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A30250	Another sermon preached to the Honorable House of Commons now assembled in Parliament, November the fifth, 1641 by Cornelius Burges, D.D. ; wherein, among other things, are shewed a list of some of the popish traytors in England.	Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665.	1641 (1641)	Wing B5668; ESTC R21418	55,204	69

and writings and that not onely by word but also by Bookes published to the world witnesse Widdringtons Apologie for the Oath of Alleigance his Defence of his Apologie his Supplication to Pope Paul the Fifth his Appendix to that Supplication c. Witnesse also Watsons Quodlilets the Jesuites Catechisme and many more and lastly witnesse their Petition to the present Parliament and their Protestation annexed wherein they professe all ready and cheerfull obedience to the King in all Civill and Temporall affaires to take the Oath of Alleigance So they be not bound to sweare opinions to disclaime all forreigne Power Papall or Princely that should pretend authoritie to assoile them of that Oath c. I must briefly answere that albeit they have in words professed a dislike of Jesuitical Practices yet still they hold of the Pope for the whole frame of their Religion and vow obedience to all his publike Definitions and what these be you have before heard in part Next it is true that Widdrington hath written modestly yet was he faine to purge for it to the Pope and after all to goe off with disgrace And who knows not that shortly after some Seminaries had admired and extolled to the heavens the Bull of Pius 5. against Queen Elizabeth and blasphemously perswaded the world that it was indited by the Holy Ghost they set out a Booke on purpose to lull the Queen and the State asleep to admonish the Papists of England not to practise any mischiefe upon the Queen for that Catholikes might use no other Arms but teares prayers watchings and fastings against their Adversaries Yet who is ignorant of the daily conspiracies that the Papists in those times and during all the rest of Queene Elizabeths reigne did desperately involve themselves into to their owne destruction And what though Watson and other Secular Priests rather out of emulation and envie than true Loyaltie wrote some volumes against the Iesuites when they began to over-beare the Secular Priests here in England yet this was not so great an argument of their fidelity as of their spite and subtiltie for we know that even that very Watson and Clerk another of his Confederates was afterwards the desperate propounder and ring-leader of that foule Treason against King Iames and Prince Henry for which hee and Clerk deservedly suffered the reward of Traytors in the first yeere of King James And albeit there be lately cast among you a Pamphlet or Dialogue between a Parliament man and a Roman Catholike what credit can be given to that which no man avows no man ever presented to you It is I confesse a cunning piece but shamefully blending what cannot be answered And it is cunningly published perhaps for a dangerous end If the Parliament thrive and carry on their businesse as is desired then this Book shall be vouched as a faire profer of the Catholikes rejected without consideration If any disaster happen and that Romanists doe chance to get a Day then if this Petition and Protestation be pressed upon them they will boldly aske you What Catholike did ever avow or owne it It is but a Pasquill they will not be tyed by it And againe Suppose they take the Oath and Protestation mentioned in that Pamphlet what are we the neerer to safetie when they still must hold that the Pope can dispence with any Oath and therefore with this even when they have taken it For doe we not see them take libertie to doe so with the Popes owne Bulls Did not Parsons and Campian in the yeere 1580. notwithstanding their strict Oath to obey the Pope in all things procure a Dispensation to free all Catholikes from obeying the Popes owne Declaratory Bull of Excommunication against Queen Elizabeth till a better opportunitie when as yet in the meane time all others should be under the Curse of it who did not presently obey it Quo teneam nodo what Oath or Protestation then will hold a Romish Catholike in obedience to a Prince by them accounted hereticall when no Decree of the Pope himself shall hold them if they finde it not seasonable When there is no remedy they will yeeld to any thing but when they see their time they will doe any thing Bishop Andrews on Nov. 5. 