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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44415	A sermon preach'd before the king at White-hall on the fifth of November, 1681 by George Hooper ...	Hooper, George, 1640-1727.	1682 (1682)	Wing H2706; ESTC R228742	12,526	28

Disturbance by Interdicts and Excommunications all the Wars and Confusions of whole Ages commanded and managed by this unchristian Authority Emperors at their Feet kickt away deposed by them to be murdered by their Subjects and their Sons The Crowns of England and France given away on any distast as if those Princes had been only Vicars of the Church and at best what they forced one of ours to own but Homagers to the Holy See This Usage on all occasions Crown'd Heads of their own Communion have felt from their Holy Father But if the Crime the Pope charg'd border'd on Heresie Then the Thunderbolts flew and the World was to Tremble to invade that Prince was like a Journey against Infidels to stab him meritorious and the Assassin to be Canoniz'd and so in the last Age on the Presumption of such a Sentence dyed Henry the Third of France The villainous Murderer in open Consistory recognized by the Pope for a Religious Hero and the Relief of Paris by such an ungodly Fact compared with the Redemption of Mankind Under the same Danger by a more express Decree lay Henry the Fourth his Successor till he suffered himself to be Instructed how he might be safe from the Master of the Assassins the Old Man of the Mountains and laid down his Conscience at the Pope's Feet to hold his Life and his Crown And not to mention their impotent Fury against our Henry the Eighth their Former Defender by the same Authority and with as little effect did four of that See successively thunder against our late Glorious Queen and solemnly declare her deprived of her Kingdoms As they had deprived her of those and her Life if God would have suffered private Treachery open Rebellion or a Forrain Powerful Invasion to succeed And in consequence of such a Declaration made by the last of them and with as much Justice was the Traiterous Attempt made we this day remember and King James of Blessed Memory and the three Estates of the Realm together condemned to one Fire So do they give to Caesar his Due And what then can Heretical Subjects expect they are to fall by thousands self-condemn'd and without the Honourable Ceremony of a Bull to be slaughter'd like Sheep abandoned by the angry Shepherd as in the Butchery of Paris or by the Wolves of Ireland For Mercy is not the due of a Heretick nor has he right to common Faith his Life belongs not to him But how is it that the great Spiritual Father deals with his obedient Children Does he not render them their due He like an Old Roman Father treats them with an unaccountable Power allows them no Propriety and denies them the use of all that their good God had given them He takes out of their Hands the Holy Scriptures the greatest Gift of the Holy Ghost their only Comfort and Instruction And instead of it puts a Legend for the Word of Life and Truth unedifying fabulous Traditions for Bread a Stone for Fish a Serpent If that See had pretended but a little earlier Power over the Blessed Spirit they might have commanded it not to write however now they forbid the People to read He keeps from them the Legacy of their dying Saviour one half of the spiritual Nourishment bequeathed them He denys them the use of their Understandings and Judgements in almost all the Articles of their Faith of their Sences too in that of Transubstantiation He takes from them the knowledg of the Prayers offered in their Name and lets them not understand their own Desires So are the People to appear before God dumb and Senseless like one of their Idols All is to be referred to the Priest The Pardon of their Sins is to depend on his Discretion and the Efficacy of that part of the blessed Sacrament that is left on the Sincerity of his Intention So is man robbed of his Spiritual Consolation and the good God of his gracious Purposes But they are more bold yet with the Almighty That Princes may not complain of respect of Persons they absolve in some Cases from the Obedience of God himself and avowedly allow what he as positively forbids authorise incestuous Conjunctions and license Perjury pass Pardons for all Sins committed against the Divine Majesty They make the Authority of the Writings of God to depend upon their own and add to them as they see cause creating new Articles of Faith and Instituting almost a new Religion They give away his Worship make their devoutest Addresses and pay their most humble acknowledgments to the Virgin Mary to Angels to Favourite Saints And that there may not be wanting Rivals with our God They create Saints give Crowns above as well as below and dispose of Heaven as their own They give Divine Honour to Bread which they call a God and to an Image which to the Eye they might better Transubstantiate And to cover their Idolatry they commit Sacrilege steal away one of the ten Commandements and by their Index Expurgatorius blot the two Tables themselves So far has the Papal See been from observing the Rule of the Text from giving to Caesar what is Caesar's or to God what is God's III. The Church of which we have the Blessing to be Members and whose Preservation we more particularly acknowledge this Day with Thanks to God Almighty its Defendor appears in its reformation to have proposed to it self this Rule of our Saviour's to have had in it no other Design than by a just and equal distribution to give to God what is God's and to Man what is Man's It has surveyed the several Claims in the name of God and of the King has considered whose peculiar Stamp and Character those things that were challenged bore and has restored them by the direction of those Marks to their rightful Proprietors In this disposal of Rights and general Restitution it has not minded any Interest of its own nor laid its Hands on what belongs not to it It has not had any private Design to gain by what it was to distribute It has stood upright and held the Ballance steady dealing to each their own ingenuously and with an impartial Hand To God as is most due it renders first his own to his Person a Worship intirely Divine an Honour not before lessened on any rival part of his Creation to his Laws an Obedience which no other Command shall controle nor Dispensation release To Princes next and those that are in Authority it has restored the full exercise of their lawful Power their Countries and their People again their own no place privileg'd nor Person exempted no forain Potentate sharing the Authority nor dividing the Revenue their Subjects bound in an Allegiance not to be withdrawn on any Pretence of Schism or Heresie in the Power of no Consistory to discharge And here we see no Politick reserve that our Church has not provided for it self any other Refuge but in the Providence of God and the Piety of the