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A90061	The craft and cruelty of the churches adversaries, discovered in a sermon preached at St. Margarets in Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament. Novemb. 5, 1642. By Mathew Newcomen, minister of the Gospell at Dedham in Essex. Published by order of the House of Commons.	Newcomen, Matthew, 1610?-1669.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1643 (1643)	Wing N907; Thomason E128_1; ESTC R18223	52,376	80

the Lord rebuke thee Satan But what better suggestions can breath from them that are Parl●ament adversaries from generation to generation This is it that hath moved his Majestie to cast himself into the armes of Papists Where he is as safe as a lambe in the middest of wolves Suppose that party pretending his prerogative and thereby seducing a great part of the Kingdome to assist them Suppose they prevaile What a condition is his Majesty in Either he is in danger of losing his Religion and being reconciled to Rome Or if not of losing his life and forfeiting his Crown from himself and his posterity Nay possibly he may lofe all though he should abandon Religion and be reconciled to Rome For so Simanca determines h Si Reges autal●● Principes Christian● facti sunt Haeretici protinus subjecti vasalli ab eorum Dominio liberantur Nec jus hoc recuperabunt quamvis poste à reconciliantur Ecclesiae propter haeresin non solum Rex regno privatur sed etiam ejus filii à regni successionne pelluntur Simanca de Occult. tit 42. see 2 If Kings or other Christian Princes be turned Heretikes the●r subjects are presently freed from their Dominion neither shall they recover their right againe though they be afterwards reconciled to the Church And as a King looseth his kingdome by Heresy so his children lose their right of succession And to look no farther then Henry the fourth of France Did his being reconciled to Rome secure either his life or Crown Lord give thy judgments to the King Lord give thy judgments to the King I but no fear of this The Papists have taken the oathes of supremacy and allegeance And what are we the better An oath upon the conscience of a Papist is like a collar upon an Apesneck that he will slip on for his Masters pleasure and slip off againe for his owne Hear but how Pascenius scoffes King Iames for the invention of that oath and you will see his sonn hath little cause to trust them for all their taking it a Vide in tantâ astutiâ quanta sit simplicitas Iuramentum tot circumstantiis connexuisse existimabat ut salvâ conscientiâ nullâ ratione a quoquam dissolui possit Sed videre non potuit si Pontifex juramentum dissolverit omnesejus Nexus sive de fidelitate Regi praestandâ sive de dispensatione pariter non admittendâ pariter dissolutos fore Imò ali●d dicam admirabilius Iuramentum si iniustum apertè declaretur Neminem obligat Sed ipso facto nullum est Regis vero juramentum iniustum esse ab ipso Ecclesiae Pastore sufficienjer declaratum est He saith he Vide in tantâ astutiā quanta sit simplicitas Iuramentum tot circumstantiis connexuisle existimabat vt salvâ conscientiâ nulla ratione à quo quam dissoluiposset sed vidore non potuit ei Ponti ex luramentum dissoluerit omnes eius Nexus sive de fidelitate Regi praestanda sive de dispensatione pariter non admittenda pariter dissolutos fore c. Vides igitur jam in fumum abiisse illius obligationem ut vinculum quod à Sapientibus ferreum putabatur minus sit quam stramincum Pascenius in Resp ad Episc monit Iacobi Regis 2 Sam. 16.21 how simple they are in all their craft he thought he had composed an oath with so many particular circumstances that it could not with a safe conscience be dispensed with but he could not see that if the Pope loosed the oath all the knots of it whither concerning allcageance to the King or not suffering the oath to be dispensed with they are all untied Yea that which is more admirable If the oath be publickly declared to be unjust it bindes none but ipso facto is made void Now the Pope hath sufficiently declared this oath of the Kings to be unjust so that the obligation of it vanishes into smoake and that bond which those wise men thought to be as strong as brasse is lesse then a straw And now what Faith can his Majesty give to or what Confidence can his Majesty have in the oath of these men And yet as if it were not enough To withdraw the heart of our Soveraign from confiding in his subjects The venome of this treason reaches farther And as Achitophel knowing that if Absalon were reconciled to his Father againe it would be his destruction put Absalon upon such a businesse as he knew was a scarec capable of reconciliation So this cursed faction knowing that upon union between his Majestie and Parliament followes their deserved ruine have councelled yea even compelled his Majestie to that which if any thing might make the breach between his Majestie and his subjects incurable Oh that vast effusion of English bloud which hath bin already not only in Ireland but in England The sunne hath not seen so many carkasses of English men lying upon their native soile in many hundred yeares The Lord see and avenge it