1616. on ●s●y 37.3 I shall therefore close up this with a passage or two out of two Grave Authors one a great Bishop in a Sermon to King James Where speaking of the prodigious Doctrine of Bellarmine in reference to the Primitive Christians and our moderne Papists and of the reason the Cardinall gives why the Christians of old did not rise up against persecuting Emperors Id fuit quia deerant vires the Bishop makes this collection As much as to say if they now in these daies be so as they were carry themselves quietly it is quia non sunt vires and to hold no longer than Donec erunt and then you are like to heare of them to have them goe againe with such another birth You shall have them as mild as Gregory the First when they have no strength but as fierce as Gregory the Seventh when they have And afterwards thus See ye not next under God whereto to ascribe our safety Even to non erant vires there is a point hangs on that For while that lasts while ye keep them there yee shall have the Primitive Church of them have them lie as quiet as still as ever did the barrells in the vault till vires like fire come to them and then off goe they then nothing but depose Kings dispose of Kingdomes assoile Subjects arme them against their Soveraignes then doe they care not what But if the Powder take not fire thou shall you straight have Bookes tending to mitigation then all quiet againe Certainly thus standing it were best to hold them in defectu virium to provide ut ne sint to keepe them at non sunt vires till time they be better minded in this point and wee have good assurance of it For minded as they are they want no will no virus they tell us what the matter is strength they want they write it they print it and si adessent vires they would act it in earnest Thus Hee The other of my Authors having reckoned up a Catalogue of the damnable Doctrines of Popery Dr. Prideaux on Nov. 5 on Psal 9 19. Num. 8. professeth to have done it to make it appeare to those that would willingly be better perswaded of their Doctrine that the Doctrine it selfe directly warranteth Treason let the Traitors be what they will and that none can be an absolute Papist but if hee throughly understand himselfe and live under a Christian Prince 3 Remembrancer Popish Priests are bound by them Oath to inculcate those Principles of Treason that hath renounced the Popes Authoritie must needs being put unto it be an absolute Traitor And so I have done with my second Remembrancer Thirdly My Third is this that you would

Armies in the North of the Damnable Attempts of our Treacherous Fugitives now abroad and of the open Rebellion in Ireland God grant wee heare of no more neere-hand But yet these may instruct you that if you would have Peace with Rome Rome will have no peace with you and that to pluck up the hedge of your Lawes is to lay all waste for they will never be quiet till either by your Care and Wisdome you have secured them from doing more mischiefe which will never be while their Idolatrie is permitted although but in secret * Your Highnes may assure your selfe that the Adversaries wil not change their Disposition unlesse either we were reduced to their blindnesse or they drawn to imbrace the Truth with us Bishop Carelton Epist Dedic to Prince now King Charles before his Book of Thankfull Rememb or till they have brought us all under the line of confusion If it be said that the only Reason of their often Conspiracies at home and abroad hath been the strictnesse of the Lawes made against them for the faults of a few whom they condemne as much as wee and that if those Lawes now that the occasions of them cease were but repealed they could and would be as Loyall as any notwithstanding their Religion I answere that for the Lawes made against them they may thank only themselves that have so much abused Royall Clemencie and Goodnesse But what ever the Lawes bee none have been put to death save only for Treason And even among those that have come within this compasse many have escaped with banishment And when the turbulencie of some have enforced the State to execute them yet others too guilty have been spared For Queen Elizabeth shortly after the proceedings against Campian and some of his fellows Bishop Carelton sent away 70. Priests in a very short time out of England some of which had received and the rest had deserved sentence of death for Treason Neither have our Lawes been so rigid nor so rigidly executed against Papists here as theirs have been against Protestants Nor have Papists been exposed to such Butchery as is too too frequent where Papists domineir Witnesse the Spanish Inquisition wherinto if any Lutheran be secretly conveyed they put him not to a legall triall but give him their Marshall Law For as Hoffeus the Jesuite was wont to bragg they hold it a good peece of Pietie instantly to commend him to the fire ut anima ejus in curru igneo ad inferos trahatur that so his soule might be forthwith carried to hell in a fiery Chariot as one * Hassen Muller Hist Iesuit cap. 6. bred among them reporteth of him Nay sundry degrees of Dignitie and honour have been in later times especially heaped upon divers of them yea they have been admitted very neere to his Majesties Sacred Person and trusted with Offices of greatest honor and trust in the State And yet neverthelesse neither any nor all of these favours together either doe or can secure us of them and that for the Reason contained in the second Remembrancer which in the next place followeth 2. It is not our Lawes 2 Remembrancer Their it very Religion teacheth Rebellion and so they drinke in Principles of Treason with the Principles of Popery but sundry Principles