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A28222	The modern Pharisees, or, A sermon on the xxiij. of S. Matt., v. 15 shewing the principles of the present Jesuites and Puritans to be of the same evil influence with the ancient Pharisees and equally vexatious and destructive to government / by Nath. Bisbie ...	Bisbie, Nathaniel, 1635-1695.	1683 (1683)	Wing B2982; ESTC R11042	18,626	38

take up Arms against the King those saith a third who conclude that the Parliament being Subjects may not take up Arms against the King and that it is Rebellion to resist him their grounds are sandy and their superstructure false Some tell us that the Supreme power of the Land is originally formally and radically in the Body of the People So that if Kings fail in the performance of their duty the people may supply it at least in some cases may do it of themselves Others that the whole Soveraignty is conditionate fiduciary and meerly in trust from and for the people insomuch that if the trust be violated the power returns unto the people again Others that the King is but one of the three Estates of the Land and that the two Houses of Parliament are co-ordinate with him in the Government and being co-ordinate may act any thing without his consent especially in case of his refusal to co-operate or conform to their desires And lastly Others that Kings are accountable to the people as to their Superiors and upon their male-administration or apostasie from the true Religion of which they also must be Judges are censurable punishable and dethronable by them All which aforementioned Doctrines and Tenents are the avowed Doctrins of our Puritans raised the last Civil Wars murdered our late Sovereign and make as fair steps towards the ruine and overthrow of the present as any Consult of Jesuits in the World are able or likely to do It were endless to recite the number and horridness of these Mens sayings and writings the World it self being scarce able to contain them However this I think I may lay down for a great truth and I am very confident that I fail not in my computation that though the Order of the Jesuits hath spread it self much further into the World than the Faction of the Puritans yet there have been as many Puritans who have openly and boldly asserted the Doctrine of deteriorating opposing deposing Kings as ever there were Jesuits Yea and have had their Writings when time serv'd as publickly authorised by Cranford Calamy Caril the Generals of their Faction as ever the Jesuits had theirs by Franciscus Borgia Claudius Aquaviva Mutius Vitileschi the Generals of their Order Nay I think the Jesuits in reason pardon me if I mistake ought to be concluded the more safe of the two for finding that such like Tenents were a matter of scandal to the respective Governments where they lived there was first a prohibition made anno 1616 afterwards a precept of Obedience anno 1626 by which the whole Order of the Jesuits were obliged under pain of Damnation never to write dispute teach or print any thing concerning that matter And this saith the Author of the account of the Jesuits Life and Doctrine is the Precept which hath stood ever since and never was infringed by any one Jesuit I confess I believe not the Man in his tale Credat Judaeus Apella But this I am sure of that the Faction of the Puritans never gave such seeming satisfaction to the World as these Men have done for being urged by the Oxford Act to give credit to themselves by Oath that they would never take up Arms against the King nor at any time endeavour to alter the Government by Law established in Church or State not one in twenty of them would do it The refusal whereof must undoubtedly be attributed to one or other of these two Reasons either 1. Because the Puritan doth really hold it lawful to take up Arms against the King as once he hath done or 2. Because he looks upon himself in conscience bound to endeavour and work an alteration in the Government and if so then you see the nature of the Man what the Puritan is and what he would have However these things considered we may wonder that this sort of Men should ever dare to expect much less to challenge any thing of favour from the King till they have abjur'd and renounc'd their Anticarolin Principles which as yet they have not and for ought as I can see never will Truly saith Mr. Jenkins that Christi fidelis servus I speak no more than what I have often thought and said The removal of those burdens that were then upon us countervails all the Bloud and Treasure shed and spent in these late Distractions Nor did I as yet ever hear of any Godly man that desired were it possible to purchase their Friends or Mony again at so dear a rate as with the return and re-imposal of those Soul-burthening antichristian Yokes and if any such there be I am sure that desire is no part of their godliness and I profess my self in that to be none of the number Richard Baxter telleth us That he had often search'd into his heart whether he did lawfully engage in the late War against the King or not or did well to encourage so many thousands to it and the issue of all his search as he boasts was this That he cannot yet see that he was mistaken in the main cause nor dares he repent of it nor forbear doing the same if it were to do again in the same state of things Oh seasonable Indemnity but much more need of an open and hearty penitency Wonder we more that ever they should have the face and confidence to mouth it against the Jesuit as they do yea and to count all dastards nay Papists at least popishly affected that run not into the same excess of riot with them since they themselves have adopted and do still continue to prosecute the same if not worse Principles than the Jesuits the worst of Jesuits have done Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditione querentes King James who certainly knew the temper of the Men as well as any Man living adviseth his Son and may the Grandchild observe in the words following Take heed my Son to such Puritans very Pests in the Church and Commonwealth breathing nothing but Sedition and Calumny I protest before God that you shall never find with any Highland or Border-thieves greater ingratitude and more lies and vile perjuries than with these Fanatick Spirits wherefore for so he proceeds let not the Principals of them to brook your Land if you like to sit at rest upon the Throne They are secondly which bespeaks them down-right Pharisees 2. No less enemies to the Reformation of Religion among us It hath pleased God through his wonderful Providence to free this Land from the Errors Superstitions Idolatries Usurpations Tyranny of the Church of Rome and in lieu thereof to establish to us a Religion Primitive Apostolical Scriptural A Religion that our Forefathers thought good enough to dye for a Religion that hath all along been valued by their Off-spring as the greatest Legacy that was ever left them and hath been the means ever sith-hence of conveighing thousands and thousands of them into Heaven At the first obtaining thereof it was generally said to be wrought by