upon them that are the originall cause of this bloud-sheading The violence that is done to me and my flesh be upon thee ô Papacy shall the Inhabitante of Ireland say And my bloud upon thee ô Prelacy shall England say That That 's the Helena for whose sake all these warres are For the defence of the Prelacy the Scotck warre was commenced though P crogative and Monarchy was pretended and for the same we may conceive the warre of England is pursued We may say to that faction as Ioah did to David 2. Sam 19.6 Thou regardest neither Prince nor servants for this day I perceave that if Absalon had lived and all we had dyed it had pleas● thee well They regard neither Prince nor people for we may easily perceave that if England and Scotland imbrue themselves in one anothers blouds or England tear out its owne bowells though all we dye so the Hierarchy survive they would be well pleasen Shall they escape by their iniquity thou Lord in tey displeasure shalt cast them down As for our Soveraign Thou ô God in whose hands the hearts of Kings are free his heart from the councells and ingagements of mischeivous men and men of bloud Give him a true understanding of and a due confidence in the loyall affections of his Protestant subjects Bring him back among us rather in the prayers and tears then in the blouds of his people And you my brethren so many as have any sparke of loyalty in your breastes and I hope you are all full of it desire and seeke the same thing yee of this City Yee of the honorable Nation of the Scots be not yee the last to bring the King back to his house 2. Sam. 19.11.12 Yee are his brethren yee are his bone and his flesh why should yee be the last in bringing the King back to his house againe even to his house of Parliament Assuredly if his Majesties life were bound up in one haire of his

greater then in other places of the Kingdom and are like to continue still For though I hope it is not in the purposes of God to destroy England nor to destroy London yet I have thought sometimes The purpose and intent of God hath beene to humble and attenuate London and England For Englands long continued peace had abundantly increased Englands wealth and the abundant creased of Englands wealth had proportionably increased Englands pride The age before us knew not that excesse of bravery in clothes and utensils that we were growne unto And the generation growing up was like to exceed us in both God saw us labour so dangerously of a plethory as his wisdome and love judged it needfull to abate and exhaust our fulnesse at least so much as is super fluous and not matter of subsistence but matter of pride unto us which if we can willingly and chearefully resigne up to the disposall of God we may possibly thereby obtaine and secure our lives Lawes Religion the things that are or should be dearest to us But if we hugge our wealth when God would have us let it goe Take heed we lose not that and all the rest Me thinkes I reade it in the footsteppes of God towards England God hath said I will abate the wealth and pride of England Me thinkes the succession of these three warres within these few yeares which comes not without the speciall providence of that God who ruleth in the kingdomes of men the expences of all which must lye upon England speaks it That the purpose of God is to abate the pride and wealth of England And me thinkes we should say as Mephibosheth did 2 Sam. 19.30 Yea let him take all for as much as my Lord the King is returned againe in peace to his owne house might we but see our Soveraigne Lord the King brought in peace againe to his owne house and to His Houses of Parliament Might we but see the King of Kings upon his holy hill of Zion Christ in his beauty on his Throne The Church reformed truth and peace established let him take all I perswade my selfe every honest heart that is loyall to God to the King to the publicke weale would willingly speake it and seale it did not our adversaries by their crafty insinuations indeavour to divide as much between the Parliament and people as they have done betweene the King and Parliament That would faine perswade the people of this Nation with the Ape in the emblem to cut in under the arme of the tree whereon they sit and plunge themselves into a gulph and sea of misery To this purpose as they have tolde his Majestie so now they tell the people That the Parliament will alter Religion A charge like that of Rabshakeh against Hezekiah and as true When he would perswade the people God would not helpe them because Hezekiah had altered Religion Isaias 36.7 If thou say to me we trust in the Lord our God is it not he whose Altars high places Hezekiah hath taken away sayd to Iudah and Ierusalem you shall worship before this altar Truth is This is all the alteration of Religion the Parliament hath made They have taken away the high places and Altars that they have done intended to proceed to command all worship to be according to the rule of Gods word To say to England you shall worship according to this rule And this is he great crime of altering Religion My brethren be not deceived ●●●e●●tio Perse●riva o●ruptiva As in