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A36929	Three sermons preached in St. Maries Church in Cambridg, upon the three anniversaries of the martyrdom of Charles I, Jan. 30, birth and return of Charles II, May 29, gun-powder treason, Novemb. 5 by James Duport ...	Duport, James, 1606-1679.	1676 (1676)	Wing D2655; ESTC R14797	53,659	86

merits and mediation Indeed 't is the free Grace and Mercy of God that is the prime and principal proegumenous cause whereby God is inwardly mov'd and enclin'd to give a discharge and release to Sinners and to grant pardon and forgiveness o' Sin and 't is the all-sufficient merit and mediation of Christ that is the prime and principal procatarctic cause the only impulsive meritorious cause whereby God is mov'd and induced to show pity to poor Sinners 'T is Christ alone that is our Advocate with the Father and he is the propitiation for our sins says St. John though if Socinus say true the blood of Martyrs may avail almost as much for the expiation and pardon of Sins as the blood o' Christ yet the same Apostle tells us that not the blood of Martyrs but only the blood of Jesus Christ the Son of God cleanseth us from all sin Without shedding o' blood his blood no remission o' Sin not of the Sin of Blood-shed and Murder this Sin to be sure 't is his blood alone can wash out this blood the guilt and stain of this Crimson and Scarlet Sin especially the stain of innocent and Royal blood the Sin of this day 'T is not the blood of all the Martyrs and Holy men that ever were slain since the beginning o' the world not all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of our righteous King Charles the First that can make an atonement or propitiation for any one Sin The blood of Saints and Martyrs may cry aloud to Heaven for vengeance but it can never cry for mercy no that 's proper and peculiar to the blood of Christ alone No other propitiatory nor deletory of Sin but only the blood of that immaculate Lamb. Nor have we any other Advocates in Heaven that we know on nor Mediators of intercession no more than of Redemption but only that one Mediator between God and men the man Christ Jesus I say no other Advocates nor Mediators in Heaven yet we have a sort of inferiour Advocates and Intercessors on earth viz. our fellow Christians that may and do make intercession for us and are daily Orators in our behalf at the throne of Grace praying to God for us that he wu'd not impute our Sins unto us Some on earth then we have that intercede and pray for us but none in Heaven but our Saviour Christ I mean none that pray for us in particular though in the general the Church Triumphant in Heaven may pray for the Church Militant here on earth yet I scy no Saints departed pray for us in partkcular for ought we know and Viventes pro viventibus ergo Defuncti is no good consequence by the Cardinal 's leav for they that live and converse with us here on earth may see and know our wants or we may impart our thoughts and desires our needs and necessities to 'um but that the Saints in Heaven either know my wants or hear my Prayers I ha' no ground to believ because no warrant at all in Scripture therefore I cannot in Faith call upon 'um nor pray unto 'um to pray and intercede for oe and though St. Stephen's Prayer might prevail for his Persecutors while he was upon earth yet it cannot prevail with me to say Sancte Stephane or a me now he 's in Heaven However this benefit and advantage we have by that Article of our Creed the Communion of Saints that we who are members of the Catholic Church here on earth reap the fruit of one anothers Prayers Nor is this sweet perfume of the Prayers of the Saints confin'd within the verge and pale o' the Christian Church but extends it self to the benefit even of Jews Turks Infidels and Heretics so that when this alabaster box is broken and these Prayers pour'd forth the whole world is fill'd with the odour of the Oyntment Though then the mediation and intercession of Christ in Heaven be the sole meritorious cause of a nè imputes of not laying sin to the sinner's charge yet by the vertue of his merit and mediation the Prayers and Intercessions of Holy men upon earth are very prevalent and impetratorious in their kind as motives and inducements to God to give a discharge not as meriting but procuring causes or rather not causes but occasions of the remission of Sins and not only of their own but even of other mens Sins Yet is not this done per saltum neither but by degrees I mean by some previous qualifications and conditions requisite to be perform'd by the Sinner himself to render him capable of so great a favour as this non-imputation such as godly sorrow and hearty repentance and an unfeigned purpose of amendment o'life therefore Qui vult finem vult media he that prays for another that God wu'd not lay his sins to his charge is presum'd to pray withal that God wu'd give him Grace to repent of his Sins this latter being the way and means to procure and obtain the former for as without shedding o' blood the blood o' Christ so without shedding o' tears the tears of a Sinner i. e. without godly sorrow and repentance there is no remission So then the Prayers of the faithful are a powerful and prevalent means whereby God is mov'd and enclin'd to give repentance to Sinners and consequently remission of Sins Let the Elders pray over the sick person says St. James and the Prayer of faith shall save the sick and if he have committed sins they shall be forgiven him therefore saith Simon Magus to Simon Peter here i' the next Chapter Pray to the Lord for me meaning as appears by the context that his Sins might be forgiv'n him And Pray not thou for this people says God to the Prophet implying that the Prophet's praying for 'um was the ordinary means to move God to give 'um a pardon and not to lay their sins to their charge That Austin ever was St. Austin he might partly thank his Mother Monica for her Prayers and Tears Fieri non potest ut filius istarum lacrymarum pereat So powerful and prevalent are the Prayers and Tears of holy Men and Women of Saints and Martyrs to obtain repentance and salvation for others the Prayers of Martyrs especially for as Sanguis Martyrum semen Ecclesiae so Oratio justi clavis coeli As the soil of the Church is manur'd and made fat by the blood of dying Martyrs so being blown and breath'd upon by the soft gentle gales of their Prayers especially of those Prayers they make for their enemies it becomes more fruitful by a new addition o' Converts and Proselytes who by observing both the constancy and charity of these holy men at their deaths by seeing their patience in constant suffering for the truth and by hearing or rather God's hearing their charity in such servent praying for their persecutors are effectually wrought upon converted