thousand to one but if need require cover the Land as the Lice and Vermin did Aegypt Danger it is that he courts for he lives a Jesuit and dies a Martyr his Bones are to be enshrin'd and though he do miscarry yet he shall have the honour of his enterprise with a Voluisse sat est In short where the design is so bad and the Actors in the design so wicked desperate restless resolute When nothing is so vile but what may be commanded nothing impos'd but what shall be as readily executed needs must that Nation be miserable and forlorn where such Locusts as they not only harbour but swarm And thus have I exposed to your view the first sort of our Modern Pharisees the Jesuits There is another of them still behind full as turbulent and dangerous to Government and as great a supplanter of the blessed Reformation yea and as restless therein as the former to whom upon that account I must no more than to the former say God speed And that is 2. The Puritan whereby I intend not the Puritan in life but the Puritan in worship so called from Purus and that from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and from thence because of his Separation and Conventicles originally came the Pharisee And he is one 1. That looks upon the Church of England however Reformed from the errors and fopperies of the Church of Rome not to be pure enough to be communicated with by him though by her Reformation she be made truly Primitive Apostolical Scriptural He is one 2. That judgeth of his own Purity by no other Rule or Measure than as he treads Antipodes and runs counter to the Order as well as to the disorder of the Church of Rome ever looking upon those who most dissent from her how unreasonable soever their dissent be to be most pure He is one 3. That takes all occasions to assert and protest his purity and in order thereunto bespatters Kings confounds Parliaments roiles all the counsels of the Land leaves no stone unturn'd no religious villany unpractised till he hath made all as disorderly and confused as himself So that if you look for a sincere Protestant as the world now goes and as the Plotters doom would have it it must not be He that leadeth a pure life that worshippeth the true God regularly that studieth obedience to his Superiors spiritual and temporal or that practiseth the religion for which his Ancestors worthily are accounted Martyrs but He that can profess and protest with words and with Swords in affront to Kings in contempt to Laws in despight to Government yea and the more daringly always the better till they not only ruine the best and purest Church in the World but all the Government and Governors thereof I confess it is hard at present to give him a proper name you may as soon find out the number of the Beast and tell the significancy of his many heads and horns as know what the Legion means or what denomination he most delights in yet Purity is that he boasts of it was that he was formerly named by he still carries on the same design and therefore if at present he obtaineth the same name I hope he will excuse me and the rather because I neither fix upon him Covenanter Smectymnuan Rebel nor any other such foul though deserved Appellation This however I would have noted of him that his dissent difformity disagreement to the Church of England is purely Pharisaism nothing but down-right Hypocrisie and Pharisaism And this will evidently enough appear if you view him either inside or outside at home or abroad View him 1. As he walks abroad and here allow him but a Pharisees gate a Pharisees look a Pharisees garb a few affected phrases and a little mystical non-sence a sour and mis-shapen face an uncouth and hideous tone some ecstatick and convulsive motions Let him but shew the Legerdemain of his Throat his Eyes his Hands these and such other-like feats of apishness and mummery the Shibboleth of the Party and though wise Men blame them sober Men pity them learned Men nauseate them profane Men deride them Nature it self decline them nay though God never requires them nor in his Creation of things good ever design'd them and perhaps an hair Lip or a cloven Foot may be as proper for the Man as any of them all yet allow him I say but such little tricks such delusory frauds to ensnare and toll in the populacy and then we believe saith one of them that the generality of the Inhabitants of this Nation are as sound and healthful a part of the Catholick Church as any in the World and by their Profession as eminent a part of the Kingdom of Christ Grant them I say but these pitiful allowances for which School-boys are whipt University-lads hist out of the Schools and withal suffer them a separate house one like that of the Pharisees in the corner of the Streets a separate Priest a woful teaching Scribe of their own a separate worship that I mean of a long Cloak and as long a Prayer though as impertinent and Battological as ever Pharisee made to carry off these their Solecisms and Singularities and then their Sanctities are pleas'd and the difference between the Church of England and them as it was among the Jews amounteth to no more but this Stand off for I am Holyer than thou View them 2. More inwardly as they espouse and carry on the Principles of the Pharisees which are mainly these two 1. An avowed Disobedience to their Prince 2. A trusty Opposition to the Reformation Begin we 1. With their disobedience to their Prince which as among us is their Proprium quarto modo and as connatural and essential to the Puritan as ever it was to the Pharisee or Jesuit I would be loth to injure them yet verily Bellarmin Sanctarel Mariana are not more fulsome in their Tenents nor more antiregal antimonarchical in their Positions than Knox Buchanan and Cartwright of old or than their off-spring of late have been still are and are ever likely to be If Princes saith one of them and no small fool among them neither exceed their bounds and do against that wherefore they should be obeyed there is no doubt but they may be resisted If I had power saith another of them looking upon all the Princes that oppose them no better than as Tyrants I would command them to be transported into some solitary place or else to be drowned in the bottom of the Sea that their evil savour should not annoy living Men Nay I would award recompence to be given for the slaughter of them not only of all in general but of every one in particular as Men use to reward them for their pains which kill Wolves and Bears and destroy their young Ones And after this uneven Copy did most or all of our late Incendiaries write It 's commendable saith one lawful saith another for Defence of Religion to