naturall so in civill and morall things there is a double alteration There is a perfective alteration And there is a corruptive alteration To alter Religion so as to corrupt Religion was the plot and work of the Popish Prelats and their faction To alter their alterations to antiquate their innovations to reduce Religion to its pure originall perfection which cannot be done without alteration of some thing introduced that was the purpose and work of the Parliament and for this it is our adversaries crie against them They will alter Religion I but then the Parliament will alter the government of the Kingdome Yes Just like as they altered Religion As in Religion such alterations as tend Ad perfectionem are not to be condemned So likewise in Polity and civill government Plato tells us That in all Common-wealths upon just grounds there ought to be some changes And that Statesmen therein must beehave themselves like ski●f●●l Musicians Qui artem Musices non mutant sed Musices modum But they do things without his Majesties consent I that is our greif and our adversaries triumph That our adversaries have so farre prevailed upon the heart of our soveraign as to perswade him to with draw first his presence then his assent from the great Councell of his Kingdome And thereby force them Either to do things without the consent of our soveraign Or else do nothing but sit still and expect their owne the Kingdomes ruine And in such a case is it so high acrime to determine things necessary for the safety of King and Kingdome without consent of his Majestie when it cannot be obtained I have read that the Persian Monarches were wont to call the Peers and Presidents of their Provinces to Councell but giving them no freedome nor liberty of Councell For every one of them had 〈◊〉 plate or tile of gold to stand upon in the Councell house and if he gave councell that the King thought well of Kecker Polit. the plate of gold was given him for a reward but if he delivered any thing contrary to the Kings minde Valer. Maxim l. 9. c. 5. Flagris caedebatur And one writes that Xerxes in his expedition against Greece called his Princes together and spake to them to this purpose Least saith he I should seeme to follow only my owne Councell I have assembled you and now do you remember that it becomes you rather to obey then advise Our adversaries would faine have it so with the Peers and Parliament of England and have a long time bin labouring to perswade his Majestie it ought so to be and would make the like impression upon the people now But you my brethren beware of their insinuations and know That they that devide between his Majestie and Parliament or between Parliament and people are the greatest enemies of King people and Parliament This is the first time that ever loyalty to the King was set in opposition to fidelity to the Parliament The first time that ever it was thought possible to draw the English Nation to desert their Parliament under the notion of adhering to their King Oh let not this age beare the date of such infamy Did ever Parliament do more for the Lawes and liberties of the Nation with more danger and detriment to themselves And will you when they have need of you leave them well here is our comfort God hath not left God will not leave his cause 1. Kings 8.57.58.59.60 his work his people 1. Kings 8. The Lord our God be with us as he was with our fathers let him not leave us nor forsake us that he may encline our hearts unto him to walke in all his wayes and to keep his commandements and his Statutes and his Iudgements He even he maintaine the cause of his servants and of his people Israël at all times as the Matter shall require that all the people of the earth may know that the Lord is God and that there is none else FINIS

preparations in 88. proclaimed our intentions and made them frustrate the treasons of Parry Lopez Sanders c. were common ordinary and poore attempts now for some rare stratagem some depth of darknes some mystery of unheard of treachery that may be acted by unseene instruments they shall neither know nor see till wee are in the middest among them And what was this but the Pouder-Treason Looke upon the cunning projecting and carrying on that Treason you will heare our Adversaries saying They shall neither know nor see till we are in the midst of them And looke upon their bloudy intent in it And it was to slay and cause the worke to ccase They shall not know First for the crafty projecting and managing the plot because they will make sure we shall know nothing● none shall be admitted to consultation about the thing but those that will by Vowes and Oathes and Sacraments and all that is Sacred binde themselves more then once a Sr. Edward Cooke his Speech at the arraignement of Garnet neitheir directly nor indirectly neither plainly nor by circumstance to discover the plot Hence it was that in two yeares space for so long was this Treason forming not the least inckling of it came to any of our eares our Adversaries had sworne They shall not know and if ever they were true to their Oathes it was here They shall not know Nor see Therefore all their worke lyes