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A64551	A vindication of the true Christian religion in opposition to the abominations of popery in a sermon upon Ezek. 21: 24,25,26,27 : being the text appointed by the Pope for Master Whitebread, one of the popish conspirators, to preach upon the accomplishing of their wicked design for taking away the life of His Most Sacred Majesty ... / by J. Thomas, Rect. of S. Nicholas.	Thomas, J. (John)	1679 (1679)	Wing T967; ESTC R30165	19,027	41

of God as much as in him lyeth The Oath The things that I have here promis'd I shall perform and keep so help me God and the Contents of this Book This Oath is published in King Charles the Martyr's Answer to a Remonstrance c. of the 26th of May 1642. The same Oath for matter you may find in an old Manuscript containing the Form of Coronation c. in the publick Library at Oxon. Is not this as firm and as great a Covenant as blessed King Josiah made who stood by a Pillar and made a Covenant before the Lord to walk after the Lord and to keep his Commandments and his Testimonies and his Statutes with all their hearts c. and all the People stood to the Covenant 2 King 23. 3. So all the People of England and all his Majesty's Subjects bind themselves strictly by two Oaths called the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to obey the King's Laws in all true Faith and Allegiance renouncing all Forreign Powers and declaring the King's Majesty Supreme Head and Governour in all matters as well Ecclesiastical as Temporal next under Christ in all these His Majesty's Dominions Thus do both Prince and People most unanimously and faithfully protest to stick to the Profession of the Protestant Religion as it is by Law establish'd being no other than the same as christ and his Apostles taught and the pure Times of the Primitive Church maintained in the first Centuries after Christ 2. For the purity justness and reasonableness of His Majesty's Laws whereby we are Govern'd the Common Civil and Ecclesiastical all the malice of our Adversaries cannot impeach them of the least savour of Idolatry or Impiety Prophaneness or Blasphemies as those of rebellious Israel under the Old did and of the Roman Papists under the New Testament do The Common-Law being certain reasonable Customs refined by succeeding Ages and gathered out of Divine Natural and Moral Principles our Civil and Canon-Laws being all grounded upon the Word of God and the Decrees of General Councils and the Sence of the Fathers in the first six-hundred years after Christ and in this it is as clear as the Sun at Noon-day that neither His Majesty nor his People can be charg'd for wickedness nor prophaneness in their Profession nor Laws 3. For the Doctrine which we reach it is briefly contain'd in the Creed call'd the Apostles Creed the Lords-Prayer and Ten Commandments and explain'd throughout the whole Bible we believe nothing we pray for nothing and we practice nothing as necessary to Salvation but what is plainly prov'd by evident Scriptures And as for the Government Discipline and Worship of our Church it is acknowledg'd by all Judicious Protestants to be the best constituted Church this day in the whole World and that in the main the Doctrine Discipline and Worship being so decently and excellently fram'd for edification that it makes all Men that duly observe it truly and soberly religious securing them as a Reverend Divine saith on the one side from the wild Freaks of Enthusiasm and on the other from the gross Follies of Superstition 4. As for any violence and cruelty we thank God the World is our Witness we can wash our Hands in Innocence none condemn'd to death for bare perswasions in point of Conscience or different Opinions in matters of Religion It is Fellons and Traytors because they have not the fear of God before their Eyes by the King's Law do dye His most Sacred Majesty being of that gracious and Lamb-like Disposition that he laboureth rather through tenderness to regain than through severity to compell Dissenters to Unity of Spirit and Uniformity in Religion 5. And lastly weigh our Practices I mean the Lives and Conversations of those that are true Sons and Observers of the Church we ingenuously confess that through our carelesness and want of more strictness in many things we do offend all but withall at our daily and publick as well as private Devotion we pray for true repentance and forgiveness and there 's not a Christian Man that hath a little Grain of Charity in him that will deny but that we through a certain though not so Universal as wish'd Obedience receive and submit to the Truth Will Law and Gospel of Jesus Christ To these things if I had time to amplifie I would nor do desire no more Credit than shall be due to the fair Evidence of clear Scripture and sound Reason the two Master Pillars of a good Cause Now upon these and other like grounds is founded the unmovable settled ends of our fixed hopes through Faith in our dear Saviour that we are not Sentenc'd with Idolatrous Israel under the Law are not nor shall be condemn'd with Antichristian Popery under the Gospel And I conclude this Point with that of our Saviour in Joh. 14. 27. Confiding that it is appertaining to us as much as to any other particular Church in the World for some have called the English Church the Primogenita of the Catholick and for certain it is a Member of the true Catholick and therefore may expect her Share in the Legacy of Christ Peace I leave with you Peace I give unto you not as the World gives give I unto you therefore let not your Heart be troubled neither let it be afraid And this leads me to the next Inference Sixthly The sixth Inference is from Christ's coming The Lord's goodness is so far extended to his beloved Spouse the true Church Catholick and to every Member thereof that in the greatest distress and confusions in the World Christ and his comforts will attend the faithful Job 5. 19 20 21 c. He will deliver thee in six troubles and in seven there shall no evil touch thee in Famine he shall redeem thee from Death and in War from the power of the Sword thou shalt be hid from the Scourge of the Tongue neither shalt thou be afraid of Destruction when it cometh What unspeakable comforts satisfaction and rejoycing all the holy Martyrs of Jesus have ever had in their sufferings will be too long to relate here He comes whose right it is and I will give it him I think you do evidently perceive and are fully satisfied by these things already said concerning this Text that there needs no further discourse to make all Men apprehend how free and plainly unspotted with the Charge and Curse here denounced against Jerusalem the present State of England stands The City of Jerusalem and Israel were curs'd mark as you have heard for breach of their Oath and Allegiance and further Rebellion to the King of Babylon though a Pagan King together with their Contempt of God's Word Idolatrous and Prophane Practises but the English Protestants are hated censured accus'd and persecuted by the Popish Faction for no other cause more than for bearing true Allegiance to the rightful and lawful King of their Realm and maintaining as by Oath they are bound that the Pope hath no power to