of their very Religion that makes them disloyall and carries them still on upon Treasons and Rebellion and would doe so although the Lawes made against them were all repealed So that in this sense our Publike Prayer appointed for this day as it was first penned and published viz. that their faith is Faction their Religion is Rebellion c. was no slander but a just Character of their Antichristian Profession and is unjustly altered what ever hath been boldly said and published to justifie the alteration To make this good I shall not need to ravell into all their Doctrine but only to give you a list of such Principles of theirs as are obvious in all their writings and notoriously knowne to all the world And first Read but any of the Popes Bulls and you need search no further for proofes hereof who knows not that with them all Protestants are condemned for Hereticks Princes themselves not exempted 2. That no faith is to be held with Hereticks because Hereticks themselves are fallen from the Faith and so doe forfeit all Priviledges wherein keeping of Faith with them might oblige others or steed them 3. That Hereticall Princes excommunicated by the Pope are forthwith deprived and deposed of all Princely dignitie and Soveraignty their subjects are discharged from all alleigance and are accursed if they further obey them Witnesse the Bulls sent out against Queen Elizabeth by Pius 5. Gregory 13. and Sixtus 5. and the writings of not onely Bellarmine and Suarez and other Forreigners but of Alan Saunders Parsons Creswell and sundry other of our Apostate English who have defended these Bulls and Positions even unto death 4. Our English Papists doe all professe to adhere to the Pope as supreme in all Spiritualls and Ecclesiasticalls their owne King having nothing to doe herein but only in Temporalls and to obey the Pope before all the world in things of this nature 5. They know that the Pope doth professe and publish both by doctrine and practice that hee hath power to excommunicate the greatest Potentates if hereticall to command all Catholikes in all things in ordine ad spiritualia that have any reference to the Catholike Cause that all Catholikes are bound * Bulla Pij 5. An. 1569. The Copy of which Bull you may finde in any of the Annalls or Chronicles of that time to obey him if he command it under paine of damnation in opposing their Soveraigne without disputing his commands and that he hath power to dissolve all bonds covenants leagues and oathes as he shall finde conducing to the advancement of the Catholike Faith So that if he list no bands humane or Divine no oathes never so solemnly taken shall binde Papists for when occasion serves the Pope can and will release them from all obligations of God or Conscience of Nature and Nations And they must submit unto him without regret Nor is heer any place left for tergiversation For first if they shall plead that these have been the private opinions of some Jesuites and hot-spurres to bring their Religion under hatred and obloquie they must remember that they may not put the Definitions of Trent nor the Popes Definitive sentences e Cathedra among private Opinions if they will acknowledge any thing to be Publike and their Pope infallible when he decrees from his Chayre which they dare not denie without renouncing their Religion and incurring the crime of heresie If they alledge secondly as some doe that how ever some Treacherous spirits have been too blame and too many Jesuites have been Incendiaries as well in their writings as in their practices yet the more moderate Catholikes have ever condemned those facts

by powder At Holbeach in Worcestershire wherewith they intended the destruction of so many And afterwards Catesby and Piercy the principals in that wickednesse were shot to death by one shot of a Musket and thereby found Gods own hand taking revenge by powder before the justice of man could seize upon them And not onely so but even Faux the appointed Executioner and Garnet the Arch-Devil to blesse their plot confessed to the praise of God as well as the rest at their execution the outragious wickednesse and odiousnesse of that hellish designe Nay further God raised up an everlasting * An Act for keeping of this Day for ever Pillar of Thankesgiving from that very Parliament which should have been blown up and produced effects quite contrary to those which the Traytors intended in preserving not onely the Persons but the Laws which they meant to destroy and in causing moe Lawes to be made against them who so wickedly provoked the Clemencie of the Prince and abused the lenitie and mercie they formerly enjoyed but in providing more carefully ever since for our preservation I need not tell you that the rest of the rage is happily restrained Your eyes behold it and we all sit under the blessing of it unto this day Onely take notice that God did it not by ordinary meanes Not by abating th●ir rage for Faux God restrained the rest not in an ordinary after his apprehension repented nothing more then his not giving the blow yea the whole crew afterwards brake forth into