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A13414	A sermon preached in Saint Maries Church in Oxford. Vpon the anniversary of the Gunpowder-Treason. By Ieremy Taylor, fellow of Allsoules Colledge in Oxford	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.	1638 (1638)	STC 23724; ESTC S118171	44,173	96

height of a revenge It is the Doctrine of S. Hierome and Titus Bostrensis The Law had beene their Schoole-master and taught them the rules of justice both Punitive and Vindictive But Christ was the first that taught it to be a sinne to retaliate evill with evill it was a Doctrine they could not read in the killing letter of the Law There they might meete with precedents of revenge and anger of a high severity an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth and let him be cut off from his people But forgiving injuries praying for our persecutors loving our enemies and relieving them were Doctrines of such high and absolute integrity as were to be reserved for the best and most perfect Law-giver the bringer of the best promises to which the most perfect actions have the best proportion and this was to be when Shiloh came Now then the spirit of Elias is out of date Iam ferrea primum Desinit ac toto surgit Gens Aurea Mundo And therefore our blessed Master reproveth them of ignorance not of the Law but of his spirit which had they but known or could but have guessed at the end of his comming they had not been such Abecedarij in the Schoole of Mercy And now we shall not need to look farre for persons Disciples professing at least in Christs schoole yet as great strangers to the mercifull spirit of our Saviour as if they had been sonnes of the Law or foster-brothers to Romulus and suck't a wolse and they are Romanists too this daies solemnity presents them to us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet were that wash'd off underneath they write Christian and Iesuit One would have expected that such men set forth to the worlds acceptance with so mercifulla cognomentum should have put a hand to support the ruinous fabrick of the worlds charity and not have pulled the frame of heaven earth about our eares But yet Necredite Teucri Give me leave first to make an Inquisition after this Antichristian pravity and try who is of our side and who loves the King by pointing at those whose Sermons doe blast Loyalty breathing forth Treason flaughters and cruelty the greatest imaginable contrariety to the spirit and Doctrine of our Dear Master So we shall quickly finde out more then a pareil for S. Iames and S. Iohn the Boanerges of my Text. It is an act of faith by faith to conquer the enemies of God and Holy Church saith Sanders our Country-man Hitherto nothing but well If Iames and Iohn had offered to doe no more then what they could have done with the sword of the spirit and the shield of Faith they might have beene inculpable and so had he if hee had said no more but the blood boyles higher the manner spoyles all For it is not well done unlesse a warlike Captaine be appointed by Christs Vicar to beare a Croisade in a field of blood And if the other Apostles did not proceed such an angry way as Iames Iohn it was only discretion that detain'd them not religion For so they might and it were no way unlawfull for them to beare armes to propagate Religion had they not wanted an opportunity if you believe the same author for fighting is proper for S. Peter and his Successors therefore because Christ gave him Commission to feed his Lambs A strange reason I had thought Christ would have his Lambes fed with the sincere milk of his word not like to Canibals solitisque 〈◊〉 Lac potare Getis poculatingere venis To mingle blood intheir sacrifices as Herod to the Galilaeans and quaffe it off for an auspicium to the propagation of the Christian faith Me thinks here is already too much clashing of armour and effusion of blood for a Christian cause but this were not altogether so unchristian like if the sheepe though with blood yet were not to be fed with the blood of their sheepheard 〈◊〉 I meane their Princes But I finde many such Nutritij in the Nurseries of Rome driving their Lambes from their folds unlesse they will be taught to wory the Lion Emanuel Sà in his Aphorismes affirmes it lawful to kill a King indeed not every King but such a one as rules with Tyranny and not then unlesse the Pope hath sentene'd him to death but then he may though he be his lawfull Prince Not the necessitude which the Law of nations hath put betweene Prince and people not the obligation of the oath of Allegeance not the Sanctions of God Almighty himselfe must reverse the sentence against the King when once past but any one of his subjects of his owne sworne subjects may kill him This perfidious treasonable position of Sà is not a single Testimony For 1. it slipt not from his pen by inadvertency it was not made publique untill after forty yeares deliberation as himselfe testifies in his Preface 2. After such an avisamente it is now the ordinary receiv'd manuall for the Fathers Confessors of the Iesuits Order This Doctrine although Titulo res digna sepulchri yet is nothing if compared with Mariana For 1. he affirms the same Doctrine in substance 2. Then he descends to the very manner of it ordering how it may be done with the best convenience He thinks poyson to be the best way but yet that for the more secrecy it be cast upon the chayres saddles and garments of his Prince It was the old laudable custome of the Moores of Spaine 3. Hee addes examples of the businesse telling us that this was the device to wit by poyson'd boots that old Henry of Castile was cur'd of his sicknesse 4. Lastly this may be done not only if the Pope judge the King a Tyrant which was the utmost Emanuel Sà affirm'd but it is sufficient proofe of his being a Tyrant if learned men though but few and those seditious too doe but murmure it or beginne to call him so I hope this Doctrine was long since disclaim'd by the whole Society and condemned ad umbras Acherunticas Perhaps so but yet these men who use to object to us an infinity of divisions among our selves who boast so much of their owne Vnion and consonancy in judgment with whom nothing is more ordinary then to maintaine some opinions quite throughout their Order as if they were informed by some common Intellectus agens should not be divided in a matter of so great moment so much concerning the Monarchy of the See Apostolike to which they are vowed leigemen But I have greater reason to believe them Vnited in this Doctrine then is the greatnesse of this probability For 1. There was an Apology printed in Italy permissu superiorum in the yeare 1610. that sayes They were all enemies of that holy Name of Iesus that condemned Mariana for any such Doctrine I understand not why but sure I am that the Iesuits doe or did thinke his Doctrine innocent for in their Apology put

