That if they would assist her ingetting the Crown she would not any ways attempt the least Alteration of the Religion established by her Brother K. Edward VI. This Declaration caused many of the prime Protestants to repair to her and she having given them her Royal Word and her Faith for performance thereof did likewise as a further Confirmation sign certain Articles of Agreement to that effect Whereupon the Protestants assisted her and she presently wrote Letters to the Council in which she claimed the Crown and required them to proclaim her Queen of England in London which was done accordingly But she was no sooner got into the Throne than she broke her Word and Faith given to these Protestants and which is very strange and remarkable did afterward prosecute them more severely than she did any other Protestants in the Kingdom though she kept her Faith with all of them alike as you will see by and by In the mean time I shall give you a particular Instance of her Ungratitude and Breach of Faith toward a Protestant that hath faithfully served her and the story is briefly thus Sir James Hales a Justice of the Common Pleas who had been a great and eminent Stickler for her Succession having given a Charge at a Quarter Sessions in Kent upon the Statutes of Henry VIII and Edward VI. in derogation of the Primacy of Rome he was by her order committed to prison of which ill requital of his Services he grew so sensible that through discontent and trouble of Mind he once endeavoured to stab himself and though he was then prevented in his design yet not long after he drowned himself Now you shall see how she proceeded by degrees against the Protestants 1. On the third of August 1553 she rode through London to the Tower and on the fourth and fifth began to turn out the Protestant Bishops and to put Papists in their places and presently after she displaced all