open Rebellion till some of them were slain and the rest taken in the height of their rage Not by diverting them for they received not the least interruption till all was ready for execution Not by taking off any of their Instruments for not a man of them was toucht by death sicknesse or arrest till after the very trains were laid to the powder and all prepared for the firing of it Not by arming the creatures against them for no creature once troubled them till they were found out almost too late to be Troublers of Israel Not by smiting them with Panick fears for they were never so high floan before the discovery with confidence of successe nor more desperately fearlesse after they knew that all was discovered Nor yet by setting them one against another for like Simeon and Levi they held too fast together 2. Use of the second Point even unto death but in an extraordinary manner But the Lord did it himselfe causing one of them who had taken three Oaths to conceale it and kept touch with his tongue by a writing to reveile it verifying that of the Wisest King that a Eccl. 10.20 that which hath wings shall tell the matter and affecting the King with a spirit of jealousie who ordinarily offended rather on the other hand and leading him to an interpretation of the Letter quite contrary to the common sense And not onely so but by sharpning the edg of all mens spirits against the Traitors See the Discourse of the Powder Treason in King James his Works in the Countries where they wandred to kill some of them and to apprehend the rest even before any Proclamation could overtake them and before the people who seised on them knew any thing of this particular Treason Thus He that sitteth in the Heavens laught them their rage and Counsels to scorne compelling them at length to acknowledge the finger of God in their Discovery and his arme in their most deserved Destruction O wonderfull Providence O admirable Justice upon them and Goodnes to his People 2. Use of the second Point Incitation to thankfulnes 2. How should this put all our hearts into a flame of the highest Thanksgiving to Him who hath done for us such wonderfull things When their Rage had concluded that We and all Posterity should for ever wallow in ashes b Nah. 2.7 taber upon our breasts and howle like Dragons for that irreparable Desolation the God of our Mercies hath prevented them broken the snare given us an escape and hurl'd them out of the Land of the Living as out of the midst of a Sling Therefore rejoyce in the Lord and againe I say rejoyce Rouse up your spirits call up your hearts and let all that is within you blesse his holy Name I hope I shall not need to set before you the Institution of a thankefull man nor to spend time in directing how to give thankes On Septem 7. 1641. that Work being excellently performed at your late Publique Thanksgiving Rather let me bestow a few words to incite you to the Duty because I finde every where more and more backwardnesse to it and coldnesse in it For however at first the meltings of most mens spirits were extraordinary their affections being soone upon the wing The necessitie of such an Incitation when the first newse of the Deliverance out-ran the report of the Danger Yet by Degrees men have so farre cooled that not onely too many of the ordinary sort doe wholly neglect this Day but not none of the Clergy also who have sometimes for their hyre declaimed vehemently against that Treason in the Pulpit begin in ordinary discourse to jeere this solemnitie of such a Deliverance and in derision to name it Saint Gunpowders Day Papists perswade their Novices that there was never any such thing Yea some once ours have arrived at so much giddinesse as to pronounce the keeping of this Day to be Will-worship and the religious enjoyning of it even by Parliament to be a trenching on the Libertie left us by Christ as if the binding of our selves as Gods people of old in their feast of c Esth. 9.27 Purim did to give publique thanks for an extraordinary Mercy were a violation of true Christian Libertie O shamefull Ingratitude O Impudent Ignorance And how carelesse the greater part of the better sort are become in observing this Day is a subject more fit for my teares than my tongue even in this Honorable Assembly Wherefore the better to quicken You to restore this Day to its former splender Motives to the Duty that the Great Work of the Lord done herein may be for ever more honorable and glorious Let Me present You with a few Incentives 1. Remember that 1. None but God could doe it none but the Almighty himselfe could possibly have wrought such a Deliverance for us d Psal 124.3 4. If it had not been the Lord who was on our side when men rose up against us they had swallowed us up quick when their wrath was kindled against us Let this first settle upon our spirits that e Psal 118.23 24. this was the Lords doing and then it will soone be marveilous in our eyes so as Wee cannot but rejoyce and be glad in it 2. Think seriously what manner of persons wee were 2. He did it for people altogether unworthy of any mercy for whom he did