whom under God and the King we owe the Blessing and Prosperity of all our Studies Nor yet can I choose but hope that my Great Obligations to your Grace's Favour may plead my pardon since it is better that my Gratitude should be bold then my diffidence ingratefull but that this is so farre from expressing the least part of them that it layes a greater bond upon me either for a debt of delinquency in presenting it or of thankfulnesse if your Grace may please to pardon it I humbly crave your Grace's Benediction pardon and acceptance of the humblest duty and observance of Your GRACES most observant and obliged CHAPLAINE IER TAYLOR A SERMON PREACHED VPON THE Anniversary of the GUNPOWDER-TREASON LUK. 9. Cap. vers 54. But when Iames and Iohn saw this they said Lord wilt thou that we command fire to come from Heaven and consume them even as Elias did I Shall not need to strain much to bring my Text and the day together Here is fire in the text consuming fire like that whose Antevorta we doe this day commemorate This fire called for by the Disciples of Christ so was ours too by Christs Disciples at least and some of them intitled to our Great Master by the compellation of his holy name of IESUS I would say the paralell holds thus farre but that the persons of my Text however Boanerges sonnes of thunder and of a reproveable spirit yet are no way considerable in the proportion of malice with the persons of the day For if I consider the cause that mov'd Iames and Iohn to so inconsiderate a wrath it beares a fair excuse The men of Samaria turn'd their Lord and Master out of doores denying to give a nights lodging to the Lord of Heaven and Earth It would have disturbed an excellent patience to see him whom but iust before they beheld transfigured and in a glorious Epiphany upon the Mount to be so neglected by a company of hated Samaritans as to be forc'd to keep his vigils where nothing but the welkin should have been his roofe not any thing to shelter his precious head from the descending dew of heaven Quis talia fando Temperet It had been the greater wonder if they had not been angry But now if we should levell our progresse by the same line and guesse that in the present affaire there was an equall cause because a greater fire was intended wee shall too much betray the ingenuity of apparent truth and the blessing of this Anniversary They had not halfe such a case for an excuse to a farre greater malice it will prove they had none at all and therefore their malice was somuch the more malicious because causelesse and totally inexcusable However I shall endeavour to joyne their consideration in as 〈◊〉 a paralell as I can which if it be not exact as certainly it cannot where we have already discovered so much difference in degrees of malice yet by laying them together we may better take their estimate though it be only by seeing their disproportion The words as they lay in their own order point out 1. The persons that ask't the question 2. The cause that mov'd them 3. The person to whom they propounded it 4. The Question it selfe 5. And the precedent they urg'd to move a grant drawn from a very fallible Topick a singular Example in a speciall and different case The persons here were Christs Disciples and so they are in our case design'd to us by that glorious Sir-name of Christianity they will be called Catholiques but if our discovery perhaps rise higher and that the See Apostolique prove sometimes guilty of so reproveable a spirit then we are very neer to a paralell of the persons for they were Disciples of Christ Apostles 2. The cause was the denying of toleration of abode upon the grudge of an old schisme Religion was made the instrument That which should have taught the Apostles to be charitable and the Samaritans hospitable was made a pretence to justify the unhospitablenesse of the one and the uncharitablenesse of the other Thus farre we are right for the malice of this present Treason stood upon the same base 3. Although neither Side much doubted of the lawfulnesse of their proceedings yet S. Iames and S. Iohn were so discreet as not to think themselves infallible therefore they ask'd their Lord so did the persons of the day aske the question too but not of Christ for he was not in all their thoughts but yet they ask'd of Christs Delegates who therefore should have given their answer eodem tripode from the same spirit They were the Fathers Confessors who were ask'd 4. The question is of both sides concerning a consumptive sacrifice the destruction of a Towne there of a whole Kingdome here but differing in the circumstance of place whence they would fetch their fire The Apostles would have had it from Heaven but these men's conversation was not there 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 things from beneath from an artificiall hell but breath'd from the naturall and proper were in all their thoughts 5. The example which is the last particular I feare I must leave quite out and when you have considered all perhaps you will look for no example First of the persons they were Disciples of Christ and Apostles But when Iames and Iohn saw this When first I considered they were Apostles I wondered they should be so intemperatly angry but when I perceived they were so angry I wondred not that they sinned Not the priviledge of an Apostolicall spirit not the nature of Angels not the condition of immortality can guard from the danger of sinne but if we be overrul'd by passion we almost subject our selves to its necessity It was not therefore without reason altogether that the Stoicks affirm'd wisemen to be void of passions for sure I am the inordination of any passion is the first step to folly And although of them as of waters of a muddy residence wee may make good use and quench our thirst if wee doe not trouble them yet upon any ungentle disturbance we drinke down mud in stead of a cleere streame and the issues of sinne and sorrow certaine consequents of temerarious or inordinate anger And therefore when the Apostle had given us leave to be angry as knowing the condition of human nature hee quickly enters a Caveat that we sinne not hee knew sinne was very likely to be hand-maid where Anger did domineer and this was the reason why S. Iames and S. Iohn are the men here pointed at for the Scripture notes them for Boanerges sonnes of thunder men of an angry temper quid mirum est filios tonitrui fulgurâsse voluisse said S. Ambrose But there was more in it then thus Their spirits of themselves hot enough yet met with their education under the Law whose first tradition was in fire and thunder whose precepts were just but not so mercifull and this inflam'd their distemper to the