of this Judgment and Confusion until he comes Here is a comfort promis'd them by the coming of Christ which although that blindness as S. Paul calls it hath happen'd unto them for a time that they could not receive the Messiah when he came yet there 's a time and a promise for their Restoration upon this Promise and other-like Prophecies of Scripture do they to this day depend and look for the coming of the Messiah to deliver them and herein they are more happy than Antichrist under the Gospel for there 's not one syllable of promise made for his restoring to the Truth which he hath forsaken but he is to be consum'd for ever by the Spirit of Gods Mouth and utterly destroy'd by the brightness of his coming 4. The fourth particular observable in the Text is the promise of Christs coming He comes whose right it is and I will give it him Here 's meant no Temporal Prince but the coming of the same that was a long time before spoken of by the Kingly Prophet Thou hast made him little lower than the Angels and hast crowned him with Glory and Honour thou hast made him have Dominion over the works of thy hands thou hast put all things under his feet and to the same Prince and persons coming doth Malachy speak He cometh suddenly to his Temple Behold he shall come saith the Lord and who may abide his coming therefore it is said by S. Paul he was appointed Heir of all things He comes saith the Text whose right it is Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews This right of Ruling and Power the Lord Jesus saith of himself in Mat. 28. 18. All power is given me of my Father in Heaven and in Earth therefore it is said in the Text I will give it him The whole Text thus open'd and the circumstances thereof considered there do arise these several Inferences The first Inference is from the Time c. When the Wicked plot against the Just and combine in rebellious Conspiracies then doth approach the appointed ruine of the Plotters This Sin of Witchcraft carries men blind-folded to destruction and that is the reason I think why it is so called men are bewitch'd to lay Snares that their own feet may be taken Non est Lex aequior ulla quam necit artifices arte perire suae A juster Law can no man make nor wish Than Plotters of Death should for Plotting perish Therefore did the Psalmist sing The Heathen are sunk in the Pit that they have made in the Net which they have hid are their own feet taken And from this time of Zedekiah's Rebellion when he conspired against the King of Babylon and brought upon himself by his Plotting a total Ruine we may very well observe that Conspiring and Plotting Times are but the Fore-noons to the Evenings of executing Rebels I have a very sure word of testimony for it Psal 37. 12 13. The wicked plotteth against the just and gnasheth against him with his teeth but the Lord laugheth at him to scorn for he knoweth that his day is coming The Lord laugheth to scorn at the wicked Plots and Conspiracies of bewitch'd minds and though men do not perceive their approaching Ruine God knoweth that his day is coming In the Net which every bloody Traytor hath made may his own foot be first taken And do not we now see whose days are come and whose iniquity will have an end is it not the days of such as devise Rebellion and who hath not a full sense of these unquiet and restless Spirits who never cease to plot against the just yea a most just tender and gracious Soveraign and who are those and how many of all hands do we daily see that gnash their teeth against him and against his Protestant Church and Kingdom of England The Ignatian Tribe the Brood of lame Loyolah falsly call'd Jesuits for indeed they are aes avitae saith one spend all their time and wits to bring the Kings of the Earth to the Battel of the great day of the Lord that is to sow Sedition and Rebellion in the whole World witness their late Dismal Plot of Gun-powder and this now discover'd of no less danger as 't is credibly reported Dr. Hall in his Epistle to the Bishop of Bath and Wells observes the time of this plotting Confederacy with their ador'd Idol the Pope to be approaching saying All the World knows how that pretended Chair of Peter tottered and crack'd threatens a speedy ruine to her Usurper how is it that it still stands This rebellious Zedekiah Jer. 52. 1 2 3. and 2 King 24. 18 19 20. which two places of Scripture are the same word by word felt the revengeful stroke of Gods hand of Justice in a short time after his ungrateful and undutiful opposing of the King of Babylon And the Holy Ghost speaking of Antichrist who indeed is a Rebel against Christ professing the name of a Christian but opposing him in Doctrine and Practice tells us his destruction is swift and his judgment lingereth not And to conclude this point see how free from this witchcraft of Rebellion all the true Sons of the Church of England Princes and People are and ever have been accounted insomuch that their perfect Loyalty and true observance of their Kings is born as a mark in their Forehead and is become a Proverb No Bishop no King no King no Bishop 2. Inference from the Provocation When obdurate hearts contemn the words of God admonishing and threatning by his Messengers they aggravate their former sins and exasperate Divine Indignation against them In the verse before the Text Hoc revocatis i. e. hereby ye call to remembrance that is by disdaining my Prophets and Prophecies which in your sight is as a false Divination through the hardness of your hearts against me saith the Lord you provoke me to call to mind the wickedness prophaneness idolatries bloodshed oppression and blasphemies that is amongst you and all the Apostacy of your Forefathers this 380 years and upwards You have transgressed very much 2 Chron. 36. 14 15. after all the abomination of the Heathen and polluted the House of the Lord and I sent unto you my Messengers rising up betimes and sending because I had compassion on you saith the Lord. But this is it that imbittered me against you more than any thing you have mocked my Messengers and despised my words till my wruth rose against you till there was no remedy Pro. 29. 1. He that being often reproved hardneth his neck shall be suddenly destroyed and that without remedy This was the case of Ely's Children who disdaining the voice of their Father persisted in their pollutions till God in his wrath slew them This hardning of the heart is nothing else but the contempt of Gods Word and the contempt of Gods Word is the provoking of God to his face When the people invited to the Wedding in the Parable of the Marriage-Supper made light of