under ground Nor see and is dispatched in the night when deepe sleepe falls upon men If either the darknesse of the night or the depth of the earth can hide it wee shall not see And how did God for a while seeme to smile upon their project and to facillitate their worke when providence offered the conveniency of a Celler to them whereas they thought they must have digged a Vault by strength of hand to lay their Pouder in How did God seeme to have cast this Kingdome and Citty into a dead-sleepe that 36. barrells of gun-powder should be conveyed into a Celler so neare the Parliament-House and a Parliament so neare and none have the least suspition of Treason Could this have bin if God had not stupefied Men. God himselfe seemed to take their part and they who not many yeares before had sworne God was turned Lutheran In 88. began to hope God was turned Catholick againe God seemed to have conspired with them and to say They shall not know nor see c. In the midst of them Till we are in the midst of them Joh. 20.19 How As Iesus in the midst of his Disciples saying peace be unto you No. But as the Enemies were in the midst of the Congregation Psal 74.4 O GOD thy Enemies roare in the midst of thy Congregation They made account to have come into the midst of them with such roaring as would have astonished the Heavens and made the Earth tremble In the midst of them as the Daughter of Herodias was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 14.6 only to suck bloud to slay them that is the end why they would be in the midct of them And our Adversaries said they shall not know nor see till we are in the midst of them and slay them Slay them Slay them Whom The whole Assembly of Parliament and therein to quench the light and extinguish the glory of the English Nation Never any Treason before this so destructive Others were but petty Treasons compared with this This was the master-peice of all the pollicy of Rome and Hell Vnlesse it were the Treason of Satan against the state of Man in Paradise to blow up all Man-kind in Adam the representative of it at once no Treason like to this This was second unto that of which they say as he sometimes of Goliahs sword None to that None to that wherin the flowre of our Gentry our whole Nobillity the Princes of the bloud the Lords annointed the Royall seede were all devoted to one stroake of destruction And our Adversaries said they shal not know nor see til wee are in the midst of them and slay them Slay them Aye such Instruments of cruelty had they prepared for this slaughter as no one of that Assembly could have fled from the fury of had they the wings of Eagles nor resisted the force of had their flesh bin as brasse or their strength as stones or their bodies armed with the scales of the Leviathan They were not Swords nor Pistols nor poisons the ordinary weapons of Romes warre-fare but Instruments more inevitably killing 36. Barrells of gun-powder enough to have blowne to dust the strongest Fort in Christendome These were the Instruments of their cruelty such as were never found in the habitations of Simeon and Levi With these they intended to come in the midst of them and slay them And that with such a slaughter as was never heard before Shew me in any History a president of the like slaughter as was intended here Wicked Abimelech slew upon one stone threescore and tenne of Gideons sonnes yet one escaped Ietham had his life saved Bloudy Saul caused Fourscore and five of the Priests of the Lord to be slayne in one day yet Abiathar the Sonne of the high Priest had his life given him for a prey Ambitious Athaliah sought to destroy all the Kings seede yet Ioash the Kings Sonne was preserved In the Massacre of France above threescore thousand slaine yet some escaped even of those that were appointed to the slaughter But heere Oh mercilesse cruelty not one man that had escaped neither King nor Prince nor Lord nor any of that Honourable Assembly though all of them as Zeba said of the brethren of Gideon were men cach one resembling the Sonne of a King yet they had all perished together in a moment not one escaping The Devil dealt more mercifully then thus with Iob when hee slew his Sonnes and Servants hee still left one alive to carry the tydings but heere all dye or none And that in such a crafty sly way as they shall never know who hurt them They shal not know nor see Nay the craft of our Adversaries extended so farre as to provide not onely to hide themselves from the sight of them whom they intended thus to cut off See a letter of M. W. Perkins to M. Vicars before his Poëm on the 5. of Novem. but from the rest of the Nation You know the wayes they had taken to cast the Odium of that horrid Treason on the true Protestants under the name of Puritans if God had not in mercy delivered us from that conspiracy we had borne not onely the misery but the infamy of it And cause the worke to cease And our Adversaries said They shall not know nor see till wee are in the midst of them and slay them and cause the worke to cease It is the worke they were about that is the cause of all their rage and malice They were about to make Lawes