escaped I know by soul here according to the usual Idiom of the Hebrew tongue is meant nothing els but life or person as much as to say our persons are escaped or we are escaped with our lives her life that 's all the bird looks after Yet I hope I may without forcing the Text take occasion from hence by way of accommodation to put some greater stress or emphasis upon the word soul and to observe from hence that the Deliverance wrought tnis day was a Soul-Deliverance not only a Corporal but a Spiritual Deliverance not only a Deliverance of the body but of the soul too we escaped not only with our lives but with our Religion Our soul is escaped escap'd out of the snares of Popish Idolatry and Superstition laid in our way by those Romish Fowlers snares I say laid in our way for what is their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for instance or worshipping the Host but an Idolatrous snare what are their numerous superfluous superstitious rites and ceremonies but tot Laquei animarum so many snares upon the Souls and Consciences of men especially as us'd and impos'd by them of the Church of Rome who place holiness and religion in them and make them matters of necessity and parts of Divine worship things by the way which our Church in her few her very few ceremonies has ever expresly disclaim'd enough in the judgment of any moderate or sober men to clear her from any suspicious or superstitious symbolizing or syncretizing with the Church of Rome Well these were the snares but by the blasting and defeating this Powder-treason these snares were broken and our soul escaped and we were delivered Again their Auricular confession consisting in an anxious punctual enumeration of all particular sins to the Priest in private once a year Mistake me not I am not against private Confession to a Priest I would it were more practis'd amongst us but that Auricular Sacramental Confession as they call it and as it is practis'd in the Church of Rome besides that it is a kind of a pick-pocket as it is us'd and a picklock of the cabinets and counsels of Princes what a Carnificina Laqueus Conscientiae is it what an intolerable snare upon the soul and conscience I instance in this the rather becaus under this pretended cover of Confession though indeed it was no formal Confession the business being reveal'd to Garnet and others as he himself confess'd at last not in way of Confession but of discours and consultation only but under this cloak and cover of Confession the treason was hid and conceal'd sub sigillo a Seal so sacred and inviolable that 't is not to be broken in any case whatsoever saith Bellarmine no not to avoid the greatest evil that may possibly happen Catholica Doctrina non permittit ad ullum malum vitandum secretum Confessionis detegi and he speaks it in defence of this days treason Not to be broken no not to save the lives of all the Kings in Christendom so said F. Binet the French Jesuit to Casaubon upon this very occasion as that learned man tells us in his excellent Epistle to Fronto Ducaeus Praestaret Reges omnes perire quàm si vel semel sigillum Confessionis violaretur But by the disappointment of this horrid design both this pretended seal and this snare was broken and our soul escaped and we were delivered Once more Their Pope's Pardons Bulls and Breves their Papal Indulgences and Dispensations which gave Luther the first occasion of plucking his foot out of the Romish snare what are they els but pitiful snares to catch Dotrels poor silly souls that will pay so dear for a new-Nothing But by defeating this Devilish plot this snare was broken our soul is escaped and we are delivered What should I speak of their Transubstantiation and Purgatory worshipping of Images and Invocation of Saints and the Rest of Pope Pius the fourth's new Articles of the Tridentine faith equal in number and equal in authority to those of the Apostles Creed snares laid for our souls by the fowlers of Rome especially those subtil Emissaries and cunning fowlers the Jesuites who as they did then so have they done since and still no doubt do go a birding among us though some are so blind and simple they will not see it Had they caught us in that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that capacious Catholic snare set this day for King and Kingdom Church and State those other snares would have followed of course for that was on purpose laid to bring these upon us But Benedictum sit Nomen Domini hitherto our soul is escaped out of these snares the snares of their dangerous and pernicious doctrines and principles and the snares of their wicked and cruel designs and practices especially out of the great snare of this day Our soul is escaped and we are delivered And now may not this justly provoke and stir us up to a detestation and hatred of that Church and Religion which brings forth such cursed and bitter fruits whose principles are productive of so sad and direful effects I will not say though it has been said the Romanists Faith is Faction and their Religion Rebellion but this I must say that they teach and broach such Doctrines as are very scandalous to Christian Religion and very dangerous and destructive to Kingdoms and States as having a direct and natural tendency to sedition rebellion and treason And herein I dare boldly impeach and implead the Church of Rome as the mother and nurs of this hideous monster though blessed be God it prov'd but an embryo this monstrous Gunpowder-treason And that herein I do her no wrong I shall make it appear For though our Romanists may wipe their mouths and disclaim the business by laying the blame upon a few rash hot-headed discontented Catholic Gentlemen yet if we examine it well and it has been examin'd pretty well already we shall find it to have been the genuine issue and product of their Popish Principles the natural result and consequence of some doctrines and opinions commonly and openly held and maintained in the Church of Rome I shall instance in one especially which is instar omnium and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the ground and foundation of all the rest and that which gave the first birth and breeding to this barbarous and bloody design and that is that beldame doctrine of the Pope's Infallibility or which is all one of his Supremacy for if he be Infallible he must needs be Supreme or if you will his universal temporal Monarchy his Lordship Paramount his absolute Soveraignty and Dominion his unlimited Power and Authority over Kings and Kingdoms his power to depose Kings and to dispose of their Kingdoms That the Pope hath power to depose Kings if they be Tyrants or Heretics and so they must be if he once say the word and pleas to call them so is Communis Doctorum the common